Hello all,
I am getting engaged and we have already set our wedding date. We are doing things a bit out of order but I have been looking at engagement rings and I found my dream ring. It is around $7,900 dollars and I have told my fiance that it's just an idea and he could look other places for ones much cheaper but he said that since my heart is set on that I need to worry because he will take care of it. I know he could and can afford it but I am very cost conscious and have been reading a bit about how much to spend on the ring. I never thought I would want a ring or to get married but then I met Chad and I love him so much. He's so amazing and he makes me and drives me to be a better person. He talks about us and our futurue and never just his with me there. I love him more than anything and it wouldn't matter to me if he got it from a vending machine. But I have been reading all these negative articles about women who wear expensive engagement rings and I feel like it is wrong of me to have even looked at the ring. I am not a jewerly wearer, I wear no jewelry (not even a watch or earrings) and Chad (my soon to be fiance) tells me that I deserve at least one nice thing in my life other than him. He says it's something he wants to do for me because I give so much to him and the children (he's been married before, he's 32 and I am 24). I just wanted to know what other's thought of this and what their experience is or was with their rings or not having rings...