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While the estimates are that only about 5 percent of all men currently wear a man’s engagement ring, a majority of men don’t have any objection to wearing an engagement ring, and many have said they would like to wear one. Michael Bublé, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen and Ed Sheeran are just some of the stars who recently wore a man’s engagement ring prior to their weddings (or, in Charlie Sheen’s case, during his engagement, which didn’t end with a wedding). But, just as with the wedding band, it’s Hollywood celebrities who are moving the trend into the mainstream. Gay men often want to propose with an engagement ring and to wear rings to show they are engaged. Same-sex marriages between men have also contributed to the rising sales and popularity of men’s engagement rings. Male Engagement RingsĪ man’s engagement ring is slowly becoming more popular among straight couples, where it symbolizes equality in their relationship and serves as a reminder that the couple is entering into their marriage as equal partners. Young women had a hard enough time trying to afford simple wedding bands for their spouses during the war years, never mind engagement rings. Those photographs transformed men’s wedding bands from a trend to a tradition.Īt the same time, the whole notion of a man’s engagement ring simply faded into oblivion. Then, in 1945, Humphrey Bogart married Lauren Bacall and he was photographed wearing a wedding band. To remind them of their brides back in the states, many began to wear a very plain and simple wedding band.
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Young, recently-married soldiers were being sent to Europe to fight against the Nazis, and they were unsure if they would ever see their spouses again. Wedding bands started to become popular in the 1940’s around the time of World War II. After all, men weren’t even wearing wedding bands in the 1920’s, never mind a man’s engagement ring. Despite a major effort by a couple of large retailers to promote men’s engagement rings in the 1920’s, the practice of a man’s wearing an engagement ring never became a trend, potentially because the rings were viewed as too feminine.