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Yes, this actually happened to me. The day after our wedding, I was chillin' on the beach when I looked down and saw a gaping hole in my wedding band - one of the diamonds had fallen out. (It was a channel-set eternity band.) Fat chance finding that sucker in the sand. When we came home, the jeweler remade the whole ring.
However, now I'm PETRIFIED that the same thing will happen to diamond in my e-ring. I check it at least 600 times a day. Srsly.
Have you or anyone you know ever had the diamond (or other gem) fall out of their ring? What happened?
I haven't had that happen yet but I could see myself constantly worrying, especially after I get my wedding band!!
My ring was loose about a month after I got it. I was checking it every week (by tapping the top of the diamond and hearing if it clinks) to make sure it wasn't loose because my best friend's diamond became loose shortly after she got hers. Our fiances had gotten our rings from the same place. Sure enough, my setting was a bit loose. The first time I took it in, they said there was nothing wrong. The second time I took it in, they fixed it. Yea for being diligent! I still check it every week though due to sheer paranoia
One of my grad school classmates had a diamond fall out of her 3-stone engagement ring - TWICE! She didn't find the stone, but insurance covered it.
Oh that would be terrible. And the day after the wedding! Ack!
My mom's lost 2 diamonds out of her wedding ring. Unfortunately it's apparently not insured (wtf? SO would have thought my stepdad would have it insured!), fortunately it's not a single big stone, but several small ones, so replacing them won't be prohibitively expensive. Of course, they've been missing a pretty long time now, and they haven't done it. Too many other things that are more important I guess.
What's yer e-ring look like? I think as long as you keep an eye on it, you should be able to tell when a stone's about to fall out. Evidently the prongs get worn down thinner and thinner as time goes on. I'd just take it to the jeweler periodically, have it cleaned and while they're at it they can make sure all your settings are secure. Don't stress!
Yes! 2 days before my engagement party! 
My fiance and his brothers spent 45 minutes crawling around a parking lot looking for this tiny diamond from my pave setting, while a couple of my friends tried to sooth my hysteric crying. My amazing fiance maanged to find the tiny thing despite all the sparking pavement and we got it re-set in time for the party. PHEW!
The week after we got engaged I noticed that my diamond was spinning inside of the semi bezel setting! I brought it to the jeweler where he purchased the ring the next day and she drove to the store's jeweler's house to have him reset it! Apparently when they sized my ring from a 6 to a 4 the bezels may have pulled away a little bit.
I don't worry that much about losing it (though, I still stare at it at least 10% of my day so there's really no chance of losing it!) It is insured so if anything happens we would be ok.
The morning after I got engaged I was showing my boss the ring and my center stone fell in the floor! I had my ring less than 12 hours and had done nothing but stare at my hand. I was devestated, but luckily my fiance had invested in the insurance plan and the store sent FedEx to pick up my ring from work that day and it was returned a few days later.
It was a horrifying experience and I still wake up in the middle of the night checking my ring.
This happened to my Grandmother after she and my Grandpa had been married for close to 40 years. She lost the stone in her ring and was totally heartbroken. A week later, she noticed it on the carpet while vacuuming.
oh gosh!!
I had my ring polished at Tiffany's and they returned it to me with a diamond missing!! It's an eternity band and they didn't have the good sense to check their work before returning it to their customer!!
I was furious...that's the one place that I would expect to have good service and good workmanship.
2 weeks later, the diamond was replaced but I felt naked without my wedding ring for 2 weeks.
I'm totally like you though, I check my ring 500 times a day now.
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I am glad you asked this! I am choosing a wedding band right now, and my boss just told me that diamonds are more likely to come loose from a pave-set diamond band and that a channel-set band is more secure. Does anyone have any opinions on this?
My mom lost her diamond the week before she served divorce papers to my biological father. FATE?! Her ring was through Kay's Jewelers and at first they refused to honor their waranty because they didn't still offer that plan. My mom explained that she would have her lawyer discuss it with them... and they caved. Her diamond was an 1 ct round stone... the coctail ring she got instead was a 2 ct total weight. They wouldn't let her get something more modest.
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Twice I have had diamonds in my engagement ring come loose, this is in 13 months! Part of the problem is the resizing the ring had to go under a 7.5 to 5 with a trellis setting! The other part of the problem according to the jewler is the diamonds are too big...LOL. Oh well, I just keep my eyes on it and take it in as soon as it feels loose.
yes. twice. i am not loving my tension set ring. first time was 3 days after the wedding, though the stone was partially wedged in the setting. the second time the diamond catapulted out of the ring and almost went down the sink. according to both the jeweler and the manufacturer, they have no idea how that could happen. i must be the hulk when it comes to taking my ring off. i've had it resized twice and i'm terrified it will happen again. thank goodness it's insured.
I get mine inspected periodically. I know our jewelers think I'm a freak for bringing it in all the time! There was a point where I started noticing one of the prongs grabbing on to thread, so I brought it in. They said there was nothing wrong, but a few days later I started noticing a wobbly stone.
They just finished custom making my wedding ring, and I refused delivery for shoddy, sharp milgrain. You could have sliced skin open with it!
The funny thing is that this is an extremely reputable jeweler (along the line of Tiffany as someone mentioned above). You think they'd only put out a perfect product!
It's kind of reassuring to know that other people have similar problems. I just figured that because we weren't high roller clients that we were getting blown off.
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Years ago, my coworker's e-ring diamond fell out while shopping before the wedding and she ACTUALLY FOUND IT ON THE SIDEWALK on the way back to the car. Had the same thing happened to me I would have been hysterical and my fiancee would have blown a gasket. Srsly.
I actually had a nightmare about this last night! I check my ring seriously every hour or so...and I have had it since last october!
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I know a girl who's diamond has fallen out of her channel set band... I actually think two stones have fallen out two separate times.
Make sure to figure out your jeweler's policy on this-- they should probably replace the lost stone if the diamond got loose (or lost) because of hte design of the ring.
Otherwise, your insurance should cover a lost stone!
Eeeeeeeeek, how nervewracking!
one of the small stones fell out of my engagement ring. 
i had mr. bee fix it so i have no idea how much it cost. i snagged my ring so many times on gloves 2 winters ago, i never wear my ering because i'm afraid the big stone will fall out. that's how lazy/horrible i am about getting it inspected!
This hasn't happened to me (thankfully), but it happened to my mom.
I was at her house, wearing her anniversary 3-stone ring, when I noticed one of the stone was loose. She didn't believe me, so I showed her how it moved under my finger. She freaked, ripped it off my finger and put it in a baggie. She took it to her jeweler the next who tightened it.
Then, about two months later, the side diamond actually fell out and was lost. She took it back to her jeweler who remade the ring with a new diamond. (My dad designed this ring just for my mom, so I guess they didn't know it would get loose).
I got insurance for mine about twenty minutes after I was engaged, simply because I'm super clumsy. I know I'll break it one day!
About one month after I was given my engagment ring on of the tiny little diamonds in the band that surround my center stone fell out- by the time I noticed it who knows how long ago it popped out. I was so sad- it looked like my ring had a blackhead :(
The good news is a friend of ours is a jeweler and replaced the stone (for free!), but it was scary. And I was CRANKY for the 3 days that I did not have my ring. Now I get it checked every 6 months.
I was brushing my hair one day and noticed a slight "clinking" sound. After much hand waving it was, of course, the diamond rocking in the setting, I took it in and the jeweler reset it. I haven't had any more problems.
I am a total klutz who has no idea the amount/size of the space I take up in the world, and I hit my ring against something pretty hard almost every day. So, I have to check it every time I do this. I remember reading in Martha Stewart Weddings that you should have it cleaned and checked by a jeweler at least once every 2 years (or 2 months, I can't remember).
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I had a pave setting and I had 3 small diamonds fall out at three separate times about a month after i got engaged. My fiance and I were really pissed off at the jewelery shop that we returned the ring and got a new one from a different place. It totally sucks when it happened cause I was left with no ring for days. I think it was the pave setting and they fact the diamonds were extremely small.
I"m terrified that this'll happen. My e-ring and wedding band BOTH have dozens of little pave-set round stones. I am so scared I'm gonna lose them!
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My Mom and a friend of mine from work have both lost their centerstones. I would very upset, but they both took it very well. My dad bought my mom a new ring set and my friend from work bought a faker on HSN that she wore for a couple years until her husband replaced the stone on their anniversary last year.
Funny story but slightly different. I have never lost a stone from my ring (although after reading some of these stories the idea of it may keep me up at night) but I lost one of the diamond earrings my now husband had given me when we first started dating. I was devastated. A couple weeks later he called me to tell me that our dog had jumped up onto his lap and spit something out....it was my diamond earring. My BIL who had no idea I had lost it thought our dog had just managed to find a random diamond on the floor of our apartment and was very impressed.
Yes....my "pre-engagement" ring from my ex in college was from Zales. It was a 1/4 carat princess-cut solitaire. I noticed the diamond had fallen out of the setting after showering. I had only had it for a couple weeks, so it was still covered.
(My friendship ring from earlier years, also from Zales, lost a small stone too!)
Thus my current loathe of anything from Zales.
Oh my god, this happened to me at the reception! We were getting ready to cut the cake and the photographer wanted to get close ups of our hands. I looked down and my 1 carat princess cut was no longer on my hand. I was freaking out! Here we are in front of everyone looking around all over the floor trying to find it. One of the groomsmen ended up finding it near the headtable. It was so embarrassing!! We got it fixed after the honeymoon.
My MIL's husband had really been into diamond shopping before he asked her to marry him (about 10 yrs ago). He spent quite a bit of time trying to find a flawless diamond around the 1 ct. size, so they were always so protective of her ring. About a year ago they had gone fishing together on their boat when she looked down and realized that her diamond was gone! So they hunted around for awhile and had come to the conclusion that the diamond must have fallen off before they got on the boat or while fishing, which pretty much meant it was gone. A few weeks later, he went to scrub the boat down, and found the diamond in the bottom of the boat!
Nope my diamond has never fallen out! I get it check/cleaned once a month. We make it a point to go and have it checked out, and plus i love looking at all the pretty things in those glass cases!
My mom's is loose right now (one of my grandmothers gorgeous champagne diamonds, channel set) & I keep telling her to get her booty to the jeweler!! I'll have to call her to make sure she's gone!
Awww... I have bezels on each side of my e-ring and just lost one... My new "most embarassing" moment was crying at the jeweler's this weekend when I had to give it back to be fixed!!
No mine hasn't ever fallen out, but I would be scared if it happened in the next month! My ring isn't insured yet ( i got engaged in July 2008) and it's finally getting insured next month!!!
I haven't had any stones fall out, but I did have my center stone come loose a short time after I got it. I actually heard it moving around! We took it in right away and haven't had a problem since.
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I had one of the side stones fall out of my engagement ring - never did find it, but since my fiance got the warranty on it, the jeweler replaced it free of charge.
A co-worker of mine had a side stone fall out on her e-ring once. She was flipping out but the warranty covered it!
I was always seriously paranoid about this until we got my e-ring and wedding band covered by our insurance. It has been such a relief to know that everything is covered I added all my other jewelry too!! If you are constantly worried...please consider insurance. It has taken a huge weight off me and it is totally worth the cost, IMO.
Wow these are some scary stories!! I've had my ering for about a year and a half, and have to take it every 6 months (April and October) to get it inspected and cleaned. FI got the lifetime warranty, Thank God. Last October I took it for inspection, and 2 of my diamonds were loose! So I had to give it to them for a week to fix it. I was not happy, but haven't had a problem since. I also have insurance on it since the only thing the warranty doesn't cover is losing the ring itself. So no matter what happens to it, at least I'll know its covered. We're getting married 10/24, so I plan to take it 2 weeks before then in case they have to do any work I'll be able to get it back before the wedding. And I plan on cleaning it myself the day of so it'll be all nice and shiny for the big day!!
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