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I want to preface this by saying that this post is in no way a knock against those with diamond or other gemstone engagement rings. It is purely out of curiosity and for fun.
So girls with a sapphire e-ring...how do you feel about Kate Middleton accepting Princess Diana's ring? Are the excited about the potential for sapphire e-rings to become a popular choice again like it was in the early 80's when Princess Di got engaged? Are you bummed that your e-ring won't be as "different" anymore?
I personally am a little excited...I love my engagment ring (I actually always wanted a sapphire because of Princess Di's gorgeous ring), but occasionally I get those "oh is that your engagement ring?" looks. I feel like my ring has a little more credibility as an e-ring now! haha
I don't have a sapphire, but I was wondering the same thing. Will those of you with sapphire e-rings now worry that they will be a lot more common and yours will be less special? Will you feel the urge to remind people that you had yours BEFORE Kate got hers and made them newly popular?
My e-ring from my son's dad was a sapphire and I honestly LOVE IT!! I am still rocking a blue ring and I think that they will always be classic elegant yet quirky and sophisticated rings... No matter the era.
I'm not exactly in this category..BUT..
I originally wanted a diamond and pink sapphire wedding band. So beautiful!
Well, I bought two thin diamond bands instead...thought I loved them. Ended up returning them, because in the end, it's not what I wanted.
Now I'm going back and forth between just a small diamond band, or getting the pink sapphire and diamond band. Honestly? Kate Middleton getting a sapphire ring made me want it even more =p
I don't have my ring yet, but I think my BF is pretty set on getting me a sapphire - and was before the royal engagement.
I think it's kind of sad because it won't be quite as unique, but it will also be nice to tell the naysayers that sapphires are good enough for a princess, so they're definitely good enough for me.
If I were Kate, I don't think I would be so happy with the ring, though. I definitely wouldn't want my MIL's engagement ring if her marriage to my FIL had ended in a super messy divorce. It just seems like a bad idea.
@GreenEyedMoon: Kate's ring was not meant to symbolize their messy divorce, it was meant to symbolize Diana. If I were her, I would be overjoyed to have a ring that means so much to William.
I dont actually have a sapphire but I REALLY wanted one! If I could go back, I would have gotten the ring that I was absolutely in love with. It was FI who wanted to go with diamonds. Dont get me wrong, I love my e-ring but the sapphire ring was basically as close to perfection as you could possibly get! *Sigh* Maybe someday...
@UpstateCait: I know and understand that, but if I were her, I don't think I would be able to move past that it was Diana's e-ring. I would have been perfectly happy with another one of Diana's rings or something like that.
UGH. I hate my stupid computer and its refusal to not double post everything.
@septcabride: I agree with you...that ring is so beautiful, and I think that it's really special that he wanted HER to have it. Since my ring was only 28 years old when my husband bought it, we did ask the jeweler if he knew the history of the ring (of course I wanted to know if they were selling it as a result of divorce). All he told us was that the person really didn't want to sell it, but had to. I feel I'm better off not knowing. To me it was a fresh beginning for that ring when he put it on my finger. We felt like we were giving it the happy home it deserved 
I have my fiance's mothers sapphire as my engagement ring and I love it! To me, more beautiful than any diamond, but I am partial :)
@theresa1078: I'm with you there. My BF and I have been looking at pawn shop rings, and I wouldn't mind getting a ring from a messy divorce there so long as I didn't know. Ignorance is bliss, right?
Unfortunately, none of the pawn shops seem to have nice gemstone rings. :(
@GreenEyedMoon: Not to start drama but I guess I'm a little confused...
"If I were Kate, I don't think I would be so happy with the ring, though. I definitely wouldn't want my MIL's engagement ring if her marriage to my FIL had ended in a super messy divorce. It just seems like a bad idea."
@theresa1078: Totally. It's just a piece of rock and metal until he puts it on your ring - then it becomes YOUR ring, YOUR story.
@GreenEyedMoon: just because its the same ring doesnt mean anything bad will happen with this new marriage... its not like its cursed or anything! i would be honored to wear my mothers (who is divorced) e ring.
@UpstateCait: I'm going to start another thread about this so we stop hijacking this one. See you there!
I looove that he proposed with a sapphire ring! I am not worried at all that my ring will not be as 'special' just because the future princess of England has a sapphire too. My ring is special because its mine!!!!
@peaches1038: Exactly!! And that's untimately what's most important!
I don't have a sapphire ring myself, but I think it's cool when a new style gets in vogue. It's kind of like a little piece of history.
I also dont' get the whole "the ring is cursed" idea. I thought it was a beautiful gesture, personally. And thrifty. 
The ring was left to Prince William in Princess Diana's will specifically to be given to the woman of his choice. I think having an ring (engagement or not) that has belonged to such an amazing woman would be a huge honour to have and not meant to symbolize any acheivements or failures. I think it is a beautiful ring! It probably will become more popular now but it's silly if you think you have to tell people you got it before they got engaged. This isn't a fashion/jewellry competition.
I don't have a sapphire ring myself, but I think it's cool when a new style gets in vogue. It's kind of like a little piece of history.
I also dont' get the whole "the ring is cursed" idea. I thought it was a beautiful gesture, personally. And thrifty.
I was soooo excited when I saw that he gave her Diana's ring. So happy! I have a white sapphire so for the most part, people assume it's a diamond unless I tell them otherwise. My close friends and family all know though, and I emailed them yesterday and said, "She got a sapphire set in a diamond halo? Hey! My ring is fit for a princess!" Granted, mine is not 18 carats. :)
Gemstone rings were already gaining in popularity, I think. I really hope this encourages greater popularity. I love seeing the gemstone rings!
I think it's awesome, it's sort of comemmorates his mother. I love alternative stones, I especially like aquamarine but sapphire is so beautiful! I don't think it'll lose it's uniqueness.
It is so sweet that he gave Kate his mother's ring. And it is a beautiful ring. I have always been partial to sapphires.
i dont have a sapphire ering but i looove princess di's ring, always have...what a lucky girl that kate middleton
Since mine is a white sapphire I think I'm pretty much doomed to have people mistake it for anything but a white sapphire. But it would be nice if sapphires became more popular as e-rings! Then I wouldn't get all the weird looks. LOL
I have a sapphire ring, and I love it a lot. I'd love it if it became more popular again! Maybe I won't have to -tell- people that its an e-ring!
I kind of hope the blue sapphire rings don't become too popular as e-rings because I like being different. Although, my e-ring is not one large stone but actually 7 channel-set stones to match my diamond wedding band. We liked the idea because my birthstone is diamond & his is sapphire so it just made sense to us. It also has some quirky and far-fetched significance to his favorite sports team :-)
I have an emerald ring, not a sapphire, but I'm pretty excited that Kate is wearing a sapphire. Hopefully it will make people more aware and open-minded to colored gem e-rings. Most women don't look beyond "diamond=e-ring, diamond=what I'll get." There are so many other gems I want to drool over, haha!
I've always wanted a cushion or princess cut blue sapphire with white sapphires around it - that's my dream ring! Her ring is beautiful and I think Kate should be thrilled. As well, I'm not a girlie royal wedding watcher type of lady, but I thought that she was an amazing, caring, classy and quite normal woman and I remember actually crying when she died. Like I said, I'm not that way at all (can't even stomach a romantic movie or book, lol) but she was a truly special woman. I can't imagine NOT wanting her ering.
I'm excited that she got Diana's sapphire ring! I don't have my ring yet (soon though hopefully! We're going shopping for it after Thanksgiving, so....two-ish weeks?), but I'm not even looking at diamonds for the main stone. I want a sapphire with small diamond accents, possible a halo.
Basically that is my perfect ring, so it'll be nice to have such a public/popular example to point to and say "Hey, sapphires can be engagement rings, too!" 
I love that ring!
I would love to have one like that at some point for a ring hand ring or something. It's beautiful.
I think it's really sweet that William gave Kate his mother's ring.
I can't help but wonder...how heavy would an 18 carat ring be?
I read that Natural Sapphire Co. is busy making 1 and 2 carat replicas of the ring.
I have an aquamarine ring and I'm so glad that someone Royal/Famous is wearing a gemstone e-ring. I have gotten the "that's your wedding ring?" look that it's crazy! My ring means as much to us as any ring should with that meaning/purpose. So no I'm not upset that I no longer have a unique ring. In fact that shipped sailed for me months ago when another friend got a pear shaped aquamarine e-ring.
And no I don't think it is weird that he gave her that ring. In their sit down interview he said that it is their way of having his mother be apart of this special time for them. When I think of his mom I think of that ring too so I see why he'd want to pass it on to hi new love.
I have a pink sapphire e-ring with diamond micro-pave and I LOVE it! All of my friends around here have very traditional rings so I've gotten lots of weird comments "Oh, that's an engagement ring?" Of course, the people that know me know how obsessed I am with pink think it fits me very well.
I'm pretty excited that he did give her that gorgeous blue sapphire! I think it's a cool idea, since his mom isn't around, to still have a part of her involved in the engagement in a way. Plus, it's cool to show the world that even when you can afford a huge diamond rock, some people prefer other things and that's ok!
Penelope Cruz got a blue sapphire too. after seeing that i want a sapphire ring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now i'm into yellow sapphire with diamonds ring...hmmmm....
My first e-ring was a sapphire with diamond halo on a skinny white gold band, and in size it was quite similar to Kate's. Of course it was nowhere near as monetarily valuable, but still, if it were my e-ring today, everyone would think I was knocking off the Kate Ring. Which I would be extremely unhappy about. I picked that ring because I loved it and thought it was beautiful, not because I'm some celebrity-obsessed trend whore. I understand that people might just see her ring and think, "oh, how pretty, I never would have thought of that as an e-ring, I think I'd like one myself," but that really isn't how it's going to look to most people. It's going to look like any other fad that caught on because some celebrity did it and people had celebrity envy--which I think is dumb. It does also make me sad that the ring wouldn't be nearly as unique. Seeing something everywhere makes it less striking. Instead of people thinking, "oh, what a stunning, beautiful ring," they'll just think, "oh, another big sapphire with a halo."
But thankfully, I now have another e-ring that fits me much better. But if antique-reproduction yellow gold three-stone rings with a floral design on the side come back in style, I am leaving the planet. :P
i took some flack for my sapphire but mostly people are just like "what is that", "is that your birthstone", and then they get these annoying blank looks when i answer their question.
i am now anticipating the "just like Kate Middleton/princess Di" comments, but that's sort of better than "oh, couldn't afford a/ why isn't it a diamond" ones. i think maybe it will be more socially accepted now, or at least people won't look at it like nuclear waste.
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