Jewelry Snob Insults My Engagement Ring

[Magpie]

My husband saw a flaw in one stone they showed him when he was looking for engagement rings for me. (I've heard this story a couple of times now). The jeweller gave him an impressed look, because most people wouldn't have seen it, and showed him a different ring. It was apparently one of the flaws that actually makes it a more interesting stone (if you can see it), but it was a diamond anyhow, so it's not like he would have had the least interest in buying it. (Engineers, hang out with people in Environment, go to a hippie church... diamonds aren't happening).

[AccountingDrone]

Lady isn't even worth being called a Lady.



Now THAT'S depressing.

*Rubs neck* My....engagement ring? Wedding ring? What IS this thing?.... the ring Flea-Bit gave me is sterling silver (allergic to base metals and nickle) with 7 small "stones" of what I hope to god is chipped glass. Cost him 30# from a street vendor. Dunno what it cost to get it resized (size I, which I can't remember what the American conversion is, I have small hands).

Sent it to me to keep the I-Wanna-Take-You-Home-And-Make-Lurve-To-You people from getting into my pants.

It has since turned into my wedding ring, I think. I don't take it off. I'm still looking for a nice one to send to him for Christmas (Shhh~! ).

My friend Christian 'married' me in Everquest back in 2002, and as a joke sent me a sterling silver "One Ring" that I will occasionally wear german style on my right hand. Sometimes if I am being bothered I will switch it to my left hand as Rob and I have neither an engagement nor a wedding ring as neither of us really likes wearing rings. My one ring tends to stay on a chain around my neck =)

[Jangles the Moon Monkey]

My engagement ring is one that I already had but didn't wear often as we really couldn't afford a ring at the time and I wasn't sure how often I'd wear it after we got married. I never wear it now so money well spent. Or wasted, depending on your view. It was tanzanite which is my birthstone as well. I lurve tanzanite!

[Pairou]

My favorite jewelry store is Na Hoku. I've gone in there a few times at the mall with my friends. (It's a nicer mall, with nicer stores- like Jimmy Choo, Tiffany, etc. Nobody here is stuck up; the Jimmy Choo salesman helped teach me how to walk in $1500 high heels!) The Na Hoku employees helped me pick out a future engagement ring, despite the fact that my friends and I weren't 'dressed up' and despite being in my early 20s I look 12-14.

[tropicsgoddess]

My favorite jewelry store is Na Hoku. I've gone in there a few times at the mall with my friends. (It's a nicer mall, with nicer stores- like Jimmy Choo, Tiffany, etc. Nobody here is stuck up; the Jimmy Choo salesman helped teach me how to walk in $1500 high heels!) The Na Hoku employees helped me pick out a future engagement ring, despite the fact that my friends and I weren't 'dressed up' and despite being in my early 20s I look 12-14.

Just saw the website, if they have a store in the South Florida area, I'd love to go there with SO for wedding bands. They have BEAUTIFUL jewelry!

[Reyneth]

As for an engagment ring? At first I though I'd want alexandrite...but now....I honetly want granite as the stone...I have seen some pretty pieces.

Your ring sounds lovely

Yeah, I've thought that I'd like a different stone - and even know what setting I like, at a favorite local jeweler. Also a June baby here, so Alexandrite would be nice, but seeing as I have earrings (college graduation), ring (21st bday), necklace (belated 25th bday) and just got another pair of earrings that match the necklace exactly (belated 30th bday), I think having the same stone in an engagement ring wouldn't make it as special, KWIM? (oh, they're all created stones of course - and my mom has a tradition of nice pretty sparkly things on big life events, can you tell?)

I would love to see a photo of the OP's ring - I agree it sounds fantastic and that salesgirl was certainly not cut out for sales.

[BlaqueKatt]

If i may, as a single person, chime in here (this feels awkward), my ideal engagement ring, should I ever meet a decent man, would be in my birthstone (ruby), not diamond. Perhaps something like this:

actually that's almost exactly what mine looks like!

the garnet is even the same colour!

[Pairou]

Just saw the website, if they have a store in the South Florida area, I'd love to go there with SO for wedding bands. They have BEAUTIFUL jewelry!

They should- I'm in central Florida. :3

They have gorgeous 'ideal'-cut diamonds... my friend actually hurt her eyes looking at them, no lie. XD And they have gorgeous coral-inlaid bands in different colors.

I don't want a 'traditional' band if I can avoid it; I want a nice engagement ring, but when I'm married, I want a ring that I've seen in Japan when I lived there- a Japanese teacher and a woman who married a Japanese man both had simple silver bands with designs carved into them. One was a clover design.

[Dreamstalker]

I'd like a meteorite band ring...unlikely that I can afford one myself at present.

[Calie]

I'd really like Boyfriend to propose to me (nearly 5 years of dating and the waiting is annoying me), but I can wait, I think.

Or do what I did...I'd been surfing teh interwebz for months looking for my ideal ring (yellow gold w/ sapphire; diamonds optional.); I finally found the perfect ring at a great price. So I printed it out, brought it to him and said "Here's what I want. I'm flying down to see my mom for mother's day this weekend [note: 2 years ago], and I'd like to be able to tell her something!"

...2 hours later, he proposed. In the parking lot of the bookstore where he dropped me off to go get the ring.

As a side note: the ring I wanted had to be flown in, so what he proposed with was the "proposal ring" where the guy buys the diamond he can afford, then later the two of them can pick out the design. Much safer than trusting your average guy to pick out jewelry...

[BlaqueKatt]

Much safer than trusting your average guy to pick out jewelry...

well my husband who had never had a gf before me did fine-he knew I didn't like yellow gold, liked garnets, liked marquise cut stones-that's exactly what I got-he went to the mall on his day off...

[Amina516]

My husband bought an engagement ring on his own... Then showed me a flyer with lots of rings and including the ring he just purchased and asked me my preference on rings. (I didnt know he had already purchased one). We look over some, he points "the one" out specifically and asks my opinion. I loudly state "Ugh..thats the ugliest ring Iver ever seen!!" and continue looking at the other rings. LMAO.

I made the poor guy feel sooooo bad. He almost didnt propose. But he finally did and guess what? That ring looked much better on my finger than it did on the flyer.. LOL.

[Becks]

I have my future MIL's engagement ring.

I like it, but I don't love it.

[Stormraven]

Said snob would undoubtedly die from histrionics with my Lady and I - I gave her a pendant. Lovely thing, but not a ring by any stretch of the imagination.

[labgirl27]

I was talking to my boyfriend last night and I mentioned this thread, and that I didn't want to an engagement ring with a large stone, especially not a diamond. He proceeded to describe a ring he thought would look good on me, and completely change my mind about the ring, although I think it would look better with an emerald.

The exact same thing happened to me; I was reading this and I casually commented to my boyfriend how rings with big stones look so gawdy, and how I've always wanted a small white-gold ring with a sapphire heart on one side (my birthstone) and a diamond heart on the other (happens to be his birthstone). Then he told me there were tons of different kinds of sapphires, and we ended up looking up rings for close to an hour We both like the idea of incorporating a small padparascha sapphire with small diamonds, or using a Ceylon sapphire. I would love to get my ring custom-made though, the idea of having such a unique ring is a really attractive idea

But, getting back to the OP, what a cow! I would have put her on the spot;

"Is THAT your ring?"

"Yes it is. Is there something wrong with it?"

"Oh nothing.."

"Oh no... I insist!!! Tell me what's wrong with it."