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Here's the thing, if you made $500k~ a year, would you ONLY buy a $10-20k ring? (Using the traditional method he'd have to buy her a $125k ring, so thank god he isn't completely retarded)

So far we've narrowed it down to a 2.7 and a 3.11 karot diamond. $33k~

if i made ~$500k a year i'd still buy a $40 ring :icon17:

e: and she wouldn't know i made $500k a year, she'd think i made $50k a year ;)

e2: never mind now that i think about it... it'd be kinda hard to hide your job/salary from someone you're marrying

DE, that sounds about right price wise from when I was buying. I did not get a 2.7/3.11 karot diamond, I got the misses a 1.0 almost flawless and was in just below 10k for the diamond. As you move up to the 1.5 to 2.0 area you start to add 3 or 4 times the price just for a little bump in size. I think at the time a 2.0 was going for just over 20k per the price sheet.

My grandpa paid like $800 for this stone a long time ago.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...ada/null-1.jpg

Makes sense I guess. I'd definitely go far quality as opposed to size when spending that kind of money. I saw a 1.5 karat IF, D color stone about 20 years ago and they were asking $25k at the time. It looked huge because it was so white and literally spotless. Plus it was an emerald cut.

Is CA one of those states where he legally gets the ring back if the whole deal falls apart before the wedding?

LMAO! If God willing that happens, I'll sacrifice my car, my job, my guns, and everything in between to give him the $40-45k back (after the wedding band)

And honestly, I don't know where he'll get married, and he lives in TX if that makes a difference(?)

Yeah, I believe that 3.11 was H/I color cut was great, A flourescent, and 33k, the 2.7 was E/G, no fluorescents or ANYTHING and they wanted $36k~

At the end of the day, he can't do a 1.5 carot stone no matter how nice it is because it's just too small for someone with his job to buy (even if it IS $20k), we WERE looking at an even better 2.4, but it looked a bit too small for his liking.

I'm not sure about the rules in TX. Mario Williams is suing his ex for the ring back at the moment. There are places that consider it a breach of contract. He should have it written into the pre-nup. That's a lot of coin to drop on a rock.

If this is his decision, ok. If that's her opinion and she's going to have a problem with a "too small" diamond he needs to do some serious thinking.

Lol, his decision

Ok, that's better than the alternative.

I guess this must be a first wedding? My first wife was very materialistic and I am very glad to be rid of that one! If the future wife would have a problem with the size of any ring he buys her then she is not the right one to begin with. My second wife of 13 years doesn't even have a ring.

I can't wait for synthetic diamonds to really take over, it will break the price of diamonds worldwide

Again she really isn't the materialistic one, he is. And he wants to show off. Rightly so I guess(?)