VictoriaW
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- May 11, 2016
- Messages
- 13
Hey PS, I've been lurking for months and never posted, but I'm a bit of a loner so I figure if I can't share my engagement with friends/fam in Canada I can throw it out into the void and see who responds.
We've been dating three years, living together for one. He knows I'm picky so we ring shopped together well in advance to get ideas. Turns out when you start putting things on your hand you realize how wrong you were about what styles you THINK you like online. I have to thank Tiffany for letting me try on decent rings since the only other options here are gross mall chains.
One place LITERALLY handed us a 1ct with a deep scratch/crack clear across the table, told us they certified it in house to be flawless. Obviously hoping someone with bad eyes and no education would give them SEVEN THOUSAND for it. They probably cracked it and were desperate to unload ugh. What d***bags I hope no one ever fell for it.
So in the meantime I'm a little impatient and believe in equality. I know he's into the Bulgari b.zero1 so I phone 2015 New Years Eve and order one. Theres no bulgari here, he tried it on over a year ago in the only Canadian store. I ask when I can have it? It absolutely must come by VDay. She says 2 weeks to get here from NY. Excellent. I book a tropical vacation for VDay this year and plan to propose with the Bulgari. I invite my sister and his. Two weeks later I get a call. It has to come from Italy because they dont have that size. Its coming second week of Feb because beginning of the year is inventory, Italy is busy. THATS THE SAME WEEK. I begged them to rush it, said I'd pay ANY amount to get it shipped direct to me instead of stopping in Bulgari Canada. They couldn't. The ring of course, didnt make it by the time we departed. Oh well, it was an OK vacation anyway. The ring shipped UPS and they obviously didnt know what it was because they just LEFT IT ON MY FRONT DOORSTEP. Thank God no one stole it. So now I'm planning again. His birthday is at the end of May, so I booked another trip for then. Nothing can stop me now!
Sidenote - Bulgari actually has VERY good communication but they seem not to have any wiggle room at all in their process. I wouldnt deter anyone from them, just don't be an idiot and book a trip before your ring shows.
He still has no idea I bought it.
In the last month after mulling over thousands of rings and expert advice from PSers - thanks PSers! - I finally found a Ritani for myself that I love and mentioned to him that it fit the budget and by some miracle they have a retailer here that works with them which is unheardof in my town-of-few-choices. I figured he was still just shopping around. Yesterday I see he's got a call from Ritani! This morning, because I'm nosey as hell, I see the Stone is marked as SOLD. Guys. I think he bought my perfect ring and my perfect diamond. I couldn't be happier.
But if we really do both have rings, who's gonna get to it first?
We've been dating three years, living together for one. He knows I'm picky so we ring shopped together well in advance to get ideas. Turns out when you start putting things on your hand you realize how wrong you were about what styles you THINK you like online. I have to thank Tiffany for letting me try on decent rings since the only other options here are gross mall chains.
One place LITERALLY handed us a 1ct with a deep scratch/crack clear across the table, told us they certified it in house to be flawless. Obviously hoping someone with bad eyes and no education would give them SEVEN THOUSAND for it. They probably cracked it and were desperate to unload ugh. What d***bags I hope no one ever fell for it.
So in the meantime I'm a little impatient and believe in equality. I know he's into the Bulgari b.zero1 so I phone 2015 New Years Eve and order one. Theres no bulgari here, he tried it on over a year ago in the only Canadian store. I ask when I can have it? It absolutely must come by VDay. She says 2 weeks to get here from NY. Excellent. I book a tropical vacation for VDay this year and plan to propose with the Bulgari. I invite my sister and his. Two weeks later I get a call. It has to come from Italy because they dont have that size. Its coming second week of Feb because beginning of the year is inventory, Italy is busy. THATS THE SAME WEEK. I begged them to rush it, said I'd pay ANY amount to get it shipped direct to me instead of stopping in Bulgari Canada. They couldn't. The ring of course, didnt make it by the time we departed. Oh well, it was an OK vacation anyway. The ring shipped UPS and they obviously didnt know what it was because they just LEFT IT ON MY FRONT DOORSTEP. Thank God no one stole it. So now I'm planning again. His birthday is at the end of May, so I booked another trip for then. Nothing can stop me now!
Sidenote - Bulgari actually has VERY good communication but they seem not to have any wiggle room at all in their process. I wouldnt deter anyone from them, just don't be an idiot and book a trip before your ring shows.
He still has no idea I bought it.
In the last month after mulling over thousands of rings and expert advice from PSers - thanks PSers! - I finally found a Ritani for myself that I love and mentioned to him that it fit the budget and by some miracle they have a retailer here that works with them which is unheardof in my town-of-few-choices. I figured he was still just shopping around. Yesterday I see he's got a call from Ritani! This morning, because I'm nosey as hell, I see the Stone is marked as SOLD. Guys. I think he bought my perfect ring and my perfect diamond. I couldn't be happier.
But if we really do both have rings, who's gonna get to it first?