Your engagement ring/wedding set

We picked out my first engagement ring together and he proposed 7 months later. It was fairly inexpensive, as we were pretty broke at the time. Fast forward to a couple of years later and he told me one day "I think you need a bigger diamond", so we went (again together) to pick out a new stone. I couldn't decide on a setting at the time, so we had the stone set in a simple solitaire. Last year for our 10 year anniversary, I finally got the setting of my dreams custom made for me.

Thats a gud decision...me and my husband did the same for our wedding ring.

My ex asked if we should get married. I shrugged and said ok. He said lets go get a ring. I saw a beautiful beautiful little 1/4 carat solitaire that reminded me of my mothers ring. It was cheap too. He said, that's bullsht, I spent more than that on my ex's promise ring. You arent getting that one, youre getting this one.

And he pulled out this 13 diamond elaborate setting with a big round rock in the middle and I hated it. It was 5 times more than the one I loved. He just wanted to tell everyone how much it cost.

We got home and he dropped to one knee and asked me to marry him.

I felt kind of sick.

It was so much foreshadowing right there.

Mine was a CZ and he lost his in the first month.... Talk about foreshadowing... :grumble:

i was the one that lost mine...again, foreshadowing...

He picked it out all by himself, and I never dropped hints. But, I was 17 years old when I got married! LOL And for the curious, we are still married, 22 years last March. And have 3 awesome, smart, handsome and funny boys.

Side note: for my next engagement, I don't want to be involved in the ring.
For my third engagement, I'd like to pick it out.
My fourth engagement, I'd like my third toe tattooed.
After that, I'm game for whatever.

Hey wait here, I'll be right back.**goes get ring**
I'm back....Oh you want to pick one out...Okay. **you pick ring**
Let's go get a tattoo...**we get tattoo**
Game for whatever?? Can I just look at you for a while?....you're amazing!:flowerforyou:

We have looked together but his plan is to "surprise me" since he knows my taste.

We already have an idea of when we want to get married but he wants to get me a ring before we start planning. Frustrating. I could care less about a fancy ring, any ring would make me happy at this point!

Depending on a health issue I've been dealing with, we may have to start working on the baby things sooner than later. Depending on what my dr. tells me next week, my fertility may be at stake so we may have to do a courthouse wedding with no rings in that case!

My husbands grandmother and mom picked out my ring. I love it. It's a very simple solitaire.
My band I picked out, it's a Tiffany's Metro Band.

these are my rings (from my wedding photos)

thankfully my husband was smart enough and knew me well enough to know-I needed to pick it out. Don't want to be stuck with something I don't like forever! So he proposed to me with a "fake" ring....Smart man I married!

however-my friends husband gave her a ring that had been in the family-she hated it and could never tell him.

My husband bought my engagement ring when i was with him. Later on after we got married and I was in AIT I bought my wedding band. My ring set cost about 100 dollars total. He gave me a ring after I came back that his aunt gave him but I never really wore it and someone stole it from me at work. I had to take my rings off when I was working or I'd loose a finger. Needless to say I still have the original set and it has more meaning anyways.
My husband on the other hand has gone through 4 rings. 2 are in a lake in alabama, one fell in a fryer and the other one my daughter lost when he took it off and left it on his night stand. I told him he has to buy the next one.

He asked. Because I had been married before and the big rock was just that, a big rock, I asked him to get me a ring with his birthstone in it. So I have a blue topaz engagement ring and a simple band that goes with it. So every time I look at it, it represents him.