A flash-forward shows Damon and Elena holding hands in the afterlife, Elena with a wedding ring on her finger. Although the ...

There was also a shot of a wedding ring on his finger, and Damon gave up his life as a vampire to be with his love on Vampire Diaries. This was the perfect final moment for Damon and Elena ...

So what else did viewers miss because of cut footage? Elena wears a wedding ring at the end of the finale, so we know she weds Damon. But audiences never got to see Damon ask Elena to marry him.

Because of that, fans quickly split into teams, each choosing who they thought Elena should be with. In the end, Damon was the Salvatore brother who stood by her, after they both went through so much.

Elena asks him, "How bad is it?" But Damon is more focused on the fact that she owes him a dance. Flashing back to present day, we're at the wedding, where Alaric is sobbing over the body of his ...

and Alaric’s wedding, to a house Stefan had lived in during one of his many fresh starts. At first, Stefan attempted to explain how the life Damon and Elena would lead as humans would be full of ...

When Stefan arrived at the wedding, he admitted to Elena that he didn’t want Damon to take the cure. He said Damon was aimless as a human. However, he couldn’t stop his brother. He left Elena ...

Ian Somerhalder hit the CW Upfront carpet to let us in on what to expect as the Elena-less show moves forward, how "epic" Damon and Elena ... off his "incredible" wedding ring, revealing that ...