Nope, I've not misspelled management, this blog post is going to be about MANgagement. I'll explain.
A few weeks after Ryan proposed to me we were sat at home and he asked me if I'd buy him an engagement ring. Nothing too fancy, just something he could wear to show people that he was engaged. I was quite surprised. In fact a while back I'd read an article, in Cosmo I think, about a new trend that saw men wearing engagement rings and women doing the proposing. I must admit that my first reaction was laughter. Men wearing engagement rings? That's just silly*. My dad and most of the men I knew growing up didn't even wear wedding rings! But now I was being faced with the same thing in my own relationship and the more I thought about it the more I loved the idea. Now, I can't believe that I didn't offer up the suggestion myself. My fiance wanted a physical manifestation of our promise to marry each other and who was I to be selfish and say that an engagement ring was something reserved only for women?
So now Ryan wears an engagement ring. I tried to take a photo of it but my camera wouldn't focus properly. Its a simple titanium band with three stones in a line across it. The next day he showed it off to all of his colleagues and he tells me with a smile on his face every time someone new notices his ring and comments on it. People, I'm lucky. I'm lucky to have a man who is so proud of our commitment that he wants to share it with the world and I can't wait to marry him!
*Just wanted to add that I had no issue with women proposing to their partners. I understand that the dynamic of each relationship is different and there shouldn't be limitations on who does the proposing.
