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re: What did you spend on an engagement ring?
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:49 am to Smalls
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:49 am to Smalls
I'm not sure how I can clarify that anymore 
. It's a cushion halo ring with a round 1.5 carat Moissanite stone in the middle. Google moissanite hearts and arrows cut. The ring is a split shank with tiny diamonds all over that are 1 carat combined.
. It's a cushion halo ring with a round 1.5 carat Moissanite stone in the middle. Google moissanite hearts and arrows cut. The ring is a split shank with tiny diamonds all over that are 1 carat combined.
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Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:49 am to yellowfin
It's amazing what you don't know when you don't care.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:50 am to northshorebamaman
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it probably is a hard rule and I fricked it up.
Me too. I found out about 16 years later and got a wraparound band that matched. It had 4 smaller diamonds in it.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:53 am to Warfarer
I lucked out. The mother-in-law got a new ring for her 25th anniversary, and never wore her old one. My wife has had her eye on it for years, so the MIL hooked me up.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 8:55 am to Warfarer
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That is how I am leaning towards. Anyone deal with any of the online retailers for stones? Ive been looking at Rarecarat.com and they have stones much cheaper and better than I have found local.
I bought my wife's from Jamesallen.com, got a princess cut, just under one carat, on a band with small diamonds on it (my wife has tiny hands
) for 4K or so. No regrets whatsoever. I even had to send it back to them because one of the little diamonds on the band fell out. They had great service, you just have to be patient for the shipping. At the very least I'd use bluenile or jamesallen to see what a good price is for a certain diamond so you don't get cornholed by a jeweler. And I'll also second getting your fiancée to help you pick it out.
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Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:04 am to Warfarer
Buy a loose diamond from Blue Nile. You can get a GIA certified diamond of your choice.
It will come with all the necessary paperwork and will have a unique identifier laser etched on it for the appraiser to verify.
Then pick out whatever setting you want.
You will come out ahead because the finished ring will appraise for a much higher value.
It will come with all the necessary paperwork and will have a unique identifier laser etched on it for the appraiser to verify.
Then pick out whatever setting you want.
You will come out ahead because the finished ring will appraise for a much higher value.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:06 am to Team Vote
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I'll also second getting your fiancée to help you pick it out
Not a fan. Ruins the surprise.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:06 am to Smalls
Most women have them connected later so it ends up being one ring anyway
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:07 am to Warfarer
$2000 and its appraised for $7500. Starting out your life together by spend anything over $5000 is stupid. Unless you ball so hard MF wanna fine you.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:12 am to WM_Tiger
Any woman who cares about the price doesn't love you for who you are but instead is in love with your resources. Divorce is inevitable
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:12 am to Warfarer
Buy a ring just like you buy a car. I found the ring I wanted(or she wanted) and I went and got the best price from the first store. Walked to a second store and got there best price, They told me if the other store beats their price come back. So walked back to the first store, they called manager and got me a price I was happy with, Told them Thank you let me go check one more time and the second store beat that price by $150. I got a $9k ring for just over $4k, and her band I got was a $2000 and got it for under $900.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:16 am to goldennugget
You're right. I know some idiot who took out a loan to buy is gal the ring she had to have. Come to find out she was getting some on the side and now they're divorced 
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:19 am to Warfarer
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Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:19 am to Smalls
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Not a fan. Ruins the surprise.
Not if you do it right. If you are talking about engagement rings then you should have already as a couple had the talk about yall's future and where yall see the relationship going.
You could make it a really casual thing. Not a "hey we are going to go look at rings today". Could just be strolling around a mall or wherever and walk into a jewelry store "just for fun" to glance at rings. At least then you can get an idea of what kind of stuff she likes. Doesn't mean you are buying a ring that day in front of her. She may like certain rings...but when she puts them on realizes that style doesn't look right on her finger.
She is gonna wear that ring the rest of her life....you want her to just barely like it because you proposed with it....or you want her to absolutely love her ring?
I know a woman that hated her engagement ring but didn't have the heart to tell her fiance that the ring just wasn't her style(she showed me the ring once...it was pretty ugly
). So as soon as they got married she only wears the wedding band (gave him some excuse about not wearing it to work, blah, blah, blah) and the expensive monstrosity her husband spent $$$ on sits in a jewelry box...never to be worn again.This post was edited on 8/12/17 at 9:23 am
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:23 am to BlindTiger7
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I think there's a generic rule, 3 months of your income or something like that. With that said, I believe a woman made up that rule.
That's just fricking stupid. I remember hearing about that rule when I went looking for my wife.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:24 am to Catman88
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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 is just my opinion of course, but I would be someone that disagrees with this look of a diamond. And not there's anything wrong with this purchase, but to my eye, I wanted higher quality and didn't mind sacrificing size. I went colorless (F grade). VVS1, excellent cut. Oh and one other peice of advice I was given was that if you stay away from whole numbers like 1.0 or 1.5 carats, you will get more bang for you buck. So look for a 1.13 carat and the likes. Industry powers start to wiegh in when you buy the standard 1/1.5/2 carat diamond.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:26 am to dbeck
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We had watched Blood Diamond a few months before. I highly recommend this.
Nice strategy.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:26 am to yellowfin
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Most women have them connected later so it ends up being one ring anyway
This is true. So you want to make sure the wedding band you select will fit with the setting of the engagement ring. You don't have to spend thousands either....wedding band for mine was like $650...small thin band full of tiny diamonds that perfectly matched the style of my engagement ring.
Nowadays....you can easily just buy the wedding set together.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:30 am to Warfarer
Don't do emeralds. That shite will go in and out of fashion forever. A diamond won't.
Same with platinum. Waste of $$$. Go with white gold.
Also, go cheap on the wedding band.
A. Your wife may want just a band at times. Depending on work or activity.
B. Getting her the "good band" is an automatic winner of a gift for first anniversary or a first Christmas etc. You'll look like a genius.
Same with platinum. Waste of $$$. Go with white gold.
Also, go cheap on the wedding band.
A. Your wife may want just a band at times. Depending on work or activity.
B. Getting her the "good band" is an automatic winner of a gift for first anniversary or a first Christmas etc. You'll look like a genius.
Posted on 8/12/17 at 9:37 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Don't do emeralds. That shite will go in and out of fashion forever. A diamond won't.
My ring was emeralds (it's what I wanted). We had to get them replaced with tsavorite because emeralds are soft and they kept breaking.
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