Engagement Ring - How Much To Spend?

chronicsaver

divadee wrote: »

I have seen my dream engagement ring. It's £20. If my partner ever got it for me I would be in heaven. Not only cos he asked me to marry him, but because of the thought that went into the ring. It doesn't matter what you spend its the thought and love and sentiment behind it.

The is the best post in this thread.

Pollycat

SecretaryBird wrote: »

I think you would need your head examining if you spent £9k on a ring:eek: I could buy a couple of decent cars for that and have a holiday thrown in as well

I don't think it's the cost so much - after all, it's not really any of our business how other people spend their hard-earned cash - I think it's this:

Pollycat wrote: »

I think spending £9k on a ring that you are not 100% sure that she will love is madness.

I would happily wear a £9K ring - but I would have wanted to have input to the stone & design rather than just being surprised by a £9K ring presented to me.

System

3 Months salary? In that case hubby could easily afford a £12,000 ring but he wouldn't and I wouldn't let him either.

Buzzybee90

Judi wrote: »

3 Months salary? In that case hubby could easily afford a £12,000 ring but he wouldn't and I wouldn't let him either.

If you're already married, why is it relevant?

Just another way to say how much your husband earns.

panpan

Thanks everyone, this has been great reading.

Pollycat

panpan wrote: »

Thanks everyone, this has been great reading.

So what have you decided to do?

panpan

I think I would like it to be traditional and a suprise, so do not want to pick together.

I'm going to spend 1-2K.

I'm going to buy from an online retailer eg. blue nile who have a 30 days return policy, so if she doesnt like it, then no worries.

corell

Mine was £36.
My sister's was around £100.
Personally I wouldnt have wanted anything more than that, you can get lovely rings for around 100-200.

System

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

If you're already married, why is it relevant?

Just another way to say how much your husband earns.

It wasn't meant to come out that way... no one knows me anyway and who cares?

Of course I could have deleted it if it had caused offence but since you've quoted me i'll leave it. It didn't cause offence to hubby who was standing behind me when I typed it so up yours!:)

ellay864

My husband chose a ring that's amethyst (I adore all things purple) with cubic zircona. He gave it me when he proposed on a surprise holiday to Switzerland, in the snow at the top of the Jungfrau mountain. He'd always said hell would have to freeze over for him to want to marry again (both had disastrous first marriages). He knows I don't like being cold and have no head for heights so having got me up the mountain he then said it must be hell for me, and it was all frozen...then produced the ring in case the penny hadn't dropped. He couldn't have afforded a mega diamond and even though he offereed for that to be a dress ring and to choose a 'proper' one there was no way - to me that ring represented so much. I always say that I did get one hell of a rock in the form of the Eiger - don't need a big diamond to prove anything as far as I'm concerned and I appreciated the money spent on the holiday far more than a pricier ring