Soooooooo......
Yup, our 5th Year-A-Versary with my girlfriend is coming up and it's time. Last year she subscribed to Wedding's magazine and I keep finding her Tivo'ing wedding shows on HGTV (DAMN YOU NEWLY ACQUIRED CABLE TV!!!!) So I've got a couple guideline questions....
1) Is the three month rule real or just DeBoers marketing nonsense. Is there a certain price range I should be going for?
2) I should be doing this by myself, right? I've noticed some people buying them together, but that cheapens it in my opinion.
***3 and this is important) When we first started going out, we were watching TV and a DeBoers commercial came on. She promptly stated: "God, I hate diamonds. Biggest marketing BS ever imagined." Since then, over the years, I think she's taken that back somewhat after her mention of many beautiful diamond rings and her asking me, jokingly, "when am I gonna get a big fat diamond, Zach?" She likes rubies, which is cool because those actually ARE rare, they're just about as stong as diamonds, and there's no such thing as a "Blood Ruby" unless you're describing the color. But I have never seen a ruby engagement ring and, though social norms are of course BS, I'm still held by this voice in the back of my head saying "it's not an engagement ring unless it's a diamond ring." She probably hears the same thing. What are your thoughts on that?
4) She loves Art Nouveau. She incorporates it into her art, some of her decorating and even some clothing. It's deep in her, so I'd like to get her a ring with an Art Nouveau design. The only problem with this is that there's really nothing made new that does it, let alone doing it well at all. 2 years ago I gave her a "promise ring" (my way of buying time until now... and it worked great! ) that has somewhat of that design aesthetic, but it just doesn't do it. When I was looking for it, I went to a couple of *really* nice estate jewelry places downtown that had great old vintage pieces, but they were vintage. I guess this one is more towards the ladies, but I want to know-- is a vintage ring, that was probably worn by another woman, a big no no? It would fit the bill perfectly, but I'm sure there's some ramifications to this.
Thanks for reading this far. It's a lot of questions, but this is important to me, so there's about a thousand more questions coming out of my brain. If you have any other pointers please throw them my way as I don't have any older siblings I can rap with about it, nor any other married friends (at 28 you'd think that wouldn't be the case...).
Thanks!
Yup, our 5th Year-A-Versary with my girlfriend is coming up and it's time. Last year she subscribed to Wedding's magazine and I keep finding her Tivo'ing wedding shows on HGTV (DAMN YOU NEWLY ACQUIRED CABLE TV!!!!) So I've got a couple guideline questions....
1) Is the three month rule real or just DeBoers marketing nonsense. Is there a certain price range I should be going for?
2) I should be doing this by myself, right? I've noticed some people buying them together, but that cheapens it in my opinion.
***3 and this is important) When we first started going out, we were watching TV and a DeBoers commercial came on. She promptly stated: "God, I hate diamonds. Biggest marketing BS ever imagined." Since then, over the years, I think she's taken that back somewhat after her mention of many beautiful diamond rings and her asking me, jokingly, "when am I gonna get a big fat diamond, Zach?" She likes rubies, which is cool because those actually ARE rare, they're just about as stong as diamonds, and there's no such thing as a "Blood Ruby" unless you're describing the color. But I have never seen a ruby engagement ring and, though social norms are of course BS, I'm still held by this voice in the back of my head saying "it's not an engagement ring unless it's a diamond ring." She probably hears the same thing. What are your thoughts on that?
4) She loves Art Nouveau. She incorporates it into her art, some of her decorating and even some clothing. It's deep in her, so I'd like to get her a ring with an Art Nouveau design. The only problem with this is that there's really nothing made new that does it, let alone doing it well at all. 2 years ago I gave her a "promise ring" (my way of buying time until now... and it worked great! ) that has somewhat of that design aesthetic, but it just doesn't do it. When I was looking for it, I went to a couple of *really* nice estate jewelry places downtown that had great old vintage pieces, but they were vintage. I guess this one is more towards the ladies, but I want to know-- is a vintage ring, that was probably worn by another woman, a big no no? It would fit the bill perfectly, but I'm sure there's some ramifications to this.
Thanks for reading this far. It's a lot of questions, but this is important to me, so there's about a thousand more questions coming out of my brain. If you have any other pointers please throw them my way as I don't have any older siblings I can rap with about it, nor any other married friends (at 28 you'd think that wouldn't be the case...).
Thanks!