Getting an engagement ring

I don't get the engagement thing. Never have. If you're going to get married, get married, don't fanny on with engagements. It must still be a thing as my Niece has just got engaged, which surprised me.
 


Most people will tell you to avoid a high street jeweller, which is totally valid as they mark up horrendously for tiny crap stones compared to most independents.

But unless you’re planning on asking for it back to sell on later, or she’s a jewellery appraiser of some sort then it really doesn’t make much difference if she’ll like it.

If you want anything bespoke, gavin Shelley in Durham is a great bloke to talk to. Didn’t use him for an engagement ring but he gave great advice on wedding rings to match and was incredibly good value. His shop is up one of the arcade alleyways.

No idea if he’s an mlf or not.
Gavin Shelley made both our wedding rings twenty years ago, and more recently made an anniversary ruby ring up for me (to give to my wife obvs). He's a cracking lad. Not a mlf though.
 
It's been proven that only good looking blokes wear wedding rings. It's because the wife is scared another lass will go for them. The clips don't have this problem, and their lass wouldn't mind if they ended up heaving their arse up and down on someone else anyway as at least it'd save them from putting up with three mins of hell.
See pic ,ive took my kettle off to prove I’ve never removed any wedding ring .
Only little hen pecked puffs with fat wives wear wedding rings .

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It started when real men died!

Seriously, surely that was more about not ripping your finger off doing the proper dangerous manual labour back in those days rather than anything else. With proper machinery etc these days it’s less of an issue even for manual workers.

Also, the woman wearing the ring and the man not harks back to the days when men “owned” their woman. Marriage is an equal partnership these days, as it should be.

Is it?

Well could you tell my missus because i have no f***ing say in anything.
 
When did it become acceptable for blokes to wear wedding rings .?

When I was a bairn normal working class(I’m on about proper working class manual workers) never wore wedding rings .Im repeating myself like but it looks absolutely stupid a wedding ring on a bloke .
they did
 
Where the heck do you begin? After finding a partner, of course.

Nee pics

Firstly, don’t go to the high street. You’ll get shit quality massively overpriced.

Get your head around the 4Cs,
Clarity
Cut
Carat
Colour

They are not all equal when it comes to price. Depends on the lady your proposing to, some want the biggest diamond and aren’t bothered if that come at the expense of some of the quality, some are happy with a smaller stone if it’s better. Obviously there are some that want both but that comes at a cost.

Have a look on bluenile, you can use the sliders on there to see what the price different is when you change each option.

I found getting the quality to VVS1, D colour and ideal cut made relatively small difference to the price compared to increasing the size.

Then you’ve just got to pick the style of band and therefore also the shape of the stone.
 
77 diamonds quality website. Free resize too. Choice of diamond, easily better value than going to the high street.
 
Personally, I proposed without a ring. The wife then picked her own which ended up a lot more expensive 😂

The eternity ring (which btw is a con) was even more
 
Personally, I proposed without a ring. The wife then picked her own which ended up a lot more expensive 😂

The eternity ring (which btw is a con) was even more

Same here. I did, however, dress up in a tuxedo for the proposal after she got in from work.

Didn't get an eternity ring (yet). I thought that's what a declaration of marriage is all about.
 
if only there was shops that specialised in rings
You sarky bugger. I know a young(ish) lad that has wealthy parents. He lives in a house that belongs to them, he drives a car that was bought by them... no problems there, but: He got engaged recently and his mam bought the f***ing engagement ring for him. That is the diametric opposite of romantic.
 
It's been proven that only good looking blokes wear wedding rings. It's because the wife is scared another lass will go for them. The clips don't have this problem, and their lass wouldn't mind if they ended up heaving their arse up and down on someone else anyway as at least it'd save them from putting up with three mins of hell.

Tbf that's stupid on the lasses part there was a segment on GMTV once that showed lads with wedding rings were more likely to be chatted up / pursued by some n when not with their other half as they were seen as "decent, stable not jack the lads" etc as bonkers as that a sounds
 

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