From Copyranter With Commentary
she won't WHAT?!?
posted by copyranter @ 8:30 AM 10 comments
For a limited time, any man who buys a De Beers diamond engagement ring and is subsequently rejected by any woman will receive a full refund of the purchase price, no questions asked. That's the De Beers DeDifference.
(Note: I don't see any asterisks. Though, I suppose that big-ass diamond at the bottom of the ad could legally serve as one.)
Personally, I hate diamonds. I asked for an emerald for my engagement ring, and got a really gorgeous 2.5 ct. one custom set in white gold. Platinum would have been okay, but it looks the same to me. Yes, my engagement ring is an emerald. I was years ahead of my time. If you want something that looks like a diamond, you can find a sapphire in any color from clear to yellow to pink to green to blue. You need Queensland for that, not South Africa, and not DeBeers.
The point of this entry is what, you might ask? Well, we discussed getting engaged and married ahead of time, so nothing I didn't want got sprung on me out of the blue. There was none of this on the knee with a ring bullshit, nor did I have to break a tooth finding it in my salad at some fancy dinner at a restaurant. Why guys pull stunts like that is beyond me.
The last time I even went to somebody's wedding, Jordan almonds were there in the room for me. I broke a tooth eating them that ended up requiring $2000 worth of dental work to repair. Yes, two thousand dollars. That wasn't a typo.
No diamonds. No Jordan almonds. Can we stick with emeralds, sapphires, or rubies, and maybe some white chocolate dipped strawberries, please?
posted by Admin at 6:51 AM
3 Comments:
Have to admit, I never got the whole diamond thing. Glad my wife doesn't either.
Sapphires for me!
Only an extra grand? Only? Geez. I totally relied on Steve's judgment. He knows my taste. He found the stone when a store by him got in a new batch of estate sale gems, and described it to me over the phone as being the color of a Sprite bottle. Perfect. After that, it was just a matter of having it set in the simplest possible band, which the store did quite inexpensively.
By contrast, my mother never had an engagement ring at all, and bought her own wedding band with five diamonds. It's not ugly, but it sure isn't my taste.
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