Cost of engagement ring...

[Silvertincan]

Just a nosey post!!
How much did your engagement rings costs?

What was the cost relative to household income?

Mine was £135 but I have no idea of our income at the time. Just a simple emerald ring that means the world to me. No matter what income we have in the future I will never have a new engagement ring as it just wouldn't be the same

More than I expected but I currently pay the house insurance on which that is a named item on therefore in about 20 years I worked out I will have paid for it myself by how much my premiums went up to have it on there 🤣

We couldn’t afford anything, so no ring.

I honestly didn’t care at the time and still don’t.

I didn't have one as I had been married before, it was the 1970's and it was not the done thing if you were getting remarried to flaunt an engagement ring.
For our 40th wedding anniversary DH bought me a Saphire and diamond ring that I chose.

About £100 and we had 0 income due to both being at uni

£3.5k.

Ironically, the same amount of money I spent on legal representation to get various court orders taken out against him so he cannot come near me or dd ever again 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I got an antique ring for £500. Our income was £50k.i wouldn't have wanted to spend more.

Mine is an antique seed pearl and emerald set in gold ring and was about £200 ten years ago. I always wanted an old one and DH chose it. But it is fragile (due to the pearls) and can't be worn day to day, so I wear a gold and ruby ring that was my sisters! I don't think I would trust myself with a socking great sparkler, I'd probably lose it!

How does everyone know the cost? Did you go ring shopping together? I got engaged a couple of weeks ago but had no involvement in the ring (love it though) so no idea how much!

Family heirloom yes!
We became engaged in 1989. We were both teachers with no savings and I didn't think that we would be able to afford much of a ring.
But on a visit to my fiance's parents, to announce the happy news, my lovely future MIL invited me to root through a dish of her inherited jewellery to see if there was anything I fancied. Thus I became the proud wearer of a beautiful 0.75 carat diamond solitaire. It had been given to her grandmother for her 60th wedding anniversary.
30 years later I still love its sparkle and wear it with pride.
(NB - I have no daughters! Who will I pass it too?)

Are there no posters on here whose household income is less than six figures ?

Dh couldn’t afford one so we just used an old stone that I had. Then last year he had one made that for 20k which is crazy but I’ll wear it forever

Oh, mine was £45.
From memory, I guess household income at the time was around £13 - 14K

£189, his income was about 10K at the time.

My first was £850 and he earned about 40K.

I didn't have one. DH gave his mother's ring after she died, but that was a few years after we married.

About £250. Household income around £90k. I'm not flash and we preferred to put the cost towards lots of booze and a great band at the wedding.

We had very little money to spare at the time & my ring was less than £50. It's lovely, I wear it every day & it's still going strong almost 25 years later. It's really not about what you spend, just getting engaged was exciting. My wedding ring wasn't expensive either & again, still looks as good as new. We're a lot better off these days but always put extra money towards the house, holidays & dds. I've never been bothered about expensive jewellery but each to their own.

£175 I think. We were students so household income (we weren't living together) probably about £12,000 in part time jobs.

I wear my eternity ring day to day as the solitaire caught on everything.

£2650 27 years ago. Household income was about £40k. We had a small wedding but nice rings and a honeymoon to the Maldives.

2k. Household was around 50k.

Mine was 5k and household income was around 137k at the time.

No idea. Never asked.

We didn't have a household income before we were married.

Thread is interesting! Not least for the high household incomes and the generally low ring costs!

I work in the industry and I don't think this thread represents averages at all.
Household incomes are generally lower and ring spends higher.