Engagement rings?

[Serene123]

I'm just... fed up of trying now. Never going to get married, never going to have another baby............................................................................... BLERGH


I need a hobby!

as the saying goes..."never say never" You might be someone who doesnt have a long engagement. You never know, he might propose then you might set a date just 6 months on from then

If you want a hobby, I've got a stack of baby clothes that need sorting. That should keep you quiet for a while xxx

I have my own stack, maybe I could do that.......................... NAH?

 

[aly888]

I'm just... fed up of trying now. Never going to get married, never going to have another baby............................................................................... BLERGH


I need a hobby!

as the saying goes..."never say never" You might be someone who doesnt have a long engagement. You never know, he might propose then you might set a date just 6 months on from then

If you want a hobby, I've got a stack of baby clothes that need sorting. That should keep you quiet for a while xxx

I have my own stack, maybe I could do that.......................... NAH?

we should combine stacks and make a mega stack but then they will never get sorted. hmmm, maybe not

 

[Serene123]

I have half a room full of clothes I can't bare to part with!

 

[aly888]

Oh, i'm not parting with mine, much to OH's disapproval...I just need to go through and sort what still fits her and what doesnt. And I need to hook out the next bunch of clothes ready for when she fits into them!!
No way would I get rid of them...what would bubba #2 wear?

 

[Serene123]

New clothes?!

 

[aly888]

yeah, but if I am to convince OH he 'wants' a second bubba then I need to make it look financially attractive in the first place...

 

[welshcakes79]

my first engagement ring cost £1,500 hubby helped design it, the jeweller then made a matching wedding ring for £1,000....
now hubby was evil just before xmas last year and got caught playing away, so i threw those rings at him, now i have a £2,500 trilogy ring and a £3,000 channel set diamond wedding band...
but you know what...i much prefere my original ones because they meant more and are the actual ones i got married with
price is irrelevent, its the meaning that goes behind it
if the mister likes the more expensive one, be patient young cricket as that one will mean more in the long run
x

 

[aob1013]

I adore my ring, we chose it together from a boutique in the Canary Islands, and he proposed to me on the beach .. anyway thats another story

It cost a few grand and it's a big circular diamond in the middle, but i would have been happy with anything to be honest, as i had been waiting ages
Of course it doesn't matter what it looks like/what is cost, it's just a symbol of how precious you are to each other. Not too sure how you could get him to get you another one though xx

 

[pinkmummy]

Personally I don't think price matters as long as you like it. OH wasn't exactly the most romantic in proposing. He made me a candle lit dinner when C went to bed and then he showed me some hpotos of some rings and asked if I wanted to get engaged

Next day we went into town and I got my ring from H Samuels for £150 (reduced from £200) I love it. It is so me. Its not like a 'normal' solitaire engagment ring which is why its so me

Our wedding rings cost £110 for both of ours from Argos.

I can't understand people who spend thousands and thousands on them ... but then again I'd probably lose mine which is why I wouldn't want an expensive one xx

 

[honeybee2]

i love my ring too. Dont get me wrong, I compare and wish I had a HUGE diamond in it ( 1 carat would do me just fine). Unfortunately, my OH proposed just after he left uni and was skint- so I chose a £200 from H samuel- a white gold diamond solitaire. Its small, but its from him.

 

[maaybe2010]

I think it does matter what an engagement ring looks like, you have to like it cos you're gona be wearing it forever
I'm not a fan of solitaire so don't know what I would have said if he had got me one, I might of had to ask if it was ok to chose another together . . .
He got me a white gold Kissing Diamonds with five smaller each side.

Didn't mean a thing to me before I got it it had only been released that day so didn't even know it existed
Although I don't know much about jewellery anyway
It means the world to me now though and atm I'm the ONLY person in Liverpool with this ring so that makes it even more special!

I don't think price matters as long as your happy with it!
Mine cost £1,65. . something but if he had brought me one for £100 I would still have been made up it with

If your OH can't afford it in one go why not get it on finance?
There's no way my OH would of had an extra grand laying aroun in one month!!
He paid like a fifth off and then got finance with 0% interest for three years so it's only a small amount to pay each month.

 

[Feltzy]

Me an my OH went shopping together to choose a ring, there was no surprise proposal for me unfortunately but I love it all the same. It cost £500, I actually only tried the ring on as the woman behind the counter was checking to see my size and when I put it on I loved it. I was too scared to tell OH because I thought it was too much but then he said 'actually I really like that one'.

 

[Serene123]

He just got 60 hours of overtime, that's £1000! I'm starting to think maybe it will happen soon!! Just got to stop spending all of our money on things we don't need I guess!

 

[maaybe2010]

He just got 60 hours of overtime, that's £1000! I'm starting to think maybe it will happen soon!! Just got to stop spending all of our money on things we don't need I guess!

 

[Serene123]

I am excited! Although we need a new family computer too. Argh! Still... Maybe by this time next year?

 

[maaybe2010]

Stuff the computor!

Maybe another 60 hours next month and you can get both!

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[NIfirsttimer]

mine was £2,700 and i ADORE it... BUT.. thats just because of what it means to me i think, and because i really love how it looks, nothing to do with the cost of it, so if it was a cheaper ring that i liked just as much, i wouldnt have an issue with it at all!!

 

[mandy81]

My OH picked my ring himself and by god he done good
it cost £2500 but I don't think price should matter tbh as long as your happy thats all that matters.

if I could go back to the time we got engaged and I knew what ring he was picking as much as I love my engagment so much I think I would have told him to pick a cheaper one, maybe then we would have been married by now lol (we have been engaged for 6 years).

 

[tinybutterfly]

mine just kept saving up for one, up untill a point i got desperate and just cried out "but i just want a ring from you, just as a pressie, nothing more"
so one day when we were in town he bought me one.
i picked out a few i liked and let him make the final decision, that counted as my "promise ring" haha.

i showed him before what i liked (subtle, delicate, gems IN the ring), what i didn't like (big rock thrown on top of it that gets stuck everywhere), etc
i also told him not to buy me an expensive one bc i'd be too scared to wear it,
more importantly, to lose it...
so he kept it decent (ahum), and it looks perfect, i love it.
it's white gold (bc i think real gold makes me look old and it doesn't compliment my wardrobe),
2 small rings, crossing over and bending in a nice twist, with 3 little diamonds embedded in them.

it never crossed my mind to go change it for another, but if he had bought
me something i really didn't like i would have said something and ask to go
pick another one, after all, you have to look at it alot.
sure, you can learn to love certain things... but there are limits

 

[bobsiesgal]

my ring cost just under £6000, and is valued at just over for the insurance, my OH chose the diamond himself and then had the setting made so that its perfect for me, he has saved his money since he was 16 and we are 20 now (got engaged last month), so it took him 4 years to get what he wanted.

TBH i'm like the other ladies on here, and wouldn't have cared how much he spent as its the promise thats important, and i would marry him without a ring because is the marriage thats the important thing in the end, but luckily for me my OH is a bit of a magpie and loves sparkly things, so i think he got such a good quality diamond so that he could look at it more than anything , and apparently it had to be platinum because according to him its cheaper in the long run because it dosen't need to be restored as often as white gold?

but really, if you think about it, you kind of are already engaged, because the engagment is the promise to get married to each other not the ring, and if he's saving for the perfect engagement ring that shows his intension to marry you, and you want to marry him, therefore your already about as engaged as most people with rings, if you catch my drift, although i'm sure i'm not explaining myself very well..