A woman had to have her £2,000 engagement ring cut off by firefighters after it got stuck and made her finger turn purple and numb the day after her fiancé proposed. Periesa Oromé, 30, panicked when she couldn’t slip the ring off the morning after her partner, Willis Oromé, 28, a knowledge management specialist, popped the question during a romantic proposal.
The wedding and event designer spent an hour trying to remove the ring - with soap, ice and a thread hack she found on YouTube - but nothing worked. After her fingers started swelling and turning purple, the couple rushed to their local fire station for help.
The firefighters had to carefully cut the ring off with emergency ring cutter plyers, to free it from Periesa’s finger. Luckily the ring was able to be resized at no extra cost and the couple have now married with their big day going without a hitch.
