Post by sparker » July 26th, 2004, 4:25 am
Hello everyone,

This may not be a topic that has an answer especially on this board, but I thought I''d throw out there just the same. I am married to a wonderful, well paid attorney, who thinks wearing rocks on your hands is for the birds. He was born to older, depression era, frugal parents who instilled frugality into him, and a sort of shamefulness about showing off any form of wealth even if you have it which we do. When we were first married, we spent all of 5 embarrassing moments in a jewelery store picking out my very plain wedding band about a week before our wedding in 1979. It was embarrassing from the standpoint that he didn''t have any money to purchase a e-ring and had picked out the slimmest non-existant band for me and I had to ask if it would be okay to spend a few extra bucks for a slightly wider band. He agreed and then left the store. He has a real phobia about jewelery stores.

When we had been married 15 years he surprised me with an e-ring with a lovely princess cut stone, small but of good quality with baguettes. He had help in that I was buying it for myself and he went ahead and picked out the diamond and presented it to me on our anniversary. It was a miracle!!! And, I might add very well received and as you might have guessed the ring to this day has much sentimental value. However, the princess I have discovered, needs to be cleaned often as it loses its sparkel with the least amount of smudge or finger oil. It is a H/I vs quality, but it is very deep. I have also discovered that I really love RB stones afterall. The crunch is my husband. We are now approaching our 25th wedding anniversary and I would really love nice RB 1ct in a simple setting that I could wear alone as one ring on my small hands is quite enough and more comfortable. Where on earth could a person get the best deal and the biggest bang for the buck in order to impress my frugal husband that its not all the difficult to purchase nice jewelery.

Thanks for you input.
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An old Finnish women once said: "A girl should never complain about getting a diamond." Right on!!!