Engagement Rings
Engagement rings are a complicated business. Although the most popular ones are the diamond engagement rings, you could always find new trends such as antique engagement rings. It’s just one of those businesses where you hope you don’t get repeat business. That can be bad for business. Even if, theoretically, an engagement is broken off and you get the engagement ring back, you don’t really want to use the same engagement ring to propose to your next girlfriend. That’s a little icky, and it makes engagement rings a dangerous thing.
On the other hand, since engagement rings don’t really tend to depreciate in value, you can always sell them back to the engagement ring dealer and buy a new one. You may gain or lose money depending on the market price of diamonds at the time, but not much. There is, however, one way you could theoretically use the same engagement ring twice.
Say, if you propose once and the girl accepts, but she feels uncomfortable wearing the engagement ring in public. First of all, that itself should set off alarms. She tells you she doesn’t like the look of engagement rings or something similar. If you’re a chump and you are willing to take this sort of crap, then you’ll think it’s cute and give her the time and space she needs and start praying she won’t leave you. But if you’re smart, you’ll immediately take the engagement ring back, break it off before she does, save some face and some anguish, and find another girl.
Such it is with engagement rings, though in our consumptive culture, engagement rings are not even enough. Now there are even pre engagement rings for a couple that is making an engagement to be engaged to be married. Perhaps DeBeers is tainting the water and making us all think that we have to add another piece of jewelry in the step towards marriage, as if a wedding ring wasn’t enough already.
But it is precisely because engagement rings do not get repeat business and we are not polygamous that DeBeers can’t convince everybody to buy all of their engagement rings they’ll ever need at their retail hotspots. So instead of making us by two engagement rings, they, in effect, do make us buy two engagement rings by renaming the first one a pre engagement ring. Whoever thought of that one should get a raise.
In the meantime, make sure your fiancé is comfortable actually wearing the ring in public. Until then, you’re on thin ice, buddy.
