My boyfriend and I went out looking at rings yesterday (thank goodness because what I like was a little different than he thought). We hadn't really discussed price range before we went, we were just there to browse. I did find the most beautiful ring, a round diamond surrounded by a delicate halo of diamonds with a thin band with more tiny little diamonds. The color was a D, the cut was 0, which is ideal. The center stone was 1.36 carats in 14k white gold. The ring was priced at $8290. I came home and tried looking up a similar ring, the best diamond I could find that was comparable was a 1.3 carat F color, for $8500, without the setting!
So our dilemma. He hasn't saved up anything. He's talking about financing it, I don't think it's a good idea. I told him I'd take a Moissanite for $1200, but he won't hear of it. I have money of my own and I can pay for it myself. I told him that I'd loan him the money, I told him I'd pay half. He told me he was thinking a good ring would be around $4000, he didn't expect that I'd fall in love with something double the price. I didn't even go to the big rocks! It's just a perfect ring. So what do you all think we should do?