Promise ring

[Spr0cker50]

Does anyone else wear their promise ring on the same finger as engagement and wedding rings? I have been doing this lately and it feels right but people I know tend to wear the promise ring on their right hands. Is do you think its acceptable or a bit of a faux pas to put the three rings on the same finger?

What's a promise ring?

I've never heard of a promise ring

I had to look it up. A pre engagement ring? Then what happens with then engagement, wedding and eternity rings?

Google says it's a friendship ring given in romantic relationships. I've never bloody had one! I've never heard of one before I read your post OP

Wear it on whatever hand or finger you want

Ditto! I'd assumed it was a engagement type ring for people not wanting to get married but evidently not.

Oh my, I've just googled it. It's a commitment ring. So just like an engagement ring

If a promise ring is an "I promise I might think about marrying you one day so here's a ring to shut you up" type ring, the faux pas is in accepting it in the first place.

Is this an American thing? I’ve never heard of them
In the UK.

Isn’t a promise ring an engagement ring? Surely it’s an engagement ring to show betrothal, a wedding ring to show marriage and an eternity ring to show lasting commitment.

The faux pas is having a promise ring. How absurd.

Maybe keeping your options open!

Yes it was given to me early in the relationship and I wore it on my ring finger. When we got engaged (and then married) I put it on my right hand but have been wearing it on my left lately and it just feels right

I’ve never heard of this and thought you were talking about those American virginity rings.
Sorry. No help I know.

Given that no fucker knows what one is the chances of anyone clocking incorrect ring etiquette are slim

@gobbynorthernbird

Given that no fucker knows what one is the chances of anyone clocking incorrect ring etiquette are slim

Is a promise ring a Chastity Ring ?

I promise you - nobody cares.

Is it a band or a stone ring? Or whatever you want? How are you given it?

Promise of what? I still don’t understand what it is.

Never heard of one. It sounds like a recently made up thing so there is no history/‘tend do’/tradition associated to it at all. You can wear it on your toe if you like, OP-I don’t think anyone will write about it in the etiquette books!

I thought a promise ring is what American teenagers wear when they’re pretending to be a virgin.

Oh god. I was with someone who wanted to give one of these back in the s. It's for people who don't want to commit but who want to placate their partner!

What the hell's a promise ring? DH never mentioned that!

@CandyLeBonBon

Oh god. I was with someone who wanted to give one of these back in the s. It's for people who don't want to commit but who want to placate their partner!

Sorry give ME one of these back in the 90s.

Also known as a 'commitment ring'

Utter bollocks.

I think that mostly in the UK we have Eternity Rings, which are very much optional, and used to commemorate a significant (30y?) anniversary, or possibly a child's birth. I've never heard of a promise ring in this country- it sounds a bit teenage, like a friendship ring. But you do you, nobody else will notice.