Historical Belle | WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!! @HistoricalBelle | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
It is with extreme joy and immense pleasure that I announce my engagement to the love of my life!!!
*This is not our actual engagement, but rather a fantasy like historical reenactment of it.*
From the Chapter on Courtship and Marriage from the etiquette book "Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society" published in 1892: (You can read this book for free on Google Books)
"After the engagement is made between the couple and ratified by the parents, it is customary in polite society for the young man to affix the seal of this engagement by some present to his affianced. This present is usually a ring, and among the wealthy it may be of diamonds-a solitaire or cluster- and as expensive as the young man's means will justify. The ring is not necessarily a diamond one; it may be other stones or it may be an heirloom in his family precious more because of its associations antiquity and quaintness than from it s actual money-value.
"All lovers cannot afforded to present their lady-loves with diamond rings, but all are able to give them some little token o their regard which will be cherished for their sakes, and which will serve as a memento of a very happy past to the end of life. The engagement ring should be worn upon the ring finger of the right hand."
And it is because of this passage that I am wearing the ring on my right hand.
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View more video's about our Engagement and the making of my 1880's Engagement Dress here: youtube.com/watch?v=Gx3vVKG1HU4&list=LLTMjDj-NTuyHaNe4lheW4yg
It is with extreme joy and immense pleasure that I announce my engagement to the love of my life!!!
*This is not our actual engagement, but rather a fantasy like historical reenactment of it.*
From the Chapter on Courtship and Marriage from the etiquette book "Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society" published in 1892: (You can read this book for free on Google Books)
"After the engagement is made between the couple and ratified by the parents, it is customary in polite society for the young man to affix the seal of this engagement by some present to his affianced. This present is usually a ring, and among the wealthy it may be of diamonds-a solitaire or cluster- and as expensive as the young man's means will justify. The ring is not necessarily a diamond one; it may be other stones or it may be an heirloom in his family precious more because of its associations antiquity and quaintness than from it s actual money-value.
"All lovers cannot afforded to present their lady-loves with diamond rings, but all are able to give them some little token o their regard which will be cherished for their sakes, and which will serve as a memento of a very happy past to the end of life. The engagement ring should be worn upon the ring finger of the right hand."
And it is because of this passage that I am wearing the ring on my right hand.
Support me on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/historicalbelle
View more video's about our Engagement and the making of my 1880's Engagement Dress here: youtube.com/watch?v=Gx3vVKG1HU4&list=LLTMjDj-NTuyHaNe4lheW4yg
