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EDIT: Damn. Sorry guys. A little too fast to post this:)
I've seen a few posts about how people have the same cut as their mother's diamond, or something and I was curious how common this is.
My mom has just one channel set diamond band. I picked a channel set sapphire and diamond band. It never occurred to me to get a prong-set band, because I grew up seeing her wear a channel-set ring. It just seemed like what kind of ring you GET when you're married.
Hers is similar to this:
I don't have a similar engagement ring because she doesn't have one.. My dad is German, so it's not really a custom to get engagement rings and such.
Your turn!
Mums: Gold round half carat with gold wedding band
Mine: Rose gold princess quarter carat surrounded by white gold diamond bands
Mom's: The one my dad gave her was a round 1 carat, yellow gold solitaire with a matching band. The one my stepdad gave her was a 1.25 carat princess cut, yellow gold solitaire with a matching band.
Mine: 1.1 carat cushion moissanite, palladium band. I haven't picked out my wedding band yet.
My mom had a solitaire on a gold band engagement ring, mine is a pearl. She also had simple gold wedding band, which is what I have. I don't know what the setting on my stepmother's ring is called...a rectangular diamond flanked by two smaller rectangular emeralds (matches her eyes) and has a gold band with scroll carving like things along the edges.
Mom's: yellow gold, round diamonds, probably around 1/4 carat, wedding band is a wrap style that makes it look like a 3 stone ring.
Mine: white gold, princess cut .6 carat diamond solitare, wedding band is a 7 stone prong set.
So, not alike at all. =)
My mom's engagement ring was an 1/8th of a carat which we lovingly called "chip" until my parents 25th wedding anniversary and she just had a plain gold band. My parents were high school sweethearts and got married when she was 18. It was all he could afford. She wore it for 25 years with no complaints and proudly, even though she was a high end jeweler LOL. My father finally got her a very beautiful upgrade for their 25th wedding anniversary. Mine is a lot more flashier than hers.
I've never seen my mom's ring. I'm not even sure she had one? If she did, it was WAY gone before I came along.
My mother's e ring was yellow gold with a tiny little diamond center stone round cut with weird like slashes in the band or the e ring and her wedding band. Mine is white gold and not tiny lol. and I have diamonds in my band too.
My mother has an engagement ring, but almost never wears it. What she wears all the time is a plain yellow gold wedding band.
For my first wedding, I had a diamond I inherited from my grandmother reset in a white gold solitaire setting, and wore a plain white gold wedding band with it.
For my second wedding, what I wanted was not to have an engagement ring at all, and to have a plain yellow gold wedding band. Coincidentally, NotFroofy had a plain yellow gold wedding band that she had inherited from her grandmother.. So I'm now wearing exactly the same thing as my mother.
My mom never wears her wedding ring... To be honest im not even sure what it looks like.
My mother has a plain, round-cut solitaire engagement ring. Her wedding ring is a gorgeous custom-made ring guard.
So... I knew I always wanted a round-cut solitaire engagement ring. (Which I got) Unfortunately, because my mom's wedding set fit together as one ring... I couldn't stand the "look" of a wedding band. The search for a ring guard or ring wrap was exhausting! Apparently that style of ring isn't very popular so we had a really hard time finding one, not to mention finding one I actually liked.
So to sum it up... we both have round-cut solitaire e-rings, and a ring wrap/guard. Her ring probably doubles (maybe even triples) mine in TCW. Mine is white gold, hers is yellow. So similar, but different.
Ours are both round but that's the only similarity. Hers was maybe 1/4 of a carat and in solid yellow gold band, mine is 1.44 carats in platinum with a half eternity style band. Both of our wedding bands match our engagement rings.
My mom doesn't have any rings because my parents never married (still together after 29 years, though!)
My mom has a 1 carat Marquise diamond ring in a yellow gold setting (solitaire) and a wedding band with I think three or so diamonds and crosses on it.
& Mine is a 1/5th carat marquise solitaire in white gold with a 4mm plain white gold band. I never saw myself wanting/liking the MQ cut this whole time my mom has had hers until a couple weeks ago. So my hubby got me a mq solitaire instead of the princess cut we did have on layaway. :-)
My parents were 17 when they married, barely out of high school (in fact, my dad finished a year early so they could get married), and had my brother 5 months later. She didn't get an engagement ring until a few years later, and then it was a small solitaire. But she loved it. Unfortunately, our house was broken into a few months ago and it was stolen... she was crushed (took that & my dad's wedding band, plus all the jewelry that had been my grandma's). Both of their wedding bands were gold bands with etching (no diamonds). My dad's was stolen, but my mom still has hers since it was bent really bad and apparently the thieves didn't want a bent one?
My set, needless to say, is completely different:
The rings my mom wears are not the rings she was married with. My dad never gave her an engagement ring--so she had her grandfather's approx. .5 carat round diamond set in a simple gold band and replaced her original wide wedding band with a really plain gold band ("the washer"). For their 25th she had an anniversary band made with prong set round and emerald diamonds. Also, after she inherited her aunts e-ring, she had the baguettes added to her ring and the centerstone set into a necklace.
Mine is a 1.2 round center stone with a halo and pave band (1.8 TCW)...they look completely diffterent other than the fact that they're round...and diamonds....
my mom has her old wedding/ering set into a weird for lack of a better word ring- it doesn't look like a wedding ring- just a ring she wears on that hand. So mine is totally different.
My mom has a solitaire with a plain white gold band. They didn't have much money, so that was what they could afford. My dad has since gotten her anniversary bands that she sometimes adds to her set.
Mine i s 3 stone ring with filigree and small diamonds on the side, and right now I have a double baquette band, but will be replacing with 2 curved bands with diamonds and blue topaz baquettes. All in white gold as well
Niether are similar. My band is plain, hers is woven with yellow gold and white gold.
I have an e-ring, she does not.
Hers: (similar, from web)
Mine (my photo)
my mom's is a big thick gold band with a little round diamond (band wider than the diamond), the wedding ring was part of a set so they connect and you can't really see the differnce
mine is a thin platinum band with a big princess cut diamond, wedding ring is separate, platinum half eternity with little princess cut diamonds
Ours couldn't really be more different
Neither my mom nor I have engagement rings.
Our wedding rings will only be similar in one way: they both came, in some way, from her mom/my grandma. Hers (from her marriage to my stepdad when I was 17) is a wide, ridged, yellow gold band (almost like three bands soldered together) with a marquise cut diamond that was from my grandmother's engagment ring. Mine is a platinum, channel-set band with tiny square diamonds that was my grandmother's wedding band. I feel super lucky that we both get to have a part of her wedding set.
Mom's is like this, but with a triple gold band instead of single:
And here's my wedding band, which I never tire of posting:
From left to right: mom's wedding ring (no e-ring), grandmother's wedding set, and my e-ring (wedding band will be a plain white gold band). My ring is similiar to my paternal grandmother's and FI's aunt, though...complete coincidence with that. Also, three of my cousins also had sapphires in either their e-ring or wedding band--didn't know that until just a few weeks ago!
Very different.
Hers: HUGE! pear shaped with a gold band. There are diamonds in the setting but I forget how... simple gold band
Mine- good sized, princess cut center stone with princess cut channel diamonds in both bands. Platinum
my mother no longer has the band/engagement ring from her first marriage, and only has a band from the current -- mine are not similar in any way.
Mine and my mom's are very similar. Three stone princess cut... hers in yellow gold and mine is white gold with accent stones.
My mom's engagement ring is a delicate (maybe 1/4ct) round diamond solitare set in yellow gold. Her wedding band is plain yellow gold. My parents got married right out of high school and my dad was in the Marine Corps, so her set is simple. My dad "upgraded" her to a custom vintage looking white gold setting with a 2ct diamond and trillion sapphires on either side for their 20th anniversary. She wears that as a right hand ring, though, and still wears the original e-ring.
My e-ring is a .59 carat Lucida (square) stone set in platinum. It's a thick band with a crossed 4 prong setting. I haven't quite decided on my wedding band yet, but it will likely be a platinum half eternity band.
My mom's e-ring is unique, I have no idea how it's called. It's a very thick yellow band with a huge diamond (2.5 ct?) shaped like a pyramid in the middle and baguette rubies on the side. It's pretty massive. Her wedding band is plain yellow gold.
Mine is a 0.75ct solitaire brilliant cut on a very thin yellow gold with a matching wedding band. I'm going to upgrade to a wrap or eternity ring for the religious ceremony.
Our engagement rings are similar in that they're both nontraditional - my dad gave her a turquiose necklace or pendant when they got engaged. I have a solitaire emerald ring.
I haven't picked my wedding ring yet, but my mom has a plain yellow gold band and I'm either going that way or with a plain white gold/platinum band. So either way it'll be pretty similar.
Wayyyyyyy different. I don't have actual photos of her rings and she hardly wears them anymore because of her arthritis, but these are the best approximations I could find of hers:
And these are mine:
Hers is a yellow gold solitaire (round) with enhancer (both round on either side).
Mine is white gold princess cut halo with pave diamonds and my wedding band will be curved to fit around my halo.
So no, not alike at all, other than they are both rings. Lol.
My moms wedding set was a marquie cut diamond about .75 in a yellow gold setting with a wrap ring guard...I hated my moms ring set....still to do this day do...I was luckily blessed with a beautifull round brilliant cut moissanite also a .75 in a white gold setting with alot of filigree and side stones, andmy wedding band is matching.
Mine is the same idea as hers. Round solitaire, plain wedding band. Except my ring is 1ct Moissanite and hers was 1/4ct diamond, and hers was yellow gold and mine is palladium.
Oh, and mine does have diamonds on the prongs as well. So, kind of similar, but then kind of not...
My mom got engaged in the early 90's, so custom rings were really popular. She has a yellow gold e-ring with a 1 carat stone (only thing ours has in common) with a wide band and lots of detail. It's just really similar to a lot of women from that time. Her wedding band is a wrap with similar detail as her e-ring.
So basically, the only thing we have in common is our stone.
Neither of mine (regardless of what I choose for my wedding band) are similar to my mother's. After a major hurricane she lost her wedding rings. So she replaced her rings and made just one really stunning ring that she wears on her left hand's ring finger. She had it custom made to replicate a designer ring she fell in love with. I've never seen a ring like her's so I have nothing to compare it to. It's yellow gold with diamonds in a wave like style. I tried googling it and this is the closest I could come up with.
My engagement ring has a main stone that's round, and has several different side style stones, round and baguette, set in channel and prong styles. It sounds crazy but looks beautiful. And my band will probably be a 1/2 eternity channel set band.
My mom doesn't have an engagement ring either because it wasn't a common tradition in Korea when my parents got engaged. However, our wedding bands are basically duplicates of each other except her's is yellow gold and mine will be white gold.
My mom's divorced now, but her e-ring was a yellow gold 6-prong solitaire, probably about 1/2ct centre (don't know exactly), and she had a plain yellow gold wedding band.
My e-ring centre stone is bigger, and it's a 4-prong 3 stone, and my wedding band is an alternating round then cushion eternity band.
I think they're both pretty classic, but I vastly prefer mine :o)
My mother's engagement ring has the exact cut as mine (a round brilliant solitaire), and the exact same setting..it tapers in at the band. The only difference is that hers is yellow gold, and mine is white. Hers is smaller than mine, although I'm not sure of the size, and I don't think she even knows.
Her wedding band is a plain band, whereas mine will have small diamonds in it, so there's no similarities there.
My mom's ring was 2ct platnum marquis cut diamond and her E-ring sat in another 2ct wrap around. It was HUGE.
i have my grandmothers .75 ct white gold E-ring... we don't have the bands yet but i'm sure it won't be like my mom's.
My brother got my mom's bands and promptly got his now wife white gold and smaller ... i so don't know how he wound up with less but that's my brother for ya
@Leahhh: both my parents wore plain gold wedding rings when they were married.... ugh horrid
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