Cost of engagement ring...

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

What was the cost relative to household income?

I don't have an engagement ring, we talked about marriage and came to the decision together. I was very clear that I never wanted to be proposed to... it's a personal choice, to me it feels a bit wrong. Then questions like how much did it cost - which really means how much does he love me - just confirms it for me.

We've been having this discussion very recently as we've decided to get married. No proposal so not engaged as such but I thought I would like an eternity style ring which would serve as a wedding ring too. This thread is a great insight and I think we may take our budget to Hatton Garden and get something made.

£109 from Argos and I love it ! I was engaged before years ago and the ring cost £900 but i prefer the one I have now.

Not a lot as we were students and it qas 12 years ago, but I love it. I wear 4 - engagement, plain white gold wedding band, full diamond eternity and a blue topaz and diamond on my right hand as it's my 1 year old's birthstone. They have got progressively more expensive as we've got older and earned more!

Didn't have a household income as we were not living together (in our 20s) but I think he was on about 60k (this was 10 yrs ago). Ring cost about 5k, only found cost out later due to insurance policy (insured for 8k).

£10k, joint income was £200k although we weren't actually living together so we didn't combine finances then. DH got it made for me in Hatton Garden as a surprise, I had no idea of the cost until much later when getting it insured.

5.5k, we could afford it.

Mine was 2k, got it at a posh jewellers who do a legendary sale once a year, actual value is 3.5k. It is a bit mental that we spent they much on an engagement ring, but at the time my DH had been travelling away loads for work and had amassed a small fortune in overtime from it so we could afford it and I absolutely love it. Combined household income back then (before overtime and bonuses) was around 40k.
If it's relevant, my Nan prior to retiring was a right glamour puss and would often take my granddad jewellery shopping with her (bless him) and she always impressed upon me and my cousins that you should buy the best you can afford. Not a maxim I live up to the majority of the time, but when she passed away a couple of years ago we all received a few rings, necklaces etc that had been hers and it is really lovely to have something of hers. I like the idea of having something of value that's mine which can be handed down to my child / future grandchildren when I go. Also handy to have some things of value in the house once Brexit happens and we are trading diamonds for fresh fruit

@TheDogsMother of course you’re engaged. If you’ve decided to get married then you don’t have to have the ridiculous orchestrated proposal for the benefit of social media likes. Congratulations

The cost of the ring was around £1700 (now the same one at the same jewellers costs £2k, strangely enough) and the income back then was around £60k

£800 and he was earning around £25k at the time. He bought it out of his earnings. One of only 2 gifts he ever bought me. Divorced 12 years later!

£3

Household income was approx 50k. My ring cost £150 and it's absolutely perfect for me and exactly what I wanted.

My first engagement ring was about £4500 (really good deal). 6 months later I lost it 🤦🏼‍♀️ Had to go thru insurance and get a new one. Invoice from jeweller to insurance company was £8500 to replace. At that time income was maybe £100k.

Mine was approx £1k 30 years ago. We're now divorced but I had it dipped in platinum and made larger so I could give it to my daughter on her 18th

Mine was inherited from DH's great grandmother, and we had it reset. It's so valuable we can't afford to insure it and I live in terror of losing it, I even wake up from nightmares about it.

OTOH it's so beautiful and unusual that I am frequently stopped in shops, restaurants, meetings, trains and asked about it, which actually worries me.

Mine was £27. Solitaire cubic zirconia from Ratners (remember them!).

Household income was practically zero as we were both poor students at the time, dh was still a medical student when we got married. Wedding rings were £100 and £120.

Love my cheapy ring!

Mine was a week of my husbands wages, £800, back in 2008. Our joint income was about 60k at the time.

We had discussed getting engaged, we had looked in beaverbrooks window and I picked 3/4 I liked, we both felt 1k was a good budget He made the final choice. It is beautiful. I love it and I don't know anyone else with one like it. I didn't want a solitaire, as everyone I know had a small round solitaire and I wanted something different. Perfect choice.

Funny thing is, I went through a phrase of being envious of friends rings and my husband bought me another ring for 2k but I still prefer my original ring. Feel quite ashamed of my shallowness and the upgraded ring stays in its box. What a waste.

I chose mine and it was £120. Including me at the time about £20 grand.

About £1500. Household income around 80k but DH had just come into some money and decided that is what he wanted to spend it on. He chose it all by himself and it was a surprise proposal. I absolutely love it and it fitted perfectly just by him guessing.

My husband bought my engagement ring for an ex-girlfriend and never proposed to her as the ring made him realise it wasn't right! He spent £22k (4 years ago) and no idea what his income was at the time. Now I would like it changed to be more 'me' since it was designed for her and household income is £160k and no cash to do it! I think he was an idiot for spending so much and would never have let him spend so much on me.

Mine was £325. We were earning about 22k between us at that time. We were 18.

£100. We were both very poor at the time. I am looking for a bit of bling now for a special birthday but feel guilty about the money!

First marriage my engagement ring was my grandmothers. Recently valued at 8k. Wear it on my left hand now. We were 18 years old and had no money.
Second marriage ring cost £250. Joint income of £30k at the time. Didn’t particularly like the ring but hey.
Third marriage 1.8k ring. Joint income of 80k. I’m always scared I’ll damage it so I tend to mostly wear my wedding ring which is diamond anyway.