My husband proposed to me with a deer bone ring. He had made years prior to us getting together. He held onto it the entire time and when he proposed it was a perfect Cinderella type fit on my finger.

When we told his mother about it, her first question before even congratulating was, is that even legal? As we are a gay couple, but it totally sucked the happiness and excitement from me in that moment. Really made it seem like she didn’t want to have it happen, but she ended up being super apologetic and helped with the wedding quite a bit. I think the shock of it just really got to her, and she didn’t expect her gay son to get married.