Rubies are a girls best friend

I like diamonds, but I like ones with color, pink is the most amazing, but the blues are pretty amazing too. I have a table cut yellow diamond cokktail ring (wont lemme put in the real spelling), but it's loose on my finger, I don't wear it often. Husband bought me a house, twice, instead of a ring.and a few cars/trucks over the years in lieu of an "engagement" ring. He knows it's time to pony up when I start my (sigh)"...I wish I had an engagement ring to show off...." this year I will surprise him and get the house resided instead of a ring. Mighty nice of me, eh?

The PS thingy is so funny! .. Now, of course I don't wear diamonds, but you have raised a very cool topic, because I have wondered for years now, why is diamond a girl's best friend. What's the link..? Why3x? One diamond can cost me a bike maintenance or worst off, a car maintenance, and then I have to scrimp and save for that one particular beauty. But I think diamonds are a real beauty; so I can understand why ladies are going ga-ga over it.

I think diamonds are definitely pretty. Very classy, very traditional. I'm guessing that's why they've stayed in style so long - because in a way, they symbolize the conventional-ism of marraige - the traditional aspect of it. I don't think I would mind at all though if my boyfriend (who is nonexistant currently) proposed to me and gave me a pearl, sapphire, ruby or any other kind of gem, because I think all gems and diamonds are beautiful and magnificent and I would probably take whatever I could get. . I think there's always something pretty in the classic, traditional sense about diamonds, but I'm open to other types too.

I don't wear any. If I did I might go over the top like Scarlett did with Rhett.

I do not know why some women have to have a diamonds ring unless it is because it sparkles in the sunlight. I myself do not have any diamonds and do not need any. I just have a wedding band and that is all I need.

I think that a woman should have what suits her best. I prefer my birthstone which is an opal. I do like the tiny diamonds that surround my opal...they seem to make it sparkle more. But I agree with you, the colored gems ones are very pretty. My favorite ring is my mother's ring...it has four different stones..cause two of my boys were born in the same month. I don't own much jewelry...but what I have is precious to me cause my kids bought it for me! I've had a few engagement rings (3).but when it didn't work out..I returned them. Don't miss any of them.

I think that, frankly, the titchy diamonds that are used to set off a larger stone are too small (and probably of the wrong cut) to be anything more than an added sparkle. A diamond's real beauty is seen when it is a large stone and really expertly cut so that parts of it refract light like a prism and it has fleeting colours as well as brilliant flashes. A diamond is at its best when worn so that it's constantly in motion.

Do you know I have never understood why Diamonds are suppose to be a Girls best Friend because as you say it is a nice stone but I have never been to keen on Diamond I have never had anything with Diamond

When I was young, I too thought the prettier stones were the coloured ones. My engagement ring was purchased for me as a diamond ring because of tradition. When the first one was lost, it was replaced with a ring I thought rather ostentatious. One day I realised it looked lovely on my hand and I grew to love it and to feel special when I wore it. I still liked the other stones...rubies, emeralds, amethysts, but by now I knew the power of the diamond. I was aware that good things happened whenever I wear diamonds....wearing sapphires is not good for me. I've only ever had tiny rubies but I love them even though I'm not sure what their value is for me, same with emeralds. Opals are my birthstone and they have never been lucky with me...they have either been strangely lost or stolen. I've loved all my opals and miss them dreadfully but I don't think I will buy any more. Even my sister had a large, very beautiful opal pendant that she wore often. She had it on one day, and the chain broke but the pendant was never found even though everyone searched and searched.

hi dawnald A ruby surrounded by diamonds sound really pretty. I had a very tiny little diamond in my wedding ring as we were as poor as the proverbial church mice. but had he had enough money I would have loved an emerald for my wedding ring. Another thing to was my husband was reared in the Seventh Day Adventist religion although he was not a strict follower. they do not believe in jewelry of any kind, which to me is weird to the most extreme.I think people have been brainwashed by the diamond industry and by tradition to think only of diamonds. I myself love the colored real jewels even better.

My wedding band is a gold band. A heirloom as it came from my husband's great grandmother, he's wearing his great grandfather a man he never got to meet. My engagement ring is our birthstones. I don't get the whole "Diamond" thing myself... Too flashy if you ask me!

I'm really not fussed about any precious stone. I'd just as soon have coloured glass. Cheap and cheerful, thats me. My engagement ring was a tourmaline with tiny clear stones (I dont think they were diamonds)& the wedding ring was plain gold - we got it in a sale for about £12 I think.

Hi Dawn, MY birthstone is sapphire and i have a set of it--a pair of earrings, a necklace with pendant and a ring. I also had my diamond set. I bought this as a gift to myself when i worked in the. I love diamonds and am really treasuring it. I want to give this to my son's future mate/wife as a gift and that will be decades from now.

Diamonds have really been very famous, but in a poor country like ours, a silver ring/bracelet make your woman very very happy.

They are?!? Why the hell didn't someone tell me??? LOL For me, it's more tradition, I think. I always wanted a diamond solitaire ring. It didn't have to be big. In fact, the one I originally wanted was just a little chip of a thing! LOL My husband is the one that insisted on getting something bigger. I didn't want it too big though as I don't care for the gaudy look! It's just not my style! LOL So, we settled on close to a quarter carat. The jeweler that we went to had a couple in our price range. The first one my husband didn't like. It was all cloudy with rainbowy. Personally I didn't care if it had rainbows...it was still a diamond, after all! Plus it was less expensive than the other one. But my husband convinced me to get the one that I have now, which is pretty near flawless, for a diamond. I never cared for rubies myself. And here it's my birthstone! Go figure! LOL They're pretty and all, but I prefer something darker, like a garnet. I wouldn't want it for a wedding ring though. Something about it just doesn't seem right. So, I got a diamond instead. Happy mylotting!

Well i dont know about girls choice about these expensive things.... but i want to know what the impact of rubies or diamond on the girls mind.....

Although I've been married 6 1/2 years, I still only have an engagement ring, and I didn't even get that until about 6 months after our wedding. It is a very small diamond, and he picked it out himself, I had no say at all. I do like the looks of other gems, but I'm very traditional and like simple things. I've told him I don't want anything fancy for a wedding ring, just your average everyday wedding band, kind of like what he has. Maybe eventually I'll get it, but I'm in no hurry.

I wear a diamond ring that my mother gave me. I love it very much. I love any pretty jewelry altho i don't wear much.

I have to say that when me and my fiance were talking about rings we went to walmart, we're young and we're on a budget, shoot I was excited enough just to be getting a ring! We looked at some very lovely rings, I even was looking at the cubic zirconia rings, which they look so close to a diamond its almost hard to tell and cost close to half the cost. In the end I told my fiance that I did not want an engagement ring, I told him our wedding bands (which we are wearing before we are legally married) was enough, its the point that we are proving is that we love each other enough to be committed to each other. The engagement ring is mainly for show, yes they are pretty and yes they are nice to wear but I feel down the road its just for show.

My engagement ring is a red garnet surrounded by diamonds in white gold. I wanted a garnet engagement ring primarily because of what the garnet stone means. Garnet is the stone if you need/want to commit to something - person or purpose or yourself. It helps you to express love and understanding to your commitments. It is also protective and stabilising and wards off anything disruptive or chaotic. It also keeps two people magikally connected. Diamond is the stone for love and harmony, it brings confidence to your emotions and trust and fidelity to relationships and reconciles quarelling lovers. I think this combination is good, garnet and diamond, especially when you know the meaning and power of each stone. My wedding ring is white gold and has diamonds on it and my eternity ring is white gold, set with diamonds. I picked my engagement and wedding rings but hubby picked the eternity ring. I think it's all down to personal preference or what we're given.