Do women really care if they're real or fake?

[DS1]

[Shell Beau]

1. I prefer antique!

Real, but fakes can still look really pretty!

[KitchenWitch]

5. My wedding ring is actually my MILs wedding ring

from around 40 years ago.

[Shell Beau]

6. Mine is my grandmother's from about 60 years ago!!

It has special meaning!! :)

[RevCheesehead]

2. Such a colossial waste of money.

And politically incorrect, to boot.

I wish we (Americans) would get over our obsession over "things."

[Shell Beau]

4. Yes they are politically incorrect.

I do have diamonds in my wedding rings and bands, but they were given to my husband for me by my grandmother. I had no idea until recently of what really goes on with diamonds.

[matcom]

3. heh

:thumbsup:

[Bridget Burke]

7. I don't!

Knowing about the diamond trade doesn't make me want to own diamonds. If I want a bit of bling, Austrian crystal or cubic zirconia look just fine.

Personally, I like sterling silver jewelry. Semi-precious stones optional. Not that it's all cheap. But even that vintage Taxco silver I've lusted for is cheaper than new gold with expensive rocks.

[wildhorses]

8. gorgeous necklace

and de beers had a master stroke of genuis with their diamonds are forever ad campaign...funny thing is....diamonds are not the RARE stone as they would have you think

[Rising Phoenix]

10. it is gorgeous...mine mine mine...jk

[Rising Phoenix]

9. I don't care if they are real...

I have a real one, but for my wedding band, I told Sniffa fake is fine...

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Yes.

It better be real. No fakes. Rather not have it at all.



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[Dora]

12. Eh. They're glorified colorless sandpaper grit.

Give me a colored gemstone any day. We spent $100 for our wedding ring rocks: madeira citrines, five per ring.



(shown for color sample only. This is lovely, but our rings look nothing like this.)

[KitchenWitch]

13. I love my antique ring

but if we had been buying a new ring, I would have wanted a ring with his birthstone in it.

[Dora]

15. I love vintage and antique rings too.

There's an element of craft and art in older jewelry that I find lacking in new mass-produced jewelry. Nearly all my jewelry (except my wedding ring and some pearls) is vintage. I'm lucky that my husband likes to troll the stores for vintage gold.

[jmowreader]

14. A lot of them really do

The other stroke of genius, besides the "Diamonds are Forever" campaign, is the idea that an engagement band should cost two months' salary. You know, go big. Not sure if that's gross or net--I'm pretty sure it's not "after expenses" which, in some of our cases, would mean she'd be getting a ring out of a Cracker Jacks box.

Y'all will love this...one of my troops in Berlin told me that her mother wouldn't "approve" of her marrying any man who wouldn't buy her a $5000 engagement ring. And the receipt wouldn't do--mama was gonna have the ring appraised, and if it came in less than five grand, daughter was supposed to return the ring and call off the engagement. I had to talk her out of her "alternate" plan--go over to McNair, find a nice guy with about three cents in his pocket to marry, have him get her pregnant while they're engaged, then call mama and tell her "he knocked me up, I HAVE to marry him!" The man she finally did marry bought her an $800 ring, but mama decided she liked the guy anyway. As far as I know, they're still together.

[nini]

16. I don't care.. I find expensive jewelry to be a waste of money

You can get really nice pretty stuff these days that's not real. I personally think plopping down $5k on a ring is ridiculous.

The metal part of it should be good stuff, but the stone can be fake - it's just as pretty to me.

[Kali]

17. Should be real if you are going to do the traditional thing

nothing wrong with non tradition, though.