Who needs a wedding ring?

A wedding ring is a tangible symbol for the union between two lover and their devotion towards one another. However, in Oliver Twist, the union of the lovers Agnes Fleming and Edward Leeford is still incomplete but it does have representational symbol manifested in a locket with two locks of hair instead. Although this isn't what the world represents as a kind of union, but it wasn't completed. The ring only had the Agnes Fleming's first name. This incomplete ring symbolizes an incomplete union between the two parent's relationship. The two locks of hair provide physical essence that a part of each couple will always be together no matter what happens to them. Even though these objects provide an incomplete relationship, it was these physical embodiment of an incomplete relationship that gave Oliver the answer to his parentage and family.