Engagement and Proposals.

[Peegee]

I couldn't stand the idea of having anything worth $10,000 on my person. I don't even wear my engagement ring when I'm going somewhere ghetto.

Seriously if you get a 10grand engagement ring your husband doesn't need that money. Otherwise it's better spent as a down payment on a house or something.

I expect to not go over 5 grand unless I get a huge raise. [I'm saying I wouldn't need to go over 5g]

[Marshall Banana]

There are rings that cost $10,000!?

But, uh, with diamonds and as a ring?

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeeahh, rings are nice, but they're just hunks of metal really. I wouldn't want a giant 50k ring, just something that will last, because I want to wear it forever. So super cheap metal would not be ideal, but I don't need fifty diamonds on it.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I couldn't stand the idea of having anything worth $10,000 on my person. I don't even wear my engagement ring when I'm going somewhere ghetto.

Seriously if you get a 10grand engagement ring your husband doesn't need that money. Otherwise it's better spent as a down payment on a house or something.

I expect to not go over 5 grand unless I get a huge raise. [I'm saying I wouldn't need to go over 5g]

What's the rule, 3 months salary? If the dude can pull that off, whatever, it's not like he couldn't also do the down payment idea.

[fire_of_avalon]

Yeah I'm definitely not that BUY ME A GIANT PIECE OF ROCK girl. I don't even know that I'd go look at engagement rings even if he would wear one. Definitely would want to pick out wedding bands though.

[Miriel]

Years ago the sales lady at Tiffanys put a $70,000 ring on my finger.

It' one of those sales techniques. Show you something with an outrageous price so that a $5,000 ring suddenly seems much more reasonable. But I was wise to her game!

[Shlup]

I can't even picture a $70k ring. I don't think I could lift it.

[NorthernChaosGod]

A $70k ring better blow you when you buy it. And forever.

[Rye]

1) I don't actually like enormous rocks on a ring. I have short stumpy fingers so an enormous rock on my hand would make me look like an old Italian grandmother.
2) Most styles of engagement rings are actually quite ugly to me.
3) I wouldn't mind buying myself my ring, if I had to.
4) I already picked out this ring and it's not terribly expensive as far as engagement rings are concerned. It's called the Tiffany Flower. It is actually fairly low in actually CTs which I like, because as I said, I hate hulking rocks. It has a pretty design and it's unique.

[Peegee]

I can't even picture a $70k ring. I don't think I could lift it.

It doesn't have to be because of a giant ugly diamond (I think diamond size has diminishing returns) - it could just be a lot of very well cut smaller diamonds and an expensive band.

But who am I kidding it's 70k

[Miriel]

Size doesn't factor into the cost as much as you'd think it could. A 1 caret diamond with a higher cut/color/clarity can be worth 5 times as much as a 2 caret diamond of less quality. You could have two diamonds exactly the same size and one can be triple the cost as the other. Caret is important, but apparently the order of importance goes: Cut > Color > Caret > Clarity.

Honestly though, I've had people show me two diamonds of different cut/color/clarity and they go, "you can really see the difference right?" and I'm like, "... not really". Cause you seriously can't tell much of a difference unless you're looking at two diamonds at COMPLETELY the opposite spectrum from each other. So in the end, if you're all about the bling, it's better to go with a bigger caret cause no one is even going to notice the other stuff.

[~*~Celes~*~]

ArtCarved - Matching Products my dream engagement band and wedding ring <3

I don't like yellow gold. White gold is fine, silver is good too.