OT: Engagement Rings

[RUevolution36]

Avi & co. In the diamond district...

http://aviandco.com

Really good selection and pricing on GIA certified rocks (might need to haggle a bit and know your stuff). Not so great pricing on watches. If you want a nice watch, I got another guy for that.

 

[Blitz8RUCrazy]

 

[Blitz8RUCrazy]

Not so great pricing on watches. If you want a nice watch, I got another guy for that.

Is it Tim Cook with the Apple Watch?

 

[theRU]

Avi & co. In the diamond district...

http://aviandco.com

Really good selection and pricing on GIA certified rocks (might need to haggle a bit and know your stuff). Not so great pricing on watches. If you want a nice watch, I got another guy for that.

who is your watch guy?

 

[e5fdny]

"Don't worry, Honey, I know exactly what you want in the most important purchase in your life to date--just leave it to me," said no intelligent prospective groom ever. Your'e a guy. You don't have the "I want this particular diamond on my hand to show off to all the girls" gene. Go do it as the couple you are going to become. Make it a day you'll remember.

EDIT: Having taken this stance, I should admit that I designed my wife's wedding ring. But we did that together and she expressed her opinions. I'm the more artistic of the two of us, and have a bit of background in the arts. She loved that we did it together and that she can tell folks that I designed the ring.

Not sure how many times I have to say this but I guess I'll do it again and a little slower for our Ole' Nassau friend (LOL)...

If you pick the right girl and you really get to know her (like you should) BEFORE you propose you should be able to get the right ring. My wife is not like the one you mentioned in quotes above. Some of us do have a clue and do listen and get to know our spouses pretty good before the big day. It should never be about the ring or the wedding, it's about the marriage. Who cares how cool and/or awesome the first two are if you mess up the third.

And after we did get engaged we did something similar like you did with the wedding rings...we both designed them and we were thrilled how they turned out.

You do your thing, and I'll do mine. Doesn't make one more right or more wrong than the other.

 

[SkilletHead2]

Not sure how many times I have to say this but I guess I'll do it again and a little slower for our Ole' Nassau friend (LOL)...

If you pick the right girl and you really get to know her (like you should) BEFORE you propose you should be able to get the right ring. My wife is not like the one you mentioned in quotes above. Some of us do have a clue and do listen and get to know our spouses pretty good before the big day. It should never be about the ring or the wedding, it's about the marriage. Who cares how cool and/or awesome the first two are if you mess up the third.

And after we did get engaged we did something similar like you did with the wedding rings...we both designed them and we were thrilled how they turned out.

You do your thing, and I'll do mine. Doesn't make one more right or more wrong than the other.

I fully agree with everything except having the guy pick out the ring without consultation specifically on the ring or doing it together (unless Jabril Peppers helps you pick it out).

 

[RUevolution36]

who is your watch guy?

Guy named Jonathan Price. Used to work at Hamilton Jewelers in Princeton. Moved down to Florida, but can still get a good deal on pretty much anything.

 

[e5fdny]

I fully agree with everything except having the guy pick out the ring without consultation specifically on the ring or doing it together (unless Jabril Peppers helps you pick it out).

Agree to disagree. LOL

A woman really only gets two true real surprises in her life...the day somebody proposes and the birth (and sex - don't get me started on that one) of her first child.

If you do your job right in both areas you gave her those two surprises. You lessen the first one if we do what you suggest.

But again, to each is own. One way is not better than the other. Just different.

Happy New Year, Jeff!

 

[SkilletHead2]

Agree to disagree. LOL

A woman really only gets two true real surprises in her life...the day somebody proposes and the birth (and sex - don't get me started on that one) of her first child.

If you do your job right in both areas you gave her those two surprises. You lessen the first one if we do what you suggest.

But again, to each is own. One way is not better than the other. Just different.

Happy New Year, Jeff!

And to you, Pat! Hope you don't have to work it!

BTW, I proposed to Moms Skillethead at Westminster Abbey, right where the kings and queens get married.

 

[e5fdny]

And to you, Pat! Hope you don't have to work it!

BTW, I proposed to Moms Skillethead at Westminster Abbey, right where the kings and queens get married.

Nice...

I did it at Windows on World in the WTC after dessert by beginning with, "Since you've made me me feel on the top of the World since I've met you I think this is the best place to ask this question..." as I opened the box and slid it toward her across the table.

The look I got proved it was one of those surprises I mentioned earlier.

On 9/11 while standing on the ruins on of the North Tower I remember using a little gallows humor when I said to a friend, "Well, I guess I have to find another place to celebrate my 20th anniversary, LOL"

It was the table on the right...

 

[SkilletHead2]

Nice...

I did it at Windows on World in the WTC after dessert by beginning with, "Since you've made me me feel on the top of the World since I've met you I think this is the best place to ask this question..." as I opened the box and slid it toward her across the table.

The look I got proved it was one of those surprises I mentioned earlier.

On 9/11 while standing on the ruins on of the North Tower I remember using a little gallows humor when I said to a friend, "Well, I guess I have to find another place to celebrate my 20th anniversary, LOL"

It was the table on the right...

Good story. And thanks for being there.

 

[Rufaninga]

Focus on size and cut, inclusions clarity not as important. Been married 18 years and long ago wanted a diamond as perfect as my fiancee. What I realize now after 19+ years of daily wearing you can't see inclusions and with doing dishes, gardening, projects etc. her diamond is not perfectly clean to see clarity rating. She's still as perfect as the ring, but in hind sight I might have gotten slightly bigger diamond instead of perfectly clear, etc.

Best wishes!