2012 is supposedly marked by the Chinese calendar as the year of the dragon; I won’t be surprised if some couples getting engaged this year, especially in Asian countries, would choose unique engagement rings with figures and designs that pay special commemoration to dragons.
The dragon is a powerful and legendary creature that symbolizes confidence, longevity, good fortune, wealth, prosperity, and protection, qualities also sought after in a relationship headed for marriage. In using dragon designs, silver metals are more appropriate because their sheek and color are more commanding and lustrous than that of yellow gold. The shape of a dragon may be engraved upon the band or its scales etched in crisscross patterns across it. Even more dramatic would be to form the whole band into a dragon encircling the whole finger.
The wearing of unique engagement rings in dragon forms need not be confined to only this year.