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Just out of curiosity... do you know where your FI/DH bought your ring? I know most people go to a jewelry store... my DH is a pawnbroker, and my e-ring (and wedding band and all other fine jewelry) came from his shop. I have no issues with it, in fact I'm proud to say that my man bought my ring for a quarter of what it would have retailed for in an actual jewelry store. :) Some people I've mentioned this to have issues with that. They seem to think second-hand jewelry is less meaningful, somehow. I actually have a friend that just proposed to his girlfriend about a month ago, and she wouldn't let him get her ring from anywhere but a jeweler because she said she "just couldn't stand the thought of wearing someone else's broken dreams." FYI, MOST rings that are in a pawn shop were traded in so they could upgrade to a bigger and/or better diamond. Besides, like my DH says "I clean all the heartbreak and broken dreams off 'em before I sell 'em". LOL
My ring came from a custom jeweler, but my FH was given the diamond out of his great-grandmother's ring to put as the main stone in my ring :]
My ring came from an artist in San Francisco, via a jeweler in Brooklyn, but my center stone was from my great-grandmother's ring.
My setting came from Jared and my center stone came from a local jeweler. The stone would have been 2k more at jared!
Most diamonds are not "new" most of them have been in other rings & jewelery before anyway I wouldnt care where my stone came from I even suggested to look at a pawn shop to save $!
Mine came from bluenile. I've only had one negative reaction to that. At Christmas (first time I'd seen most of my family since I got engaged) my cousin was looking at my ring and my mom, who was trying to be complimentary, said something about how FI had to go online to find a cushion cut diamond for me because none of the jewelry stores had them. The look on my cousins' faces was like... WHAT?! ONLINE?! lol. I explained that he got it from bluenile which is a very reputable online store that has more a lot more variety of stones than your typical store. I don't think they were convinced, but whatever!
Mine was bought at JamesAllen.com but I see no problem with yours at ALL. You get to get your dream ring for much cheaper? SCORE! You both can use that money towards more important things :)
My FI bought my setting at a jeweler up in Denver and they were amazing :) The setting is from a vendor they work with (since my FI had custom stuff done to the setting) and it was cheaper to do it that way than make a setting from scratch. The sapphires and aquamarines and center diamond stone were from the vendors the jeweler uses also. The peek-a-boo diamonds on either side of the band came from his grandmother's engagement ring and they were added to the setting and were the perfect size!
I think it all depends about the previously owned jewelry for me. If it was purchased somewhere and we just knew it was previously owned, fine, but if my FI tried to give me a ring he had bought for another girl and they broke up or he never ended up giving it to her that's an entirely different matter. I know a gal who go the ring that was the guy's previous wife's ring! UM, NO. I think the only thing I would be nervous about with pawn shops is if the jewelry was pawned and it is stolen. People do that a lot--I should know, I work for the PD--and we see it all the time that the jewelry was already purchased by someone from the store and the vicitm is left without their meaningful piece of jewelry. It's just a risk you take I guess.
Ha Miss Snowflake that is awesome! My cousin works at a pawn shop so I can relate to that! He is always telling me that they have such beautiful peices which come in and just sit forever - they are discouraged at their shop to purchase the jewelry though.
The diamond is from a wholesalers on Jewelers Row's in Philadelphia and the band is just a plain yellow gold band that they made for the stone.
mine came from my mil's finger, but originally it was his great grandma's.
i wouldn't care if it's second hand, a ring's a ring!
He hasn't bought one yet... however I have no problems with it coming from a pawnbroker... esp if he could get a really good deal
My setting is "True Romance", but you can get it at different jewlery stores. My FI picked it out himself and picked a dimond to go with it @ Moody's Tulsa, OK!
@CurlySue - I know, a lot of stolen stuff is brought into their shop. The guys my DH works with have all been doing this a LONG TIME (5+ years) so they kind of know what to look for when something is stolen. Like, when a guy came in and tried to pawn a brand-new Kirby, still sealed in the box, and told the guys at the shop that "it didn't work". Um, right.
@CCSR - my ring even came with the original Hurst's paperwork!! He could have told me he got it from there and I would never have known the difference!
I'm pretty sure MOST jewelry is somehow second hand, haha. I mean, really, who's 100% sure their diamond is brand new?
My BIL found my diamond; DH bought it through him. We got the setting at a jewelry store and our BIL found the diamonds for the wedding band and had his friend make them.
Totally ranodm. I have no issues getting a ring from who knows where, though.
I should tell DH to go to a pawn shop and pick me out an anniversary gift!!! I SO don't care =]
My stone is an antique OMC bought from Erica Grace in Seattle. My setting was made by Leon Mege in NYC.
My original e-ring (proposed to with before FI and I designed my current ring) was FI's grandmother's ring engraved with the year 1929 in it. It's beautiful and I interchange both rings.
mine came from a local family jeweler in Minneapolis. i love having that personal relationship with our jeweler - he has been so helpful & informative. we've loved the whole process of picking out & buying our rings. we will be life-long customers!
I have no idea where he bought it - but I do love your husband's line about cleaning all the heartbreak off the ring Miss. Snowflake!!!
@ejs - DO IT!!! They have such beautiful jewelry, and the buy and sell it so fast, you could go in there once a week and see something new! I know I do! Every week... "Oh, honey, that bracelet/ring/earrings/necklace is really pretty!! Can I have it??" LMAO!!!
Ultimately the diamond district in NYC, but through Blue Nile. Keeps em' honest!
My stone, a sapphire, came from an heirloom ring acquired by a jewelry store. The ring was custom made at that store from recycled gold.
E-ring is from Helzburg. Wedding band we got from Diamonds Direct Crabtree.
Wow, it's interesting to see that a lot of you got your setting and stones different places. Is that kind of the norm?
Ebay! Yup, it is a 1940's ring that was bought at an estate sale. We would have never bought off Ebay but the Seller was one town away so we met at a mall and had the ring cleaned and assessed and then my FI made arrangements with her the next day. I love my ring and constantly get compliments on it. It was the ring and band and my FI took it to a store and had it professionally restored (all the prongs were worked on, re-sized and un-soldered). I work in a renewable industry and I loved the idea of reuse, reduce, recycle so I love my recycled ring! It was on a woman's finger for almost 50 years and I am hoping that good energy rubs off! Alos we paid WAY LESS than retail!
My diamond came from a ring that belonged to my grandmother and the setting came from the jewerly store. The ring that belonged to my grandmother has a lot of diamonds that we have used in other setting over time.
I voted Family Heirloom but that's not exactly right. The diamond was from his aunt and the band was from his grandma and he had a jeweler put them all together. So it's not an heirloom but it is all from family.
Tiffanys
Timeless and classy...I love that little blue box :)
Thanks for the idea, Snowflake! I don't think my guy gets that it has to be brand new/expensive for me to like it. I like jewelry with "character" 
My ring is my fiance's grandmother's ring. So family heirloom that we'll continue to pass down :) I'm not sure where they got it from though!
I got mine from JCPenney. Not sure which category that would fall under, so put "other".
My ring came from a family friend of FI's family who is a jeweler. He owns his own small jewelry store and only takes appointments (no store front). The setting is one that this jeweler designed himself and FI chose the diamond with his help.
@miss snowflake - i like your position on buying jewelry! it is a snotty thing to say that if it doesn't come from a jeweler that it says anything about its quality, or the quality of your relationship. OOO, but I guess their karma is overpaying for probably everything in life instead of looking for deals. They're all diamonds and they're all beautiful and meaningful :)
Mine came from a small local jeweler in my DH's home town. It's an antique diamond w/ a new setting.
My center stone is an heirloom (Tiffany, I think) but the setting is new from a jewelry store. Best of both worlds, IMO.
My FI got the center stone from a Diamond Broker in NY. He got the stones on the band from a ring that my grandmother left to me, and he had it constructed by a local jewler....all without me knowing (sneaky guy).
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