What would you spend on an engagement ring?

katie2805

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My wife didn't really care what the ring looked like, past it being white gold - she said as long as it came from me it didn't matter.

It was £125.

I totally agree.

Blue___Nile

I haven't an engagement ring though my husband swears blind that a ring he gave me early on in our relationship (over 31 years ago now) counts as one, even though he hadn't proposed!

I now wear my mothers ring which has sentimental value and is very pretty.

However, when it came to buying a wedding band I went in thinking we were buying a plain gold band (but I think back then it was about £20 and hubby bucked at paying such a small amount) so I ended up with one studded with tiny diamonds.

Bearing in mind you usually wear your wedding ring all the time and an engagement ring occasionally (at least in my case) I am happy we spent the extra on the diamond wedding band, it still looks great after all this time.

So my point is maybe consider spending a bit more money on a wedding band as you are more likely to wear it more.

Zeni

I wasn't really fussed. At the end of the day it mattered more that he picked something for me than the price tag. I know mine didn't cost all that much but I love it and funnily enough not a ring I would of picked (black diamond) kind of makes what i would of imagined I wanted boring! I'm also very funny about expensive things, I couldn't bare walking around with something expensive worrying I would loose it!

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onlyroz

I've got a jewellery phobia so hubby bought me a bike instead, which cost £350 and got nicked a few months later.

LilElvis

.... and I've got a love for jewellery. My husband knew it when he proposed. He knew which jeweller I would want to make it and that it was going to cost a lot. Before I'm flamed as a money-grabbing, materialistic cow - he paid half the cost when we designed and commissioned it and I paid the other half when I collected it a couple of months later. I've worn it every day for nearly 11 years and it works out at the price of a Starbucks a day, but gives me more enjoyment by far.

SingleSue

Mine cost £52 pounds 29 years ago, less than a week's wages for my partner at the time....blimey that makes me feel old!

To be honest, I would be too scared to wear anything much over £100 on my hand, I would be paranoid about losing it. To me, anything over that mark is just a waste and money that could be better spent elsewhere (note - for me, we are all different!)

Actually, I probably wouldn't wear one anyway, got out of the habit when the children arrived as they kept catching on things and then when I tried again when they were older, they didn't agree with me (very few metals next to my skin do, even very good quality ones).

Mrs_Ryan

I got engaged when I was 16 and had a real tacky ring. It was gold and diamond, and cost a couple of hundred quid- my boyfriend at the time had been badly injured in a road accident a couple of years before and bought me it when he got his compo payment. It was nasty though :rotfl: a real 16 year old choice :rotfl:
My second one was my favourite so far- it was beautiful- white gold with a princess cut diamond and cost £150, my ex bought it out of his student loan payment I think it was unlucky though, it was second hand when I bought it and when ex and I broke up I sold it back to the jeweller's where it had come from.
My third engagement ring was gold with a small flower shaped diamond cluster, it was new and came from the same jeweller's as my previous one. It cost about £100 which was about a day's wages to my boyfriend at the time, it was just meant to be temporary but we broke up before he could get me a better one.
OH and I aren't engaged but he's bought me two rings now that I wear as a sign of commitment. He bought me a silver Claddagh ring with a purple stone a couple of years ago from a tray of junk silver in a pawn shop in Penzance for a fiver which I have been wearing- he offered me a better one but I loved that one. However when I put weight on it was too small so when we went to Dublin last month he bought me another one with a green stone and cubic zirconias also in silver that cost him a huge 50 Euro about 3 hours wages for him :rotfl: I love it though, it's gorgeous and it reflects both mine and OH's heritages. I saw one I absolutely loved but he wouldn't let me have it as it was reduced to 20 Euro :rotfl: I still wear the original ring he got me on the chain with my crucifix.