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Is there anyone out there who is disappointed with their ring?
Don't get me wrong, the guy is the important thing..but did you have a dream ring in mind that you didn't get?
I ended up with less than a carat and not a halo style which I was really hoping for
and even though I know it doesn't matter, the materialistic side of me really wishes I had at least a carat sometimes- don't beat me up please
I am satisfied with mine- but I went shopping with my hubby to give him an idea of what I wanted.
@lollypop: i understand what you mean... sometime's guys are clueless and think oh she wouldn't want anything that big it's too large for her tiny hands... or something like that... can you buy a wedding band that has a wrap that makes it into a halo, or get one custom made to wrap around your band?
I'm happy with the size, but sometimes I wish I had a prettier setting. It's sort of my fault because I never looked at rings before getting engaged and just told him what shape of diamond I liked. I didn't realize there were so many different options for settings! when I started browsing wedding sites, I saw all the choices out there and really liked some of the fancier options.
I guess mine is small by traditional standards (it's .80 carats) but I LOVE IT! I've never been disappointed in it and super-glad that my guy didn't go into debt to get it :o)
crebre- he already bought the band so I didn't want to give him the idea that I'm complaining already, I'm sure we can upgrade sometime in the future
I guess its just that we went to several ring stores together and I always picked out a halo style, I never specified that it had to be a certain size, but he just got me something completely different
dont get me wrong its still beautiful-
I guess my dream ring was just out of his price range, the ring I have is less than half the price of the one I asked for, when I went to get it cleaned one day he was with me and they brought out some kind of receipt to him for some reason and I saw the price:-I I know..bad
I'm totally happy with my e-ring, but I'm not a fan of the band FI got to go with it. I am a little frustrated, because he's admitted that he knew I wouldn't like it, but he got it "just because we had the diamonds". But now, I can't really ask for what I really want because we can't afford it. So I'm going to have to just get a plain band for now and upgrade later. I guess I was just sad because I was looking forward to getting to pick out my own wedding band.
Although if I had to pick a ring before the engagement, I might have picked something else, but the fact that my FI picked and custom designed the ring himself that the ring is more meaningful to me than other rings. I LOVE my ring.. Not disappointed at all because I know he did his best and put in so much thought and effort into it! :)
I am completely satisfied with my e-ring. However, I really wanted two wedding bands...one on either side of my e-ring...then the FI slipped and told me how much my rings cost and I shut my trap up about it and never mentioned it again....LOL. Since neither the FI or I believe in upgrading stones, settings, etc. he made sure he got something that I could wear forever without being what he calls "long-eyed" and lusting after somebody else's ring.
This is the king of "DON'T GET ME WRONG" threads, :) I love it.
Um, the short answer is yes. I gave my ideas and imput and hopes and dreams and desires to him, told him what I wanted, showed him pictures.
The ring I got could not be more different. It was my mothers, and she gave it to him to propose with, so that's why there wasn't any imput on my end.
I'm with you lollypop - doing my best to grow to love it. I try to get my head around the heirloom idea, but it kinda feels like yet another example of my mother meddling.
Nope! Sometimes I think it's a little small by some people's standards? Because it's only .62 (i think) of a carat. But the setting is so much different than anything I have ever seen and I get complimented on it daily. The middle diamond is flawless, and gah .......
sorry, i was busy looking at it and forgot what i was saying.
I adore my ring! For whatever reason I thought the side accent stones were larger... but i think it's because with the center stone actually mounted they're less obvious.. but like I said.. I am in love with and adore the ring.
I love mine. The sum total of the input I provided to my fiance was "platinum band" and he did the rest, and he did a fantastic job. Of all the rings I've encountered since receiving mine, I haven't seen a single one that I prefer to my ring.
My center stone is .7 carats, and then I have 34 diamonds in the setting, which brings it up to about 1.25 total weight. While sometimes I wish my center stone was larger, I LOVE my ring. FH saved for it - paid in cash, and it's from my parents' jeweler - where they got my mom's engagement ring. It's a completely unique setting, and I would rather have that than a larger stone. The .7 works into our "lucky number 7" theme we have going on with our wedding, and it's the same size as my mom's stone, so that's special to me too.
Mine is completely different to what I would have picked myself (we had always tried on princess cut solitaire) but I adore it. I love the feeling of adoring it. Everyone compliments it and FH is so proud of himself for choosing it.
BUT. We were engaged once before, about 5 years ago now. We decided in the kitchen we should get engaged and he ordered me a ring a few weeks later. He wasn't happy with it but still gave it to me. His opinion probably coloured mine. The diamond was flawed. I didn't care but I knew it was flawed, when I took it to get resized the people in jewellery shops weren't very nice to me (Pretty Woman anyone?) I still loved it bc of what it signified but neither of us was particularly happy with it. It's a long story, we ended up decided we weren't ready to get married at that point (well I wasn't), when we started talking about it again he said he wanted to get me a new ring. It does help that he had more $ these days than he did back then, but I do understand the feeling of not being 100% taken with your ring. I'm sure you will grow to love it though :)
While I'm not dissappointed in my ring, I'm very dissappointed with people's reactions to it. I feel like I have to defend my stoneless ring anytime some one looks at it. I love it, and it's beautiful, but the best I get from some people is "well, that's very...untraditional!" Surprising that no on even comes up with the word unique. :(
i'm not sure what i'd do if m picked out a ring completely different than the ones i showed him. especially because the ones that i love are such a reasonable price. of course i'd say yes but i'd wonder if he was being selfish by picking the ring that he wanted me to wear, in the same respect i'd wonder if i was being selfish by not loving the ring he picked out... hmmmmmm
I think it's perfectly oikay to not be in love with it. It's still a "thing" after all. A "thing" you wear every single day. Maybe you can add the halo to it as a wedding gift? You really should love it and if fixing the setting would help you should bring it up. My guy thought i was selfish and materialistic for wanting to pick out my own ring; I'd be in the same boat as you if I hadn't finaggled my way into the "i picked out my own ring" boat via multiple threats. don't feel bad! I'm so picky about jewelry if i didn't get to pick it out myself, I'd be disappointed, too.
I def sent him pictures of stuff I liked (and he took them to a jeweler and had it custom made). I did tell him that if I didn't like it, I'd say no LOL totally kidding though!!! 
Um...I DID pick it out myself and STILL decided I wanted to change my setting. It's at the jeweler right now getting reset from a solitaire to a three stone. It's what I wanted initially and then I changed my mind back and forth and really more than anything was trying to be conservative and keep him from spending too much. We were about to purchase a home and put a good chunk down on it and he wound up spending less than he originally intended because at the time I didn't want him to spend any more and already "let" him go higher than I had originally wanted. 10 months later...I'm having it reset...should have let him bite the bullet originally. My fault! I would never say I was disappointed, I LOVE my center stone. I just knew I could love it more in a different setting and I can't wait to have her back!
i love love love my e-ring. I only have two small problems with it (one of which is really not my problem...): 1- i wish I was better versed in ring settings because the way my beautiful 3 stones are set they don't sparkle as much as I know they have in them. Especially the sapphire, which is so dark blue that it often looks blue-black because of the setting. I was hoping for a lighter, more sparkly blue center stone. 2- Not a single person I've shown it to has been all "how beautiful!" Its all been,"Oh, that's....nice." or "Well, you can always upgrade to something better later." Or worse, dead silence!
My ring is beatiful at just slightly over 1ct. Its 3 round stones- a natural sapphire 1/2ct center with two clear diamonds set in white gold. I simply do not understand why no one else thinks its beautiful! None of the stones are flawless and they aren't the size of eggs, but you can't see the flaws with the unaided eye and anything too much bigger would drive me bananas! So why the total lack of love for my precious?!
Wish I had pictures to share. The one I have here is kind of like mine, but mine has a slightly wider band and my center stone looks darker in person.
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absolutely disappointed... at first! I asked to be included in ring shopping. he told me no. luckily, my ring is so simple (it's a solitaire) that I'm really going to jazz it up with my wedding band! I'm glad it wasn't the other way around and that I had to take things off of it. that would've been more disheartening I think. I've grown to love it.. just like the FI :)
I adore my ring, but I wish instead of an emerald cut diamond in the center it was a rectangluar radiant stone (as seen on the left) so it would sparkle more :) Otherwise, I love it and I'm thankful for having such a great husband!
I thought I wanted a carat and a halo ring as well--and I got neither. But I LOVE my ring because my FI picked it out and thought carefully about what he bought, with me in mind...and you know what, it's BEAUTIFUL. He thought about the quality of the diamond more than the size, and the comment I get most is that its sooo sparkly and gorgeous, not that it's huge! And I love it more than any ring I ever saw online.
@rabbit: i love saphhires... i think they are kick arse!!! most people are very accustomed to diamonds and may not know what to think of it... you could throw a little side spin about princess di in and then they'll eat your ring up
@ rabbit
I hate that people are rude to you. What is wrong with them??!?!!! It is beautiful.
@lillindy: i love emerald cuts because of the step, but the sparkle of a radiant is insane as well!! besides the diamonds of emerald cuts have to be darn near flawless because of the cut so your ring is probably near perfect!!!
I absolutely love my ring, my fiance had it custom made for me. I couldnt have done a better job designing it myself. I love my FI and the ring he chose for me =)
It's going to be quite interesting to see what I get. We had the talk about which kind of ring, shape, etc. first at this time last year. Then a few months ago we went back n forth over white gold vs. platinum.
I told him what I prefer (solitaire round center with 2 baguettes each side flanking it in platinum) and we'll see what turns up. I'm also in love with the Memoire precious prong band with round solitaire also.
Who knows what he's going to do. I may eat my words though but I doubt it as he's got good taste.
My ring is not 100% what I would have picked for myself but it is close and I still absolutely love it!
If I had picked out the ring all by myself I would have looked at my budget and gotten a very very thin pave band in white gold and the biggest/best cushion cut diamond I could afford for the center stone. He got me a wider band than I would have picked out with 5 diamonds set into each side and went with platinum rather than sinking all of his money into the biggest diamond possible.
From the first time I saw the ring he chose, I LOVED it. Sure the band is thicker than I would have picked out but that means that the diamonds are bigger and sparkle more, and I love how much thought he put into picking out the setting he thought looked best. Plus I think my diamond looks great (its a 1ct almost flawless cushion cut) and although I would have gotten the biggest diamond possible for my money he chose what he felt was quality over flash: platinum. He spent months picking what he thought was the perfect ring for me and even though it isn't 100% what I would have picked out, I love it.
ok, I'll bite. Sometimes I look down and wish my diamond were bigger. I have little smoky sausages for fingers; short and squat, so the diamond looks smaller.
However, since it's an asscher cut, it's got to be a very high quality. It's a D clarity stone with the best cutting quality.
Meh. I'd knock something bigger around and break it....
I love my e ring! The diamond was actually Fi's mothers (26 yrs old) and he got it reset in something we both picked out (micropave setting), so I somewhat knew what I was getting. I have asked him what he would have picked out if we didnt look together and he said "just a plain solitaire with a plain platinum band" which isn't bad, but I love my pave setting!
lol, I told my FI "Pick out what you think I would love, that's all I want" Then I went and saw his choices, uhmmm...homeboy has badddd taste. I love him with all my heart and we both absolutely love my e-ring now with both of our inputs.
I got lucky--my "dream ring" was exactly the same as the one NotFroofy inherited from her grandmother and gave me.
I'm not disappointed at all, even though I doubt I would have picked it out for myself. My hubby is an architect and he chose the ring for its structure, which makes the ring very special to me.
I love my E ring, but went to collect our wedding bands today....so upset I could cry....I refused to take them ....I guess we will see what happens....I go my band designed so that it will sit flush with my ring and it doesnt. I may as well have got a normal band. It looks stupid because it has been cut in to sit flush, but it doesnt so there is a gap and the ring has been cut in...argh $2000 ring too.
I absolutely love my ring, but I can imagine if you didn't it would be difficult, it's something you wear everyday. My FI and I designed my ring together because he knew how picky I was! For all those that don't have a ring yet I would highly recommend choosing it together we had great fun! and noone is disapointed!
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