Have you ever gone bigger?

Mine is a 1/2 carat, marquis cut... I wanted smaller but my husband was going to go much bigger (1/2 carat is where we settled) and I thought it was a total waste of money and I didn't want anything so big that it covered half my finger. I've not changed (in 19 years) in my thinking, I still prefer smaller and daintier looking rings. the big ones are so gaudy!

I am satisfied with what I got also. I don't need a big ring to show my husband loves me.Some people thinks that having the material things is how love is shown..it isn't..love doesn't cost a thing.

well mines .20, and I adore it. it was sparklier than the bigger ones. I don't know the details about things like it's clarity and so on, but as there were bigger ones for the same sort of price, I can only assume it was a better quality stone than the others, albeit smaller. we picked it together, and we both liked the size and the style. the stone sits low in the band, so it doesn't snag or get in the way at all, and it's perfect. I can't imagine anyone wanting to "upgrade" their engagement ring. after all, it wouldn't then be their engagement ring. it would be just a ring. I'd rather wear an engagement ring with a smaller stone than ANY diamond ring with a bigger one.

Nope....I still have the one I was engaged with..of course I have been divorced for over 30 years now so if I want a bigger one I'd have to buy it myself! LOL....but my sister's husband for their 30th anniversary went bigger! And she loves it....

How funny and kind of rude for that man to make assumptions. My husband picked out my ring on his own! Very risky.... but I love it! He was in college then and couldn't afford anything too big, but he ended up with a very pretty half carrot white gold ring. I LOVE IT! I know he spent hours going to various jewelers trying to find the perfect ring, and he did. He often tells me that he will get a bigger rock for me someday, but he would have to pry it off of my hand first. I wouldn't trade it in... its perfect!

Hi. My wife loves diamonds.during the years we have brought her many ring and things.i have always like colored stones. opal,amethyst,rubies and sapphires are my favorites. i travel all the time and i try to find what stones are native to the area that i am in and have a ring made for her from the area that i am in. she made out like a bandit when i worked in thailand.we have gotten her some other diamonds but all of her rings and things she has mean something or somewhere to her.

I'm with you... Actually, I really didn't want to waste the money on an engagement ring at all. I told my husband (second marraige actually) that I'd rather spend the money and go to Vegas :) But, he wanted me to have the engagement ring so we got one. Because of the money, we got a smaller diamond - I have no clue what size it is... He said he'd get me the bigger one - the one that we saw in the ring in the first place - when we could afford it. I kept telling him I don't want it. I like the ring we got in the first place, it would mean more to me than any replacement he could get. What it symbolizes is more important to me than the size or dollar amount associated with it.

you know, I've been married to my husband for 11 1/2 years, and still haven't gotten a diamond. I actually prefer it that way. We purchased our wedding bands on a going out of business sale, and that was it. Never have I asked for one, nor do I expect one. Hard drives, on the other hand seem to increase with each passing anniversary. This year, we've graduated to 200 GB. When we got our first computer, we only had 20 MB and thought that was a pretty big deal. :)

Apart from my last ring that my husband got for me none of the others have any carats and I dont care they look ok even without them. This last one was sort of thank you ring for when I got pregnant it has opal, swarkovski (I am sure that is not how you spell it) and almost 1 carat diamonds and the gold is 18 carats.

That's good for u, and lucky for your husband.. hehe ^_^ Most woman will prefer an upgrade over a period of time because it deems too small for them.. While some others just wants novelty for something they been wearing for years.. haha =D But for ple like u, i believe the carats on the ring does not really mean anything, as compared to the love on the ring itself right?? hehe ^_^ For the love is worth much more than the carats, and love is supposed to be shared between the two of u, and not be exposed for all to see ^_^

Nice discussion. Well, I didn't get my engagement ring until 6 months after we'd already been married, and I didn't help him pick it out, it was a total surprise. I've been married for 5 and a half years, and still only have an engagement ring. Mine is a 1/5 carat, and it's either marquis cut or princess cut, I forget, but the top and bottom have pointy edges. I've given my kids a couple scratches by accident with this ring, and even scratched myself once or twice! Well, this past Christmas I accidentally found out that hubby was shopping around for a new ring set for me. He was looking for an engagement/wedding ring combo thing. He went through a whole lot of trouble, having his co-workers girlfriend take pictures of rings on her own finger and sending them to him so he could pick which one he liked best for me. Now while I do want a wedding ring, I explained to him that I do not want to replace my engagement ring. For 5 years now this ring has been the symbol of our marriage, and I have no plans to replace it. All I want is a very simple wedding ring to go along with it. If I had the choice I would not have picked this ring in the first place. I would have gone for a circular cut, possibly 1/4 carat, and I may have chosen a slightly wider band. But this is what he could afford at the time, so this is what I got, and this now has meaning. So no, I have no plans on replacing it, or even going bigger. I like plain and simple and don't feel the need to draw attention to my hand by having a huge rock there.

I've actually went up... not on purpose of having that big flashy diamond. When my husband asked me to marry him, he gave me his great grandmother's ring... with the deal of one day down the line it would need to go in a lock box to be passed down to our first born child for the same purpose and same deal... I hated wearing it because I was afraid i was gonna mess it up, so we went to look for something I was comfortable with after our first son was born. I got an amzing deal on a carat total... but it's seperated up. I got a half carat marquise cut in the middle with the rest in baquettes around it. The previous ring was a flower cut type diamond, which was very danty and is so dang frail...

naah i dont need to.. coz instead of investing it for a ring.. i would rather save it.. and am really not fun with jewelries.. hehehe

I too went with my husband to pick out the ring I liked. He tried to talk me into a larger one actually, lol, but I'm a tight wad. I talked him into a ring that is a two carat total weight, it has a larger (3/4 carat, I think) center stone and has three small diamonds in a triangle shape on either side of the center stone for a total of six tiny diamonds (they look like hearts on either side). I liked it from the start and still do after almost ten years of marriage. I won't "upgrade" but I do now also wear a ring that has a trio of alexandite stones in a setting they used to call a "yesterday, today and tomorrow" setting....it's three stones that are the same size in a row. I know they aren't diamonds, but I don't need diamonds and I like color. My husband and oldest daughter gave it to me for an anniversary. All my jewlery, well all of it that I actually wear, was given to me at a special time or has a special meaning so I'm happy with all of it and maybe it's not the Hope Diamond but it has irreplaceable value to me.

My ring is 1/4 carat as well and I'm happy with it. Actually, I don't wear jewelry at all because they always end up broke so my rings are safe in the jewelry box, only to be worn if we go out somewhere.

Oh how lucky you are to get a diamond ring for your engagement. it is only a dream for me as I only got a gold band for my engagement and wedding ring. But yes, it has gone smaller or I have gone bigger, whichever and I no longer able to put it on my fingers. I keep on growing bigger as my age keeps on increasing. Maybe what the man said is right.

No, I never wanted to. We couldn't afford an engagement ring, in fact my dad sent me my grandmother's ring to get married with. Shortly after our first son was born, my husband surprised me and took me to a jeweler that his family had used for two generations. He bought me a 5/8 carat engagement ring that was as perfect as a diamond can be--they all have flaws, because they are natural creations. 19 years later, it really hurt to sell that ring to pay attorney fees when he filed for divorce. I liked that ring, it was the perfect size--looked great on my finger but didn't get in your face or brag. It was beautiful.

I'll be replacing my ring at some stage, because it's slowly disintigrating! It's missing two stones now, and the band has bent :-(

Okay, I got my mind out of the gutter now...lol. Well when my husband and I got engaged I didn't know what kind of ring I was supposed to get, I knew he didn't have a whole lot of money, and I didn't want anything real expensive. We went to the jewelry store and looked around and of course got a crash course in diamonds, and what the numbers mean and all that stuff. My ring is almost a half a carat, not quite tho, and it was on sale at the time too, but still it seemed like a lot of money to me. So thats the one we decided on, there was also another one that was a little bigger than the one I got, and my husband said he would of bought that one for me, but I was satisfied with the one we bought. So far I haven't wanted a bigger diamond, we've been married almost 6 yrs now, next week is our anniversary, I think mine suits me perfectly too, the only thing I've replaced is my wedding band, its scratched up real bad, and I needed a new one, so I got it for my birthday last year. So no, I've never gone bigger..haha.

I'm not engaged or married, but when I am I totally want to get it upgraded. It's something special and fun to look foward to. My sister has already done this, hers is so big, other women make comments about 'cubic zirconia' to her all the time. haha. Jealousy is a funny thing. Yeah, it sounds bad but I definitely want to upgrade my diamond on special anniversaries.