Soldato
Given your profession, I still maintain that a haribo ring is the most affordable and appropriate solution.
Poll: Lab or Natural Gems for Engagement Rings
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Definitely silver or white gold. Birth stone is Emerald, which is also the colour she likes.
It's a cliche, especially so when we're both in the same business!
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I knew my social upbringing in Singapore will come to haunt me. Thinking too much about a ring and now even to the point of keeping up with the Jones' with proposal ideas!
At least I have not set a specific date to do the deed yet, otherwise I'll just pressure myself into a diamond.
Soldato
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set real ring inside haribo? can't be anyone that can manage that trick!
(downside, she might choke)
For me it couldn't have been anything but the traditional single solitaire diamond. My wife approved and adored the floating setting...Which was lucky as she had absolutely no idea I was going to propose.
I did a load of research and went with an ethically sourced diamond from a Canadian mine which was tracked and certified.
Good luck, I was on for weeks before I was happy...
I did a load of research and went with an ethically sourced diamond from a Canadian mine which was tracked and certified.
Good luck, I was on for weeks before I was happy...
Man of Honour
Never bothered to consider the origin of the rock. She got a diamond. I bought something that she liked and that we could afford.
The whole diamond thing is a massive con trick, they are essentially worthless, don't think you're buying some future heirloom that will be worth any more that half what you've paid for it the very moment after you paid for it.
The ethical thing is just another white wash dreamt up to keep others from selling diamonds.
The ethical thing is just another white wash dreamt up to keep others from selling diamonds.
Isnt that the definition of everything? Its only ever worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it?
But it's not, the diamond market is being manipulated by price fixing and supply control and has no relationship to what they are worth or what people are willing to pay for them.
Ahhhhh first year economics, what's worth more a bottle of water or a diamond?
Caporegime
Buy a ring, get down on one knee, get on with it.
If you need to replace it at a later date because it's cheap then so be it.
Inb4 how much is your new wife worth to you.
If you need to replace it at a later date because it's cheap then so be it.
Inb4 how much is your new wife worth to you.
Soldato
Stalker coin.
Don
I bought a diamond, proposed with that, and then let her choose her own ring design 
You can get a good deal on lone diamond from the online traders, like bue-nile. You will pay much less than on the high street, and get a much nicer quality diamond too!
You can get a good deal on lone diamond from the online traders, like bue-nile. You will pay much less than on the high street, and get a much nicer quality diamond too!
I bought a diamond, proposed with that, and then let her choose her own ring design
You can get a good deal on lone diamond from the online traders, like bue-nile. You will pay much less than on the high street, and get a much nicer quality diamond too!
That is different - so you literally buy a lone diamond and then buy a ring design elsewhere, asking the seller to attach it?
Do you buy one with a specific cut?
Don
I bought a princess cut diamond from Texas, and then took it to a local jeweller who made a ring into a design she chose from some pictures, and ended up with a custom made design that she loves.
Why guess at a design, let he build her dream ring. You can still do a romantic proposal, the diamond comes in a cool tension setting metal "ring" that allows the diamond to be held in a ring box.
Kinda made the assumption with coal
I bought a diamond, proposed with that, and then let her choose her own ring design
You can get a good deal on lone diamond from the online traders, like bue-nile. You will pay much less than on the high street, and get a much nicer quality diamond too!
Yeah my mate did that while we were on a stag do in Belgium, we went to Antwerp and picked a diamond out in the diamond district. Quite a few carats from memory and price seemed good.
It does amaze me that obviously size matters with diamonds but clarity, colour, defects and even cut matter much more to the final price.
We were shown perfectly similar diamonds to my eyes yet the price was double!
Most people cant tell a few grades in colour different and a fortune can be saved picking say one from G to I over D to F.
And some people prefer the more coloured diamonds which are the cheapest as well.
Same with inclusions. You can buy diamonds with inclusions which cant be seen to the human eye without magnification which cost 6 times less than "flawness" diamonds. If you cant see the bloody faults, apart from you knowing they are there from the certificate, does it matter?
To be fair, if I was buying a diamond engagement ring today, id go to somewhere like Antwerp and select the diamond and then get the ring made later to her design.
I did that with a necklace for the gf many years ago. She picked out a 6 carat sapphire and then she drew the design of the necklace in white gold. We collected it a few weeks later. The jewellers liked it so much they asked if they could make the design and put it on sale. She should have got commission!
Soldato
My grandfather having been a jeweler and my father his apprentice when he was younger I can catagorically state that a natural Gemstone beats any synthetic hands down in terms of quality and Value.
