"My daughter has the same ring"

[Kogarashi]

My engagement ring's main stone is a dark blue sapphire with a big ol' flaw in it. I love it anyway, because it's proof that Hubby was paying attention way back when we first started dating and my roommate and I had a not-so-subtle conversation in front of him about what we wanted in engagement rings. I mentioned a silver-colored metal rather than gold, and a blue stone instead of a diamond. Six months later, Hubby surprises me by popping the question with the perfect ring. Later found out that a friend of ours had the same exact ring setting, only with a diamond instead of a sapphire, and we just think it's a funny coincidence rather than freaking out about someone else having "our" ring.

Frankly, I would've been just as happy had Hubby done what he first thought of and gotten me a lab-grown gem for a ring. I don't care how valuable my jewelry is. To be honest, the less expensive it was, the better, because I don't feel so bad when something unfortunate happens to it. Most of my jewelry is cheap stuff from Walmart and similar stores (and not from the locked cases).

[BeenThereDoneThat]

My birthstone is diamond too, and I remember being jealous when I was a kid because my stone wasn't a pretty color like the other ones (I'm still a little jealous...which is why I have a lab-created blue sapphire ring and a peridot ring now, in addition to my diamond wedding/engagement rings.)

[sweetj82]

my ring

[sweetj82]

oops looks like i am having trouble

[AyreBiskits]

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[AyreBiskits]

and it's a beautiful ring!

[sweetj82]

Thank you.

[Indigo]

Gorgeous ring!

And my emerald isn't a real-mined-from-the-earth kind, its lab created. Which I am totally fine with since I also don't care how valuable my jewelry is. It was also the only emerald we could find with a deep enough shade of green for my tastes, the other emeralds looked like borderline peridots.

[Andara Bledin]

I honestly don't get people who care about the difference between lab gems and mined ones. Unless you're DeBeers, and honestly, they can go bankrupt. We're to the point where created gems are so good that they have to put serial numbers on the mined ones just to be able to tell the difference. That makes the mining for those gems an obsolete endeavor as far as I'm concerned.

^-.-^

[BowserKoopa1]

No. Are you fucking serious? She thinks you are lower than her and her stupid daughter, just because you have the same ring as the one she is about to buy? That's just....
I would've told her to go to another line after she accused me of stealing in order to afford a ring like that. You don't have to put up with that, but you did anyway good job.
Jesus Christ, what is it about some customers who think they're so much better than everyone else that they need to make comments like that, even to the point of accusing someone of stealing? Did it ever occur to her that maybe it was a gift or maybe you work 2 jobs to afford it?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I honestly don't get people who care about the difference between lab gems and mined ones. Unless you're DeBeers, and honestly, they can go bankrupt. We're to the point where created gems are so good that they have to put serial numbers on the mined ones just to be able to tell the difference. That makes the mining for those gems an obsolete endeavor as far as I'm concerned.

From my short time in Jewelry at the call center: Some people just like way the natural stones are obviously pulled from the earth...not sure I'd say those stones have "imperfections" really, but they are unique. Lab created stones are pretty much perfect...and very shiny. Really just a matter of personal preference and possibly finances if there is a big price difference between a genuine stone and a lab created one. Most people probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference just by looking, either.

[rose_metal_nz]

That ring is beautiful, and that lady is a complete nutter

[ngc_7331]

Lol I just got caught up on this thread and saw the picture of your ring. The funny part is that my best friend who just got engaged has that exact same ring. But she's not a nurse.

[Andara Bledin]

Some people just like way the natural stones are obviously pulled from the earth...not sure I'd say those stones have "imperfections" really, but they are unique. Lab created stones are pretty much perfect...and very shiny.

That's not true any more. They figured out a way to introduce imperfections into the stones as they create them so that they are, quite literally, indistinguishable from mined stones, though they can still make them absolutely perfect. I had seen it suggested when I was researching the topic a while back, that the use of serial numbers on mined gems was so that they could keep them separated. At this point, the only real difference is the age of the stone in its current configuration and snob appeal.

^-.-^

[raw456]

Sweet, you ring is georgeous!!!!!!