What styles do you think scream ''e-ring!''?

[Indylady]

What styles scream e-ring to you? Or anniversary ring; basically, what styles=married.

Solitaires?
Halos?
Three stones or five stones?


Solitaires, three stones, and five stones are the ones that came to mind for me. What do you guys think?

 

[MsP]

A very simple solitaire is the only style that screams ering to me. I am referring to a four/six prong, thin band, nothing elborate.

Anything else, I''d wear as just a fabulous ring. I have a round brilliant three stone and an emerald cut three stone...and an eternity band. I''ve seriously considered a solitare tension setting. I am not married. At an engage-able age(haha... ie I''m young, in a serious relationship, and people suspect I am engaged each time I change rings). I''ll wear mostly anything but I would not wear a simple six prong... well, I would... but I would expect people to think it was an engagement ring. Halo does not scream engagement to me, at all.

 

[radiantquest]

Solitaire screams ering to me.

 

[allycat0303]

Solitaire with a round diamond. Paired with a diamond eternity band. For me that is the classic, combo. Beautiful, traditional and timeless.

 

[zoebartlett]

It''s funny, when I hear that someone just got engaged, I automatically wonder if they have a princess cut.

 

[musey]

Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that's larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams "engaged" to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says "married."

 

[D&T]

Solitaire for me... but once you are married its fair game and, anything will do

 

[LaurenThePartier]

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

Ditto. I pretty much just assume any ring on the left ring finger is an engagement ring, and since styles are so different year after year, there''s really no one way to scream "engaged".

It''s the particular finger being taken that screams engaged/married to me.

 

[risingsun]

Date: 8/19/2009 8:02:02 PM
Author: LaurenThePartier

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

Ditto. I pretty much just assume any ring on the left ring finger is an engagement ring, and since styles are so different year after year, there''s really no one way to scream ''engaged''.

It''s the particular finger being taken that screams engaged/married to me.

+3

 

[AprilBaby]

A diamond solitaire is the only thing that SCREAMS e-ring to me.

 

[FrekeChild]

4 prong solitaire with a plain band.

I can''t help it!

(What is funny is that this isn''t the style of my (#1 OR #2) ering!)

 

[Luckyeshe]

Date: 8/19/2009 8:50:12 PM
Author: risingsun

Date: 8/19/2009 8:02:02 PM
Author: LaurenThePartier

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

Ditto. I pretty much just assume any ring on the left ring finger is an engagement ring, and since styles are so different year after year, there''s really no one way to scream ''engaged''.

It''s the particular finger being taken that screams engaged/married to me.

+3

+4

 

[Indylady]

LTP- I agree for the most part, its the finger more than the ring. However, I have a couple of friends that come from a culture where you put your engagement ring on your right ring finger, and then move it to your left hand once you get married.

Thanks everyone for chiming in! A solitaire seems to be the consensus.

 

[cindygenit]

solitaire

 

[charbie]

Date: 8/19/2009 10:39:56 PM
Author: Luckyeshe

Date: 8/19/2009 8:50:12 PM
Author: risingsun

Date: 8/19/2009 8:02:02 PM
Author: LaurenThePartier

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

Ditto. I pretty much just assume any ring on the left ring finger is an engagement ring, and since styles are so different year after year, there''s really no one way to scream ''engaged''.

It''s the particular finger being taken that screams engaged/married to me.

+3

+4

+5. How many can we get in a row?

 

[kiett98]

Date: 8/19/2009 11:44:55 PM
Author: charbie

Date: 8/19/2009 10:39:56 PM
Author: Luckyeshe

Date: 8/19/2009 8:50:12 PM
Author: risingsun

Date: 8/19/2009 8:02:02 PM
Author: LaurenThePartier

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

Ditto. I pretty much just assume any ring on the left ring finger is an engagement ring, and since styles are so different year after year, there''s really no one way to scream ''engaged''.

It''s the particular finger being taken that screams engaged/married to me.

+3

+4

+5. How many can we get in a row?

+6

 

[purselover]

Date: 8/19/2009 7:25:09 PM
Author: allycat0303
Solitaire with a round diamond. Paired with a diamond eternity band. For me that is the classic, combo. Beautiful, traditional and timeless.

ditto, other rings obviously look like erings to me but this is what "screams engaged"

 

[Laila619]

Date: 8/19/2009 7:25:09 PM
Author: allycat0303
Solitaire with a round diamond. Paired with a diamond eternity band. For me that is the classic, combo. Beautiful, traditional and timeless.

Ditto. Also, a round center diamond with a tapered baguette on either side (a la Harry Winston) is a classic look and also screams engagement ring to me.

 

[kenny]

I'm a little unclear on the question.
I think you'd you'd like to buy a nice diamond ring but don't want to look engaged/married.
Right?

So if the question is which rings look MOST like engagement/wedding rings then I'd say the solitaire is tops, followed very closely by a large single diamond with a halo.
The 3-stone rings really do not look like engagement rings but they do have a wedding ring look to me.

Now all this is subordinate to which finger and hand you wear the ring on.
ANY ring on the left hand ring finger says engaged/married to me.
If a woman wore a solitaire with or without a halo on her right hand I'd suspect it is her engagement ring but she had to move it because it no longer fits her ring finger.

If a 3-stone was on her right hand I'd be less certain.

Also in borderline cases rounds look more marriagey to me than emerald cuts.
Pears look most like a non-marriage ring to me.

So if you want a nice diamond ring but don't want to look married I'd get a pear or a 3-stone emerald worn on the right hand middle finger.
Also the side diamonds should also be emerald cut because tapered ones or baguettes or trillions point to the center stone and retain some of that solitairish feeling. Such side stones function like a picture frame to point the eye to the center stone.

Also in a 3-stone when the side stones are much smaller than the center stone it looks more marriagey to me than if all 3 stones are the same size.
All just my opinion. YMMV.

 

[gemgirl]

I think solitaires scream engagement ring more than any other style of ring.

 

[tlh]

Date: 8/19/2009 10:14:02 PM
Author: AprilBaby
A diamond solitaire is the only thing that SCREAMS e-ring to me.

DITTO! That and location... left ring finger, any ring on that finger I think TAKEN!

I have a friend who hates her wedding band. She only wears her solitare RB. When we first met I didn''t realise she was married because she only had the solitare RB on.. w/o a band. Silly, that without the wedding band, the assumptions I made.

 

[Haven]

Solitaires scream "engagement ring" to me.
Halos scream "upgrade ring" or "cocktail ring" to me.
Three stones or five stones scream "anniversary ring" to me.

But really, any ring worn alone on the left ring finger looks like an engagement ring to me. All of my Greek and Serbian friends wear their wedding sets on their right ring finger, so a set would scream "married" to me if worn on the right hand.

 

[Londongirl1]

Date: 8/20/2009 11:54:03 AM
Author: Haven
Solitaires scream 'engagement ring' to me.
Halos scream 'upgrade ring' or 'cocktail ring' to me.
Three stones or five stones scream 'anniversary ring' to me.

But really, any ring worn alone on the left ring finger looks like an engagement ring to me. All of my Greek and Serbian friends wear their wedding sets on their right ring finger, so a set would scream 'married' to me if worn on the right hand.

Ditto

My original e-ring was a split shank and it just sreamed 'cocktail ring'

so I changed the setting to a solitaire and now my ring screams I'M ENGAGED

 

[Londongirl1]

Date: 8/19/2009 7:26:21 PM
Author: ZoeBartlett
It''s funny, when I hear that someone just got engaged, I automatically wonder if they have a princess cut.

Really? My SO chose my princess cut stone, not that I''m complaining

I don''t see many solitaire cuts like mine here in the UK.

 

[purrfectpear]

Date: 8/20/2009 11:54:03 AM
Author: Haven
Solitaires scream ''engagement ring'' to me.
Halos scream ''upgrade ring'' or ''cocktail ring'' to me.
Three stones or five stones scream ''anniversary ring'' to me.

But really, any ring worn alone on the left ring finger looks like an engagement ring to me. All of my Greek and Serbian friends wear their wedding sets on their right ring finger, so a set would scream ''married'' to me if worn on the right hand.

Haha, you used the "C" word. Everytime someone uses that I wait for the fur to fly

(I have a long memory)

 

[Haven]

Date: 8/23/2009 3:44:48 PM
Author: purrfectpear

Date: 8/20/2009 11:54:03 AM
Author: Haven
Solitaires scream ''engagement ring'' to me.
Halos scream ''upgrade ring'' or ''cocktail ring'' to me.
Three stones or five stones scream ''anniversary ring'' to me.
But really, any ring worn alone on the left ring finger looks like an engagement ring to me. All of my Greek and Serbian friends wear their wedding sets on their right ring finger, so a set would scream ''married'' to me if worn on the right hand.

Haha, you used the ''C'' word. Everytime someone uses that I wait for the fur to fly

(I have a long memory)

Oh no! I didn''t know it was a pejorative! I didn''t mean it that way.
Oy.

I love halos, I do!

 

[Black Jade]

Diamond solitaire says ''e-ring'' to me. If someone has one on their left ring finger I assume they''re engaged. If I see the same style ring on their right hand ring finger, I assume they''re divorced but would still want to wear their diamond--although I guess it could be a heirloom diamond they are wearing. In any case, I would assume they weren''t engaged if I saw the exact same ring on the other hand.

Plain gold band says ''married'' to me, but nowadays I know that most brides have some amount of diamonds set in their bands, si I don''t assume they''ll be totally plain anymore. I was always confused when that ''wrap'' style was in about 20 years ago, in which you were married but had a wedding ring that looked like part of the engagement ring, rather than a band.

3-stones still look like anniversary rings to me--I assume someone had a significant anniversary. Eternity rings also look like anniversary rings to me rather than wedding bands.

I know some other cultures wear wedding/engagement rings on their right hands, but I know this only in theory as I have never actually seen known anyone who did this. I have had some friends who chose other than a diamond for a engagement ring but they had to tell me (and other people) that this was their engagement ring because I (and I think most people in the US still) think ''diamond'' rather automatically about engagement rings. Once they told me that it was their engagement ring, then I knew, right? I don''t see that as a big deal. But if you choose to go against the prevailing custom, I don''t understand why you would get annoyed/defensive about having to explain (which my friends with non-traditional rings didn''t seem annoyed about explaining. They were pleased to talk about it--they saw themselves as independent thinkers because they were different and were happy to tell you that.)

I have no particular feeling about haloes--they''re so new that they don''t key anything in for me. If I see one (and its a diamond) on the correct finger, I assume the person is probably engaged.

I guess I also don''t see the engagement ring as being that significant--until there''s a wedding ring beside it. I see the wedding ring as being the important symbol, not the engagement ring. People do break engagments all the time. Many of the older ladies I know never had engagement rings (way older, like in their 70''s or 80''s). Others had but took them off once they had children (weight issues, or as was common in the 80''s with all the marquise stones, the rings scratched the kids and were removed, at least for a while).

And I repeat, to me what looks most like a wedding ring is a plain gold band.

I hope no one gets offended; I read the question as asking our ''opinion'' and this is mine. It''s an opinion, I''m not claiming anything I have said is a fact.

 

[Londongirl1]

Date: 8/23/2009 6:10:35 PM
Author: Black Jade

And I repeat, to me what looks most like a wedding ring is a plain gold band.

I hope no one gets offended; I read the question as asking our ''opinion'' and this is mine. It''s an opinion, I''m not claiming anything I have said is a fact.

I agree with you on this. I originally wanted a diamond wedding band but I think that''s because they''re ''trendy'' at the moment. When I went into some store and tried on wedding rings all of the assistants agreed with me that the plain bands look better with my solitaire. So it''s a plain band for me - and yes nothing says ''I''m seriously married'' like a plain band

 

[Nomsdeplume]

Date: 8/19/2009 7:28:50 PM
Author: musey
Pretty much anything with a center stone of some sort (something in the middle that''s larger than the surrounding stones/shank) screams ''engaged'' to me, and any sort of band (all one width-ish) on the left ring finger says ''married.''

ditto

 

[gwendolyn]

I always have to wonder when people say that a plain band equals "very" married or "seriously" married. There''s a woman who works with me who says she would prefer to wear thin, dainty bands, but her husband (a bit of a controlling jerk) has always insisted she wear a thick, heavy 5mm wedding band to "show how married she is." Call me crazy, but surely the size of her wedding band has nothing whatsoever to do with her level of commitment to her marriage? But there are some people who seem to feel that certain styles of band don''t make them look "married enough." Sorry, but, what? There are no degrees of married--you are, or you''re not. Some people prefer not to wear wedding rings at all because jewelery irritates them or is unsafe at their workplace. Does that mean they aren''t married at all?

I get that people have style preferences, and that''s fair enough, but to make it out that it''s more than a style preference has always left me feeling rather befuddled.




Anyway, to answer the OP, a solitaire of any type of stone is the only setting that would seem to suggest an engagement ring, although heaven knows there are plenty of people out there who have 3-stone rings, eternity ring, Claddagh rings, etc. that I would know better than to assume.