This picture has gotten me thrown out of 3 different groomercords, the seethe is real.

Nah it's deeper than that, wedding rings came about because of a massive DeBeers marketing campaign, but that's because America stopped recognizing/honoring breach-of-promise lawsuits,something I learned about from an old episode of Andy Griffith my parents were watching. Essentially if a man asked to marry a woman and then changed his mind, a woman could sue him,because once a man popped the question,even in the old days the hanky-panky usually started and there was a non-zero chance he knocked her up, but either way,; her smv as they thought of it back then took a huge hit. So basically women could sue men for stealing their virginity. The diamonds came in to replace that because it showed the man had a significant investment in the woman and wasn't playing around,and then once the question was popped, they would also hanky-panky. Today, it makes no sense when on average, if you're stupid enough to marry a woman, 4-7 men have enjoyed her before you,they don't honor their virginity so why should a man buy a big butt gemstone that was essentially buying it(her virginity) in the old days?