When it comes to purchasing a ring that you intend on wearing every day for the rest of your life, it better fit.  Women especially can be very sensitive on the matter of whether or not a ring fits their fingers.

First of all, women are generally supposed to have long slender fingers and dainty hands.  Ever since the Seinfeld episode where Jerry couldn’t continue to date a woman that had “man hands” women strive to keep their hands soft and feminine.  Second of all, ladies have a weird fascination with large and small, fat and skinny, bony and plump.  However you describe it, they don’t want anything on their bodies to be abnormally large.

Whether you are shopping for an engagement ring, a wedding band or an anniversary ring, tread lightly fellas, for ladies will conceal, lie, politely squeeze into and possibly cry over an ill fitting ring.

If you are in the market for a wedding band or anniversary ring, fear not for most women like to be present, if not the primary shopper, for these items.  There is no element of surprise and therefore no need to play everyone’s favorite carnival game, guess my ring size.

If you are shopping for the elusive unicorn of the wedding world, the engagement ring, there are a few things you might want to consider before you take out your pipe and magnifying glass and start playing Sherlock Holmes.

1. Ask her.  Sometimes rings do come up in conversation, it may require you to be a little creative but this is worth it.
2. If you have decided to try to maneuver some sort of rigging where you come by the circumference of her finger using tape or string or paper then Macgyver, you have some other strange biological factors to consider as well. 
   The size of a finger can change according to temperature, time of day and even, earmuffs for the squeamish, time of the month.  My advice is do it maybe when she’s sleeping and make sure to take into account the size of the knuckle.  There are conversions involved so perhaps take your secret Da Vinci code to a professional to decipher.
3. The easiest way is to swipe an existing ring from her collection that you know she wears and measure that.  You can slide the ring onto a tapered candle or small carrot and mark the point at which it fits.
4. If there is a discrepancy amongst measurements, go bigger.  Trust me.

It’s always a good idea to let a family member in on the game if only for support.  Proposing to the love of your life is supposed to be about love, romance and spending your life with someone, not sweating over whether the ring you got her fits or not.  Do your homework and the ring will speak for itself (as for you). Well it’s a little late to start worrying about that now isn’t it?

Tags: Engagement Rings, Ring size

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