You spend weeks or months scouting and planning, hoping and dreaming for the perfect shiny symbol of your love. So, what do you do when it's over?
Model and author Emily Ratajkowski may have started a trend by turning her engagement ring into a 'divorce ring.'
Ratajkowski shared in a recent interview with fashion magazine Vogue that she recycled her engagement rings from ex-husband, film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard. She dubbed them "divorce rings."
"The rings represents my own personal evolution," Ratajkowski told Vogue. "I don’t think a woman should be stripped of her diamonds just because she's losing a man."
Apparently, others agree because a search for 'divorce ring' on etsy pulls up more than 2,000 results. The website PureWow reported that "while an engagement or wedding ring is a wearable commitment to a marriage, a divorce ring is a wearable commitment to one’s self following a breakup."
A Reddit thread about what people do with their wedding rings after divorce drew responses ranging from throwing it into the Gulf of Mexico to throwing it in the trash to pawning it and giving it back to the person who bought it.
"As far as my wedding ring, I still wear it but on my right hand. It's part of a group of stacked rings. I have zero emotional attachment toward it. It just looks nice with the other rings that I bought for myself. Not a single person has noticed or questioned me about it," one person wrote.