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Yes, it is the same feeling as with dresses. I had that feeling when I found my ring, which was actually online. I feel in love with it about a year before I got engaged. When we got engaged, I looked at every jewelry store within thirty miles of house and was disappointed I didn't find anything like it. I searched my email and found the site that carried the ring I had looked at a year prior and knew that was the one. After it was bought, he and I went to a jewelry store and picked out a center stone. He made his opinion clear (which surprised me, he isn't really into the wedding stuff), and said he really liked round. We both agreed it was a classic cut and matched the ring perfectly.
The great thing about your choice is that if you decide later on a more elaborate setting, just take the stone out and pop it into your new ring.
uuummmm, at first i was in love with the princess cute - and when i got it on my finger i was like "eh - i'ts ok"
it wasnt until we went back and i tried on a cushion cut that i just knew that was the one
sooooo - cushion cut it was for me...
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I also thought I wanted something square and simple at first - princess or emerald cut solitaire because they felt more modern to me. But when I found my eventual ring online, I definitely had "that" feeling, and it was round. I tried on many different styles, and realized that round worked best on my hand, and best of all, the ring that I loved online was THE one for me.
I'm in the group where it was a total surprise: my guy did all the work. He told me afterwards that he wanted to pick something out that was "out of the ordinary". :) I can't even describe my ring accurately...it sort of looks like the Tiffany Legacy, with a modified brilliant cut center stone (looks rectangular w/rounded edges).
We went to half a dozen jewelry stores, and while what I learned there was interesting, I ultimately went with the very first setting I had liked in the very first store. I knew I loved it from the first, I just apparently had to look at dozens of other things I didn't like at all to know just how much I loved it.
I had no idea what shape of diamond I wanted - I actually had an idea that an emerald cut was what I wanted. However when we started looking at actual center stones, it was really clear to me why the brilliant cut is sort of ever-popular - it just seems to have the most fire. And it definately looks best in my setting, which is a tension setting, so you see the whole stone rather than just the top. I don't think I would have picked it from a catalog, or could have described it before seeing it - but once I had it on my finger it was definately the one.
The real key, I think, is afterwards... I have had it six months now, and of course once you have a diamond everybody must show you theirs. FI and I agree that we have yet to see one we like half as much. So I guess we picked well!
The brilliant cut (from my research in books), is also popular because it looks bigger for its carat weight.
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I did not get to pick out my ring. Heck! I didn't even know a proposal was coming my way! I didn't have any prticular style in mind. But I really love the ring he picked out for me.
I was playing around one day looking at rings on the internet and fell in love with a vintage style ring with a princess cut diamond and side sapphies, the band has filagree on it. I was hesitant to show it to my then boyfriend, because I didn't want to pressure him and I knew it was way out of our price range. To my surprise when he proposed he had that ring, he had to have it designed by the local jeweler so it's slightly different and I think it looks better than the one I found online. So for me it was picked out and a surprise all in one. I can't wait til my wedding ring comes it, we were able to get one ordered with matching filagree.
I had always been fine with the idea of having my boyfriend pick out my engagement ring all by himself with some guidance from my best friend. But then, another friend got engaged and said that she was glad that she went ring shopping with her guy because what she thought she liked and would have told him to buy looked awful on her hand. Well that freaked me out so I took some friends and went browsing at a jewlery store.
I knew that I wanted a center stone that was unique so I only looked at Asscher and Cushion cut stones at first and then the Asscher quickly won first place in my heart. I also wanted a more antique setting and once I found my setting and put the stone in it, I knew it was the one!
I still wanted FI to have some feeling of autonomy in the ring choice but I knew that this ring was the ONE. So I sent him to the jewlery store with my best friend and had her and the jeweler "steer" him in the right direction. In the end, he really appreciated all the help I gave him because this is so not his kind of thing and he was overwhelmed the second he walked in the door ;-)
My guy picked it out all on his own. I just hinted heavily at princess cut. My guy knows me pretty darn well and I knew that he would be able to pick out a unique ring for me. He went beyond that and even designed the whole ring himself! It's nicer than anything I would have picked out. So he did good. :)
We designed the ring together after we got engaged. I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted, but when we went home to announce our engagement I remembered that I'd always liked my mother's engagement ring, and we took tons of pictures of it just in case. Then I decided to tweak a few things in Photoshop, and took the tweaked photos to the jeweler to copy. It turned out beautifully, and was exactly what I wanted. He knew better than to try to pick out a ring himself-- our tastes are so different-- and the only other way we could've done it would have been for him to get a plain solitaire (he knew I wanted a round stone) and changed the setting later.
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i didnt know. i did a lot of research but there wasn't a this is the one feeling.....
before the engagement, we talked about the ring a lot. i said over and over that i wanted a "Princess cut", the square stone, NOT the rectangular one.
i looked at rings online and flet very drawn to the vintage antique style rings.
well, as we were shopping.....we weren't finding anything in his price range......... that was princess cut and antique......we stumbled across Moissanite and after doing tons of research, i switched from a princess cut to a brilliant round (gives the most fire with a moissy stone).
i picked 4 rings i liked a lot that were in his price range, and he surprised me with his pick! i like that he ultimately picked my ring, while i got to steer him in the right direction....he is soooo proud of it!
and when i look down at it, at its intricate design and the way it captures light and sparkles, i definitely am happy and couldnt imagine another ring on my finger. Its the ONE definitely.
he designed it himself, and did all the legwork of finding the designer, getting it made, etc. i saw the design while he was working on it and LOVED it, so i just trusted him. we have the same taste in most things, so i wasn't too worried.
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several years back before i was engaged, i saw my dream ring on a billboard bus stand in pgh. i actually took a pic of it too! yes i know.. very corny.. hehe.. fast forward to now, FI gave me a surprise proposal with a wedding band instead of an e-ring so we can pick one out together. I knew exactly what I wanted and he chose the center stone. I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything.. =)
I tried a few on here and there at shops when passing through the mall, only to realize that I no longer wanted princess cut, but round.
Then I was looking through a magazine one day and saw the ring of my dreams. I cut it out and pasted it into my little wedding book, and wore the page darn near to pieces looking at it.
One day Mr S asked me what I liked in rings so I pulled it out, showed him a few of the ones in the book and then took out the pone I loved and he actually carried it in his wallett for a few months (yes I had a wedding book before the proposal, we knew we were getting married and I'm wedding obsessed!)
He eventually took the photo to my good friend and jeweler TR Crabtree and had the ring recreated with a few tweaks and personal touches.
It's perfect! I love having a ring made just for me.
I'm in the second group. My FI chose each individual diamond in my e-ring and wedding band all by himself and also designed it.
When he proposed and I saw it, I was blown away. It took my breath away. I even asked him if he was SURE because my center stone (a kyte set princess cut) looked so big. He said "I wanted a princess ring for my princess, and this is it. *insert an "awww" here. ;)
When my parents saw it, I thought my father was going to pass out. He held my hand and kept repeating my name and saying "oh my god" over and over. (Laughing at the memory)
I love it! He did an awesome job.
We went ring shopping after he proposed. We looked around for about a month until we decided to have a custom jeweler make something like the Tiffany Lucida bevel setting. The jeweler had some styles similar to that, so while he was in the back getting stones for us to look at, I tried on a few. I kept coming back to one that was the one shape I thought I'd never want (round) but everything else was perfect. It looked beautiful on and because the setting makes the stone look oval, it was really perfect. So we bought the one right out of the case. :)
I had been bookmarking pictures of rings I liked from the internet for almost a year. When my guy decided to go shoppin', he printed off a bunch of the pictures, took a couple of our friends, and stealthily he went. He ended up picking something really reasonable in price and made sure it didn't snag in our friend's long hair (I'm a hairdresser, he wanted to make sure I wouldn't be taking it off at work if it got snagged on a client's hair). I love it! But, I'm not sure if it will sit flush with a wedding band. hmm. ^_^
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My ring was a total surprise... we had talked about what I liked (I fell in love with a round cut, with side baguettes) and my fiance remembered "ring with three stones". I absolutely love the one he chose- (it is a three stone round cut). He did a lot of research into it to make sure the setting would work with my klutziness & work-related requirements.
i wouldn't let the FH pick out my e-ring. so i insisted we go ring shopping together. we picked the stone first.... i always thought that i wanted an emerald cut but i ended up choosing a gorgeous elongated cushion cuts. it is sooo sparkly!!
the setting i picked had to be tweaked twice since the setting normally goes with a round cut. so at the end of the day it was a custom ring and seeing it for the first time, was a surprise!
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When Mr. Malasada and I started talking about REALLY getting married, he asked if I wanted to be surprised with the ring, or if I wanted to choose it. Since i know how much he hates picking gifts with me that involve "style", I said I would probably want some say in it. I went out a few times with girlfriends, as well as to a jeweler that his SIL knew. I had always thought that I would want a three-stone ring, but when I put it on it was just "eh"....as were simple solitaires. I needed some extra bling, but not a ton. I ended up finding a ring that, after putting it on, it was all I could think about. I went out later to look at other rings to see if anything else made me as happy, and nothing did. When it was time, Mr. Malasada went with his SIL to that jeweler, and he got me the ring of my dreams. It was a little more "high maintenance" than he anticipated, but SIL and others convinced me that since it would be on my finger every day forever, I should LOVE LOVE LOVE it. And I do!
Thank you all for sharing your story. I am relieved to see that there are girls in every "ring group" - those that picked their own ring, those that were completely surprised and those in between.
I am going to try on few more rings to see if I still feel that round one is the ONE and hopefully it will soon be on my finger, yay ! Thank you for all your advice, I hope everybody ha a great weekend 
i'm in the middle - he asked what i wanted in a ring. i said not yellow gold, and three stones. i always liked princess cut best, but didn't tell him that. he picked princess cut because it was the sparkliest, and he knew i'd like that. :) he also claims i never told him i wanted three stones, but he picked a gorgeous princess cut stone with two triangle cut diamonds on either side.
we'd never gone ring shopping together, and i had only showed him a couple of pictures, none of which are very much like my ring... but my ring is perfect. he did a good job! :)
I always knew I didn't want a round brilliant solitaire - it's just not me. And I wanted something unique and different. So for many years I thought I wanted an oval with stones on the side. As the years past, I started leaning towards a princess cut, but it's so popular. When we finally went shopping for my ring, I decided I wanted a rectangle radiant cut center stone.
FI had me try on hundreds of rings at numerous stores and it took us over 6 months before I tried on MY ring. When I put it on, FI and I both looked at each other and said "This is it!".
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While for some girls the ring was a complete surprise, it seems that most brides had more or less imput into choosing the ring ( or at least the style of the center stone). My question is, how did you know which one was the ONE ?
For as long as I remember ( 5-6yrs), I've been wanting square-ish shape ( it was pretty much between asher, radiant, cusion and princess during those years), then last weekend my DBF and I have gone " ring shopping" aka look and try different styles, see what we like, learn about the 4C's "hands on", you have the idea.
As part of "trying on every style", I tried simple round stone in six prong setting with thin band and I totally fell in love with it. It was like a love at first sight. Now I know people say they had this feeling when they tried on their wedding dress ( once you know, you know) but is it the same with rings ? Is this the ONE or am I just flaking out ? I am so confused.