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So my girlfriends and I had a "girls only sleepover" the other night. To celebrate some friends being in town for the holidays... ANYWAY - I am the only one of my friends that is engaged. 2 are waiting and praying and a few are just having fun. Well, we got to talking and the 2 girls who are waiting were talking about how they want to pick their own ring, and the guy better NOT pick one on his own unless she shows him pics of what she wants and yadda yadda. Well my FI picked out my ring by himself and Im so in love with it!! Its perfect!! I feel as if I were to choose my own that there are SO MANY styles and types that I could never decide on just 1 if I had free range to choose from.

So, im curious, how many of you picked your own ring and would never let FI do it alone???

I gave the style I like and we discussed the price range together, he chose the ring. 

I am trying to convince my SO to let me help him do the picking, but he's dead set on picking it himself. He has given me jewelry gifts three other times (a watch, a necklace, and earrings just this xmas) and I've concluded that based on how he did, HE NEEDS HELP. I am terrified of which ering he may pick out, especially considering he like extravagant styles and I'm more simple. Now breaking this news to him is a different story. I'm still working on a strategy to make sure I get what I want without him feeling like I did the picking! Wish me luck :/

Thanks ladies. I think its very interesting with all the different approaches everyone took. I think maybe another reason I was ok with FI doing it is bc he is a gemologist. So he clearly wasnt going to give me something that was ugly. BUT, I will say that I was happily surprised that I LOVED the setting. The proposal was a 100% shock to me that I wasnt expecting also!!

@Reign14 awww GOOD LUCK!! That can be hard!!

I LOVE that this is split so evenly!!! haha

I voted that we picked it out together even though I could have also voted that I picked it, I think.

I found a setting that I loved (solitaire) and we went to the jeweler that makes it together. While we were there we also considered the same setting but with sidestones, and a completely different setting. But we ultimately decided on the one I'd already chosen.

As for the diamond, I had gone through the jeweler's inventory (helpfully listed online along with GIA certs) and highlighted a few that looked good to me and gave the list to my boyfriend. He ended up going with one of these.

He has the ring but I'm still waiting!

@galloway111: THIS is my SO all day --> "FI would've chosen something at the first store he'd walked into and spent twice as much on a diamond of lesser quality"

My FI picked the center stone and I let him know that if the center stone was a gemstone I wanted a certain halo and band to go with it. So, I guess we picked it out together although I didn't see the ring before he proposed! 

@MeganTacky2247:  I got to pick out my own ring because my FI didn't want to give me anything I wouldn't like.  Only problem with that was... I liked everything sparkly! LOL

We picked it together but I would have been just fine if he'd done it himself. He proposed with a ring he was unsure of that he'd bought at a pawn shop and we went not even two days later and got a new one.

I picked out my setting(well narrowed down 2) and he picked out the center diamond stone.  I'm pretty particular on what I like and is a big purchase and he wanted me to LOVE it.  I'm sure he would of picked out something beautiful on his own.  However I do know that he would of chosen a simple solatairewith a plain band.  They are beautiful but I wanted something a bit different and unique.  I've always wanted a diamonds on my band. He also LOVED the ring  and he thinks it suits me! He calls it the princess ring!

We went 'shopping' together, and I picked out my 2 favourites--he went with my second choice because of the cost factor, but is now thinking about upgrading me to my first choice.