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Originally Posted by PixieSprite

I tell everyone I know that if I was to get proposed to, the guy better not have picked out a ring without my having a word in it. Most guys I know have no clue about jewelry. If I have to wear it the rest of my life, I want to like it (though I am sure that I would like it just for what it represents, if I didn't like the mineral/design).

When I proposed to my first wife, I had the ring made. It had an emerald (her favorite jewel) as the centerpiece surrounded by diamonds from my grandmother's wedding ring. We had talked about the design in general some time before and it was what she said would be "just wonderful". When I proposed (down on one knee and everything) she found fault in it as she did in many things and complained about this and that. Time goes on, we marry (stupid me). My life is a living hell and I nearly go insane

. We divorce after 15 months of misery. Life is much better.

With my second (and current) wife, I went with her and her girlfriend to a jewelry store as they looked at rings for the girlfriend. I listened to what she said she liked and went back later and had it made. When I proposed, I took her to our favorite restaurant and (thanks to some pre-arrangements with our favorite waitress) had the ring suspended from a ribbon on her 'rita glass. I asked her if she would marry me and when she said yes, the entire waitstaff cheered.

Good luck!
-Soundman