My friend and his fiancee broke up, because he didn't want to buy her a $100,000 diamond engagement ring. Madness..
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Posted 2/5/2012 3:09 am : Edited 2/5/2012 3:10 am
Her argument was that if he really loved her, then he would buy her the $100,000 diamond engagement ring, since he could afford it, and because all her other friends had equally expensive diamond engagement rings.
Marriage is supposed to be about two people spending the rest of their life together, raising children in a loving home.
Somehow, the process has been hijacked, so now you have to spend two months salary on a shiny rock, to prove your love, because of a 1920s De Beers advertising campaign.
Diamond rings can literally go into the millions. Many years ago, I think Kobe Bryant bought his wife some multi-million dollar diamond ring when he got caught cheating on her.
If you do some research about the history of the De Beers cartel and the diamond industry, you'll see that diamonds are basically worthless rocks, and their value is based on advertising.
They came up with the whole 4Cs (cut, clarity, color, carat) as a way of making some diamonds worth "millons".
They came up with the "two months" salary concept as a way to make sure they could extract a significant amount of money, no matter what the supply & demand would normally say.
His ex-fiancee didn't even cook. She was a career-oriented woman, made mid-six figures, loved buying luxury goods, and insisted that he buy her a particular $100,000 diamond engagement ring since he could afford it.
When he refused, she took it as an insult, that he didn't really love her, and she couldn't accept a lesser ring, because all her friends got expensive diamond engagement rings.
This is that "life on the other side of the curtain" b.s.
Trust me. I had a D-vvs1 4ct tiffany stone that I had to pay an extra $7500 just so they could modify one of their settings to fit. It wasn't $100K. At the time, it was the most expensive diamond anywhere in Tiffany's inventory. Anywhere in the world. They were going to charge me for shipping so I went to Hong Kong to pick it up.
Idiots.
Yes I'm a troll, blah blah blah nobody who posts here can possibly have any money etc. Fine. But trust me, it is very, very difficult to find & procure a $100K+ stone.
The two months salary rule applies to poor people, as well as billionaires.
Among the elites that I hang out with, a $100,000 diamond engagement ring is NOTHING. Anything less, and his ex-fiancee's friends would look down on her, and she would be embarrassed.
Seriously. Go to Greenwich CT or Beverly Hills, and talk to women who married husbands who were making over $1 million/yr at the time of the wedding, and guarantee that 80% of those women had diamond engagement rings over $100,000.
I live in Beverly Hills, idiot. Nobody here talks about how expensive their wife's rings are. They all do size/sparkle checks, however... And my wife's is the largest & sparkliest of our entire peer group. I have yet to see larger than a 4ct center stone of higher than d-vvs1 quality on ANYBODY. You haven't either.
Posted 2/5/2012 4:03 am
How would/should a woman react if her husband-to-be purchases a $100K engagement ring, but gives it to her with the condition that, since the ring commemorates a relationship, the woman forfeits all rights to the ring and/or its value and must return it to the man if at any time she chooses to end the relationship?
Posted 2/5/2012 4:07 am
Since I am not American, I have a question. How exactly does this work. When a guy asks a girl to marry him, and gives her a ring, does he also include the receipt so that she knows exactly how much he paid for it?
