Don't Like Your Engagement Ring?

I really like my ring but do agree, the ring should be a symbol of your love. I can't imagine telling him you don't like it after he really thought about it and spent so much money. Some women are materialistic though.

I've know a couple of ladies that didn't like their rings. I have no idea how or why! My ring is absolutely perfect, he picked it out without any help from me, and I couldn't have picked anything better myself. I never even cared what it looked like though. Your engagement ring is a symbol of your commitment. That's it. I also think it's weird that you would be marrying someone that has no idea of what kind of ring you want, no?

I love my ring, and I think my FH did a great job picking it out. What annoys me is that some other people have been kind of rude...like his cousins asking to see it and saying, "Oh that's...cute." People tend to do this when it's a smaller diamond (I have a 1/2 ct solitaire). They fail to realize that not everyone is so materialistic to care about such a thing. Oh well!

I love my ring. He knew I didn't want/like diamonds, so he got me an emerald. I have also heard some people say they didn't like their rings, and immediately start talking about upgrading. I find it a bit on the rude and ungrateful side.

I love my ring. I hate the fact that i have gained so much weight that i cant wear my ring (I can its just soo tight and drys out my fingers from being so tight (()

LOVE my ring, but I am lucky because it suits me perfectly. He knows me better than I know myself sometimes.

Honestly though, I would have loved anything he got me. My best friend committed to spend the rest of his life with me. I could be wearing a fucking ring pop for all I care.

I love my ring, but I picked it out after the proposal. FH had no idea where to start and couldn't have found out my ring size if he'd tried because before we got engaged, I never wore rings--so I didn't know it either. If he had picked a ring on his own, though, I can't imagine turning it down!

Yes, MzRosaLu, some will be rude, but you just have to ignore them, it's special to you and that's all that matters. I had something similiar happen at my job, I work in a corporate office and some of the people with status, made there little comments, but I didn't care. As my fi would say" other people's opinion of me is none of my business" Lol

I love mine. The diamonds are really small but there are a good bit of them to make it look sparkly. We didn't have a lot of money for a ring when we got engaged and we were more worried about spending money on the wedding/honeymoon. I've never been a jewelry person so I would have been happy with no ring.

I picked my ring well beforehand. He was engaged before and I didn't like "her" ring so I let him know what I liked. If he had picked it himself I would have loved it no matter what.

I used to imagine exactly what I wanted. Then I realized, I have such open tastes, the sentiment would mean more. I love my ring. It is not what most people would want, but it suits me perfectly.

@No Fondant, I agree 100%. I'm always looking at my ring thinking, "The person I love wants to spend the rest of his life with me." Some people never even get to experience that. So any ring he would have given me would have made me happy.

My FH looked for several months, but it just caused more stress for him because he was worried i wouldn't like it and didn't know what I wanted. He couldn't decide and ultimately popped the question without it. No matter what he picked, i would have loved it, because he chose it. I couldn't imagine saying we have to return it because I don't like it. But in the end he let me decide! And I don't think it's weird at all that he didn't know because when we first started looking I didn't know either. I'm not a jewelry person, nor am I a wedding person. So it was never discussed.

Lol @ No Fondant a ring pop. I hear you though, I was just so happy my FI wanted/ wants to be with me forever.

I helped design mine. Sometimes I question the choices I made but never ever regret it.

I didn't like the ring he proposed with so 4 months later we exchanged it. He didn't put much thought into it (got it the day of the proposal) and his mom helped him pick it out (she is not my biggest fan). It has nothing to do with being materialistic. It was not my style. I have to wear it on my finger every day, so it should be something I like.

I LOVE my ring. We picked it out together, but I had no idea he was proposing shortly after. We had gone shopping a few times over the years. He's asked me multiple times if I still love it because he really wanted to get a bigger diamond, but that's not the important thing. It's what it symbolizes

We had never discussed rings/engagement before he proposed and he had NO idea what I liked (I hardly wore jewelry) and I ended up not liking what he picked. It had nothing to do with size, I actually downsized, it was the style was sooooo not me! I wish he would have put more thought into it, for sizing he took a nordstrom ring that I had - idk why he or the jeweler didn't think to use that to figure out my style.

FH got mine at a local custom jeweler's. He knew kind of what I wanted, but also knew he wasn't explaining it right to the jeweler. So the jeweler made something basic but similar with the agreement that he would tweak the design for free after I got it. So a month after we got engaged, we took it in and asked him to taper the band in at the setting to give it a bit more feminine look. FH encouraged me to do it, so I didn't feel bad. It wasn't an upgrade to a larger rock or anything, just slightly different setting design.

It grew on me after I made one change to it. Now I love it!