Your engagement ring/wedding set

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  • AmyFett
    AmyFett Posts: 1,607 Member


    $60 for the judge
    $30 for the rings
    $10 for the dollar menu at mcdonalds after:laugh:

    Sounds like ours, 25 for the justice of the peace, 45 i think for the marriage license, my rings were from my grandmother, I paid 30 for his ring, and I paid like 20 for my dress I wore.

    edit: oh and we did have a good dinner out that night, probably cost more than everything else LOL
  • kellyo15
    kellyo15 Posts: 51
    I wanted him to pick out the engagement ring!! My only request was that it be a surprise and that he pick it out.

    In my opinion, it's more meaningful that way. If he wants to spend the rest of his life with me, he should at least know me well enough to pick out a ring that suits me. Plus, after all this time (6 years together at that point, 8 by now) I knew he has excellent taste in jewellery and wasn't worried about it at all because I knew I'd love anything he would pick out.

    I just wanted it to be like this: We decide to get married, he picks out a ring, I wear it. Not: We decide to get married, I pick out a ring, he pays for it, I wear it. But that's just us and I think we were more old school about it than most :) To each their own! I did pick out the wedding band, much to his relief!
  • nnylee
    nnylee Posts: 811 Member
    When I knew it was around the time, I sent him a picture of what I liked and was like, "Here! Just for future reference." And I also told him to ask my best friend what I liked, because she knew. :D
  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    I left him hints. I would say...oo I like that ring, isn't it pretty. I think he got the idea. :)

    This is what I plan to do if my bf and I get serious enough where I think he's about to propose. I really want to the proposal to be a complete surprise, but of course I want to love the ring! As much as I love him, I'm a bit picky and I don't think I could just "love anything as long as it's from him."
  • SairahRose
    SairahRose Posts: 412 Member
    We'd talked for a while about getting engaged, but never bothered getting rings, or making things "official". One day, we were randomly walking around a shop, and I said I liked the look of a ring as we went past the counter. So he stopped, turned round, and bought it.
    It fit perfectly :D
  • JenaePavlak
    JenaePavlak Posts: 350 Member
    I had no idea he was about to ask me. The diamond was actually his mothers, so it means a lot to us.

    He hopes that he'll be able to afford a better set closer to our actually wedding.. but I really like it!! :)

    (We just got engaged about a month ago..) :heart:

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    Edit: I don't know why my pic isn't working but it should still work on my blog post: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/JenaeSmith/view/our-engagement-406918
  • holly2234
    holly2234 Posts: 37
    We picked it together. As much as i love it, i reckon an upgrade is in order for one of our anniversaries! A nice matching engagement and wedding band in (quite a few!) years. My wedding band is slowly getting looser and my engagement ring hasnt fit since before we even got married. So a matching set in the same size that i can wear together will be nice since the ones i have are about 3-4 sizes apart. He picked out my wedding band by himself. He did a great job!

    My husband will probably need a new one too the rate he is going. His cant be adjusted either so i guess its upgrades all around. We picked his together too.
  • tjones0927
    tjones0927 Posts: 102 Member
    My mom helped my guy find my engagement ring since she knew exactly what I wanted :)
  • BrittanyKxo
    BrittanyKxo Posts: 62
    We went ring shopping together :) & I LOVE my ring!
  • cakeordeath
    cakeordeath Posts: 229 Member
    we got married and then i got rings that were 12 bucks and very basic (silver band) one day i hope to get somethign a little more pretty and special.
  • PomegranatePriestess
    PomegranatePriestess Posts: 2,455 Member
    We went shopping for the engagement ring together; we went to an antique shop I love in Essex that carries jewelry. I wanted something from the early 1900's. We looked at several and then WHAM! the right ring caught my eye. The owner of the shop handed it to him, he put it on my finger, and it fit perfectly... our eyes locked and we both saw the same look: this is it.

    With the wedding band, I had to hunt around to find one that matched; I knew what I wanted and was lucky enough to find it online; a dealer in Florida sent me the ring overnight and we had 24 hours to decide. We opened the package together, and again, it fit, it was exactly what I was looking for, and we both said "Perfect!"

    He did surprise me with the proposal... the ring was on layaway. He snuck out to the shop and picked it up without me knowing, weeks before I expected him to be able to pick it up. It's not the most expensive set in the world, far from it. But it's just perfect for me, and it is simply gorgeous; they don't make 'em like this anymore! There are five mine-cut diamonds in my wedding band; the ring is estimated at 100 years old. The engagement ring is circa 1920, an "illusion" setting, with one .6 carat brilliant cut round diamond supported by four smaller diamonds in a raised square, and then two other diamonds on each side, set into a floral motif.
  • elephas_vegan
    elephas_vegan Posts: 5
    He picked out the engagement ring- and I picked out the wedding set (interlocking rings).
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    No. I'm not getting engaged. At least I don't think. But I was wondering...

    Did you and your SO go together to pick out an engagement ring? Did you just pop into a store together and window shopped? Or did you go and pick one out and he proposed in the store?

    Did you leave subtle man hints (IE: Cut out pictures, sent him pictures, drew your ring out for him..)


    Or are you the eternal romantic "I'll love whatever you get me because it's from you."

    Discuss. I wanna know.

    I told him long before we even talked about engagement that I didn't like diamonds, but I loved sapphires. He bought me some jewelry from time to time, so it was important to know.

    He chose the engagement ring on his own. It came with a wedding band. I'm not a "I'll love whatever you get me" person, but I did love it, because he really knew me and got what I would have picked out.
  • ali_b83
    ali_b83 Posts: 324 Member
    I knew he was going to propose, so I picked out my top 5 in his budget. I wanted something that looked vintage, so he got me this one with aquamarine and diamonds. (Not his actual wedding band, just a temp one)
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  • AlliecoreXX
    AlliecoreXX Posts: 78 Member
    My ex husband never proposed to me, nor did he ever buy me an engagement ring. (I don't miss him either, BTW) ;)

    If I'm ever lucky enough to be proposed to by the SO in my life, I don't want to have any idea what the ring is going to be like. I hugely admire a man who can do all that on his own. I'm not materialistic, and I want it to be something that is completely from him, and that will be a product of his taste and his impressions of me. I want to see HIS personality shine through when I look at my finger. :)
  • Kitten2629
    Kitten2629 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I asked my husband to marry me.. SO I went and picked out one for myself.. year later he went without me and picked a wedding set out and re-proposed. He said that even though he said yes and he would tell people we were engaged. He didn't consider it official until he asked me.
  • _Bob_
    _Bob_ Posts: 1,487 Member
    we hit a silver store in a mall on our way to Vegas. then picked out real ones together later
  • kbutlerrvt
    kbutlerrvt Posts: 41
    I had moved from NH to NC with my boyfriend at the time so we had talked about our future and there would be a wedding. He had asked for what I wanted as far as gold and setting. Due to the fact that I am a vet tech, I needed a setting that allowed me to put gloves on and off all day without trouble. He went with it and I absolutely LOVE it. He proposed 15 months ago and we are getting married in 7 months. When we go to buy our bands, we are each picking out our own but we are going together.
  • JenKillough
    JenKillough Posts: 474 Member
    I picked it out on Etsy. Showed it to him. He seemed to like it well enough. He pretty much told me the rings were for me only... he could give a rip. And he meant it. But he likes them now and he's glad we got them. They're really beautiful...

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    This is the matching anniversary ring we might get on one of our anniversaries (if she's still making them, they are custom made)...

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    ...Can you tell I'm still a newlywed? Couldn't resist posting the pics...
  • jthomasaz
    jthomasaz Posts: 5 Member
    I am in a long distance romance so marriage was something that needed to be talked about early so neither wasted their time. So I let it be known that two years is the cut off point, if he didn't propose by then, we both need to move on. So about a year after we had been dating, and had discussed marriage, he took me to the store to shop. So of course then every holiday and big romantic getaway I expected the ring...didn't happen. He finally proposed, a little over two years, in front of our families at Thanksgiving dinner. Sorry, long story short, we shopped together and then he went back and purchased what I had chosen. He specifically wanted me to choose something because he wanted me to have what I wanted, not what HE thought I wanted.
  • pixtotts
    pixtotts Posts: 552 Member
    i dont plan on ever getting married, But should i one day change my mind i would like a sea glass ring
    i love sea glass iv recently started making necklaces out of the bits iv collected over the years :D
    x
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    When we were dating, I mentioned my diamond cut is the Marquise Cut.
    I was tootally suprised he propsed when he did, he picked out the ring by himslef, but got a lovely marquise cut, becuase he remembered I had mentioned it.

    So, NO we did not pick it out together and No it is not liked under the label "anything he picked out because it is from him"

    I love it becuase he remembered what I had mentioned I liked and surprised me with it.
  • Maddalen101
    Maddalen101 Posts: 307 Member
    I was a lucky goil - I had TWO engagement rings. The first one my now hubby picked out and had set for me as a surprise. The second was my "official" engagement diamond (my mother said he had to give me a diamond or we weren't officially engaged). That we picked out together. We picked out his rings, too - the ring I put on his hand when we married, and the ring we bought when he lost the first one ... so he got two wedding rings ... guess that's fair ... :)
  • Klem4
    Klem4 Posts: 399 Member
    we've been together 7 years, married 3.5.. I've picked out all my rings. lol, I've had a total of 4? I think. 2 different promise rings, 1 almost engagement ring, but then decided I wanted something different and then the ring I currently have (that he used to propose for real), and two different wedding bands, had one that the stones were separate, but then decided it didnt look good with my ring and wanted a channel band instead. yeah, im very indecisive. at least i wasn't about who i wanted to marry! hahaha! :)
  • ktbug1186
    ktbug1186 Posts: 266
    We went and picked it out together! :)
  • juliebeannn
    juliebeannn Posts: 428 Member
    my husband and i have been married for a little over a year. he proposed on Christmas eve 2010, one week shy of our 4 year anniversary. he knew what i wanted b/c we had talked about rings a number of times through the years. he did an awesome job surprising me w/ the proposal and getting me exactly what i wanted. love that guy :love: .

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  • kleavitt1992
    kleavitt1992 Posts: 592 Member
    not engaged (yet) either lol but about 2 weeks ago i picked up his phone because i wanted to play some music while i was getting ready and the webpage on his phone was open to weisfields with rings on the cover i put the phone back and pretended i didnt see and a week ago when we were in the mall he was like you wanna look around and i ohh and awwed at the ones i like....in weisfields.....not saying im getting engaged any time soon but if thats not a sign idk what is
  • FluffyToFab
    FluffyToFab Posts: 99 Member
    Nope.. He total surprised me with the ring and the proposal.. I totally love it though!
  • XFitMojoMom
    XFitMojoMom Posts: 3,255 Member
    first drunken dinner party, a week into dating the "ring" was discussed in detail - in fact a diagram was made. He kept it, brought it to a jeweller and had it made for me.
  • alaythea
    alaythea Posts: 29
    We talked about getting married before he proposed. I knew he was going to but I didn't know when. He picked out the ring all on his own. All I told him before was that I preferred a round stone and something simple. And it was perfect! We just got simple plain bands and then for our 1 year anniversary he took me to pick out a diamond band to replace my original band with.

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