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Should we still be buying 'the ring'?

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  • #32
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    VenusPlays wrote: »
    I recently was reliabley informed that a couple I know spent 25 grand on her ring and her dress was a 20 grand designer one off!!! Now they've money to burn but I dont get that sort of extravagance.

    If they have money to burn then fair enough but disclosing the price of those items is crass and tacky in the extreme.


  • #33
    LeeHoffmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭LeeHoffmann


    I agree with Acoshla about liking sparkly pretty jewellery - not for any status ambitions (??!!) - just because it looks nice. And I like the symbolism of the rings - committment, eternal etc. Thos things get at the romantic in me. However, I agree that engagements and weddings in general are very one-sided - this whole ''it's her day'' thing and again, only the lady gets a ring. Very unfair imo. Hence I bought a ring for my OH as a surprise after we got engaged. He was delighted. I would have proposed probably but he told me in no uncertain terms that he wanted to do that. Change comes from both men and women, don't forget - it's not just the ladies maintaining the status quo.


  • #34
    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    It's up to the couple, as I wouldn't pass any judgement on a guy who wanted to buy a girl a ring, but I voted no, as I don't think we would personally be going down that road. Or if we did, it would be a piece of jewelry for me and a watch for him. :)

    I wear a ring on my ring finger anyway. It fits there, that's the only reason. But then I practice the art of living dangerously by walking under ladders and persistent use of the number 13. :cool::pac:


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