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To me, money isn’t everything. It’d be nice if I got something that cost a lot, but I’d also be fine with something cheap as long as it’s high-quality and not like a Temu ring or something.

We got each other the same ring off Amazon for $12.😂 😅

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Just got married today and the ring was 200-300 USD but that was mainly the stone which is a big pretty opal

[-] gazby@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

Congratulations! 🎉

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

You might already be aware but just in case, mind it around hot water. Opal is sensitive to temperature changes and can crack.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

Congratulations!

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

About $1200 back in 2010. Got a nice enough ring she'd feel proud to show it to people, but didn't pay any more money than I'd saved up since I decided to propose.

To keep costs down I got a 'perfect' diamond with an occlusion you couldn't see without a jewelers loop, and had sapphires on the ring to add interest without increasing the size of the diamond.

I'm happy with the decision still 15 years later.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago
[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did something very similar. I think mine was $2400 in 2013.

[-] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

$2,158.57. It's a 1.06 carat ice blue sapphire

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago
[-] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks! My wife picked the ring design, I picked the stone.

This is my wedding band

And we got the matching band for her engagement ring

We got married later in life which is why we could afford these, otherwise we would have gotten something more modest.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

$700 for moissanite ring and wedding band:

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

Amazingggg!

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

I got a Stirling silver claddagh ring for my wife's engagement ring, i think it is $20 something. Our wedding rings were Stirling silver bands, $35 each and we had then engraved, which i think was $15 each.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

I love thatttt!

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Less than $1000. Moissanite > Diamond

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

That sounds pretty!

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

We went down to a pawn shop and I think we spent about $350 for both rings. They're both beautiful rings with real diamonds and a couple other stones

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds so pretty!!

[-] Elextra@literature.cafe 7 points 2 months ago

About 9k. Its my wedding ring and engagement ring. I only have one ring. My husband and I chose it out together, lab grown, custom and the ring I anticipate to wear for my whole life. We are fortunate enough to afford it.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago

That’s very awesome!!

[-] DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

About $4000 for a 1.5ct lab grown diamond+band.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If I got the maths right I paid the equivalent of € 510 for the pair. That was in '09 or '10, the actual cost was R$ 1100.

mathsAcc. to this gov calculator 1100 reals in June 2009 have the same purchase power as 3277 reals in April 2025. The current real/euro conversion rate is 6.42:1, so 3277/6.42 = 510.
...it was a really nice pair. A shame the relationship didn't deserve it.

EDIT: worth mentioning it was an engagement, not a marriage.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago
[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago
[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

$6,500 NZD, for a custom made ring, with blue lab grown diamond and two small pear shaped lab grown clear diamonds. About 1.5 months salary.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I think I spent 400 for engagement ring and wedding bands together. Over time, it became clear that none of the rings matched, and only one of the three is quality material.

I wish I had spent more on the engagement ring to get a setting that doesn't stick out so much, it's too stabby and scratchy. I'd also want to track down a lab grown diamond if I had it to do over again.

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was told when I was buying that someone else had ordered the set of rings, came in to pick it up and said "nah." So they were way way cheaper than anything else in the store.

I don't believe that story anymore

[-] djmikeale@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

i bought an engagement ring for around 10000 DKK / 1550 USD. Which I thought was a lot, but I really liked the ring! For myself I bought a ring for 1000 DKK

[-] relation_anon4238@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

Awesome!!! :) It’s the thought that counts, not the money!

[-] djmikeale@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Completely agree!

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I designed my wife's wedding ring. I drew it up the evening we decided to get married. I still have the drawing. I then found a small independent custom shop and had it made. The diamond is actually small but looks massive because of the design.

Cost me $1,200 for it. Most of it was in the hours of labor to make it back in '00.

[-] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

$5000 CAD I think. My band is$300. But I'm wearing $10 bigger ring from Amazon. Fingers get chubby so the expensive rings are in a box for years now

[-] peaches@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

About 60€ for the wedding bands. Bought them on Etsy, made of epoxied wood with some blue in it, handmade in Poland. I insisted in not buying expensive since my husband is prone to misplace things. I was right. Not even a year in, he lost his. I now keep mine in a box. We talked about replacing his, but it is not really important for us. And we kept removing them for bouldering, cooking and other activities. Our bond does not rely on a ring.

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

My grandmother gave me hers, so free. But I ended up getting a wedding band for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500, made custom to match the engagement ring which was alternating sapphires and diamonds. Lab grown small diamonds, but I think it was 4 of them with 3 sapphires, plus a 18k gold band.

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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I spent too much on real diamond before I knew any better. So I was complicit in blood money, and now it's worth 2 percent of what I spent.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty much it.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

No engagement rings, by our values those are kinda corny. Wedding rings we got from a jewelry factory that supplies much of the country, which happens to be local to where we lived at the time. Got them at factory price. Not quite $12, but not much higher. :)

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

Zero. We didn't get engagement rings, not later wedding bands. The first few years of our marriage we used to get asked about the wedding bands a lot, but people eventually got used to us not having any. I think it's probably been about 15 years since we last got asked about them.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 months ago

About $2000

[-] hakase@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My wife's engagement ring was a simple opal design that cost like 40 or 50 bucks on Amazon.

~$200 for the actual wedding rings, ordered off Etsy.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Engagement was €1500 as I recall; way too much, but it is pretty. We both worked with our hands at the time of marriage so $40 was our wedding ring budget and got tungsten carbide, which has its own (safety) issues. Currently wearing an overpriced but pretty silicone ring.

[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

just curious, what are the safety issues you’ve found with Tungsten Carbide? I’m not a ring expert at all, but work with pure WC in an unrelated field.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In a word - degloving. It’s super hard, so if it’s sized small, it’s a risk because it won’t come off easily and it can’t really be cut, just hammered and hope it shatters. If it’s loose, it catches on things and degloving is a concern.

Silicone is cheap especially on aliexpress and it can tear easily.

[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

good to know

[-] HowlsSophie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

$1000 for my 1ct rose gold white sapphire ring, about $200 for hubby's ring from Etsy. Funny thing is just about every year after that, we've bought cool Etsy rings and enjoy them more than our initial ones. Etsy rings for the win 😊

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was around $500 in the mid-90's. The stone was a high quality sapphire, which made up nearly all of the price.

I don't think I have ever bought a diamond.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

3D printed, so a few cents. And an $8 fancy one.

We are fortunate enough to be able to afford more, and since my wife is a physicist we will eventually design our own setting for a manufactured stone because we like to do these types of things. But realistically it isn't that important to us as it's been a number of years now.

I'm curious though, why do you ask?

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