To ring or not to ring - that is the question..**updated**

[BIKELESS STEVE]

Question mostly to the girlies..
Been seeing my girlf just over a year and love her to bits
Thinking of proposing in next few months but getting conflicting ideas about whether I should buy the ring first or buy it together letting her choose it ?

[keti]

Get her a biiiiiiiiiiiig kitsch plastic ring from one of those gum ball machines, propose, then explain that it's not the real one and she can choose her own. That's how I got proposed to
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Good luck man
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[TOM M]

Just put a jelly haribo ring into one of them posh boxes,


........although she could think your taking the piss, slap you then walk away.....

good luck anyway
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[MikeyC]

Personally i'd let her choose it, good luck fella

[Hex]

[killa]

Let her choose, but remember she probably wont give a toss how much you earn.
If she chooses a ring say for £800, I shit you not there is one in the next shop almost the same for £2-300.

oH AND GOOD LUCK :UP:
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[rwoodcock01]

Let her pick the ring mate. My wife bless her, I was not earning much in the way of money I was prepared to take a loan out for a ring, but she picked a small cheap £50 ring that she loved to bits


Best of luck mate, and belive me, what costs a fortune in one shop, you can find/haggle cheaper in the shop next door!

Rich
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[phantomtek]

Aye good luck in the future, I'm happy for ya and wish you all the best the first idea was the best btw

[feef]

I picked the ring for my ex, and while she loved it, and had no complaints, indeed even said it was what she would have picked, she did express a desire to have picked it herself.

Spend a lot of time looking at them with her and get a feel for what she likes... then you decide if you know her well enough to pick it or not.

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[strawberry]

I did hear a suggestion a little while ago which I thought was rather a good one. Simply buy the diamond (or alternative stone depending on what your girlfriend likes) and then when you propose offer her the stone as you would a ring. Then, she gets input into the design of the ring itself but equally, you get kudos for choosing a beautiful stone just for her

Well, that's the idea anyway.... Personally I think it's a very good one. But then I'm a control freak who has very particular tastes
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[Wooly R6]

my girlfriend said i could have a bike on the basis i get her an engagement ring - HAD THE BIKE SINCE JANUARY!!!! NO RING YET!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Silver]

Let her choose. What if she hated it? She probably wouldn't say anything and would have to wear it everyday!

[BIKELESS STEVE]

Thanks for that - we're off on holiday on December (week before Christmas) so think I'll wait til then... she's a bit of a shoe-a-holic so reckon I could propose to her with a flip flop in a box, shows I've thought about it and guarantee no-one's done that before lol. There is a sporting chance that I'd get beaten about the head with it though
<wanders off to think again>

[plugger147]

get down the secondhand shop and buy her one,tell her it's been in your family for years and you want her to have it.
cheap ring she's gonna love no matter what it looks like and everyone's happy.(remember to tell your mam and dad first though)
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[BIKELESS STEVE]

Well it's a few weeks late but finally got round to it, went to Ruthin castle this weekend and popped the question - and she said YES
Abso-flamin-lutely fantastic - I still ain't come down off me cloud

[Suzuki]

Took you 6 months?



Congratulations though! \o/
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[LustyLew]

Congratulations matey!

Be sure to let us know when the wedding is, BCF will come and give you a good send off!
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[Hex]

SO how did you do it then? did you buy the ring or get a jelly one?
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[BIKELESS STEVE]

I decided to buy the ring first, nice and simple solitaire diamond, can't go wrong with a nice diamond took 6 months cos after I'd decided it was too expensive what with paying for the holiday I'd wait til Valentines. Best things come to those who wait an all that lol.

[Dragonfly]

been with my man two years been mates for 10 and i dont think i will ever see a ring steve have a word with my man please.


anyway good luck (just dont buy the ring from argos at £99 like me mate did. )
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