What does your engagement ring look like?

White oval center diamond with a smaller oval diamond on each side. White gold setting. I had nothing to do with choosing it. I didn’t particularly want a diamond, but once I had it, I loved it.

A bare finger. We were too poor for an engagement ring. After 39 years of marriage (and the cessation of poverty), I’m hopeful to make up for lost time.

Mine’s a wooden band (reference to Stephen King of all things), and my fiancée’s is a silver band with an inset blue/green/purple spinel.

Mine was stolen twelve years ago. I worked in catering at the time and because it was fairly loose I had to take it off for work. One day I went to put it back on and it was gone. I never found out who nicked it. I never bothered to replace it because I didn’t want to wear another “girly” ring, and men’s rings don’t fit me.

I chose not to have one. Wanted the gold wedding ring to be the only thing on my finger.

I tend to agree that engagement rings are barbaric

Never got one, never missed having one.

Expensive.

I was lucky enough to be given a family heirloom for mine. It has a beautiful diamond I love it.

Like @YARNLADY, I got an old set from my hubs family, but it was already welded together, so no seperate engagement ring.
I actually don’t like the solitaire part sticking up either, I’ve scratched my face, pulled my hair, etc…too dangerous for clutsy me.

A modestly-sized, cushion-cut blue sapphire, with smaller, round diamonds on both sides.

I didn’t want an engagement ring. Paul’s such a romantic, however, he couldn’t conceive of proposing marriage, and getting engaged, without putting a ring on my finger.

So, the sapphire was a beautiful compromise. And, I have to say that I love the ring. If I were to go out and buy something for myself, it would probably look exactly like what Paul chose on his own.

By the way, sapphire’s my birthstone, so I’ve always been fond of it.

@syz So, this guy gave some gal, whom he’d met 3 weeks earlier and barely knew, a $16.5K engagement ring? I think that the ring is the least of his worries.

Mine is a square cut diamond, about ¾ carat, in a gold setting.

Here’s the pic I posted on FB the day we got it. – let me know if the link doesn’t work. It’s an antique that we won at auction.

@hearkat Beautiful!!

@Katniss – Thanks! It’s exactly what I wanted, without me knowing what I wanted… I just knew I wanted a low-profile cut (which I’ve since learned is called the Old European Cut), and that I wanted some kind of unique design around it. People often comment on it, and we were in a jewelry store looking at watches for him, and the clerk observed that it looks like an Elven design – like from Lord of the Rings. We could never have afforded something like this from a store.

My engagement ring is has five diamonds on each side with a one carat square cut diamond in the middle set in a white gold band

What engagement ring? I wasn’t interested in an engagement ring, a simple gold wedding band was enough for me.

I sincerely don’t remember. I gave it back nearly 25 years ago. It was pretty. An square stone and white gold band. Not much else sticks except in never felt right when it was slipped on.

One central brilliant cut diamond with a prominent flaw plus about twenty tiny ones set in a double-layered oval around it, on a super thin platinum band. It was my great-grandmother’s ring, and looks like the antique it is. I love it. If you saw it you’d guess it was a pinkie ring, my hands are so small. I had to have it sized down to a 3.something.