[Fido969]

Very romantic!

[Vigilanteman]

Back when my ancestors were crossing the plains, there is a story of a "prairie diamond"-- horseshoe nails heated and bent around a blacksmith anvil in just the right ring sizes. My thrice great grandfather paid the blacksmith with cut firewood for the pair.

He bought them proper rings some years later for a wedding anniversary when they could afford it. This was sometime between the 7th and 8th kid he fathered. In total, they raised 14 children to adulthood and not one became a bed-wetting liberal.