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I once was told that i shouldn't be picking out my E-ring but it was a decison me and my bf made together. I know alot of girls that have picked out there entire ring or showed there bf what they wanted.
Hubby and I looked online together and then went shopping. We found my ring together and it was an amazing day! One of the most romantic days ever... I even cried :)
My FH picked out the e-ring all by himself...luckily for me, he did a PERFECT job :) :) I love it! so me!!!
I do think it is totally okay to help or go with you SO to pick out rings...and like @rnc said...could make a super romantic day for the two of you!
My fiance kept wanting to stop at jewelry stores to "look at watches" and he knew I wouldn't be able to resist looking at all the other pretty things. A couple times he told me to try a couple rings on for fun and he ended up going back and getting one I liked later! I don't think there's anything wrong with helping him pick, he wants you to love it and be happy :) win win situation
Yep, I picked mine out! Oh heck yes, I have to wear it forever! FI's not the sentimental-I-have-to-pick-it type though. He was more than happy to give me a budget and tell me to pick whatever I wanted!
I picked mine out, but we looked at rings in the summer and he proposed December 19th. I was still surprised. I love my ring. I know that he would have picked out a great ring, but he wanted me to pick it out since I would be wearing it for the rest of my life. I agree with rnc620, it was such a romantic day.
I picked out my ring! I knew what I wanted and that's what I got. But, I am very much a 21st century woman- I did the proposing as well! :)
I picked my own and even put the down payment on it! I got a little flack from some of my more traditional friends but I'm the one who has to wear it the rest of my life! And FH said that he would've gotten me something way different than the one I picked, so he is glad I picked it.
I think my favorite comment about it was FH's brother, who said "you have to love your engagement ring simply because he picked it out". Sentimentally? Yes, I would have loved it. Aesthetically? Not necessarily. Lol.
oh i definitely had a say in mine! i'm pretty sure fi got scared after i TOTALLY agreed with carrie on the whole "how can i marry someone who thinks i like a gold marquis cut engagment ring?" sex and the city episode.
I picked out my ring on whim. I was at Macys of all places shopping with a friend I was always dead set on a vintage ring and found exactly what I was looking for that day! My friend told my then BF about it and thats what I got! I hate surprises in gerneral but I was shocked that i actually got my ring!
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I told FI what a wanted - 6 prong solitaire. Sometimes I wonder what he would have gotten me if I hadn't told him, but I'm pretty sure it would have been the same thing because we tend to have the same taste in jewelry - simple and elegant.
My FI picked mine out without any input from me at all, and I'm shocked that I love it since I'm so picky. I was amused to discover recently that my mother and father actually shopped for her ring together. She was surprised when I told her that that isn't considered traditional.
I picked my exact setting and diamond (on blue nile) based on his budget, and he paid... worked for us! He is not super interested in jewelry as long as I'm happy. I think it's more common than not nowadays that the woman has at least some input.
I picked out the exact ring but wasn't with him when he bought it!! :)
I picked mine out. FI had gone looking a couple of times by himself. He was about to get ripped off by the local jeweler. They gave him a huge spill about the clarity and about the color...I know....that's what makes it a good diamond...
BUT, let's face it. Most of us want SIZE! They were about to sell him a much smaller ring than I wanted, for a ton more money than he needed to spend. So we went together out of town, found a great deal on my rock, and it's the perfect size. Just over a carat solitar with 6 prongs. PERFECT for me~
I had nothing to do with picking mine out. Acutally I was pretty disapointed when I saw it as he had asked me what I wanted one night and I had a very clear picture in my head of a 3 stone ring. I explained it to him and expected that he was asking because he wanted my input. In reality, he already bought the ring and proposed the next day.
We both played around on Blue Nile and I designed the ring I thought I would like best. After that, I didn't hear or suspect anything about it for months and then he popped the question, and it was the exact design that I had said I liked the best :)
I picked out my ring and was there while he bought it. I then got to wait 3 weeks for a proposal but he surprised me which is what we both wanted and it was perfect. I love my ring and I love that he let me help pick it out we have different jewelry likes and this way he knew i'd love it.
i wanted to help, but he didn't want any input, from anyone other than the jeweller. he didn't even tell anyone he was proposing, besides his mom, and he only told her because he had to get an heirloom stone to reset from her. she wanted to help him, but he wouldn't let her. i knew it was coming eventually because we had been talking about it more seriously, but the surprise element was really important to him.
oh, and i completely love my ring :) it's a really modern/funky design, but a solitaire with the diamond from his grandmother's engagement ring, so also very classic and timeless
Apparently, my guy was originally going to choose an emerald-cut, three stone ring, which was very far from what I would have ever picked out myself! But we looked around a bit before he proposed, and I thought I had given him enough of an idea of what I liked that he would be able to pick out the ring on his own. I guess when it came down to it, he was too nervous to make the final selection himself, so he proposed without a ring and we then went and picked it out together! I told him which setting (and matching band) I liked the best, then he shopped it around at different jewelers and selected a center stone on his own. Those few weeks between the engagement and getting my ring had me SO impatient, but I couldn't be happier with the end result!
In my opinion, if you have to wear it for the rest of your life you better love it! My grandmother picked her since out in the 20's and she still has her original ring so I guess I never saw anything wrong with me doing it myself.
FI and I started looking at rings whenever we were out so he could get an idea of what I liked, but then I didn't like anything. I would always go I love this ring "if", so we decided to have it made. It took about 5 molds until it was perfect, but we both had a lot of fun doing it. So I designed the mold and he picked out the diamonds and worked on the finished product.
In a couple of year we are going to upgrade the side stones, but other than that I plan to have my original diamond and my original setting for generations. I love the idea of being able to pass on the first thing FI and I did together as an engaged couple. It has a lot more meaning to us than just a ring because we did it together.
The hubs picked out the e-ring all by himself. Way before the engagement he was worried that he would have to bring a female closest to me but I ensured him that he can make that decision on his own. We both have unique tastes but love everything about art so I told him to go by that.
When I saw the ring and all its details I was highly impressed. I never doubted his tastes but he went far and beyond what I would have expected. I absolutely LOVE the ring. Unfortunately, since being preggie I have been downsized to just the wedding ring because of my finger swelling. Soon I will be wearing no ring...
I miss my e-ring :)
We went together as well but I had three rings from my grandmother and had the diamonds all reset so I wanted to make sure I liked the new setting. It was fun.
We got the diamond from a ring that was my grandmothers and we walked into the jeweler and I looked a setting that would work with my wedding band which was my great grandmothers and we picked a solitaire that would be perfect. Plus he didn't have to spend much which made him happy. I would like to get an annivery band later that would go well with the set since he didn't have to do much for the wedding bands.
my hubby picked out my original engagement ring, a wooden one carved from a coconut. We both picked out (well, I stumbled on and he loved too) my diamond e-ring and wedding band at the same time, then we bought his that same day from a catalogue at a small local jewelers. Expensive trip into town, i tell ya. He really only had a few diamond rings, so it was interesting that we found an e-ring/wedding band combo. The jeweler (Justin Bortz in West Reading, PA) said he would never have thought about the two I picked together. Go figure! My husband is proud that we have such a unique set.
i totally did... i knew exactly what i wanted (round solitaire, hearts on fire ) and FI asked that we look at rings (it!) together because he knew how picky i was (and am of most things). We have been together for so long that getting engaged/looking at rings was the next part of our relationship... the proposal didn't surprise me but when he did it, did :)
i agree, you are going to wear it forever, so you should love it! My sis didn't like the ring her FI (DH) got her and then eventually got her a new one 6 months later!
He knew what cut I liked from some fishing and went from there on his own. Honestly, I wish he'd asked me directly. If I'd looked at them with him, I would've realized that the quality of the diamond is less important to me than the size. I ended up with a small, plain ring that's beautiful, high quality, and boring to look at.
My mom was completely stunned when I told her I picked out my ring. She was like "but wouldn't you have been happy with whatever he got you?" Of course I would have been, but since I am the one who has to wear it for the rest of my life shouldn't I at least have a say in what he gets me? We sat down together and discussed what was important to both of us regarding the ring. He wanted a high quality diamond so he knew that a solitaire would probably be the most cost-effective. I wasn't sure that I wanted just a "plain" solitaire as I called it. We were looking online and stumbled across the ring I fell in love with. It had the solitaire that he liked, and it had a little jazz for me! The best of both worlds!
He still totally surprised me with the when and where and how, though. We picked the ring out in like March or April and he didn't propose until July 28th.
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otb - that's very very unique - love it! Do you have a picture with the wedding band?
My FI would ask me if a brochure came in the mail.. he would say which one do you like? He never liked the ones I liked. lol.
I told him I really didn't care and that I really wanted him to pick it out for me.
(It means more to me that way... #1 love language is gifts :) )
He ended up designing one ... swoon :)
I think right after I said yes I said "it's so big!"
I always told him I didn't need a big one.
I love it :D
We did it together! We went looking and I showed him what a wanted. We picked out the band and the diamonds together and he had it made! So I never got to see exactly what it would look like when it was all put together, but I would say I def helped! :) I loveeee my ring! It just shows we make a great team!!
It's funny how most of us bees helped in one way or another. But like everyone says...if you gotta wear it for the rest of your life, you better LOVE it! :)
@Melissabegins - I do have a picture with the wedding band, but it's from the photogs, so it's a little hard to see. So I took some with my Blackberry, but again, it's a Blackberry so the pics are a little blurry. The wedding band is exactly like the engagement ring band except in rose gold.
Let me try that again.
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Well, first we shopped a little bit together, and I'm super glad we did! What I thought I wanted ended up being totally different than what I liked on my own hand. I gave him some ideas of things I liked for an engagment ring but he did the rest on his own. On the other hand we purchased our wedding bands together. I ended up getting two bands (his idea) :) I knew exactly what I wanted for a band and he let me have total control. I love them and wouldn't of chosen to go through the process any other way.
He took me to look at rings a few times. I also told him generally what I liked :Princess diamond and white gold. He picke dthe ring out by himself in the end and I LOVE it!!
I always new I wanted a yellow gold, princess cut solitaire. period. So i sent him pictures, but ultimately, we went to the store and picked it out together. I tried on some other settings just in case and he actually didnt like them, so technically I picked it and he confirmed the choice. I think he was more comfortable with that route anyhow since he knows how picky I am about everything and he knows very little about jewelry.
About 8 months ebfore we got engaged, I found a ring when I was just looking that I thought I feel in love with. I obsessed over said ring, showed it to people (actually took both of my best friends and my mom to see it in the store), and basically knew it was the "one" - Until I completely changed my mind and settled on a different one, at a different jeweler - and I had no idea that he was paying for the other one already. So 2.5 weeks before we got engaged, my poor guy ended up scrambling to return the one ring, find the other one in stock and have it shipped. It arrived at 11 am Christmas Eve and he proposed the next morning. Talk about stress!
I find NOTHING wrong with picking out your own ring! In fact I advocate for it - jsut search on WB and you will see how many women ended up with rings they aren't happy with.
The ring I have now is much more "me" than the other ring - and I'm so glad that I chose it myself. He loves it too and said it fits my personality perfectly. And I have flat out asked him if he would have rather chosen it himself and he jsut laughed... "why would I want to go through all that work? proposing was stressful enough!"
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