r04DiE
300km a week through London on a road bike.
Yeah, but hang on - a bloke wears a wedding ring too.
Engagement ring
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When did she have the op?
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Ah, a nearly platinum ring by the purveyor of fine jewellery to the Crown, Sir Clip.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Take her here to choose. Make a weekend of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering,_North_Yorkshire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering,_North_Yorkshire
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
He's "confirmed" nothing, other than his own assumptions
Sounds like I was the opposite of everyone here. I 'designed' my wife's ring after not being able to find anything I liked and crucially what I thought she would like. I bought the diamond on a business trip in South Africa with the help of a colleague. It is quite a small diamond, but on 'the 3 Cs' way of judging it is very high quality. I then had it all made up in the jewellery quarter in Brum.
cardiac case
Guest
- Location
- Suffolk/Essex border
A woman came running in the local pub holding a hand out, finger extended.
"Look what I've got. Look what I've got. It was £5000. And he's buying me a white Range Rover."
It will draw you further than dynamite will blow you.
"Look what I've got. Look what I've got. It was £5000. And he's buying me a white Range Rover."
It will draw you further than dynamite will blow you.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
One of the rings Mr Summerdays offered me looked like that one....
(car park, Gretna Green about 1989)
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
Blokes wearing wedding rings? Bit too American for me. Don't do jewelry.
Re the OPs question my advice is ask the girl what she wants. Getting one she doesn't like but feels obligated to wear is bad. Buying too cheap makes you seem a tight-arse yet spending too much when you'll doubtless want to buy a house together and so forth would seem stupidly extravegant.
There's a whole industry dedicated to selling stuff to engaged couples. Whe had a fairly big wedding, yet kept the cost within bounds by not getting carried away with friperies. Great venue, yes, great food (buffet), yes, lots of guests, but not much else and no photographer - as that tends to dominate the proceedings and turn an important emotional celebration into a glorified photo shoot - and saves a good bit of dosh. Another good hint is to marry in February - you can get a good discount by a bit of haggling ! Honeymoon on Skye was also not sold out for some reason.
My wife doesn't really bother with jewellry so she didn't want an engagement ring nor even a wedding ring and as a down to earth northern lass determined it was a waste of money. Somewhat to my suprise she did change her name, and I'd not suggested she should or shouldn't.
anyhow, my advice is ask, unless you're very sure of what she'd like
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r04DiE
300km a week through London on a road bike.
Well, I don't know one married couple that use a 'woman only' wedding ring. Never have. I don't know that I'd call it jewellery in the common sense of the word, either, you know, glittery bling - I think its more symbolic and traditional than that for most people.
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Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
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- Plymouth
Go into a respectable jewelers (not an ultra high end one though ££), they will be able to advise as they're doing it all the time. Try to spend a decent amount if you can get interest free credit - I'd say price should be a couple weeks salary. You don't want to look like a tight arse, but then again don't go too extravagant otherwise she'll expect it 
Re: style and size:, get something fairly classic and contemporary unless the woman receiving it has a particular quirk or taste. Tell the jeweler her height and weight, they will make a good guess, and if it doesn't fit can easily be exchanged. Bigger will be better than smaller, you want it to actually go on the finger when the deed is done, otherwise it will spoil the moment somewhat if it's too small!
Re: style and size:, get something fairly classic and contemporary unless the woman receiving it has a particular quirk or taste. Tell the jeweler her height and weight, they will make a good guess, and if it doesn't fit can easily be exchanged. Bigger will be better than smaller, you want it to actually go on the finger when the deed is done, otherwise it will spoil the moment somewhat if it's too small!
Profpointy
Legendary Member
In my family, neither my Dad nor either grandfather ever wore a wedding ring. As an older child / adult I saw blokes were wearing them and assumed it to be a new thing. Thus my tradition was blokes tended not to wear them. I also saw some gory first aid slides of ring injuries, though lower risk now I am an office worker. Both grandfathers did physical labour type jobs - and didn't have much money to be fair. Neither grandmother nor my mother ever had engagment rings though did have wedding rings.
Strangely, after telling my father I was getting married, he was later very surprised when he discovered we were "engaged" saying he and my mother never got engaged. And there was me thinking that once you had decided to get married you were "engaged". In my Dad's world being "engaged" was an additional optional status between "going to get married" and "actually married"
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