Roby 6:12 Sun Mar 4
Engagement rings
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What’s the general rule with engagement rings?
Is it just a case of getting down Ernest Jones and buying the Princess something nice and sparkly for £1500 or is that not considered enough nowadays?
I’ve heard of the 2 and also 3 month salary cost but is that just a myth put out there by the diamond companies to drum up business?
Did anyone on here let their other half have much input into the ring or did you just buy something classy, get down in one knee and hope for the best?
Second hand ones are a better deal but some people say are bad luck but you get much more for your money.
Any stories / financial advice would be good. Cheers
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pulhampete
6:16 Sun Mar 4
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DON'T FUCKING BOTHER.
speaking as someone recently separated.
Probably best to ask someone/ somewhere else.
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HBHammer
6:19 Sun Mar 4
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Hi Ruby
Gay weddings are very expensive as they're still relatively new, wait a while the price will come down.
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Sven Roeder
6:40 Sun Mar 4
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Under new equality laws you don't need to bother
#MeToo #BuyYourOwnBloodyRing
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MTC
7:59 Sun Mar 4
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Spent about three hundred quid on an engagement ring for the missus eleven years ago.We both ageed it was stupid to spend two/three grand on a ring.She’s not that sort of person and she would of been terrified of losing it anyway,plus we were paying for the whole wedding ourselves so the money could be spent on the big day itself.
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lab
8:01 Sun Mar 4
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Do her up the brown ring.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:10 Sun Mar 4
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Spent about 200 quid in 1999 on a simple white gold and diamond job. Had to have stone reset a couple of years ago and it turns out it is very good quality and worth around 300 pounds. No need to overspend.
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frank marker
8:21 Sun Mar 4
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Paid just over £30 over 30 years ago
still married
ergo spend £1500
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neilalex
9:03 Sun Mar 4
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This is interesting, well it interested me anyway.
http://www.oocities.org/robert_upci/the_history_of_rings_by_chalfant.htm
Apparently, according to the above;
'The ring, then-in this respect-was quite simply a symbol of ownership or slavery.'
On that basis I know a good few blokes who ought to be wondering around with engagement rings.
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Thanks Ted
9:23 Sun Mar 4
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Get yourself up Hatton Garden, you’ll get a better quality diamond for your money. Also do your research on the 4 C’s and invest in what is most important to you and the future Mrs Roby.
Good luck
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bruuuno
9:29 Sun Mar 4
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If you have to ask this then you must be some sort of cunt surely
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Far Cough
9:35 Sun Mar 4
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I bought mine in Hatton Garden
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Pee Wee
9:39 Sun Mar 4
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Depending on your budget, Thanks Ted is correct.
If you get your ring made you'll get a much better diamond at a much better price. A high street jewellers will sell the diamond based on it's certificate, but that isn't the most important thing necessarily.
If you get the ring made you'll get to choose the best diamond for that design and can end up with a much better diamond for your money.
As for budget, it's entirely up to you. Don't be pressured into spending more than you can.
As for design, talk to her friends, look on her Pinterest page and after that, if you still don't know give her the choice of you choosing what you think or her choosing.
Of course if you're getting it made, she can have a say in the design without actually seeing the ring. You can still choose the diamond without her.... You could even talk to jeweller first about your budget.
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP
9:43 Sun Mar 4
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Propose with something else then get both of you upto Hatton Garden. Make a day of it. Loads of nice bars and restaurants round Farringdon way. You'll need a bar after walking around 50 jewellers before going back to the first one for the ring. One month salary was my rule of thumb.
Didnt see the point of giving the bird a ring she'd never seen before and has to wear it without particularly liking it
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Darlo Debs
10:36 Sun Mar 4
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Roby i would care less about the ring (but then i am not at all.materialistic)..but put loads of thought into.the proposal
Trust me in this, simple elegant ring but really romantic proposal is the way to go.
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Spandex Sidney
10:39 Sun Mar 4
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Save yourself the grief, just buy a house now and give it to her. Job done.
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pulhampete
10:44 Sun Mar 4
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Thank you Spandex! I was beginning to think I was the voice of reason on here.
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Darlo Debs
10:53 Sun Mar 4
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hate this assumption we are all.money grabbers.
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claret50
10:53 Sun Mar 4
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Cost me £12 from H Samuels in Dagenham, but it was 59 years ago, so I suppose Iv'e had my money's worth.
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Alex G
11:08 Sun Mar 4
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WHO really has gone. Eighteen replies and not a single request for a link to the potential fiancee.
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Darlo Debs
11:11 Sun Mar 4
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Alex you are right....he hasnt even said his woman is a worldy or a supermodel...standards are slipping
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