Will the elegance and cost of your ring matter a great deal to you?  

Well I am married, and my wedding ring for me is my precious ring, however it dosen't cost a lot of money, it is a simple gold ring with some white ring in it. For me it is not necessary to buy an expensive ring, the love counts. I wear it on occations since I worry that I will lose it, imagine if I have a ring worth thousands of dollars I will keep it in my drawer, since I will be frightened that I will be robbed. :)

i always think that if any girl is capable of convincing a guy to settle down and marry her, then she is the most luckiest in this world. The fact that a guy wants to settle down with me is more than enough.. i dont even want a ring to proclaim him commitment to me. just ask me those magical 4 words - "Will you marry me?" and i would ask for nothing else in this world.. So my answer to your question is - No, the elegance and cost of my ring doesnt matter a great deal to me.

i'm only 17 at this moment but i have a boyfriend for four years. we are waiting for us to graduate and to have a stable job before we get married. for me i don't really care if he'll buy me a less expensive ring. it is just a ring. it can't determine his love for me. i'm not a materialistic kind of girl. i wouldn't mind if he'll buy me a toy ring for our engagement. all i care about is him. his love for me. and our future together.;)

This is what i feel about engagements and this is what I feel about the rings. When my fiance proposed to me Jan of 2006 he didn't have a ring and I couldn't be happier. THe reason for this is that the 'engagement' part has become far to over done over the years. He felt embarrassed that he didn't have a ring and i felt ecstatic that he didn't. Why because he was able to ask me no matter what and he didn't need a ring to do it. I told him he could put a piece of rope around my finger and I'd still be happy. The ring is just a symbol to everyone else that you are going to be married. It's not for the both of you to know because deep down inside you know forever is there for you both.

I dislike when I hear ungrateful girls say well I want a 10,000 ring on my hand. Why because that's a bit much, why not have him put that money towards something useful? Like a house or heck maybe even your wedding. I feel it's about understanding what marriage and engagement is about. It's about a promise forever, finally being with your love for a life time. To me that out does any expensive ring or pretty dress. I'm content with saying my vows in jeans and a tshirt. Because in the end i'd be marrying my best friend, my hero and the man I love. Nothings better than that and I wouldn't want anything more or less than an 'I do'.

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First of all, let my thank you for the discussion. And for your question, I like that girls don´t care much about that things, that is it expensive or not. Most of people now care only about money, they actually marry people they don´t like for the cash.

So, I would say that the girls that are like you are the best. Even tought, if in a Future I get married, I will give my wife the best ring I can get for her, ´cause for some girls, that symbol is really important, and not for what it is its cost, but of what it represents, and I always will give my girl the best I can give her. (I don´t say this because " I buy girls", that is the expression that most people use. But sincerily, My girl deserves everything I can get)

Hope this helps you. Best of my regards.

P.D. Your picture is cool XD

I am divorced but I still have my engagement and wedding ring in my jewelry box. The cost of them didn't matter at all. I have a blue topaz nine carrot gold engagement ring. I didn't need an expensive diamond ring. I have an 18 carrot gold wedding ring. Love is what matters and it is lovely when it lasts forever.

My husband and I have been married for 4 months and hae been together for almost 5 years. When we got married we had to try to coordinate our days off with an available Justice of the Peace. We didn't even have rings at the ceremony. I was okay with us going out and just getting some gold bands, but he wanted the rings to be more special. With or without the rings I don't feel any less committed or any less loved.

Hello schwing-girl89, I remember when my husband asked me to marry him and he had designed this very unique and beautiful ring for me, but I couldn't accept it for a couple of reasons. One my personality, I am very down to earth girl and not very glizty, I couldn't see me wearing that kind of expensive ring while digging in the garden or building a tree house for the kids. So I was able to talk him into putting the money into something more practical. When it came to wearing a wedding band, again I really didn't care. But my husband was adament about having at least wedding bands, feeling that the ring is an outward commitment of an inner commitment so I conceded and we shopped together finding reasonably price rings that suited both of our personalities and had them engraved. I suggest to you that it isn't the cost or expense of the ring that makes it special and valued, it is the memories that it brings, it is the statement that it makes to you and your spouse not your girlfriends. I would have been happy with no ring or a cigar band but I am pleased that we shopped together and found simple but meaningful rings to declare our love and commitment to each other. The best of luck, be happy, be joyful -- oohcute2340

I don't think the price is important.

first and foremost, what matters is the meaning of it.

you do have to consider that it's something you'll wear all your life, so it should be durable, and something you want to wear forever.

and that can be cheap or expensive.


as it happens, the ring I plan to use as my wedding ring was free. my mum found it, years ago. and I love it, it's just perfect. spending hundreds couldn't get me a more perfect wedding ring than that one.

I'm married and the cost of the ring didn't matter to me, but the look did. I really just got a gold band, but it had to be thin with beaded edging to it. Now I started thinking about wedding rings in general and thought about the rings that are handed down generation to generation. Rings that were bought 50 years ago are now worth something and for those that are even older are worth more. Now that all depends on the type of gold, gems or design that was used. Something like that is something that is handed down and for some it becomes an investment. Look at all the gold rings that are being sold today.

I'm not saying that is somethng that should be taken into serious consideration, but it's something that could matter later on down the line.

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