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According to Salon.com, "There is My Single Ring, which is advertised as a ring for a "single person who is happy with who they are."
It features images of interlocking male and female symbols and is meant to send the message: "I am an intelligent, empowered individual and available to meet the same."
The rings have been created to signify to the general public that I'm happy and independent and I don't need a mate to buy me jewelery, I can do that myself. According to Salon.com, "Along the same lines, there is the $350 diamond-heavy Ah Ring, which is meant to communicate that the wearer is "available" and "happy"
According to The New York Times, "Della Beaver, who lives outside Philadelphia and manages operations for a medical referral service, bought herself an Ah Ring for her 50th birthday last June. She has never been married."
“Usually men buy you diamonds, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I just buy my own diamond?’ ” Ms. Beaver said. “So the ring was liberating for me, because I don’t need others to tell me that I’m beautiful, I’m sexy, I’m intelligent, I’m fabulous just as I am.”
The official website enthuses: "Married and engaged women have their rings, and now single women have a diamond ring to call their own"
It's interesting the jewelry companies that of these rings. It's not like it's illegal or a sin for an unwed women to go into the jewelry store and purchase a ring to wear on her "ring finger". I guess the media/marketers have to "give the okay" before we can make independent decisions. huh?
Don't fear people who are divorced, they have a market just for you. Jewelers can now refashion your wedding ring to symbolize the breakup. According to the New York Times, " There was a recently divorced woman who had her gold band "severed" and "refashioned it into a ring with a gap, across which strands of silver are stitched" to represent the enduring connection of the child she had with her ex-husband.
“because although the bonds have been broken, the stitches still keep that unity together,” she said.
With the demand for rings to symbolize "new beginnings", jewelers are taking an interest in the Gay and Lesbian marriages and have created rings for their nuptials as well. Many couples want to go the traditional route but major jewelers tailor their ring service to straight couples.
According to New York Times, "When Jeffrey Hames, 48, and Kenneth Daniel, 36, who live in Memphis and will be married in September on Cape Cod, decided to wed, “I did not want to go the traditional route, like Zales or other jewelers, where their wedding rings are tailored to being for a straight man and a straight woman,” said Mr. Daniel, a payroll administrator. "
The couple shopped at LoveAndPride.com, which sells wedding and commitment ceremony rings for same-sex couples by the jewelry designer Udi Behr. They selected matching white gold rings, each costing $1,895 and consisting of two interlocking bands bearing the classic male gender symbol (a circle with an arrow pointing up and to the right).
So, jewelers are creating interesting pieces for everyone. But, the funniest and probably the most economically feasible option is the Wedding Ring Coffin.
According to Salon.com, "This one is for divorcees with a dark sense of humor: It's a miniature coffin designed to "give a dead marriage its proper, final resting place."
According to Jill Testa, the founder of the company that sells them, the personalized engraved messages that customers have ordered for the coffins include, “He broke my heart but I broke the bank” and “The end of an error!”
My Thoughts...
So, if you are feeling frustrated because that special person has yet to propose to you, or if you are in a same-sex relationship and the jewelry stores seem to only prefer straight couples, or if you are single and you just want to feel like you are "independent and single", please purchase one of these interesting options. According to the websites, you will not be disappointed, but you gain great self-esteem and pride in yourself and your worth!
