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Confusion: Everytime I see another ring I think "its beautiful or it fits her style but my ring is better."
I got to wondering if your ring is your favorite you've ever seen? If you could design your own ring (without hurting FI's feelings) would it be different from the ring your FI picked out for you? If so, how? What if cost wasn't a factor?
Bonus points for posting your ring and then your ideal ring
My ring is perfect for me. I love other styles like halos, but in the end my simple solitaire is my absolute favorite and suits me perfectly! I would never change it.
Honestly my ring is pretty much perfect. It wasn't my "ideal" ring when I was telling FI what I wanted, but now that it is on my finger it is my ideal ring.
And because I can never resist posting it:
My ring is perfect for me. It's made from my grandmother's ring and we designed it together... definitely my dream ring!
No, to be honest mine is not. This is my ring.
I am in love with this ring
@SoontobeMrsA: I LOVE your ring. I also love that rose gold ring. Maybe you just need a rose gold right hand ring in your future.
My ring is my ideal ring. Might be because I picked it out! While I drool over other rings, mine is exactly the ring for me! :)
I love my ring because it was my grandmother's but def not my style. I like sparkle and lots of it!
My ring fits me perfectly. I never looked at rings prior to my engagement. I had no interest in marriage until I met J, but we still did nothing related to weddings, rings, etc. His grandfather offered his mother's ring and James took it. So, I'm sporting a 1930s ring. Fits my old soul.
Its fun to look at rings!
I'm seeing a trend that the ring is perfect because of who gave it to you. I wonder if we would have a different opinion if it was just a right hand ring. hmmm
Mine is *almost* perfect. If I could change just one thing, I would remove the extra piece connecting the prongs on the side view to open it up and make it easier to clean.
Mine is as close to perfect as I can get. FI knows me better than I know myself! He did a great job!
And after researching my diamond a little this weekend, we found out that it's older than we thought. We knew it came from FI grandmother but didn't know that it had a home prior to her wearing it. Wish I knew the whole history of it.
Honestly, yes and no- I would have chosen something more vintage or antique looking for myself. But my ring is THE perfect one for me because FI chose it. I don't have a picture of a dream ring because honestly, I didn't give a crap about rings until I was engaged, and didn't see the point in pining over others once I already had it. I now LOVE looking at ring porn, but I'm happy with what I have. So here's mine
:)
@SoontobeMrsA: I LOVE your ring! I seriously love it. It looks handcrafted and has an antique and timeless quality. Did you inherit it?
@SoontobeMrsA: Oh, I just read that you did- I LOVE it! That is what halos were before they were made on CNC/ Cad Cam machines. Love.
I wanted an art deco style ring. I didn't get that I got this:
I loved it because my now DH picked it out for me and really got into learning about diamonds and everything else. However, I wanted something a little more unique. DH had actually planned out to have a custom wrap made for the ring as my wedding band, but we actually just found one that was custom made for someone else and so we purchased that. My ring is now very unique and I adore it. Here it is in its wrap.
I wanted Asha or Moissanite actually, and I wanted a Princess cut, but I got a three stoned ring with filigree details, and real diamonds. So it wasn't what I'd wanted but now it is! I am beyond thrilled with my Ering and now am stumped as to what kind of band I will be able to pair with it so I don't cover up the gorgeous profile.
If we're going on how it looks ONLY (no sentiment) then I'd say its 98% perfect. I love love LOVE the stone he chose (and he picked the shape-- good on him!) and I love that its platinum and I love that it has side stones. The only tiny thing I'd change is that I wish that the band was a little thinner and JUST diamonds (like MissYellowJacket's) whereas mine is a little thicker and you can see metal on either side of the diamonds.
It is such a tiny thing to complain about I know which is why I say its 98% perfect... but really my guy picked it out and worked really hard at finding what I'd like which makes it 100% the perfect ring for me. I would never change it.
We shopped for mine together, so I got exactly what I wanted (it's a solitaire with platinum band). But I still swoon over others' more ornate, antique rings.
When he asked me a few months ago about what style I liked... I told him I needed at least 3 stones in white gold, because I've got pretty big fingers and I had hated my last engagement ring so much (less and .25 carats in yellow gold).
Then a couple of weeks later after looking online, I REALLY wanted an emerald center stone with orange sapphire or fire opal side stones.
Then... I tried on a friend's solitaire and realized that was what I wanted.
Good thing, too :) When he proposed, it was with a much-larger-than-I-knew-he-could-afford solitaire. Turns out it was his grandmothers and he had had it for 2 months waiting for the right day to give it to me!
now that it's on my hand - it's perfect!
If we had all the money in the world I probably would have asked for a 1.5 carat Tiffany & Co. Legacy ring, as it's my dream ring. However I seriously love my moissanite solitaire and am very pleased with it! :) I feel it fits my lifestyle and personal style (simple/classic), and it's yellow gold which I LOVE. Now that I have it and have worn it for the last few months I can't imagine having anything else! Perhaps someday I'll get an Aquamarine Legacy for my right hand though! :)
If we had the money I would love a good sized over a carot pear shaped diamond with some nice sides stones. Although I do love my ring very much. :)
I am in love with my ring. I was lucky because he took me to the jeweler on a date to pick out a setting, then he picked the center diamond and surprised me with it later during his actual "proposal". I had to wait four months after I picked the band until he actually proposed... so I had dreams about it for a whole summer. Looking back, I'm so happy I got to pick my setting. The only awkward part about it is that my engagement ring looks like it already has a wedding band, so people assume that we're already married. 
I love love love my ring I would just like a slightly bigger diamond since the 6 prongs block a lot of it from the sides... I'd never want 4 prongs because I like the security the 6 of them give I just want to be able to see more of my diamond... FI said he'll buy me a 2 carat for our 20th anniversary... so in 21 years I'll have my 'dream' ring.... mine is close though hehe
I got exactly what we wanted for what we can afford right now =D
I love my ring. I honestly wouldn't change anything about it. I had looked at rings online with FI before he went shopping for mine and the one he picked is so much more "me" than any of the rings that we had found. It sparkles so much and I love the detail! I also love how FI picked a ring with 4 small stones making up the center because they are much better quality than any larger stone that we would have been able to afford.
I love love love my ring. My FI and I chose the setting together and then he picked the center stone. It has everything I was looking for: a solitaire with diamonds in the band, something comfortable - I know that sounds weird but if rings rub other fingers it bugs me lol, and it will sit flush with a wedding band. There's so many styles and sizes that I love, but the classic look fits me best:
my ring is really unique, and i love that my hubby chose it. the stone was from his grandmother's engagement ring that he had reset, and i love how meaningful that makes it. but, i honestly don't know if i would have chosen the same setting, as much as i love it now...i really don't know what i would have wanted though, i would've wanted to go try things on (hubs didn't want me to--he wanted to surprise me). i do know that my wedding band, which i did choose, is completely different...
Yes, my e-ring was exactly what I wanted...because DH let me design it :)
I love, love my ring. When my brother proposed to my SIL, I remember trying on her ring (in the days before he proposed) and thinking that it was the prettiest ring with white gold, princess cut. The style stuck with so much that I knew I wanted it eventually. My husband took my white gold/princess cut expectations and blew them away with a gorgeous ring that sparkles like mad!! I love my sparkly solitare! I love it with the comfort fit band too. It's just so classic.
I had my ring custom designed based on a couple rings that I loved and combined different elements of each. With that being said I love my ring and it's my dream ring. However I do still notice other people's rings and think of how beautiful they are.
I love my ring! It wasn't what I would have picked out, at all, but as soon as I saw it I knew that it was perfect.
I had actually told my FI that I wanted one large blue sapphire with a diamond halo, as both of us were born in September. Instead, he picked out a blue diamond ring with two white diamonds on the sides. I asked him why he went with a blue diamond and he said it was the closest stone that looked like a sapphire with the hardness of a diamond. :)
And because I love sharing it:
I love my old ring, as it was my second choice when we went browsing.. I was estatic when I got it! That being said, if I really had the choice to get my dream ring, I'd keep the band, and switch out the smaller stone/halo for a bigger diamond.
Since we separated, and have recently reconciled, the Mister has said that we can upgrade (when we get engaged again), and I'll more than likely receive my dream ring. :)
Let me start by saying that I love my ring because of what it simbolizes. BUT (yes there is a but, but I don't want to sound like an unapreciative witch) I would chose something completely different. My ring is beautiful, but it has a thicker band than what I would prefer. Also it has sice stones. I like plain solitaire with a thinner band or if it had side stones I would have liked it to have a halo (and thin band again).
I do like it though. It is just something I wouldn't chose if I picked it myself. I am glad he chose it though and I am glad he didn't ask me to chose it myself :) He searched for it for a long time and put a lot of thought in it and that's what matters to me :)
My ring is perfect for me and I even chose it. But it's not the most beautiful ring out there, as far as stunning rings go. I chose it because it is beautiful, delicate and fits my lifestyle (i.e. will not get caught up everywhere, if I scratch it, I will not lose sleep over it). Since I am wearing it every day for the rest of my life, I wanted something beautiful but still practical. Also, there are many beautiful styles out there that just looked ridiculous on my finger, in my opinion (and much to my despair when we were shopping). So, I love my ring and it fits me perfectly, but there are many rings I see that have me lust after them!
My ring is one of a few that I showed my FI saying I loved the detail...I'm into ornate things that arn't over the top and are hidden just for me...It was actually not on my list of rings that I wanted or even expected when we finally got engaged...but now that I have it and look at it every day I LOVE my ring and wouldn't want any other ring on my finger...exspecially sense he loves plain solitares with no details and this is the ring he picked out because of the detail...and he knows how much I love it! Don't get me wrong I drool over other womens BEAUTIFUL rings...but I'd never trade mine in at the end of the day! BTW beutiful rings ladys every one is so lucky to be given such sweet and sentimental engagement rings!!
Ohh I'll play. Okay, so I do but I don't have my dream ring. I fell in love with the Tiffany Legacy about a year before he popped the question, but when I found out how much it was, I forbid him from buying it there. So he found GoodOldGold and designed it himself, and I wouldn't have it any other way! I get to say my FI designed my ring, how stellar is that? :) So here's my ring porn:
And here is the inspiration:
And:
He did a great job :)
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