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Those are wedding bands. Engagement rings more often feature diamonds or other gems. Wedding bands rarely do indeed (in Western Europe anyway).

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The average engagement ring in France is 800$ (https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/09/15/1952013-bagues-f...)

One comment above talked about $5600 for an engagement ring in average in the US.

That is quite a difference indeed!

I can't speak of Germany but in France engagement rings are very rare and more something of the upper class, out of all the weddings I've done, none of them did that.

I wouldn't say that engagement rings are upper class, but it's true it's only in certain groups. In my peer group, it's common, for example my brother bought one for his fiancée and my mom has one. But in all case they were gifted at the time of the engagement, not at the wedding.

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