Planning a wedding without an engagement ring...

The ring doesn’t make the engagement! I would post and be excited regardless congratulations!

My fiance and I planned our wedding for months before we were even technically engaged. We announced our wedding date on social media and anyone who asked about my ring, I told them that it was coming. It is your special day, nobody should take it away from you, and nobody gets to decide what is right for you except you. Good luck planning!!

My wife and I never had engagement rings. If the two of you have agreed to be married, you're engaged.

Thank you for your help and support my fiancee and I shouldn't be embarrassed by social media for being happy. I just never met anyone else who didn't have an engagement ring for their engagement. So I didn't know how to announce it.

You can just announce it with excitement! Or a picture of the two of you with excited expressions!

We didn't have rings right away either, we started planning and then got the rings later.

Some people choose not to ever get an engagement ring. As long as you and your partner have decided to get married and are actively planning to do so, you're engaged!

Congratulations! The ring definitely doesn't make the engagement! But you could always get a temporary ring to wear in the mean time. I work in healthcare and I'm afraid to wear my engagement ring so I bought a plain sterling silver band off Amazon for $7 to wear to work. It's held up very well and you can't even tell the difference next to my white gold ring.

Don’t worry about showing the ring. It’s honestly not that big of a deal. Just start your planning and keep at it.

The reason why it's taking so long is because its custom and custom cost a lot to get made. I posted a pic for you to see it.

Agreed that ring doesn't make the engagement and you can announce without it.



If however the ring is important to you for the announcement, then wait. Just let your close family and bridesmaids know, and tell them you're waiting to announce the engagement till you have the ring. Just because you have a date in spring 2019 doesn't mean you have to announce the engagement a year out. I got engaged in March, didn't put anything on Facebook till a couple days ago, and the wedding will be January 2019. FH and I just made sure to tell the 10 or 15 people closest to us right away, no one else needs the longer time to know.

A ring is just an object if you both already made the commitment to move on to the next step than take that step. If people don’t understand that than they need to rethink their lives

I am also planning without my ring. My fh refuses to make payments on my ring and wants to get something nice so I'm patiently waiting. Our date is out there, August of 2019, so technically we don't need to announce until August of this year. Our close family knows and we have already booked a venue and I got my dress. I plan on making an official announcement later after I get my ring per fh's request. I don't care about a ring, I just want to tell the world I found my soulmate and it's time to celebrate 😁

We sound alike lol I found my dress and venue but my FH doesn't want to start anything until the ring and that poses a problem with the calendar since we both want a certain date.

I didn't have a ring when we got engaged. We just changed our relationship status on fb and no one actually asked about the ring.

You are engaged when asked to be his bride, ring or no ring. If people ask to see one, explain it's on order and as soon as it arrives you'll knock them out with it.... in a funny context, not violent

My fh & i are planning our wedding & we haven't announced on social media for the same reasons in the original post, not having the ring. We want to get tattoos on our ring fingers & i told him I like if we spent more getting awesome wedding bands and forego the traditional engagement ring.

We don’t have a ring and won’t have one. We just decided to get married. I started wearing a ring I already had on that finger just to get used to what a ring would feel like and people assume it’s my engagement ring, even though they had seen it on my hand on that finger occasionally months before I met FH. Only a few people have asked about it. My wedding ring is non traditional also, but I love it. I’ll definitely be married whether or not it “looks” like it lol. We didn’t even change our status on Facebook for a while. Just told our parents and our kids that it was happening. If both of you are ready to tell everyone, shout it to the world without a ring!

I did the same thing! It's not important, plus once I finally got my ring everyone was so excited to see it! There is no right and wrong in wedding planning, just what's right for you! Xoxo

The whole thing about showing the ring is not a thing in my country . I had nobody ever ask me to see it, and I only ask american friends to see their rings( because they expect it). I think people will be happy about your announcement anyway. Maybe make a cute ring out of grass or a flower, or a candy ring so people get that it is a placeholder..

We did the same thing! I got my ring in January and we are getting married in June. We’ve been planning for about a year.