Was your ring a TOTAL surprise??

val_erie

I was quite surprised.  I knew that it was coming eventually, we have been togher for almost 4 years and have definitely talked about getting married. But I was quite surprised by the proposal and ring.  He had told me I had to pick my own ring out.  I told him that I'd go with him to look at rings and show him what I like but he had to pick it out.  He has good taste so I trusted him.  And I was right to.  My ring is perfect! He says he even has my band picked out already! I have yet to see it.  I kind of want to see it before the wedding but kind of want it to be a surprise.  I can't wait that long though, we're not getting married until 2011!Well sneaky and sweet as he is. He had my two best friends in on it.  My friend who i've known the longest who was pregnant and had the baby before he had a chance to get together with her and look.  Everytime I hung out with her, I wasn't interested in looking at rings that she tried to get me to look at with her haha.  But another one of my friends had told me I needed to go with her and help her pick out a ring for herself.  She had lost her wedding ring and her husband wanted her to get a new one.  She had the ladies at the ring store in on it.  We had one helping us to pick out her ring and another writing down secretly what I seemed to like.  and then Heith and my friend went and picked one out! Completely unbeknownst to me.  Even though now I look back on it, it all makes sense!

lilcassers

I am quite the picky gal. In my opinion, if I am going to wear something my whole life that is worth thousands of dollars, I need to damn well love it lol. I sent my FI 6 of my fav rings. He happened to pick out my 2nd fav! My FI didn't agree with going to pick it together because he felt it should be something he picks out from the heart. I slightly agree so I just gave him options.

hope1009

We both picked it out..this weekend!! We have also been together for 3 years now, and after we packed up everything and moved to DC for his job, we decided that yeah, we do want to get married. So we actually did things a bit backwards.  Everything is done, the dress, the places, the photog, videog, cake, etc, except the ring was missing. And I was giving him time(trying not to bring up commitment) because he was so stressed with his fire academy, and was just exhausted all the time. So the big surprise was not really going to buy dog food, like i planned, but instead me tearing up in the parking lot trying to get out of the car and into the jewelers door. So yes it's ok to have input on your ring. He was worried that it would ruin the surprise, I said no, because he actually picked it out in the jewlery store by himself, and we just searched through different ones and came back again to that one. The only surprise is...when i am actually going to be able to wear it

aliciaocchiogrosso

Our whole proposal was a surprise- we were hanging out in bed one day and were just talking about getting engaged and he began asking me all these questions.. which ended with why don't we go look at rings... and we ended up coming home with one! I got to pick it and I love it!  As much as it wasn't a typical proposal it works for me because we ended up becoming an exclusive couple the same way

dorothyinAus

No and Yes.

No because I picked it out.
Yes because it was not what I thought I wanted.  I thought I wanted an emerald cut garnet in a simple gold setting.  Before we started ring shopping in earnest, I saw an oval aquamarine in white gold setting with tiny diamonds down the sides in a shop window display and knew it was the ring.  It was perfect, small and dainty, classic and unique at the same time.  He insisted on looking at every jewelry shop we past before he agreed to get that ring -- he was afraid I was settling for the first thing I saw.

So I was surprised it was not what I always thought I wanted, but not at the ring itself.