Wedding Blog

The ring wasn’t one I would have picked out myself, but I ended up loving it so much and kept finding things to love about it. I’m glad I was surprised with it.

I had my heart set on princess cut - b/c it’s a beautiful and practical shape, it won’t get caught on everything, the wedding band can fit right next to it. We went shopping together and I was always loudly admiring the princess cut rings.

He proposed with a brilliant cut stone in a cathedral setting - not what I was expecting! I fell in love with its sparkly sparkle. And we found the perfect wedding band - it’s a wrap so there are two bands of diamonds setting off the large stone. It’s gorgeous and perfect and I love it more than if I got what I requested.

We went shopping together. We were on a mini vaca in Phili and went to there diamond district. We didn’t end up with a ring from there, but got tons of ideas.

His philosophy was that I had to wear it for the rest of my life, so I should pick it. We had so much fun with ring shopping. I think the shop people thought we were nuts with how much laughing and joking we were doing.

I was very glad we did it together, as we will always have that memory. Plus I ended up with a ring neither of us expected. A diamond princess cut with princess cut saphires on each side and next to them are tapered baguette diamonds.

Same as Christina - I chose the setting and he chose the stone

My grandma supplied the rock (I wanted an old diamond). FI tried for a couple months to pick out setting on his own but came home one day saying I was way too picky about details for him to do the choosing. I thought he was wrong, but perhaps proved him right when I couldn’t find any settings that were right and ended up custom designing it.

I love it! And although I’m confident I would have loved what he picked because he picked it, my custom ring is just perfect.

I picked out 3 while shopping with a friend and had the jeweler write them on the back of his card, then presented it to mythen boyfriend. It worked great, because I couldn’t really decide between the 3 anyway. I liked them all.

My fiance chose the diamond (round cut, humble-sized diamond, but exceptional color) and a temporary ring.

Then we picked out the ring together.

For my wedding band, he is planning on moving this stone to a new ring and adding others to it. I made him promise to have a pearl or my birthstone to fill the void in this ring. I think I would go crazy without some sort of ring on my finger for the last few weeks before our wedding.

We had talked about getting married for so long, so there was never an official proposal. As far as the ring, my mom had held onto her ring that she had from when she was married to my dad. They divorced when I was maybe 19 or 20 (I’m 34 now). My mom gave us her old ring (even though she’s afraid it might be cursed ;)). Her ring was in yellow gold and was broken from when it was enlarged, so we had a jeweler make a mold of the ring and recreate it in white gold. I never cared for my mom’s ring, solely becase it was in yellow gold, but I absolutely love it in white gold! Plus, the sentimental girl that I am loves that I’m pretty much wearing my mom’s ring. Assuming we ever have a daughter, I hope it is something I can one day pass on to her.

i’m like k. i had once mentioned the kind of ring i had wanted. he started looking for suitable rings and he selected three or four and asked me which one i liked the most, which ended up as my promise ring.

i don’t think picking out the ring [i ended up picking the one his first choice!] took anything away from the moment. it was what he said when he gave me the ring that touched me the most.

he already knows what kind of engagement ring i want too.

we’ve discussed what kind of rings i liked before. as of a week ago he spilled the beans and has the ring in his safe… in our house! he said he still wants to surprise me when he asks but he had to tell me because he was excited. i was excited too but now its grown into impatience and irritation because he hasn’t asked it! i feel like a hobbit waiting for my precious - sickening! i totally wish he surprised me but i love him all the same.

Hey Nony!

My fiance proposed once without the ring, then we picked it out together, then he proposed again (hmmm, not a poll option). We figured if I was wearing it, I got to choose it. I was looking for something unusual that wasn’t a “big rock” ring, which we had a verrrry hard time explaining to jewelers, but eventually he tracked down a designer I liked a lot, and I love my purty ring. Picture in my bio.

We tried something similar with his engagement ring, but eventually I just decided to surprise him with a plain titanium band. He loved it. And I sympathize with guys who find it hard to wait once they have the ring. I was going to do the whole romantic thing, but I was so giddy about it I blurted it out after about 2 hours.

Surprises are lovely when your guy is amazing at picking out jewelry! He completely surprised me with exactly what I always wanted, and even a bit better! He had so much fun doing it too…
I couldn’t imagine telling my boyfriend to buy me “that” - it’s just not me. Especially when it costs so much $$$ (that isn’t mine).

2 years before we got engaged, we had been in a jewelry store to get a necklace of mine cleaned and I tried some e-rings on just for fun. He remembered which one was my favorite, and proposed with that same exact style 2 years later!

I was absolutely convinced I wanted a 3-stone ring because it would be different from the rings all my co-workers and friends had. We talked about it a LOT. Little did I know that the entire time I was telling him what I “wanted,” he had already started designing my ring and having it custom made! He bought the loose stones and had it made behind my back.

I fell in love with my ring the moment I saw it. It’s amazing how he knows what I want when even I don’t have a clue.

i was never big on engagement rings. i am very particular about the jewelry that i wear and hardly ever saw an engagment ring that appealed to me. a few years before he proposed (but a good 5 or 6 into the relationship) I saw an ad for a ring/deisgner that i LOOOOVED. I shared the info with my man, even went to the store and got him a business card and wrote the name of the ring on it. A few years later, he went ring shopping - he said he checked out my choice and then tried to find something he thought i’d like better but he never did. i was surprised and thrilled that i actually got the one I hadpointed out all those years ago and to be totally honest i still haven’t seen anything else I would even be interested in. Mine is the one for me.

I’m like Christine & Erika –
the proposal was a surprise, but we picked out the ring together afterwards. He said he felt bad for not having a ring, but he talked to my uncle (a jeweler), and suggested that we pick out the band, and he would take care of setting the diamond. He said he would have guessed I’d want a solitaire with a not too fancy band (correct!) but that he wanted us to pick it out together to be sure.

So we picked out the band together, and then my uncle told him what kind of diamonds he had available (size, clarity, etc). I felt odd being involved in this discussion, especially since this would be costing a large chunk of money. I told him I didn’t fell comfortable telling him how much to spend, basically, but we had decided on a ~.78 carat diamond. Well, when we got it back after the diamond was set, it looked a bit more sparkly that I expected, and I was surprised with a ~1.05 carat diamond!

I’m glad there was some aspect of surprise, but I am glad that we could pick out the band together, AFTER the proposal.
I wouldn’t have wanted him to consult with me prior to proposing because it would have taken the surprise away.