Sorry, must rant somewhere...

I got engaged last night. I bought my gf what I consider to be a crazy nice engagement ring. 18K White Gold, with three relatively high quality diamonds in a platinum setting. The thing cost me about 8K (Which I consider to be a lot of money).

We went out to the beach today with a couple of my friends, and she was so exiceted to wear her ring even though it hand't been sized / insured yet. She didn't actually wear it on the beach for that reason. However, on the way home we stopped at Subway for a quick bite to eat. After finishing our meals at Subway, we get back to her car and she realizes she lost her ring!

It took me less than a half-second to get my ass back out of that car and start looking. I frantically searched the car, the path back to Subway... hell, I even started going through the garbage at Subway in fear that it fell on the tray before I threw out our trash!

Thankfully, after 5 min of hunting, she was able to find her ring in the trunk of her car (came off while digging out her cell). I am glad it was found, and somewhere where it wasn't damaged... but I almost wanted to flip out (Restraint is a good thing).

What do you think you would do if the ring had actually been lost??? I don't know if I want to think about it... regardless, she isn't wearing it anymore until it is properly sized....

 

PHEW!!!! Next stop, insurance agent!

 

wow, close call.

 

next stop, get it back and dump the girl

j/k

congrats on the engagement

 

hey man, if she were to lose it, she'd have to replace it

 

she was gonna be un-engaged real quick.



CONGRATS

sucker...

 

cute avatar

 

dude if my girl lost her ring, at first i would be pissed, but i would quickly realize its just a ring(i know its 8K...trust me i feel that) yeah it has meaning and sentimental value to some, but to me its just jewelry. it wont make the relationship/marriage work or fail, and i see it as something girls just want to show off and to be asked about i already told my girl i wont wear a wedding band(and no its not cause i want to mack chicks-i'm far from like that) in my work, and playing hockey, and working on the cars... i would lose it or destroy it. plus i hate having a ring on, just bothers me. so i will get a band tattooed on, its different and i cant lose it

congrats man, you set a date

 

"hey, I bought you an $8000 ring and you lost it - you replace it with whatever you want cuz I'm done spending money for things that you can't keep track of."

I feel cheap, my wife's ring was only $3000 or so.

 

The price of the ring doesn't show you love them more or less, and if she's happy that is all that matters.

I think I'd want to kill her if she lost it, but I am so passive on things I'd probably just laugh at her and tell her good luck with the next one, which I wouldn't buy.

 

id be fuckin PISSSSSSSSSSSSSED. id make my grl spend 8 grand on me to make up for it

 

The degree of being pissed is all about how much the ring was worth to you. If you had to save save save for the ring...I would agree with NYZ...but then react like M&B, If the 8k was just like meh to you...Then I would wholeheartedly agree with M&B.

 

my ring was less than 1k (but I was 19 when I got engaged, that was a shit load of money for him)

He got it insured. Which is a good thing cause working at a vet ive damaged it numerous times (rather the animals), and the diamond actually fell out the other day and thankgod the doctor found it for me.
its insured even if i lose the diamond.

I suppose I should stop wearing it to work, but then what the hell is the sense in having the ring if I can never wear it (im always at work)

 

Yeah, get that thing insured pronto. That must of been one hell of a "sinking" feeling.

 

Then get that thing SIZED to fit TIGHT!!!!

 

No specific date as of yet. We are thinking in about a year and a half... we kinda want to do a fall/winter wedding. So we still have to discuss. All I know is she wants a small wedding, and I have no complaints there

 

Could not be more true. In the end, the ring is just a symbol that represents how you feel. How much it costs doesn't really matter... although if you can aford something nice, and you cheap out, that may be a little wrong IMPO (i.e. Can afford $4K, but only spend $1K because you want a new TV). Although I am sure many people would disagree...

 

On a semi-related note... it is amazing how nice some people can be at times. When I proposed, we were at a nice restaurant. I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. The restaurant brought us out a free bottle of Champaign, and a free desert. The table next to us bought us a round of drinks as well... a lot of the staff came out to congratulate us... totally unexpected!

So now we are joking that we are getting engaged whenever we go out to eat

 

oh and i dont even take my engagement ring near the beach, no way no how.

 

Hope she won't lose the ring again... Congrats!

 

Aw thats so awesome. Glad she found it. Congratulations.

 

congrats on the engagement. But think about it this way; since the marriage will statistically probably end up in divorce anyway, you should have said nothing if she had really lost the ring. Chances are that when you divorce she will not be giving it back to you anyway. Lost is lost, the only difference between now and in the future is the amount of corporal satisfaction you receive as reimbursement for the rind.

they say that marriage is a 3 ring circus; engagement ring, wedding ring, and SUFFER-ring.

 

I am not sure if you are joking or not, but if you really felt that way, then you'd never get married in the first place (Not to mention that is rather sad)... you cannot think it will end badly, otherwise there is no point. Besides, I believe the statistic is 50/50... and that is largely because so many people aren't willing to put in a serious effort. Today's society makes it so easy to quit/give up it is disgusting...

 

 

Same thing happened to us a month after I gave my wife her engagement ring in 2001. It was properly fitted and insured however.

We were at a cottage playing volleyball in waist deep water. I had told her to take off the ring but she didn't listen. After 20 minutes of playing she noticed it was gone. I've never panicked or been so pissed my entire life. We searched frantically for 5 hours and nothing. We had no idea where it could possibly be since she wasn't sure where it came off. So after the 5 hours of searching using goggles and floating on the water I was certain the mud had sucked it in and was ready to pack it in.

When suddenly my friends fiance yelled "I found it". I can't ever recall being that elated. And it turns out the ring was really nowhere near where we were searching. You can be sure that ring doesn't get close to water anymore.

 

Well, if she HAD really lost it, then there's nothing you can do. I'd buy her a $300 cubic zirconia ring and tell her that you'll get her a real nice one at your 20 year anniversary.