I still haven't found a ring I love. How about this one?

[allhailtheaubergine]

The Promise Lattice ring (the hexagonal thick band with lattice and stars).

I do really like this one. I think.

I have to wait 6-8 wks for it though , as my right hand ring finger is monstrously a size R fgs

think the one in the op is VILE
think the monica thingy shit looks like fairground tat

sod the lot and get a nice hula hoop

omg NOT the bird one

Alright Juno. Calm down.

I bet its the same place I've been to Barbie. Somehow they didn't fill me with confidence.

Really? Thats a shame, i swear by it. I always go into the working area and watch what they are doing too. You will know if you have been, its the most busy place in the whole souk. I like that they give you the proper certification for the gems/diamonds and also guarantee the work.

Oh hang on - are you talking about the old gold souk? Or the Gold and Diamond Park next to MoE?

I like this www.alexmonroe.com/m5/Rings/p484/Wide-Bark-Ring-set-with-Tsavourite/product_info.html alex monroe one. I like big texture.

Oh. Big link. I like it in silver.

i liek teh alex monroe one

The new one next to M.O.E

Failing that Damas is pretty well recognized around here. Dh bought my diamond from them a few years back for about 3,600 gbp, It was set in london and valued around 12,500 gbp.

I like it too Pointy, but I don't think it would last well worn every day for years. It looks to me like a ring to wear occasionally and take off again when you're doing the housework.

Fair point.

These two are nice.

Monica Vinader does not look like cheap tat, btw. I have the Candy stacking rings and was asked by posh friend if they were Bulgari.

I lied and said yes

Oh. OH! I have just found this lady. I LIKE her stuff.

Have you looked Etsy or Folksy? They're great sites for one off items, everything is handmade. Folksy is just a UK site, Etsy is international but many sellers will ship internationally.

I spent ages hunting for my wedding ring and eventually got one on Amazon. I wanted something simple but different. The best bit was I paid about £170 for it, but the valuation price was £350! I love a bargain :)

farkin hula hoop is shit

Ooooh pointydog! That one is bloody lovely!

really annoying I can't link to the exact ring... but I have one from this girl tibetan princess open ring Mine is sliver with white sapphire and blue topaz.

Am liking Lilia Nash, Aubergine. Yum yum.

love this style but without the names perhaps

Trying to think of something you could write on a ring that wouldn't be a bit bleaugh

Or just that style with diamonds. (out of price range but sure that you could find a goldsmith in UK who does similar)

Blimey, they look cheap as with all that writing scratched into them.

I love alex monroe's stuff but most of it is far too tiny and delicate for my broad, chunky frame.

I agree with pointydog, if you wanted a ring like that you'd go to your Year 6 metalwork class and ask them to knock a few out.

Still haven't ordered anything.

You know what the problem is?

All my friends have a proper wedding and engagement ring. Proper traditional stuff. And some big rocks among them too. And Eternity rings. And special lovely rings they got for their 40th etc etc.

And I want to have a proper grown up ring like the big girls too. I REALLY do. 15 years, a wedding, two children and some good and bad times - I want a ring, damnit.

But I don't actually like those uber traditional wedding / engagement / eternity combos that you can get in every jewellery shop in every high street. They are lovely, but they're not me.

But then anything I do like I might as well spend £30 in Monsoon and have done. I can't seem to find something special that I like and that looks like it's a nice, real ring too.

It shouldn't matter whether other people know it's a real, proper, grown-up ring or not. It really shouldn't. But it does a bit.

Or another way of looking at it is, there is no point spending £300 on a ring that might as well be from Accessorize.