well i am not sure what my engagement ring cost- it's a little more than 3/4th a carat, and a special cushion cut to make it extra sparkly, and has 54 total small diamonds on: the top half, sides and front of the band, and it's white gold.
my wedding band cost about $700 and his wedding band was about $400.
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My husband bought my ring for $800.00 and I bought his for $100.00. He didn't want anything special and we were saving money for the reception and moving in together.
goood gosh..... i just at the web site of the place he bought it, and the ring they show- that is my ring (except i am fairly sure my stone is less thatn a carat) it $8900.00!!!
There is some crazy formula people talk about - 2 months salary. It is insane. If we had done that we would have spent 5K on a ring.
We actually spent 1,400.
We also had a very small inexpensive wedding. Saving for a house.
Big rings and weddings are madness - just my opinion.
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So...instead of getting myself in trouble on another thread on LS...I thought I'd start my own.
If you're engaged/married and you feel comfortable with it...please post the amount you spent on the engagment ring.
I'm curious as to what people spent. I PROMISE I'm not going to knock you...already did that on another thread.
my wedding band was from WalMart, a gold band he paid about $50 for. His band was from Zales, I think I paid $100 for it. I have a puzzle ring he picked up in Saudi when we first married – no idea of the cost – but I like wearing that as my wedding band because it's so different.
I'm just not a jewelry person, though I am partial to James Avery silver and will wear that for "dressing up."
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There is some crazy formula people talk about - 2 months salary.
It's 3 months salary actually. According to that my ring should have cost 10 K!!! (I could care less though, I LOVE mine). I think the formula is rediculous personally.
Crazy thing about jewelry.. is that no one can tell the real value of a ring... good fakes at $100 can look just as good, and even much better than a 'tacky' $10,000 diamond ring with all the hoolas..
I hate engagement rings.. they all look tacky... I prefer a simple wider band (silver) ...
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Crazy thing about jewelry.. is that no one can tell the real value of a ring... good fakes at $100 can look just as good, and even much better than a 'tacky' $10,000 diamond ring with all the hoolas..
I hate engagement rings.. they all look tacky... I prefer a simple wider band (silver) ...
My ring is not tacky - we both wanted rings that looked vintage because we are not flashy people. My diamonds are very high quality but less than 2 carats total - so I don't have some kind of Ivanka engagement ring. In fact, I get a lot of people asking if my ring is an heirloom. Because it was custom made the set is very, very heavy - actually too heavy IMO. I have a little "ice diamond" cushion cut ring we actually got at Wal_Mart - I pair it with a little diamond chip band from Kohl's and it's actually what I prefer to my wedding set.
I would not want a "fake" stone - I knew someone who did that so they could have a gawdy engagement ring to impress people. I would prefer something small and high quality to fake. . . but that's just me.
It's 3 months salary actually.... I think the formula is rediculous personally.
The 3 months salary 'inflation' is relatively new, as far as I am aware.
If we had followed that formula, or even the 2-month formula, my ring would have been...well, frankly, pretty big. Certainly high-end. Not exactly Hollywood-huge, but probably I would have been afraid to wear it half the time.
However, we have mortgages, and car payments, and children's mouths to feed already; we live in an expensive city, and are interested in traveling together and buying a bigger family home. Spending that kind of money was tempting to me for about .5 seconds just for the sheer brazenness of it, and then was patently ridiculous. I guess it helped that I am totally anti-diamond industry and chose sapphire and a local artisan-designer instead. I'm not sure of my engagement ring's exact price, but I think it was around 2K. My wedding ring I know was 1.5 K, and his was $750. The biggest cost was the platinum and the hand-carving.
When we first started talking about getting married, I told my husband that a ring proposal was kind of important to me, but I'd be happy with a sterling silver band of moonstone or opal, maybe pearl. He was the one who decided on platinum and a harder mineral, because it would endure better. Of the two of us he's the biggest stickler on the rings, actually...no switching around, no upgrading, no taking off unless absolutely necessary...so he wanted to make sure they'd last forever.
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Ten years ago, for the engagement ring, including re-setting, I spent about 1500.00 for a .70ct, RBC G/SI1 with great proportions and symmetry. Faced-up a lot bigger than .70. The wedding ring was an antique platinum eternity ring with 40 RBC diamonds. IIRC, that cost around 600.00.
I'll presume that my stbx will have the stone de-mounted and made into a pendant, like she did with ex-H #2.
Who do you think makes up this "rule" about spending 3 months salary on jewellry? Hmm... let me think- it will come to me...
It's such a personal choice. Jewellry isn't at all important to me- my engagement ring and wedding ring combined were under $1200. Even that was too much for me. I simply don't care about jewellry.
The party however... That was important to us! We broke the bank on the reception. It was one hell of a party though. oh, then we broke up within two years after that
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