Engagement ring

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Wait til she says yes, it'll save you having to trudge back to the shop and ask to return it

 

[Vapin' Joe]

How about an adjustable one?

 

[VintageRuby]

How about an adjustable one?

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That's spooky! i used one of those today to attach a water bottle bag to my handlebar stem

 

[Garry A]

Just tell her to pick any one she likes, that's what I did.
Fortunately she picked a non silly priced one from H Samuel. She still loves it 20 yrs on.

 

[Proto]

I can't help. We've been happily married for 29 years but never did the engagement stage.....we just decided to marry. BTW we spent £21 on two wedding rings from Ratners because we couldn't afford any more.

Likewise.

My wife even bought her own wedding ring. I didn't want one. Still married 37 years later.

 

[jefmcg]

Remember, 'a months salary....' was coined by De beers who are diamond miners.

Even the idea that an diamond ring is a compulsory part of getting engaged was promulgated by de Beers.

This is a ring she's expected to wear every day for the rest of her life. Unless your taste in jewellery is unrivalled and she doesn't have a strong preference, you should pick it together.

 

[subaqua]

Someone is thinking about getting engaged, presumably to someone very special. Out come the CC misogynists, suggesting he murder her, and fat-shaming a woman they have never met. I hope the OP can see past that sh1t.

there were several replies i wrote to this.

and deleted and edited . because i cant be arsed

 

[sight-pin]

You could always buy one of these https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=b...UICSgC&biw=1536&bih=759#imgrc=iAdjC0_a5f5AKM:
She wouldn't know until her finger turns a little green

 

[subaqua]

and BTW this year for Christmas she will be getting the ring with a new stone in it . after the stone fell out a few years back and i told her to get it replaced but she didn't want to.

ring has sat on holder in kitchen ( rings come off for baking and other things in cooking , same here for me) since.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'm surprised wedding and engagement rings are still worn in this day and age. They are a throwback to the times when a wife was the husband's property. Were I female I certainly would not wear either.

 

[slowmotion]

Congratulations!

I went to a jewellers in Cheltenham with my Best Man-to be. We chose an antique ring. I think it cost about £150, maybe less, but that was 28 years ago. It really is worth looking at old rings. Some of them are absolutely lovely.

 

[MichaelW2]

Thanks guys.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I asked Mr Marmion to marry me after returning home from the pub on 2 March 1996. Although it may have been the early hours of 3 March by the time I asked. We bought the ring together on 3 March.

 

[SteCenturion]

I was always led to believe that traditionally a man spent approx 1 months wages on an engagement ring.

Spend what you 'both' feel happy with.

A very famous (in the NW at least) jewellers Prestons of Bolton, where I bought her indoors ring from has recently gone into liquidation .... sign 'O' the times.

 

[jefmcg]

I was always led to believe that traditionally a man spent approx 1 months wages on an engagement ring.

That was invented by de Beers. And - bless them! - bumped to 2 months in 1980s