Are diamonds really forever?

It's all about promoting what you love instead of bashing what you hate.  Whether your engagement ring has diamonds or any other beautiful stone, it's all about personal taste. An engagement ring is given out of LOVE - nothing else matters when you strip it all down.  Diamond or not, all engagement rings are beautiful.

Santosha I agree with you, but you know that even PW knows how important that diamond is.

PW had a Poll on here just the other day asking how many women would prefer a bigger ring and over 30% said yes and that number is staggering to me.

This is why I am trying to educate women on alternatives that no one else will know about. Get the look, the size, and quality that only a trained jeweller would know the difference about.

Both the e-ring and the wedding band are symbols--nothing more.  But what they are symbolic of is what is beautiful.  Yes, my e-ring has diamonds--that is what DH chose to give me, and I love it because it represents the promise that he made to me and the fact that he chose me out of all the women in the world, and he chose a ring that represented me the most.  I would not change that for the world.  A friend of mine who was married a few months ago has a ring that does have small diamonds as a halo setting, but the main stone is aquamarine, and it is gorgeous.  And then there are people who don't even receive engagement rings--last week on the radio they were talking about nontraditional engagements, and one woman said that her husband gave her a custom gun when he proposed.  So as far as "fake" engagement rings, I believe the only ones that are fake are the ones that are not given from one person to another to show a promise and a commitment between them.

120% agree with moore!!! 

No no and no! 

I agree with all the ladies before me! An engagement ring is the one that is given as a symbol of a promise to mary one. The material the ring is made of is not important.

I dont think it matters at ALL what stone you have in your ring.  Honestly, the population has been brainwashed into thinking that diamonds are rare and are soo expensive.  they arent!

My E-ring was made in silver and has high quality CZ- so good that several jewlers that I have brought it to for cleaning did not know it was CZ until handing it back to me.

I do love moissinite- but it's way more expensive than CZ since it resembles a flawless diamond.

The only thing I regretted about asking for a silver and CZ ring was the fact that I said silver... The main ring would always pop out and I always needed to get it fix. Silver is so soft and not as durable as gold.

Luckily I went to a jeweler who said that he can change the prongs to white gold and that would make the main stone never pop out- that's what we did and I haven't had a problem with my ring since!

This is the original setting with very low silver prongs:

This is the new setting with very high white gold prongs, along with my wedding rings:

I don't think anyone can really tell it's fake.... and if you can- who cares I'm still married and that for sure ain't fake! lol

IdoAgain20 - It's all good!!!  :D  I love that you're providing information about non-diamond engagement rings - it's a great way to learn about new kinds of rings out there!  I know I learned something.  Diamonds might be the most popular choice for engagement rings on PW and off PW, but who's to say that that makes them more real of an engagement ring than others.  :)

I love the way Christina put it:

"So as far as "fake" engagement rings, I believe the only ones that are fake are the ones that are not given from one person to another to show a promise and a commitment between them."

I agree with Santosha 100% and I also love what moore said. I think it's a matter of preference and each couple can decide on what is right for them. Any ring given in sincerity is an engagement ring in my book. There are so many beautiful options and I enjoyed looking into them before I was engaged. It is wonderful how many great ways there are to display one's commitment to another for life!