Cost
You must determine your budget well before you actually start shopping for an engagement ring. While a common theory talks of the cost of a ring being equivalent to two months of salary, it should be no yardstick for you to determine your budget. You are the best judge of your spending capacity, so let the decision lie with you alone and make sure you don’t get influenced by peer pressure or coaxing salespersons to increase your budget on a impulse.
An engagement ring is in a way the harbinger of a long lasting relationship. It’s significance therefore in manifold, the very reason why its selection calls for much thought and speculation. While the women bask in the dazzle of their engagement rings, it’s the men who have to work really hard in choosing the right ring that also should fall within the budget bracket. A few basics always come handy in times like this, so let’s talk about what they are..
The dictionary defines engagement ring as a promise or a pledge for a life long commitment. The symbolic meaning of engagement ring has been the epitome of everlasting love and bond that a man and a woman share together. According to an ancient belief that the third finger of the left hand, had a special vein called vena amoris or the “vein of love,” that ran directly to the heart. Although there is no scientific basis for this romantic theory, but the custom has, nevertheless, endured through generations.
The circle is known as a symbol of wholeness and of perfection. It symbolizes eternity and unity. Circle is the symbol of the sun, earth and universe; represents holiness, perfection and peace. Such is the beautiful bond of marriage. A bond that unites two souls in a holy union.
Congratulations! You’ve found your soul mate and its time to propose. Let this beautiful feeling be as warming as it is and don’t get wrecked down with the thought of finding an engagement ring. Here’s helping you choose the perfect ring.
You can choose to go the classic way with diamond engagement ring or choose to be different and trendy by choosing a non-traditional center stone ring. There’s an array of gemstones you can choose from based on different criteria like her birthstone, her color preference and so on. If you choose to go with the latest trend, your options would boil down to sapphire or color diamond. Now that this is getting easier, let’s see which of the two you want.
Fashion trend
Sapphire – The trend stated when Prince Charles presented Lady Di, the most charming woman of all times, a sapphire engagement ring. Celebs like Jenna Bush and more joined the
Some women say they’d feel naked with out a diamond. But sincerely are stones so symbolic to engagement rings or is it just us. And considering the fact that gen Y is more traditional than gen X, this whole diamond engagement ring thing sound so cliché. Or does it? Beats me. I think some questions are best unanswered. Let individual preferences be the guiding line.
But this sure calls for some talk here. So let us know how do think about the whole engagement ring thing and what do you prefer – traditional diamond engagement ring, a more trendy colored gemstone ring, the rebel no center stone ring or no ring at all.
As if getting him around to willingly agree for marriage wasn’t tough enough, you have to now convince him to spend his hard earned money to buy you a ring that is expensive enough to reassure you of his love! And in these tough times… oh yeah riiiight.
So now be his doll. Tell him you want his love and no more. Tell him how happy you would be with a gemstone engagement ring which will cost him half the price of a diamond engagement ring (probably less). You get this pretty ring with a colored stone which is trendy and the hot look of the season and your to-be-hubby gets a lovely mate who’s already concerned about his savings. Wow! You go girl…
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