How much did your engagement ring cost?

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Sorry for the nosy thread but I'm genuinely intrigued.. I see huge rocks, cute little numbers and they're all beautiful but I often wonder how people afford them and what's considered a 'normal' amount to spend? I know it used to be months salary in the old days.. Is that still the case?

Louchick - you are aware many people choose their own engagement rings, aren't you ?

No idea - it would seem rude to ask! Mine is vintage - Art Deco sort of period and style (have no idea exactly when it was made) which I love. It is an unusual shape. No big rocks - a few small diamonds. DH picked it, without discussing it with me - his proposal was sort of a surprise (not a complete one - we were dating and stuff).

I don't wear it at the moment, as I lost my wedding ring (which was a wishbone shaped one, to fit the engagement ring). Seems odd to wear one without the other.

Mine is Tanzanite and diamond and cost £900, we've been married 18 years now and I still love it.

Mine proposed. I chose. He paid and collected it. Romantic mine. Has proved quite reliable though.

Mine was about 2000, he had it made for me from a pic I had shown him ages ago of the style I liked, was totally not expecting it and was much more than I would ever have expected him to spend, I love the effort he went through to get something made for me. I love it so much and couldn't have picked something nicer if I'd tried

£2k 10 years ago in the states, but insured and valued for £5k now.

It's very beautiful IMO

£1200 - that was 20 years ago & we bought it direct from the maker so it was valued at roughly double at the time. A 1/2ct princess cut diamond solitaire & a good quality stone. Less than a month's salary and not showy, but what I wanted and I still love it.

£750 in 1979

Nothing. Didn't have one and I've always felt a bit uncomfortable about engagement rings because men don't wear them. We both had lovely Welsh gold wedding rings instead at vast expense by our standards

Thought mine was super expensive ( specially made and over a thousand) but reeling at the price of some of them on here.

He put it on my finger over four years ago and it's never coming off.

For my second marriage I decided I only wanted one good ring so that's what we did.
Had one made to my specification for our engagement.
It very unusual.
I've never seen another like it
Wish I could post a picture.

Couldn't afford one at the time but just bought me a beautiful 8 carat diamond eternity ring insured for 34k so he's sure made up for it

Louchick I chose my own ring and asked for a budget. I'm not really a jewellery person and didn't know what amount was affordable, reasonable etc. My DH gave me a figure but in reality I chose a ring i loved, suited me etc. It didn't matter whether I spent the 'whole' budget - the actual ring was more important. In case anyone feels like this sounds crass can i assure everyone that we are in a very loving relationship, my DH is my world and I wouldn't have cared a hoot if it cost 50p or £50k! In fact I would never ever spend £50k even if we were lottery winners but that's beside the point..?

None because I proposed and we married a few months later. However Dh has bought me a special ring for each child, they were about 2K each.

I am not materialistic at all and probably the only extravagant gifts I have ever had!

I wear two of them.all the time, the other two in rotation!

Around £140, DP has a good job so people have speculated on how much he has spent, guessing into the thousands

The reality is we picked it out together and it's perfect and I love it :)

500 pounds 22 years ago. We paid half each. I sold my wedding ring when we separated last year but I've kept my engagement ring and wear it on my right hand now when I feel like it.

Mine was £195. He refused to buy me the £30 one from a different shop. That was 19 years ago.

I know what mine cost because I needed the info to insure it. I couldn't give a rats arse what he spent, I love it because of what it means to us.

No rings. A ring is a shackle. Instead, he bought me a chunk of amber on a chain as a love token - it is "living" as opposed to something won from the earth at the cost of human misery.

Wow, buzz kill much pollyglot? My ring isn't a shackle, nor did it cause human misery. But you crack on dear, enjoy your amber. Which is as "living" as a diamond is.

Oh polyglot what a sad life you must lead. And how is a ring a shackle opposed to a cheap necklace?

Ok fine, I'll bite.

polyglot - science not your thing, huh? Amber is derived from tree sap. It's very dead. It was once part of a tree. Diamonds are formed by the pressure of the Earth on carbon, a lot of which originally started out as trees. Also dead. Also originally from trees.

How is any one token less of a shackle than another? If I were to buy into your ideological bollocks, surely all "love tokens" are given to you by a man as a mark of their possession? Chunks of amber included....

Shackle indeed. At least I could flog mine for three months rent if I had to LTB. Except that it has given me pleasure for 25.5 years.

Shackles: Debt, small children, illness, stress, in-laws, society, rules, work, unhappiness.

I've got my mum's and my dad paid about £20 for it in 1976. Got it resized and the jeweller said I should insure it for £1,000

Pollyglot, you must be fun at parties.