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Ask the Expert: "Is it OK for brides to wear rings before the wedding day?"

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Should both brides get to wear their rings before the wedding day?

Are you referring to the engagement ring(s)? The answer is yes, absolutely! Or do you mean the wedding bands? If you are asking about wearing wedding bands before the wedding day, traditionally they're exchanged during wedding vows and then worn forever after as a symbol of your commitment that you made to each other on your wedding day.

Wearing your wedding bands before your wedding takes something away from the sacredness of the ring exchange and vows in front of your witnesses. I know it’s tough to resist taking them out of their boxes and trying them on, but try to resist!

Many of our lesbian readers have both proposed to each other—at different times. Everyone's different though.

In the situation you're asking about, if one bride didn't get an engagement ring and instead proposed with one, but wants to wear something now to show the world she's engaged, then perhaps that's a hint that she's looking for proposal and an engagement ring, too!

Kirsten Palladino is Editor in Chief of Equally Wed, the nation’s premier same-sex wedding magazine, online at www.equallywed.com. Equally Wed offers gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples an extensive, trustworthy and fashionable guide of inspiration, ideas and trends for planning their engagements, weddings and honeymoons, as well as their happily ever after. The photo-rich site is home to Equally Wed’s Local Resources, a veritable marketplace of vetted LGBT-friendly wedding vendors across the United States and abroad. It also offers an interactive social community to talk to other readers about all things wedding, as well as the latest news from the frontlines of the fight for marriage equality. Follow Kirsten on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/equallywedeic.

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