How much was your engagement ring?

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Feeling nosey! I was on another thread where the OP had £600 to spend on an engagement ring and the first comment was how it was a lot of money and was she sure she wanted to spend that much.

Purple, ostentatious 😂

We are talking about the difference in size of a tiny dot and a bigger tiny dot.

We are talking about the difference in size of a tiny dot and a bigger tiny dot.

No, I was talking about my personal preference about size of diamond. Some did look ostentatious to me.

I'm so surprised that some people went to choose their own ring and others had a temporary one until they found a better one?

Not critical, just surprised.

£200 in 2009, white gold, diamonds and sapphire. Then another £250 to reset it in Palladium in 2012. So £450 in total.

Mine was £3300 last month. But we’ve been together for ten years and he knows I love jewellery and would have been fuming to miss the shopping around for it.. 😂

For me the best thing about it is the jeweller has been around for nearly 200 years, so I know they will always be around to service, repair it etc.

I am also put out that people aren’t posting photos. I love looking at beautiful rings..

£600, I know because I chose it as I didn't want a boring solitaire. It's quite unusual, a 1920s yellow gold band with a flat square platinum setting that holds a sapphire in the middle and 4 tiny diamonds in the corners. I love that it doesn't catch on anything so I can wear it all the time.

Bugger to find a wedding band to fit with it though so had to get one made which I'm pleased about now as it's also pretty unusual.

About £800. DH was under strict instructions not to spend a lot. I was furious (even though £800 is cheap for an engagement ring). I don't wear jewelry much so it's essentially £800 sat in a box doing nothing.

£27.50 in 1972! Would be about £350 now apparently.

About £1800 I think. White gold, brilliant cut diamond flanked by two sapphires.

Got stolen when our house was burgled in January (I left it at home because I'm not allowed to wear it at work)

It’s just a ring. The only difference in a big one and a small one is perception because the actual size difference is immaterial.

I don't have one. Been together 22 years and if we did marry, which isn't likely, I wouldn't have one and would just have a cheap silver wedding band.

£20,000 11 years ago. It costs a fortune to insure and as much as I like it I wish I’d gone for a £1000 one from an antique jewellery store in Brighton.

Mine was £4400. It's a Tiffany emerald soleste and my absolute pride and joy. Fiancé picked it!

I don’t know, DH bought it. 1ct solitaire diamond on a gold band. It’s the smallest amongst the people I know and it’s big! I think big stones must be in right now.

1ct diamond solitaire

Sorry, didn’t mean to post that 😂

Was trying to google the price now you’ve got me interested 😂

15 thousand. my hubby picked it with his dad..a complete surprise. far too much though...

£2000 for a platinum 1 carat diamond. Local independent Jewelers and the exact same ring is £6000+ in Beaverbrooks/Earnest Jones/etc.

Wedding band is plain and was £400, also in platinum (again would have been £800+ if we'd not gone to the local jewelers)

8k, and I was astounded. HSamuels were selling a similar one for about £800, to do with the diamond cut or something (he was robbed)

I would have preferred something a lot cheaper and had that money as a deposit for a home, but ah never mind

£80 from a pawnshop 28 years ago! I recently lost the sapphire out of it, so have not worn it for a few months, and am waiting for DH to have it replaced - I don't care if it is replaced with blue glass, I just want to be able to wear it again.

Why you wanna know?

First one (back in 2006) was about £1k I think.

Second one (2016) was a £1500 1940s trilogy ring with 2 sapphires and and diamond on a platinum band. We found it hidden amongst a load of other things in a glass cabinet in an independent antiques and jewellery shop. I absolutely adore it, and I've never seen another ring since that I want more.

Just over £1000 but I wouldn't of cared if it a lot less

Mine is priceless 💍😚

How important is it? Really? I get a bit sad reading it all.

I've been living with my girlfriend for a couple of years. Marriage is absolutely on the cards. I want her to have this joy that most of you feel when you see your ring.

But my savings went into buying her ex out of his half the house, so that her little girls didn't have to be uprooted. The area we live in is so perfect to raising children that it was a no-brainer for me.
My income goes to the family pot - this includes paying for about half of the child costs. Their father just doesn't have any money. My girlfriend never asked me to contribute to this but when we went over the finances the sacrifices the children would be making if I didn't were just heartbreaking. I didn't insist but we discussed it and it was clear that the happiest path for all of us was that I contribute. (We earn roughly similar by the way, it's not like I'm paying everything!)

But I don't really have a personal stack of money. I go out maybe once every two months, and don't overspend then. When I get extra it goes to paying the highest-interest house loan off (different country, strange mortgage structure!) And this is all great, I love my life to be honest, and I know she values this so much.

I just feel sad I can't give her this thing, when I see how much happiness it seems to be worth :(