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re: Buying an engagement ring with your future fiancee present

Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:16 pm to
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:16 pm to
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Was just dropping off a pizza for Dominos and looked at the Patek watches
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Fixed
Fixed again
Posted by WaydownSouth
Stratton Oakmont
Member since Nov 2018
11349 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:16 pm to
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Surely you know that a diamond is forever. Make it count. No science bullshite made in a lab or a cheap imitation product. If you want, I can give you the number or Drew Brees’s jeweler. He helped the Brees family get lots of jewelry as investment in their future




I know this is a troll, but I got a lab made diamond from Brilliant Earth for $1900 for my SO and we got it appraised one day just for fun and they offered 4K for it
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:21 pm to
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Gaston


I can only imagine the hideous ring you picked for your wife without her input.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
31025 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:26 pm to
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It’s a gift that shows whether or not you’ve been paying attention to what her preference are. If you have, you don’t need her present to pick out something she’ll love. It’s not a gift if she picks it out.


Nonsense. It isn't some sort of lame relationship test. Is she gonna pout and accuse you of not paying enough attention to her if you get the ring wrong? That's childish thinking. But even children make Christmas lists of what they want. Would you buy her a car and not let her pick out the options? Stop living in mind-reading fantasy land, simp.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:30 pm to
I lived in Silicon Valley, so I just went to a very nice jeweler that carried all the designer brands. I liked one designer more than the others and just honed in from there. Bought her a Jeff Cooper platinum solitaire. Not a whole lot to it.
Posted by TheOcean
#honeyfriedchicken
Member since Aug 2004
46722 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:34 pm to
Bet it's ugly as shite baw

And you overpaid
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
112944 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:36 pm to
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I lived in Silicon Valley, so I just went to a very nice jeweler that carried all the designer brands. I liked one designer more than the others and just honed in from there. Bought her a Jeff Cooper platinum solitaire. Not a whole lot to it
Congrats, your wife hates her ring and is telling her friends how much she hates it but won't tell you that.

Yay!!!
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
103899 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:38 pm to
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Just remember that an engagement ring should be no less than 6 months salary.


No way I’d pay 5 million for a ring
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:41 pm to
I got the diamond separate. Had it shipped to them, they gave her ring size and the diamond measurements and the designer made the setting for both.

Location I asked her at was even better...




Photos of printer photos...long before social media.
This post was edited on 3/5/20 at 12:44 pm
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
103899 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:41 pm to
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It works however you want it to work.


My parents got engaged sitting on the couch watching the Simpsons. Dad asked “so do you want to get married or what?” Mom said “sure.” Got a ring later on. Honeymoon was on a bass boat fishing, boat my dad borrowed from his friend.

They’re not complicated people but have been married 30 years
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129146 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:50 pm to
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I can only imagine the hideous ring you picked for your wife without her input.


Either Plasti-dipped or made of wood
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:53 pm to
Now for wedding rings we picked out our own. I got some strange grey gold alloy with a fiberglass finish that looked like it was scratched to shite.
This post was edited on 3/5/20 at 12:54 pm
Posted by ezride25
Constitutional Republic
Member since Nov 2008
26806 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:54 pm to
I bet he said yes.
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129146 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 12:58 pm to
Of course you did
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
481201 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 1:01 pm to
my bff got a carbon fiber wedding ring. i don't want to think about what that cost
Posted by L Boogie
Texas
Member since Jul 2009
5215 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 1:02 pm to
I can understand why people do it, given how much pressure is put on those who are proposing. However, my ring was a complete surprise and it's absolutely perfect.

It's a diamond solitaire, and it's simple but the diamond is outstanding. It's gorgeous and I love it and it's exactly my taste. I'm glad I didn't pick it out because I don't think I would have done as good of a job, honestly.

We've been together for almost 6 years, though, so I'd like to think he knows what I like by now.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
71200 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 1:05 pm to
Don’t go with her to a ring store. Ask her to show you pics on pinterest or whatever of rings she likes, get her ring size, then you go shopping a jewelry stores to find one similar to the style of the ones she likes. Most girls have put a fair amount of thought and legwork in already, so use it.

It’s a shame I wasted such a perfect engagement ring on such a horrible marriage.
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
Cajun Navy Vice Admiral
Member since Oct 2012
41910 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 2:35 pm to
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Your one job is to make that moment magical.



No it's not
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
Cajun Navy Vice Admiral
Member since Oct 2012
41910 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 2:40 pm to
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my bff got a carbon fiber wedding ring. i don't want to think about what that cost



A few hundred bucks?

Most likely less than a traditional gold band
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
481201 posts
Posted on 3/5/20 at 3:17 pm to
well it was infused with gold and from some fancy thing. he may have had to custom order it. i may be way off
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