It’s no different than anyone who buys a car for more than like 20Gs though…there is only so fast you can accelerate and so fast you can go, but peope still buy sports cars. Hell as a SF p[layer…did you buy any of the costume packs for SF4? They don’t change the functionality. I’m not saying go out and spend 10 stacks on a chain or anything, just the idea of having something that looks nice is to look nice. How much do you value that ‘look’? Thats what it comes down to. shrug
yeah im probably not going to get married just because i don’t want to wear a ring.
The first ring I liked the best, just say the three stones represent you, the wife, and child at the time of the wedding. The second ring looked cool but the first looks harder. Congrats!
So, did you ever make up your mind?
Alright this might sound really dumb, but this is a question related to tradition.
When you ask a girl to marry you(you know the part where the ring is presented), it becomes her engagement ring. Now, do people traditionally get a seperate wedding ring for the actual wedding ceremony(where rings are exchanged between the bride and groom) or is the engagement ring taken off and represented at the wedding?:wonder:
Engagement rings are traditionally mated with the wedding band. They just sort of tack it on there in some sort of bizarre parasitic way (so yes, the girl’s engagement ring is supposed to stay. Men traditionally don’t have an engagement ring and have only one band). Some people also get an anniversary band at 5 or 10 years, others just get a whole new ring later.
Generally, there is one stone or three smaller stones that are symbolic of a whole bunch of crap; the one I knew about was past, present, and future (plus it’s a ring, and circles have no end).
Most marriage “traditions” regarding rings are actually only around 50 ish years old though. Just get the ring you want, diamonds and white gold both require more maintainence, tungsten can’t be re-sized though.
Dunno, maybe I’m too old-fashioned, but a girl giving a guy a diamond ring is kinda strange, but whatever floats a girl in love’s boat.
On the other hand, a guy who buys HIMSELF a diamond ring is just…
Congrats Will, on the wifey and kid on the way!
I don’t have anything else to add to the thread though, my bad. I’d say, no diamonds, just plain band.
Diamonds for women, homosexuals and Rappers, otherwise it just looks odd.
Real men wear a yellow gold or platinum band. court, flat court or D shape.
I’m against diamonds on a mans hand, i have a platinum court. After buying it i dicovered it actually has a diamond so miniscule you can hardly see it mounted on the inside of the band. It’s retardedly pointless but at least its not on the outside! i also tap my ring on the tube or any metallic surface, anything i grab hold of, so i wouldn’t want diamonds on it for me to ruin or ping off
Congrats on the marriage though
You take the engagement ring and you buy a second band which you get soldered onto the original band.
Thanks.
Still bouncing back and fourth, I like the gems in the ring better tbh, but still weighing maintenance and cost against it. I don’t like ‘plain’ shrug
Voting “No”, but more along the lines of “Absolutely not”
Also, an engagement ring on a man is out of the question in my mind.
how about one with a single diamond in it… but have someone engrave the fireball aura around it? lol
you’re joking right?
women get a weddnig band on the wedding day, its a seperate ring, and it’s not soldered onto the other ring… they wear the two together side by side normally.
Sounds like you guys are saying the same thing, minus the soldering part. My wife has her OG engagement band and her “wedding ring” on her finger. The two SHOULD come together as one (they sell matching ring sets) We didn’t get them soldered together cause honestly it brings the value down and also it would void our warranty (*which EVERYONE should have; that and insurance on your rings)
Side note - I know my wifes ring has a identification number embedded in the ring, I don’t know if that is normal or not, but anytime you take it to a store to get cleaned or what not, you should ALWAYS check your number afterwards.
some people solder, some people don’t…don’t see what hte big deal is, if you get it done at the same place you got everything then you aren’t losing any warranty. we actually finally finished getting her ring appraised, we had it almost all done except for final pricing, but then I moved and no longer was near where we got everything…went there on Black Friday and got it taken care of. So now we can go ahead and get insurance, but thats opened up another can of worms thats a compeltely seperate issue.
Because we came to the store with the diamond, we learned what the identifying marks on our diamond actually was, so we have the diamond ‘memorized’ as well as the ring #. Granted we reallistically are only getting it cleaned at two places…where we bought it and her mom’s place (she has a sonic cleaner).
Oh no you didn’t…
:tup: that is the best wedding pic I’ve ever seen. ROTFL @ Country club.
Back on topic, I’m down the middle on this. I’m not big on the diamond thing, but I don’t like plain either. If you do decide on a diamond, put a LOT of thought into it. Get some pics, ask some people (i.e., SRK), etc. I’ll end by saying congrats and hope you a long and happy marriage.
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there must be different customs in the USA cos i’ve not heard of joining the two rings together. Also it’s common for women to not wear their engagement rings on a day to day basis if they’re high value as it attracts ring thievery and also because its a pain to be conscious of a big old rock and if they are joined together then you’re forced to wear it unless she wants to appear out and about with no ring on her finger at all
Yeah the engagement ring exchange actually is a new thing, I wasn’t asking for a ring or anything, but she was bound and determined to get me one…why would I turn it down? But its been gaining popularity over the past decade as a custom.
Joining bands is nothing new, I’m actually kinda surprised it seems so foreign here…hell my mom who’s been married for like 30 at this point has her’s soldered together. I can def understand if a chick’s rocking one of those 1 pound monsters or something, not joining, but fuck that, if I spend money on an engagement ring - she’s wearing that bitch erry day. If I’m buying two completley seperate rings, then the engagement one would be the band, with the ceremony one being the more expensive one.