Poll: Your Engagement Ring

livvy1102

Random question, I know...but truthfully, do you like your engagement/wedding ring?? Did you have anything to do with picking it out and if you didn't, would you have picked something else out??

 

I love mine, I knew I wanted a solitaire and I have an anniversary band as the wedding ring..but my BF had hers completely redone...thoughts??

prtysimple

There's a place here that advertises letting me buy a diamond in a plain setting and then brining it back for a refund on the setting and letting the woman pick out her own setting.  This is what DH did, so yeah, I like mine.  I wouldn't mind a bigger stone some day though...

dallystarr

I didn't have anything to do with picking it out, but DH and I dated for a long time before we got engaged so he knew exactly what my taste would be. He was right, I love my ring

Brideofranken

My husband designed mine himself wit a jeweler...and it is SO me.

I was shocked- I wouldn't want to have had a hand in picking it out- it seems so unromantic. We had casually talked about marriage, but when he proposed it was totally unexpected-I guess all of our friends knew, though.

He seriously did an amazing job- it has a wide platinum band, with a tiny band of rose gold, and big diamond set in the middle. I have no idea where he got the idea. Now I feel like kissing him. I truly love it to this day.

He asked the other day if I felt like having a new one- that I picked myself- I told him he must be nuts!!

veloelle

Love it. DH picked the square solitaire. I was amazed-the size is just right for my finger. We picked out the wedding ring together, but I didn't see it until the wedding day. He said he never wanted me to feel like I had to upgrade.I kept the solitaire and band separate since there are times I don't want to wear the solitaire.

 One of DH's friends has a wife who had her ring plated to look platinum becuase it was gold. And everyone else had platinum, so she had to look like everyone else.  I'm sure she's upgraded at least once in the 7 years they've been married. And I"m sure she'll upgrade again when she's bored w/ her latest conquest. I'll put my claws away now.

TheBrowns

I love mine, DH picked it out all by himself and did a fab job. I have 2 friends that have completely redid theirs and I think it is a little rude since both of their DHs went to a lot of trouble to design the rings. But they are gals that are very into to jewelry.

Someday I would like to have another diamond ring that I design that I could wear as an alternative ring, but I hope that I am wearing the one I have on now the day that I die.  

ellemoney:)

I LOVE mine. ?It's pear shaped and different, but still looks like an engagement ring. ?It's not a solitaire, so I love it.?

I saw it in the store and said it was one I liked, but he picked it out. ?He did really well.

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I would never upgrade. ??

triplea1819

yes, I picked it out, and DH bought it.

 

my wedding ring is the diamonds and setting from my great-grandmas, and I just change the band part of it. 

 

i love them. 

krub

I love my stones, but don't love my setting.  I picked it out, it was the best I could find at the time.  someday maybe I'll get a new setting.

julygal

I would never change my engagement ring.  My DH picked it out on his own and used it to surprise me with the proposal.  I did have some input that he had acquired a year before the proposal when a friend had gotten engaged and he asked me some questions about what I like.

heyitsme

DH knew exactly what I wanted... diamonds set in the band itself, NOT a rock. And he picked out the perfect one!!

Our wedding bands are his/her sets, and doesn't "match" my engagement ring, so I wear my wedding band on my left ring finger and my engagement ring on the right ring finger.
 

Flem052204

Yep--I love mine.  It was a complete surprise to me and I think DH did a better job than anything I would have picked.  My ring has a center diamond and sapphires on either side.  I never would have thought of the sapphires--I would have gone the plain solitaire route.  But I I love it more than anything I could have dreamed of.

I picked my own wedding ring and that is the one I don't care for!  It is a simple, thin platinum band.  Since I often wear it alone, I now wish I had picked a ring that was a little thicker.  It looks weird all by itself.  But this is the ring we stood before God and family with and the ring that was blessed, so I really can't bring myself to switch it.  This is the ring that was the symbol of our commitment so I guess it's going to stay.  If I ever do work myself up to getting a new wedding ring, I think I would make DH go with me to have it blessed by our priest.

On a funny aside--we took two wedding rings to our ceremony for DH.  He is incredibly absent minded and it's not a matter of "if" DH loses his ring, it's a matter of "when."  We had both rings in our ceremony and both were blessed.  So we've got a backup already in place for DH that has been "pre-blessed."

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I love mine. DH knew what style diamond (emerald cut) I wanted but that was it.  He picked the setting and it is modern and simple - perfect.  I picked my wedding bands and have them on either side of the e-ring.  I wouldn't change anything. 

 I have a friend whose DH got her a ring and it was gold.  She doesn't like gold.  But she kept it and went ahead and got a gold wedding band to go with it.  Years later she had the ring dipped and it is now white gold.

jaredswife

I love my e-ring.  I didnt help pick it out at all, but DH did a great job.  I wouldnt trade it or change it for anything!

butterbeansmama

We picked our's out together. So.. Yes I love my ring!

AnneUCSB

Yep, I love mine... I picked it out ?DH and I did a little window shopping before he proposed so he knew exactly which one I wanted.

goodhartedmommy

I had one, it was beautiful...princess cut diamond with emerald cut sapphires as sidestones. However, I'm not a jewelry kind of person, and after several years of not putting it on my finger, we sold it since it wasn't doing me any good.

korr04

I really like mine and yes, I did pick it out.  DH knew I would be bummed if he chose something I didn't like.

Bellisimo

Yes!  Love it!  But DH and I went to adiamondisforever.com and we built one like it so he knew what I liked.  He had one made exactly like it only better.

winery

I love mine, but I designed it myself.  MH bought the center stone separately, so I went over the design with the jeweler, but had no idea how big the center stone was.

So it was the best of both worlds for me.

sarahslost

I'm wondering if I should be honest here? I really didn't like mine at all.  I'd told him as long as I can remember that I only wear yellow gold.  No silver, no white gold.  Not even platinum.

What does he propose to me with?  A white gold ring?  Not only is it white gold, but it doesn't even remotely look anything like your typical engagement ring.  I wouldn't have had any idea he was proposing if he hadn't been down on one knee.  To be honest I was certain it was a joke for about 30 seconds.

But he said it was temporary until we could buy a different one.  It was his grandmother's (still living) ring.  He couldn't wait to propose, so he used that one.  I'm actually on my third - NOT MY FAULT!  He didn't like the second one.  As much as I protested, he insisted on a third.  Swear on my life.  And neither of those was really very expensive.  I'm happy with this one, and was with the second as well.

penguingrrl

We went together to look and I tried a bunch of things on.  Once I found a setting I really loved he went and chose a diamond for it without me and did a beautiful job!  We bought our wedding bands later and I love mine!  We are both glad we went together because he admitted he would have had his mother and/or sister help him and their style is far more ornate than mine and it wouldn't have occurred to them that we have different styles!

~Kat~

I told DH exactly what I wanted, so yes I liked mine. Last 4th of July though, the biggest diamond fell out of the setting! It is probably still somewhere in our backyard, but I'm sure we will never find it. I was so sad. I still have the ring and little diamonds in my jewelry box, but I think I will get a new ring sometime in the next few years. I have to admit that it will be nice to get a slightly bigger stone then what DH could afford when we got engaged.

merrittcat

My Dh knew what size and shapes I wanted.  I did not pick it out and its perfect!  We picked out our wedding bands together though...

Twink13

I adore mine. It is actually way more beautiful than what I ever imagined...my dh has really amazing taste in jewlry actually. every piece he has ever given me has blown me away.

the only input i gave him was the shape. the only shapes i liked were the princess cut or round cut. so i told him to just look at them. and i also had input into the band color. i wanted a platinum or silver band. i despise gold, lol

 he told me as soon as he saw the ring he knew it was 'the one'. he looked and looked and kept going back to it he says, lol. i love that

ChicagoBaby

I really love my ring. We went shopping together and looked at a couple of different styles, but I had liked one style from early on-it just took me trying some on to see that it was the nicest It's emerald cut center stone with a baguette on each side. We picked out our wedding bands together during the planning process, so I like it too.

 

I'm not going to lie, maybe some day I'd like a bigger stone, but for now it is perfect-it's not too small at all and I don't want to be ostentatious. Maybe for our 20th anniversary or something