These unique engagement rings might make you rethink your classic solitaire-based mood board

Traditionalists look away now, because right now we just cannot get enough of super unusual, one-of-a-kind style unique engagement rings.

Is it just us, or is everyone getting engaged right now? While many of us succumbed to at least one of the tempting trio during lockdown (pet, ring, baby), it seems that over the last year in particular more and more people are finding themselves with a new bit of fourth-finger bling.

After all, if you survived the ultimate test of being quite literally locked up with one another in total social isolation, you can survive anything together. Right?

If you've been sensing that 'the question' may be imminent, you've likely been - at the very least - pondering what a ring on the finger may well look like for you. For the slightly less subtle among us, a direct link to the Pinterest mood board has no doubt been sent.

But for all the stunning solitaires and classic cushions adorning the fingers of your nearest and dearest, there's no denying the fact that it can be tempting to go a little more off-piste when it comes to engagement rings.

After all, weddings already hold so much tradition and formality that asserting your personality and individuality through this keepsake piece of jewellery, that you'll hopefully wear forever, isn't such a bad idea.

But just how unique can an engagement ring really be?

Well they don't have to incorporate a diamond, firstly. Why not experiment with others gemstones instead, we're talking emeralds, rubies or sapphires? If it's good enough for the Duchess of Cambridge...