While love may not cost anything, diamond engagement rings certainly cost a pretty penny. Since a wedding band is the physical symbol of the love between two people, many generally think the bigger the ring the more the couple loves each other and the more successful their lives have been together.
For years, a Minnesota mom has been getting comments from well-meaning friends and family about the size of her engagement ring because they felt it was too small to possibly reflect the love and success she and her husband had achieved. “I’ve even had one person say ‘you could wear a bigger ring for important events, so people don’t think you’re not successful.’ Wait a minute…. Since when did the size of someone’s ring become an indication of success?!” Rachel Pederson wrote in a post on her Facebook page that his since gone viral.
When Perkins and her now husband met, she was a single mom and he was working as a window washer. The two met one night at a diner, and 13 days after they first met, the two eloped.
Pedersen’s husband had used his entire life’s savings to buy her the best engagement ring he could afford and surprised her with it before the ceremony. “My ring symbolizes a whirlwind, storybook, ‘make you sick’ love story…. It reminds me of how my husband and I met and fell at in love in one night at a Perkin’s diner.”
“He drained his savings to gift me with a small token of his love. I say small, only because it pales in comparison with how big his love is, even now, after years of marriage. That, my friends, is success to me,” Pedersen explained.
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Woman Powerfully Defends Her Small Engagement Ring After Years Of Comments is an article from: LifeDaily