Silver Wedding Rings

The tradition goes like this: he kneels (or run from her father) and asks her to marry him (or her father calls her) and she says yes or no (or says her father, preferably after consultation), and depending on the answer or not she puts her finger the ring that signals its formal commitment to marry the person who asked him. A tradition more or less the same everywhere in the world with the exception of rare and scattered matriarchal societies. The engagement, understood as a declaration of intent marriage, is an antique, diamond ring, however, a little ‘less. In fact, the engagement ring as we know it was invented directly by the famous De Beers mining company, leading importers of diamonds from South Africa is responsible for the popularization of the gems for decoration, best friends of women and eternal companion.In fact, even the slogan “A diamond is forever” was introduced by De Beers in 1947, to emphasize the idea: a diamond should not be resold.Also because, in re-entering the market, its value drops steeply, and the company would lose a considerable chunk of its revenue if everyone started to buy second-hand rings.

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Fortunately for De Beers, the diamond ring is considered evidence of the status of the bridegroom is the richest man, is the largest ring, and if the link is second hand the bride could be left hurt. It is no coincidence that among the millionaire rappers like Jay-Z and Kanye West the trend is to design an engagement ring for future brides, often with results of rare vulgarity. In the case of Kanye, then, the story is over so bad to deserve to be immortalized in an entire disc, 808′s & Heartbreak.

But whoever does not worry about buying a second hand ring, at least in the States (where the custom is far more rooted here from us), a site exists where those abandoned before the altar resell pledges of their love gone up in smoke. America always uses very well give the bride the family heirlooms: there are links that pass from mother to son, from generation to generation, reflecting the durability of an institution created primarily to protect assets, build alliances and ensure that the women had always a roof over their head and to eat (and it is ironic that the divorce laws have introduced a truly effective protection in that sense).

But there are also women who do not intend to respect the ceremony, and prefer to make a proposal. Who calls should offer the ring jewelers British, always ready to respond to a newly opened market, have launched the men’s engagement rings. A new trend that has not yet taken hold, perhaps because the wave of redundancies that has swept the UK in recent months. But the habits are changing, and perhaps this, in time, will change.

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