I will go with an unpopular vote here...

First of all I can understand the whole thing with independence/your body/he has no right, etc...

That said. He may have simply had a knee-jerk reaction to something surprising.

Also, you are engaged now. Your lives are about compromise, and he may have JUST gotten into the mindset of coupledom. And you doing something without seeing how he felt about it might have surprised the settled, two-halves-of-a-whole kind of view he's adopted and embraced....I don't know, I don't know him. It's just a thought.

I don't believe in being anyone's doormat, but TO ME...it would mean a great deal to my husband if, after a calm discussion of how much he dislikes it (as I said it may just be an initial reaction), I would tell him that I would remove it because I love and respect him.
He would do the same for me.

ETA, I have been happily married for approximately forever, if that matters.