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He steered me into a ring shop and asked what styles I liked. Then he did the rest himself, and it's perfect!
I had to vote "other" because I did go ring shopping with him once, told him what I liked about certain rings, and he had the most beautiful ring made without my involvement. I wouldn't have it any other way!
We went ring shopping, decided on a style that we both liked (he wanted more simple, I wanted more bling,) decided we were going to get it online, and so I emailed him 3 final contenders, and he picked.
And now, I am SO happy with it. It is perfect, even though it's not what I would have originally wanted!
We talked about what I wanted.... I had no idea at the time that he already had his grandmother's white gold solitaire tucked away for me.
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I pointed out rings in windows (never went in to seriously look or try anything on) and showed him a few links.
we went shopping (so he could get a feel for what I liked) but at the end of the day he chose the one he wanted me to have and it is perfect!
We did things a bit backwards. We got engaged first and started the ring buying process second. We started out ring shopping online together, then I went ring shopping alone in person, then we went ring shopping together in person, and then we met with a jeweler to custom design my ring. It was close to 3 months after our engagement before I had my ring, and it was well worth the wait. I got exactly what I wanted, and I fall in love all with my ring all over again every day.
Well, we would sometimes walk through the jewelry store at the mall and I always prefered the colored (especially sapphire) over the traditional diamond rings.
We then went to Wal-Mart (shocking, I know) and looked at the rings there. They had a genuine sapphire ring there that I loved. It's currently sitting on my left hand ring finger ;)
Despite being a lover of all-things sparkly, I'm not fond of real diamonds. They're ok for accents, but I don't like the real things for the main glitter. CZ and Austrian (or is it Australian?) crystals are MUCH prettier in my opinion.
@lovekiss: We did the same! FI has no clue about these things. He gave me a ballpark budget and we picked the diamond together (he wanted it to be at least 1ct) and I chose the setting.
We sort of went shopping, more like looking for research purposes. I tried a few on and I told him what I liked. He ended up getting it made through an independent jeweler, so I didn't pick it out exactly. He was a really good listener, though, because it was just what I wanted.
Combo of methods above. He pretty much already knew I preferred white gold to yellow gold (although he actually got me platinum which I hadn't considered and completely love!). I also mentioned the cuts I did not like (round, princess, marquise, and heart shaped), and the cuts I adored (cushion, asscher, radiant). Then I told him he could ask my bff for help. He did, and I got a beautiful ring :) (although to be fair he picked it out all on his own and just got the ok from her before purchasing)
We went ring shopping. We picked the setting together and I told him to pick the center stone. I am SUPER picky about jewelry so he said he wanted me to help. We tried on pretty much everything I even sort of liked and we chose it together. I knew what "brand" I wanted because I had wanted one my whole life. So we picked the one that looked the best on me together. He said it looked "the most natural on." I told him I wanted a round center and I wanted him to choose that so he got to pick something to surprise me with. He spent a lot of time looking at stones and picked what he thought looked best, and that makes it super special to me.
We had general dicussions about rings and what styles I liked - these discussions typiclaly spawned after we saw someone elses ring and I would say " I like this or that, don't really like this or that." He later told me that the way he learned my ring size was by evesdropping in on a conversation I was having with my girlfriend :)
We looked online at rings and then went into the actual store and looked at the rings we had seen online. We picked out one ( so I thought) but I had been looking at another. And, low and behold he decided to set aside the other ring I had looked at because he said I looked at it differently and he knew that was the one I wanted.
So, I chose Other, because we kinda did it together and then because he just knows me so well, he picked out the final choice.
I did tell him that I like vintage, but I'm not sure he paid attention. Either way, it was a family ring, so it was exactly what I wanted. His mom told me that I could change the setting, but I didn't want to.
He asked me questions about what kind of ring I would like. I told him that I loved round center stones and would like sidestones as well...I just didn't like channel set diamonds. He pretty much did the rest!
He asked me to show him ones I liked, so I sent him some pics of about 5-6 rings I liked and explained why I liked them, and then he found one that fit the criteria lol.
i voted "other"...the truth is that it was a combination of shopping together and him picking it himself. he sort of found what he liked before talking to me, and then we talked about it and he narrowed it further from there. it's a little strange because he's getting it from the same place my late husband did, but they do excellent custom work and at a fair price, and their service is phenomenal.
For me, a cross between 'He picked it himself' & 'It was a family heirloom'. We never set foot inside a jewelry store together & I never dropped hints or showed him photos, nor would I have thought to do so. My mother handed down my center stone to him without my knowledge & he chose the setting himself. I haven't been much into jewelry in recent years, so he had very little to go off of in terms of style. But he did very good & I love it!
We went ring shopping AFTER he bought the ring. He was just good at keeping it a secret! He actually stole a picture of a ring I liked off of my phone when I wasn't looking, emailed it to himself, printed it out, took it to a jeweler, and had my ring designed to match the picture. :) I think I'll keep him.
We were talking about getting married in the future and he said that he didn't want me to know when he was going to propose or how it was going to happen, so I sent him a like to the ring I loved and told him to keep that email until he needed it then never brought it up again... He did and he got the exact ring I sent to him :)
I put other because we didn't go ring shopping together but I did do way more than subtle hints. I looked through so many different pictures online and found a few I really likes. I would just send him e-mails with links ocassionally and any one of them would do. Then I found the perfect ring for me and sent him the link telling him how much I loved it (we are and were LDR) and then I kept looking but kept mentioning that ring. I told him the choice was ultimately his, but I made a lot of good selling points for that ring. Well, not suprisingly, that is the ring I got and I couldn't be happier. It is the perfect combination of the style of rings we each like, it was meant to be!
We went ring shopping and we narrowed it down to 4 or 5 we liked. FI wanted a plain band, round solitaire. Where I want a little more sparkle with diamonds on the band, or possibly a multi stone and I really loved cushion cuts. What we got was a nice mix of my style and his tastes too. He still purchased it without me knowing, and totally blind sided me with the proposal so it was the best of both worlds.
I was really pretty lucky, he picked out a ring that surpassed my wildest dreams (I know, that sounds totally corny). He asked once if I liked a friend's ring style and once asked "for the future" if I like round or princess. He did the rest himself.
Other, because I never really had a 'ring of my dreams' --we had vaguely discussed marriage (in the future) but I wasn't expecting or necessarily hoping/waiting for a proposal when it happened (I'm a go with the flow kind of girl).
He picked the ring out all by himself & it suits my tastes just fine.
Long story warning, but I think it's pretty cute :)
I left hints galore, and was actually asking for Asha or a Moissanite ring. Well FI refuses to buy something like that from the net. Pair that with hating shopping, like REALLY hating shopping, he picked one that was completely NOT my style. It was pretty, but it was not my style.
Well the sales staff told him it was a 7, it wasn't, it was a 6. I have a 6 finger but a 7 knuckle. That puppy only got over my knuckle with tons of twisting and getting it off was impossible without greasing it up, and after my knuckle hurt, so it had to go back.
Even though the store lied (they measured it in front of us and it was of course, a SIZE 6) they were going to charge us $50 to resize it and $50 to replate it after. Given the cost of the ring we decided to choose another.
Ring number 2 was about the same cost and more the style of what I wanted, and one he liked too. Not my dream ring, but one we both liked. When I noticed a very loose stone, I took it to the jeweler and I was told that the stones in this one (it was a cluster - three stone) were always going to be at risk of falling out and that it was a cheaply made ring.
Well I found out above while FI wasn't even in the country. I took it back on a Sat, with my Mum in tow for support, to the store AGAIN and asked to speak with the manager. She was going to give me back my money but upon walking to the cash register I saw my dream ring. I figured it was way out of my price range and it turns out it wasn't as it was a previously owned ring. She knocked off more money from the sticker price and sized it and replated it for free.
I knew FI likeed three stoned rings and I knew he wanted something good quality but also one that didn't put us in the poor house (we refused to purchase anything that we had to pay credit for) and one I loved. So I had to decide to get the ring WITHOUT him even there.. physically. Through text and emailed photos... I got my dream ring.
I showed him pictures of things I didn't like, and then I told him I wanted an emerald cut ring. I was expecting a solitare one or maybe one with bagettes, but I got a 3 stone emerald cut ring. It's perfect, and I LOVE it!!
So I kind of told him, but he also picked it out himself.
We went shopping together and that was great bc we both were picking things I dont think we would have seen alone. We really got to look at everything and decide what it is that was just perfect for me. And yes I ended up with something that I love it is perfect for me!! :)
My FI did it all himself. He found the center stone and designed the setting!! And OMG its the most beautiful ring I have ever seen!!!!!! I absolutely love it!!!!! :D And I had no idea he was doing all that! I knew we were going to get engaged but didn't know when and knew nothing about the ring!!
/sigh all very romantic and happy :)
@kingytobe: haha. I wish it had been that simple for us.
I picked other because FI proposed with a princess-cut solitaire, but I really wanted a little more bling so we went back and I picked my dream setting and we changed it out. lol
We actually had a combination. My FI asked his mom for her engagement ring, and showed it to me. I don't like yellow gold so we went to reset it. I found the most amazing setting ever and even though it was pricey, we couldn't do better, so now I have my dream style ring with the sentimental value of a family ring! Best of both worlds, really!
I dropped hints and told my best friend some ring specs in case he approached her for advice. Unfortunately, he did not approach her! so he picked up on my hints, but got one detail wrong: I wanted a square cut diamond (princess, asscher, emerald, any square cut would have been fine), and I ended up with a round diamond set in a square illusion setting.
the thing is, I did not get my dream ring. I suggest to you ladies out there to leave more specific hints! I was not specific enough. also, I kind of wish I told my friend to approach him with advice.
However, I do really like the ring he got me anyway, it's very unique and he did a good job :)
I think I got busted because I save pictures to a folder on my computer of things I like, and I included a few engagement rings. One day we were talking about my friend who hinted to her fiance what she wanted, and I said that I didn't know exactly how one goes about doing that (hint, hint, plz tell me) and he goes "well you could just save them on your computer so your boyfriend finds them." Hehe. Guess he browsed (I let him use my laptop for work when he needs two screens and I have them on my desktop)
Shameless.
Mine is both an hierloom (the center stone) and something I chose (shopping). I knew he had a round diamond from his grandma (my favorite cut) and I tried on every type of setting imaginable at the time to find one I love love love.
He asked me to create a document saying what I liked/wanted/didn't like, etc. Then he showed me pictures of what he thought fit my criteria, and I thought they were all ugly, lol. He also showed me pictures of rings he liked and I liked them all. So, he went and custom designed a ring for me, and it's perfect!
@Black-Eyed-Susan: We shopped and shopped and shopped some more. In his words he wanted to be sure that when he spent that much money it was something I loved.
After shopping quite a bit we were unable to find something I really loved and ended up having my ring custom made. It was really fun designing what I wanted with him throwing his ideas into the mix.
He ended up proposing a few months after the ring was ready so I was still surprised. You can't even imagine the patience those months required of me!
He asked me to design my dream ring and he would have it made. What can I say, the man knows me.
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Did you leave him hints about what you wanted? Did you go ring shopping? Did you tell your sister/mother/friend what to tell him? Was it an heirloom? Or did he just pick it out himself?
Just curious and thought it'd be fun to share :-)