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Poll: Wedding rings
I'm trying to understand trends for engagement and wedding rings for work and just wanted to see what everyone's experience was here.
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Re: Poll: Wedding rings
I'll start...
I've always been the decisive one between us, and DH is deathly afraid that he'll get me something I won't be 100% happy with. So when it came time to get a diamond ring, we had looked at places together. Ultimately, my best friend found a ring she knew I would love. I went to the store with my mom to try it on. It was perfect. I had them put it on hold. And then DH and I went to buy it. Very unromantic, but we've never been that type anyway.
I am way too picky to have him pick it out by himself. it's not very romantic of me, but I didn't want to wear a ring I didn't love for the rest of my life. I found a picture of exactly what I wanted and we went to a jeweler to have it made.
ETA: I tried posting a photo of my ring, didn't work. but ditto FCB, the finished product was a surprise so that was nice!
different answers based on engagement ring vs wedding rings, so i put 'other'.
engagement ring - i told him what i wanted (i may have drawn a picture because i never saw one in the store like what i was describing) and he did all the rest.
wedding rings - we picked them out together. he got what he wanted and i got what i wanted... went to several different stores to try on things and then went to our diamond broker and told him what we wanted. he had it made by one of his jewelers and everything turned out great.
For the e-ring, I gave him some guidelines (white gold, no princess cut) and he picked it out on his own. I didn't even know he had bought it.
For the wedding bands, I picked out my own because my e-ring was so hard to match up a band with. For his, he wanted it to be a surprise, so I showed him pictures from web sites and magazines, and then had one custom made to match my favorite one he liked. He didn't see it until the vows.
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Ditto. He knew my style but the ring he picked was different than the ones we looked at. I love it though!
I voted, "I picked it out and he got me what I wanted."
DH has a friend that's in the jewelry business ... so I sent an email to this guy kinda describing what I wanted (solitaire). DH and I went to the friend's house where he had brought a collection of diamonds and a magazine with all the different settings, etc. I picked the diamond, told him how I wanted it set, and DH paid for it and we ordered it that night.
For the wedding ring, because of my pain in the arse setting (which I looove BTW), it was hard to find one that worked. I had found basically what I wanted at a local jeweler, so we sent the picture and my engagement ring to DH's friend's jeweler and they made it.
And it's perfect and I'll love it forever and ever.
we got ours from an australian jewelry designer who sells (or sold) on ebay. i knew what kind of wedding rings dh was interested in, narrowed down the choices, and let him choose what we bought.
my engagement ring was my grandmother's wedding ring, so dh didn't have to pick anything out. or pay for it! i just let him know where it was so when he decided to pop the question, he could find it.
I picked other since we're talking about both e-ring and bands
E-ring was a complete surprise so he picked that out himself.
Wedding bands we shopped for together. I had something specific (albeit simple) in mind for mine and he just wanted his to be comfortable.
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My e-ring I designed myself. I am picky picky picky and we're not really a 'surprise proposal' type of couple anyway so it worked out for the best.
Our wedding bands we went shopping together for but I picked them both out. Can you say control freak, lol!
I told DH what I liked(platinum & round brilliant) and told him a carat size I didn't want bigger than (isn't that the opposite of most girls?). Seriously, a half carat or bigger looks like a bubble gum machine ring on my carnie hands! He then picked out a stone and setting and I love it.
For our bands we picked them out together. We both wanted simple solid platinum bands.
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His mom gave us the stone out of her original wedding ring (she was upgrading for their 30th anniversary). It's heart-shaped so there weren't many existing settings that it fit in to... we went to a jeweler and had one designed together. We got a matching wedding band made at the same time.
When it came to his, he had no preference so I picked out his wedding ring on my own, and just got his approval before buying it.
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For my engagement ring, we went to some stores just to look around and get an idea. Well, I fell in love with my setting and they had an amazing stone that was in our price range. We discussed it and went ahead and purchased it but left it at the store. When DH picked it up and proposed was still a surprised.
Wedding rings: My band was so hard to find b/c I wanted it to match my e-ring but there are some aspects to it that are hard to match so it took forever. We started out shopping together but when I finally found the one I was by myself. DH worked at a jewelry store before we got married so he was able to get himself a fancy schmancy ring at a great cost. He showed me before he bought it. I like it but really didn't care since he'd be the one wearing it.
I voted other. DH got the engagement ring as a family heirloom. The setting was perfect, so we left it as is. We did take the ring in and match it up with a separate wedding band a few months before the wedding.
For DH, he wanted a plain tungsten ring, so that was pretty easy to find. We got that the same day we found my band.
I also voted Other. My engagement ring and matching wedding band were family heirlooms, and actually so was his wedding band! His family for some reason has a lot of nice jewelry that they had been saving for him, as the oldest son.
We picked out a separate wedding band for me together, because I wasn't crazy about the matching band that came with the engagement ring.
LOL!!! I do agree! I wish I had told him that!
The proposal was such a surprise, he had laready picked the ring and I know he gets offended everytime I even bring up that I would like to change the engagement ring and get different setting for it.
To be honest, I hate my ring!! It has a huge diamond on a really dainty setting. I would have been happier with a small diamond of better quality on a ring with a little bit of design. I only wear my double eternity bands on regular basis. Every now and then I wear the engagement ring!
This is exactly why I put a cap on size. I have an excellent quality diamond that doesn't look like it ate my finger! So sorry you don't like yours
Maybe for your 10 year (or other year) anniversary you can get an anniversary band you like more?
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engagement ring: DH did it. He took his family with him for moral support, but he did the picking and the paying. They just followed him around from store to store. I had no idea and had never specified what I wanted because I knew he had great taste and would pick something I loved.
wedding ring: we picked those out together. finding something to match with my engagement was tricky - so it took a lot of different shopping trips. DH was super picky about his ring (eye roll...) and when we finally found something he liked, we purchased.
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I put a cap on size, too. I hate the way gigantic rings look on my hands.
I actually picked out my engagement and wedding rings. I wasn't planning to have such an active role on the e-ring, but DH is a research-aholic and I worried that his research was going to put us in debt. Plus, I don't wear much jewelery and I'm picky about what I do wear. Ultimately, he picked out the stone and I picked the setting.
For the wedding band, he picked out his first. I picked mine out separately. He had several ideas about what he liked so I let him take the lead on his. Our wedding bands don't really match, but whatever.
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