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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread really makes us catty, huh?

In my original social circle, 1.5 - 3 was the norm, with some outliers (one gf married someone 15 years older and got a 6 carat ring, pretty but ostentatious).

Mine is 1.8. When we got engaged, that was important to me that it be in that range because it felt like everyone else I knew had a ring that size (I know, I know but I was youngish).

I love my ring, but my husband is a professors, not a banker or in big law. We're mid 30's now, and none of the other professor's wives have rings like mine, so my husband actually prefers that i not wear it around colleagues or other university area people - which is most of the people we see now.

C'est la vie. [/quote]

A family ring? No way in hell a newly minted professor is making the kind of money needed to buy 1.8 carats.[/quote]

It's kind of strange you feel the need to hide a 1.8 carat ring.  That's the size of mine and I don't feel like it is big at all.  I doubt anyone cares.  [/quote]

I'm that PP: I completely agree with you! Also, it's an square-emerald cut, which means that it looks about the size of a 1 carat round cut. 
But, as another poster mentioned above, academics often don't do the classic engagement ring thing. They seem to go for delicate antique rings or colored stones. So my DH feels like it draws unnecessary attention, which he is paranoid about because academic departments are strange, sometimes bitterly competitive environments where people quibble over nonsense.[/quote]

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