Wedding rings are highly cherished items of betrothal symbolizing everlasting love and “till-death-do-us-part” vows. Marriage symbolizes eternal commitment and gives one a status in the outside world. Rings are usually valuable, and the last thing that one would want to happen is to lose this precious symbol.
With that in mind, you can just imagine how devastated this then-82-year-old man was when he realized his precious wedding ring went missing.
In 2013, a man from Germany lost his wedding ring and thought he’d never find it again. He was, however, pleasantly surprised when he finally found it in the most unexpected place, three years later.
After years of searching, the then-82-year-old man from Germany finally found his lost wedding ring—stuck in a carrot in his garden.
While he was working on his garden in Bad Müenstereifel, he was astonished when he found his wedding ring stuck in one of his carrots. The vegetable had grown enough, so the man eventually saw it and claimed his ring back.
The man had lost the ring while he was gardening shortly after his 50th wedding anniversary. He said his late wife always told him he’d eventually find the ring, and it turns out she was right.
We can all just assume how happy the man was for finally finding the wedding ring, especially since his wife had already passed away. It seems like the man will treasure it more and that he’ll do his best never to lose it again. It’s a remembrance of his departed better half, after all.
However, this is not the first time someone has lost and found a ring wrapped around a carrot.
The elderly woman, who had searched for the ring, thought she would never find it again.
In 2017, her daughter in law, Colleen Daley, discovered the ring when she pulled out the misshaped carrot from the ground. Daley then took the discovery to her husband.
“I asked my husband if he recognized the ring. And he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot,” Daley said.
Apparently, the ring was given to Grams by her late husband in 1951. Since the ring went missing she didn’t tell her husband and just replaced it.
