Engagement ring help...

[cojak]

Well, you may have a point there. I suppose I like to buy the best possible quality kit, at any given opportunity. And I got a bit geeky about diamonds when I bought Mrs RH's ring.

Edit: It's a bloody shiny stone, that's for sure.

I bet you know a bit about pearls as well??

I've got a mate who went in to full geek mode for his wife's engagements ring, and him and Mr C could have exchanged notes when Mr C went looking for a pearl necklace for me...

[EternalOptimist]

I bet you know a bit about pearls as well??

I've got a mate that went in to full geek mode for his wife's engagements ring, and him and Mr C could have exchanged notes when Mr C went looking for a pearl necklace for me...

I have a mate whose missus went missing, oh , about twenty five years ago. They were on a cruise and she must have been swept overboard in the Caribbean. When he was back home he got a telegram from Haiti saying, body recovered stop clam attached to @rse stop £10,000 pearl in clam stop what action ? stop.

He telegrammed back
send £10,000 pearl to me stop throw bait back in the sea stop

[PM-Junkie]

Fu** her ring. Having sex before marriage? First thing you need to do is buy her parents off you dirty boy.


Tut tut tut.

I'm married. What's sex?

[thunderlizard]

The thing about "x months salary" is just a De Beers advert (a very long running one though). They vary it in different countries depending on how much they think they can get away with. In the UK they say one month's salary. In the USA it used to be two, but I think it's gone up to three now. Don't believe a word of it.

[d000hg]

If you want platinum you probably need to spend about £2000 to get something similar to a very nice £900 white gold ring. So I reckon £1500-2000 is top budget, unless you just want to show off. I'd go for style over just a big diamond stuck on a ring myself.

[RichardCranium]

She's up the duff already, so it's not like you need to work hard to catch her.

This'll do. It's pretty and real stones and everything.

[TykeMerc]

If possible or pactical you're better off getting a diamond that's an "antique" or at least antique cut. They're cut differently from modern methods so look better (opinion obviously), attract a different tax to the jeweller so are cheaper per carat and can be set just as well by a proper jeweller.

I know it's personal taste, but platinum doesn't look that much different from silver despite being much more expensive so a decent high carat gold is what I'd go for especially with a nice diamond.

I had several rings custom made for my now ex wife by a local jeweller from victorian diamonds and they were much nicer and better value for the cash than any pre made ones I could buy for the same money. Sourcing the stones isn't that tricky, you can buy old rings and scrap or recycle the settings and band and design a really nice ring with the jeweller.

[RichardCranium]

Buy her one costing a weeks salary, then when the baby is born take her shopping for an eternity ring and she can choose what she likes.

That's actually a really good idea.

That way you get a chance to see what colour the kid is first...

[Board Game Geek]

Amiga 500 posted : Ok, so my girlfriend is pregnant and I am buying a ring to propose to her, how much would you, or did you spend on your partner's ring?

A little shy of 4K.

Because she's worth it

[Bagpuss]

I bet you know a bit about pearls as well??

I've got a mate who went in to full geek mode for his wife's engagements ring, and him and Mr C could have exchanged notes when Mr C went looking for a pearl necklace for me...

I've given many a g/f a Pearl Necklace