How much

KenAdams2015

How much did you (or your OH) spend on your engagement ring and wedding ring?

Just wondering I know you spend what you can afford or what you want too but I just wondered

michelle09

My OH spent £200 on my engagement ring - 9ct gold with an amethyst stone. (The same ring with a diamond would have been £2000!! And he knows purple is my favourite colour).

We went to the jewellery quarter in Birmingham for our rings. My wedding ring was £200 and OH was £400. More than I was hoping for but in the end we figured that the wedding is one day but the rings you wear every day for the rest of your lives.

FutureGirl

My OH spent £300 on my engagement ring, and I love it.

Faith177

My engagement ring is insured for £3000 and wedding ring £1600 but OH didn't pay anywhere near that as his best friend works in the Birmingham jewellery quarter so he paid materials only but he never told me how much that was

Both rings are custom designed engagement ring is platinum with 2 diamonds either side of a single dark blue sapphire and the wedding ring fits the flush underneath with a slight twist in the middle

I love them both dearly because he put so much thought into what the design should be and he managed to get little elements that I've always liked in other rings I've seen. Plus it's just right for my finger not too big or too small

Tbh though as long as he had put thought into the ring I wouldn't have cared if it was £20 it was never about the cost to me it was the meaning behind it

Pollycat

KenAdams2015 wrote: »

How much did you (or your OH) spend on your engagement ring and wedding ring?

Just wondering I know you spend what you can afford or what you want too but I just wondered

It all depends how long ago it was.

I could (truthfully) tell you my first husband spent £40 on my engagement ring.

"What a cheapskate" you might think.

Not waaaaay back in 1974 it wasn't.

inkie

For my daughter, son-in-law spent £159 (second hand from antique centre), the wedding ring was my late mother's, and she bought his off ebay for about £106. Great pieces of jewellery, and they wanted something with a story behind.

suki1964

Engagement ring is insured for £5k, we didn't pay anywhere as much as that having bought abroad


My wedding ring was about £20 from a high street retailer

Andrew_Ryan_89

£2,000 for the engagement ring and around £450 for the wedding band. Advice? Just concentrate on what looks good and forget about it being Paladium, Uraniam, Adimantium or 1,000ct diamond. Diamonds are not rare and all silver metals look the same.

Don't buy from the high street shops. Find a jeweler if you can as they tend to be much cheaper. My £2k engagement ring I purchased was would have been at least £1,000 more in the shops.

Stick to a budget and don't take credit. I spent £2,000 because I can recover that money in 2 months and it did not affect whether I could buy a house or pay for something more important.

metherer

Our budget is £170. We want something pre-loved.

paddyrg

Pretty meaningless what we paid, but it was not a lot, for thin silver knotwork bands (we were flat broke back then). We've been through several 'wedding' rings since, my current one is Tungsten, cost under £20, and is brilliant, almost impossible to scratch and hence stays very shiny and as good as new. The ring is a *symbol* of eternity by virtue of being round, don't fall for the hype of needing a monopoly-controlled lump of carbon on a warzone-mined lump of yellow metal to show 'true love'.

arbrighton

paddyrg wrote: »

Pretty meaningless what we paid, but it was not a lot, for thin silver knotwork bands (we were flat broke back then). We've been through several 'wedding' rings since, my current one is Tungsten, cost under £20, and is brilliant, almost impossible to scratch and hence stays very shiny and as good as new. The ring is a *symbol* of eternity by virtue of being round, don't fall for the hype of needing a monopoly-controlled lump of carbon on a warzone-mined lump of yellow metal to show 'true love'.

Yeah OH has a titanium band, very plain, under £100 *don't remember exactly. But he's a chemistry graduate originally and a bit geeky about metals so it suits him totally.
Very hard metal, can't ever be resized AND scratching the basin with it as he leans in to shave each day