SoonIHope
Ideal_Rock
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- Oct 11, 2005
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My fiance "paid" for the entire engagement ring himself technically, hehe, but in reality, I probably pitched in a bit. When we first moved in together, he made a lot more than I did, so he paid for almost all of our dinners out, movies, things for the apartment, etc, and even covered my share of the rent one month. So when he was freaking out (much much later) about how much the ring was going to cost, I reminded him that he had "lent" me a lot of money over the years (he had never expected money back for any of this and I''m sure it didn''t really add up to THAT much, but still), so I persuaded him to let me pay his share of the rent for 2 or 3 months, which added up into quite a lot, and he used the money he would otherwise have spent on that to up his ring budget. He was uncomfortable with the idea of my paying for any of the RING, but he was fine with me easing his other monetary burdens (dinners out etc, too) during the few months leading up to the big purchase. So that worked great for us! Then I paid for both of our wedding rings, because mine cost wayyy more than his, and I was like well you got the engagement, so I should get the wedding! I basically just told him that as if it were obvious, and he was like, oh that''s how it works? Okay!
