Man Titanium Diamond Ring, A Diamond Is For What?
Q.Romantic is candlelight and flowers and a 'I can't imagine the rest of my life without you in it so would you do me the honour of being my wife'... what does a hunk of overpriced glittery carbon have to do with it? That said, there's a little part of me that's disappointed that my fiance has not got me an engagement ring in two years... but there are really much more important things in life! And I don't think I'd trust a man's taste in rings for me anyway... :)
A.This thread actually prompted... ...hrm. ...about two days worth of arguement, and one day of shopping. Here's the deal- Ava and I got married about 18 months ago. She found two very pretty sterling silver celtic knotwork rings somewhere in DuPont, and they were like $20 each or something. I've been wearing it since she gave it to me, and the only time I can remember taking it off since was to hand it to the maid of honor during the service, so she could hand it to Ava ~during~ the service, who could then put it back on my hand. Her ring, OTOH, died an ignoble death shortly thereafter. You'd think that my wife was a pipefitter or a stevedore from the way she destroys jewelry. Sterling is a non-starter, because it gets beat on so much. No, she really needs white gold or platinum or titanium or something else a little less crunchable. And so she says "you should get me a replacement wedding ring", and I file this under "she'll tell me when she wants to go jewelry shopping, and then we'll get something". No, what she meant was "YOU SHOULD GET ME A REPLACEMENT WEDDING RING". She reads this thread and says "I've been telling you this for MONTHS. How come you haven't gotten me something?" Why? Because, like all sensible men, I have Jewelry Fear. And for something that is going to be worn every day, like a wedding ring? Sheesh, I wants no part of that. So we eventually clarify each others' points of view, and go jewelry shopping. Tyson's Corner Center has about twenty jewelry stores in it, including the Na Hoku hawaiian jewelry store, so we start there. Almost three hours of shopping later, we find something. The money arguement went on for most of this. The 'three months pay" rule, or whatever idiotic blood-diamond-cartel-salespitch notwithstanding, I don't think she looked at anything that cost a month's pay, didn't look seriously at anything half that much, and the one she eventually settled on was a few days pay, about what we blow on lunches, take-out dinners, and books in a week. Moneywise, I wouldn't have batted an eyelash at spending ten times that much, so my constraints have been met. Three hours of shopping, walking past a thousand-odd rings, pausing at at a few score, and closely examining a handful, she found two or three that were good enough for her, and settled on one.
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