Wednesday, March 21, 2007

How to Choose the Right Engagement Ring

When two people are engaged, it is traditional for the man to present the woman with an engagement ring to signify his intentions to marry her. When you see that imagine of the man kneeling down in front of the woman and showing her a ring, that is what is going on. So if you have been dating a woman for a long time and you feel like she is the one for you, then you may also be ready to pop the question of marriage. To do this in the traditional way, you will need to purchase an engagement ring first. You will be presented with all sorts of rings, ranging in quality and price. Although you will want to spend more money on the actual wedding ring, you won’t want to get an engagement ring that is too cheap. So you should follow certain guidelines when choosing them, and you will end up happy.

The most important thing when choosing the engagement ring is not the price, or what metal the ring is made of. Rather, it is that your choice displays a knowledge of exactly what your loved one will appreciate and what she will wear proudly. It’s a test to see if you know her personality well enough to get married. Of course, she probably won’t read that deep into it, but it is still something that you should not take lightly. After you have found rings that you think she would love, you can start to look at things like price. Remember, it is just the engagement ring, so you don’t want to completely blow all of your savings on it alone. Usually you shouldn’t spend more than half of what you plan to spend on the actual wedding ring.

There is no cookie cutter guide on how to buy an engagement ring for your loved one. Ultimately it will be influenced by many different factors, and you are the only one who can tell for sure what those factors are. Just be sure to look around at as many shops as possible so that you can get an idea for the options that you have, and eventually you are sure to run in to something that just screams to you that it is the right one. Don’t stop until you’ve found the one that you are sure is right for your significant other. After all, this ring will be engrained in her memory forever.

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