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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kind of like how one PP mentioned that a decade ago her small ruby and yellow gold ring wasn’t necessarily cool, I think there is a stereotype of gen X women with platinum engagement rings with large diamonds who were traditionally “cool” or trendy a decade ago. It looks dated now.[/quote]

I agree with this but it’s only partly about the material/color. That ring from like 2000ish to 2015ish (you know what it looks like) is embarrassing in a way that having a ring that is “off-trend” can’t be. It just marks you as a bandwagoner. Also, the “it” ring from this era is really showy, too, so it sticks out. To me it’s kind of anti-style. It’s like “I I don’t have taste at all, I just saw a ring on tv/in rom coms/in magazine ads/on my friend, and decided that was my dream too.”[/quote]

Have you seen the current trends?  Your post reeks of the trendy “other generations suck” attitude which is naive and immature. I’m guessing you’re not old enough to have friends getting married now.  Because as ALWAYS, there are trends.  Right now it’s 2-3 carat center stones with a halo on a thin band.  The upcoming trend is thick and stacked again like….gasp…the 90s.

And newsflash, a lot of men make this decision on their own. Fewer with each passing decade but yes, they still do.  Insulting men who, with great pride and care, picked something for someone they love is an ugly look.  Much uglier than following a trend.

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PP here:

- I'm 42. And before you ask, I'm married. Got married in 2014. I'm referring to my generation.
- Most of my friends who have this ring either picked it out themselves or provided their partners with fairly specific instructions as to materials, shape, size, etc. Even the ones whose partners technically picked out the ring "on their own" had a good sense of what their gfs wanted because of the way they fawned over certain other friend's rings.

Of course there are always trends, and some people follow them and some don't. My point is that engagement ring trends are funny because people will follow trends so aggressively that they all get the same ring, but they will claim (and actually believe) that this is just their unique dream ring and always has been. But in hindsight, you can tell of course that they just bought in hard to current trends.

My advice to people getting engaged now would be to ignore all engagement ring trends and instead look at your own style and jewelry and think about what kind of ring you want to be wearing when you're 60. If you do this, you'll never regret your choices, whether they wind up being on trend or not, because it will feel like you. I have a lot of friends who don't wear their rings anymore or whoare having them re-set because they got caught up in what they were supposed to get instead of what felt authentically like them, and now their ring feels generic and not sentimental. And engagement ring should be a very sentimental jewelry choice.[/quote]

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