Not that I'm anywhere close to getting engaged yet...just been looking at rings, and have been wondering how on earth you chose the ring that you're supposed to wear for the rest of your life.

I think we'ree going to get ours made custom, but can't afford to spend a forture. We're planning on a pretty economic wedding, and the boy has commited to spending no more than 1G on a ring (which, sounds like plenty, but after looking at some...OMG!!$$$)

So can custom be an affordable way to go if we go with some small town back woods jewler? What's your ring story?

If he gave you a ring out of crackerjack box would you say no?

I'm guessing the answer to that question is 'no.' So then it really doesn't matter. You can always get a bigger ring later on when money's more readily available and if it's a sentimental value thing, you put the stone from the ring he originally gave you in as a side stone in the setting.

Good luck, and I better get an invite to the wedding... so I can get drunk and make a gibberish laiden toast pretending to have known you for years and then later get into a fist fight with some of your guests which will result in a door being pulled off of a guests car in the parking lot (which is how other peoples weddings usually end for me).

It would be a BBQ/picnic/kegger style wedding, so those kind of antics would only be appropriate.

I'm not big into jewelry, but a wedding/engagement ring symbolizes so much. So no, the cost doesn't matter to me, but i know what I want.

The best I've found so far is this:


which is pretty spot on, except i'd want a MUCH smaller stone and maybe make it more symmetrical.

... My brother just spend $12,000 and its not even 1 carat total weight....

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!

That's what I said... that's like 170 #5's give or take.

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!

YIKES!!! and here I was thinking I would be lucky to have that much for a wedding AND honeymoom... I can't imagine have that much money on a finger

No shit, and thats more than I make in a year!











^^^student.

So, your brother....does he, um, have like.....another brother? A single one?

I'm sure I could get him to rethink things... though you have to accept that you'd be second fiddle to Guitar Hero III and Rock Band...

Oh and he locks himself in his den on Sundays during football season and no one is allowed to talk to him...

Oh and he wears nothing but valour running suits and calls everybody 'bitch.'

YIKES!!! and here I was thinking I would be lucky to have that much for a wedding AND honeymoom... I can't imagine have that much money on a finger

I dunno... My wedding cost $35,000 and I got married on Friday... everything is so fucking expensive out here... I gotta move.

Yeah, but think about how many cams I could get by selling off the ring? Sounds like he wouldn't notice if it were suddenly replaced by cubic zirconia...

I still don't believe you have a real life. It's a farce.

So if thats what he's like (yes, clearly organized crime is the only answer) whats the fiancee like?


and way to hijack my thread, ass-pirate.

I'm not big into jewelry, but a wedding/engagement ring symbolizes so much. So no, the cost doesn't matter to me, but i know what I want.

I dunno... My wedding cost $35,000 and I got married on Friday... everything is so fucking expensive out here... I gotta move.

That looks alot like our rings, though we did white gold.

[img]http://www.customceltic.com/images/glasgow.jpg[/img]

It would be a BBQ/picnic/kegger style wedding, so those kind of antics would only be appropriate.

I'm not big into jewelry, but a wedding/engagement ring symbolizes so much. So no, the cost doesn't matter to me, but i know what I want.

The best I've found so far is this:
[image]http://www.abracadabrajewelry.com/images/Diamond-leaf-Eng-set.jpg[/image]

which is pretty spot on, except i'd want a MUCH smaller stone and maybe make it more symmetrical.

Cubic zirconium is just as pretty as diamonds (honestly, who can tell the difference?) and they are so much cheaper.

Hey Clausti, did it hurt? I don't know if you have other tats to compare it to, but I've always thought getting a tatoo on one's finger would hurt significantly more than on, say, the arm or leg. With the bone being right there and whatnot...

Just curious...

Congrats BTW

Luckily, my fiance never wanted ring either. So now we have engagement tattoos, and we'll add a second band after the ceremony. They cost $128 for the pair. (yes, they are very small tattoos, shop minimum was $60).

i love them. I think they're gonna look great forever.

I then was told by a tattoo artist with 15 years experience that ring tattoos are the worst idea possible. Because of its location the tattoos on the finger wear nearly completely off very fast, usually within 6-7 months, faster if you climb or wear a ring over it. Touching up the tattoos is a problem as well because you can't simply reapply ink to an old tattoo indefinitely. Usually you can only re ink an area 2-4 times before you build up scar tissue and your skin simply will not take the ink. All of this was news to me!

The tattoo artist strongly recommend I not waste my money or skin on such a tattoo due to its brevity.

I care more about the band than the rock.

Easiest way to tell the difference between diamond and cubic zirconium?

Throw 'em both in a fire.

The one that survives? That's cubic zirconium.

It's actually a lot easier than that and can be done with the naked eye if you know what you are looking for.

Yeah, the one with more imperfections tends to be the diamond.

...I don't think I'm gonna have my dad walk me down the aisle, either, since the property transfer (kiss on the cheek, handshake, handing over) occurs at the end of that jaunt. Luckily, my dad is gonna do the wedding ceremony, so dropping that tradition doesn't exclude him from the ceremony...

...I don't think I'm gonna have my dad walk me down the aisle, either, since the property transfer (kiss on the cheek, handshake, handing over) occurs at the end of that jaunt. Luckily, my dad is gonna do the wedding ceremony, so dropping that tradition doesn't exclude him from the ceremony...

I guess I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to weddings. My dad will hand me off, and I will be bawling my pretty little mascara ridden eyes out.

I will not wear heels, which my grandmother thinks is an absolute disgrace.


I'm now thinking about getting an opal, as it is both of ours birthstones.

I might rethink that biner. It's a very soft stone. Not tolerant to heat at all (no showers in it type not tolerant) and will shatter if tapped just right.

Hm! Maybe a white sapphire then, or a very light emerald. I think that the super dark ones look kinda cheesy, so maybe a mint green emerald would be cool. Also amethyst would be nice, esp if it's from the home state.

White sapphire is the most durable of the stones you have mentioned. Emeralds are also not very heat tolerant or hard stones, but more so than an opal.

Diamonds are the hardest, rubies and sapphires are next hardest and are exactly the same thing (Al2O3) except for the impurities that determine the color. Emeralds (Beryl) are somewhat softer, etc.

Curt

I guess I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to weddings. My dad will hand me off, and I will be bawling my pretty little mascara ridden eyes out.

I will not wear heels, which my grandmother thinks is an absolute disgrace.


I'm now thinking about getting an opal, as it is both of ours birthstones.

Ring story... heh.

My fiance wanted an engagement ring, yes - but she didn't want a diamond at all. She doesn't like the way diamonds in general are mined, to say nothing of conflict diamonds. Also, she's very firmly of the opinion that most people only care about the size of the rock - they all expect an engagement ring to be a diamond solitaire the size of your eyeball, and anything less is pointless.

What she wanted, was a sapphire. It's her birthstone (and mine, too), and she's always liked them.

However, I wanted to give her a diamond - not a solitaire, but something. I'm a bit traditional that way. So, I did some hunting around, and taking my lady's taste in jewelry into account, I had a ring custom-made for her. It has two small diamonds and a slightly larger sapphire, each on their own white gold band. The bands fit together, but aren't connected at all; they can rotate freely around her finger. The diamonds go on the outside, with the sapphire on the middle band; the stones sit on the outside of their bands so that they can slide over the other bands. It's not big or obtrusive so she can wear it and be confident it's not going to catch on something. It's also collectively wide enough that it' doesn't look odd on her hand (she has long fingers). I'd attach a picture, but it's on my other computer; I'll see if I can get one later.

The thing is, the gold is reclaimed, and the stones are lab-grown. No mining was done to get the stones - thereby avoiding Kaela's dislike of mined diamonds and the diamond industry in general. It cost more than I had expected (a bit over $2K), but it's worth it to me to know that there's no other ring like it - and it's not just another diamond solitaire ring.

Kaela loves it. Absolutely loves it. She doesn't wear it all the time (we're very active), but if she puts on jewelry, she puts on that ring first. That said, she's had people come up to her and excitedly demand to see her engagement ring, then not said anything and walked away when they didn't see a "rock". KimmyT has seen it, and can vouch that it's not bad at all.

The point, 'biner, is as many other people have said: don't conform to what everyone else expects. Do what you want, even if the people who think they're closest to you say it's a bad idea.

T

I bet your real glad I walked out of this one... see where this stuff goes without me here??!!@11!

Yes it goes in more appropriate directions and there is much more girly talk without you.

Exactly.

And yet you are still here...and still talking.

Just teasing ya babe.

But I'm saying very little... in a very uncontroversial way.

:whispering:

PTFTW.

I've noticed the non-controversy.

Are you ok? Are you surviving? Is it killing you yet???

There has been some secret pantz shitting rage but I can contain it. I still think my controversying made the LF more interesting but I know when to back slowly out of room full of angry women.

You guys want dry sterile conversation, I'll take my useless opinions elsewhere.

I'll take your useless opinions anytime hun but ah you can keep those pantz full of shit. ;)

Oh don't worry. I just mail those to CI.

Not that I'm anywhere close to getting engaged yet...just been looking at rings, and have been wondering how on earth you chose the ring that you're supposed to wear for the rest of your life.

I think we'ree going to get ours made custom, but can't afford to spend a forture. We're planning on a pretty economic wedding, and the boy has commited to spending no more than 1G on a ring (which, sounds like plenty, but after looking at some...OMG!!$$$)

So can custom be an affordable way to go if we go with some small town back woods jewler? What's your ring story?

Oy, clee03m. Why does this sound familiar? My mom wants to invite a whole bunch of Korean people I don't know to our wedding. We want to have the wedding in Potrero Chico, though. So our compromise was to have a reception at home and she can invite as many Korean people as she wants.

And I'm a dumb ass for asking that, because the ring's value is obviously never going to be liquified.

I don't know much about it, and I'm looking at possibly buying a diamond in the near future, but couldn't a diamond ring be considered an investment? No one's really mentioned that, other than toward the beginning where a ring was purchased for much less than it's valued now...

Not that I'm anywhere close to getting engaged yet...just been looking at rings, and have been wondering how on earth you chose the ring that you're supposed to wear for the rest of your life.

I think we'ree going to get ours made custom, but can't afford to spend a forture. We're planning on a pretty economic wedding, and the boy has commited to spending no more than 1G on a ring (which, sounds like plenty, but after looking at some...OMG!!$$$)

So can custom be an affordable way to go if we go with some small town back woods jewler? What's your ring story?