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Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:29 am to BlindTiger7
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I think there's a generic rule, 3 months of your income or something like that.
Mine was custom designed by Tiffany Adler and it wasn't that much.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:29 am to Warfarer
$17K ring I paid $14k cash for
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:32 am to Hussss
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20k in 2006
That's a down-payment on a house. Who wants to wear that on their finger?
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:34 am to 4cubbies
I can't fathom spending that much. To each his own and all but... damn.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:35 am to Warfarer
$100 bucks
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:35 am to northshorebamaman
I would have made my husband bring it back if I found out he spent that much on my ring.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:39 am to 4cubbies
Didn't even know wedding bands were a thing until recently. I always assumed they put the engagement ring back on the woman's finger during the ceremony.
Nope, you also have to spend another couple thousand on a wedding band to go with the damn thing.
Nope, you also have to spend another couple thousand on a wedding band to go with the damn thing.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:41 am to Smalls
My husband proposed with a diamond engagement ring. I don't care for diamonds so we returned it. I just wear a custom made band. Imo, it's beautiful but it's not a traditional wedding ring.
Diamonds are basic imo.
Diamonds are basic imo.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:42 am to Warfarer
you never stop paying for it
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:43 am to Warfarer
Got engaged a couple weeks ago. Spent 3800 total. 1.5 carat moissanite center stone and 1 carat in diamonds on the ring itself. She loved it and people keep asking me how much I spent bc it's so big. I happily tell them as well. The fact that people can't tell what it is shows how big of a joke the diamond industry is.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:43 am to Smalls
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Didn't even know wedding bands were a thing until recently. I always assumed they put the engagement ring back on the woman's finger during the ceremony.
Nope, you also have to spend another couple thousand on a wedding band to go with the damn thing.
Yeah, but I don't think it's a hard rule. We didn't do it, anyways. shite, it probably is a hard rule and I fricked it up.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:45 am to Smalls
How can you not know that as an adult? 
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:46 am to dualed
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Spent 3800 total. 1.5 carat moissanite center stone and 1 carat in diamonds on the ring itself.
Explain this to someone who knows nothing about rings.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:47 am to Warfarer
15 K. Already divorced. She kept it
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:47 am to Warfarer
26 years ago my husband gave me an engagement ring made from a pendant that had been his mother's. Is it what I would have chosen? Not likely but it's what he chose.
Some women put WAY entirely too much Emphasis on "a ring" although yes important but it is so not worth going broke over.
It shouldn't be a status symbol. But hey I'm sure I'm in the minority.
Some women put WAY entirely too much Emphasis on "a ring" although yes important but it is so not worth going broke over.
It shouldn't be a status symbol. But hey I'm sure I'm in the minority.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:47 am to GermantownTiger
:(
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:47 am to Warfarer
I shopped around for the diamond and then had it set in a tacori setting i knew was her style.
Got the diamond over the internet looking by gia certs from reputable dealers.
Dont skimp on cut go with very good or excellent and dont go below H in color. But you dont need a D either. G is a good spot to land.
Clarity you can really go down
to VS2 and sometimes SI1 before it matters.
Dont recall exact cost but I think I spent 5k or so on a tacori setting and 1.05 carat excellent cut G Vs2.
Got the diamond over the internet looking by gia certs from reputable dealers.
Dont skimp on cut go with very good or excellent and dont go below H in color. But you dont need a D either. G is a good spot to land.
Clarity you can really go down
to VS2 and sometimes SI1 before it matters.
Dont recall exact cost but I think I spent 5k or so on a tacori setting and 1.05 carat excellent cut G Vs2.
This post was edited on 8/12/17 at 8:50 am
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:47 am to Simon Gruber
Purchased from a jewelry maker who had a very small little workshop/office in a downtown building in Shreveport where you would have expected to see an attorney just starting out, with no money who just hung his shingle out. However, he'd been making custom jewelry for my mom for many years.
He sold me a diamond. Princess cut. Stunningly brillant. Over two carats. $8500. He started working on a design. I held onto the diamond. Took it with me on a business trip to New York and while there, visited a few Jewish jewelers. I wanted their opinion. Both told me the diamond was of such high quality that I underpaid by about $10,000. After that I submitted it for GIA and it came back as VVS2 with a color clarity of F and a valuation of almost $23k.
When I took it back to the jeweler and told him, he said he wasn't surprised. Said it came from an estate purchase and his eyes weren't as good as they used to be or he might have priced it higher. He laughed and told me he was kidding, and that he was fine, and that he had more business than he needed from my mom and the friends she had sent his way over the years.
That was 18 years ago.
He sold me a diamond. Princess cut. Stunningly brillant. Over two carats. $8500. He started working on a design. I held onto the diamond. Took it with me on a business trip to New York and while there, visited a few Jewish jewelers. I wanted their opinion. Both told me the diamond was of such high quality that I underpaid by about $10,000. After that I submitted it for GIA and it came back as VVS2 with a color clarity of F and a valuation of almost $23k.
When I took it back to the jeweler and told him, he said he wasn't surprised. Said it came from an estate purchase and his eyes weren't as good as they used to be or he might have priced it higher. He laughed and told me he was kidding, and that he was fine, and that he had more business than he needed from my mom and the friends she had sent his way over the years.
That was 18 years ago.
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