What does your mom's engagement ring look like?

[pearaffair]

Post a real pic or a close approximate!

My mom got engaged with the opal ring set in yellow gold, flanked by a couple diamonds. She and my dad picked it out together and the woman selling it to them said, "This ring has a lot of FIRE... just like she does!!!" Lol.

She never wears it because opal is rather fragile and she works on a hobby farm.

 

[Ally T]

I love a good firey opal!

I don't have a picture, but my mum's original engagement ring was a .30 round diamond set in an antique style square platinum head (fish tale corners) on an 18ct yellow gold heavy band. It's small but so well cut & sparkly! Donkey's years ago the head was damaged & a rubbish jeweller butchered it on the re-build with big hunks of platinum in the previously open gallery. She hated it from that moment on & away it went. After dad died suddenly 15 years ago, she pulled it out, but has yet to find an antique reproduction jeweller who can make a new head the same as the old one. One day, my lovely friend in London who remade my eternity ring is going to do it. He's capeable & willing, so I want to surprise her

 

[pearaffair]

I love a good firey opal!

I don't have a picture, but my mum's original engagement ring was a .30 round diamond set in an antique style square platinum head (fish tale corners) on an 18ct yellow gold heavy band. It's small but so well cut & sparkly! Donkey's years ago the head was damaged & a rubbish jeweller butchered it on the re-build with big hunks of platinum in the previously open gallery. She hated it from that moment on & away it went. After dad died suddenly 15 years ago, she pulled it out, but has yet to find an antique reproduction jeweller who can make a new head the same as the old one. One day, my lovely friend in London who remade my eternity ring is going to do it. He's capeable & willing, so I want to surprise her

Oh that is the sweetest plan for your mom!!

 

[whitewave]

My mom has a .75 "blue white" (the original 1965 scam) diamond (it's a pretty stone) in a 6 prong yellow gold solitare.

 

[Tophat1]

I never saw it because it was stolen from my parents apartment when they were in their 20s and they never replaced it. I think she said it was a yellow gold solitaire.

 

[tyty333]

My mom had that very common set with 4 small stones and a center on the engagement ring. The wedding band was 5 small stones.
Center stone was about .35 and the side stones were about 5 points each. It was a BIG deal for a 17 year old small town country girl . It looked
similar to this but it was all in white gold.


For their 25th anniversary she got the grown up version. I think its around 2.5 ctw but doesnt really seem that big to me because its spread out
between all the stones. Main is .75 and side stones are .20. Something like this...but mom's stones are well cut.

Then for their 50th anniversary dad got her a 3 stone right hand ring...It is 1 carat center and .5 each sides. She wears a size 5 ring (due to knuckle
so finger is smaller than that)...the 3 stone looks huge on her! She doesnt wear it much because she thinks its just too much.

I'm the only girl so I'll inherit it all (one day). I told my mom I just couldnt stand the though of anyone else wearing her rings...They just remind me
so much of her and my dad. I think I would cry if I saw someone else wearing them.

Edit...and when my Mom got her grown up version they used the stones from her original wedding set to
make a new wedding band for my dad.

 

[Niel]

So I don't think my mom has her original engagement ring. She didn't really like it. It was a tiny overly processed ruby in a heart setting. Similar to the one attached. Now she wears the two rings attached dbelow

 

[Bluegemz]

My mother never had an engagement ring, or even a band! Around age 60, I told my father that he really should buy her a nice ring. We went together to Shrieve and co in San Francisco, because at the time, I was not connected to resources online. We picked out a platinum, three stone ring, with a center stone of 2 carats and two sides of .75, in round, colorless diamonds. He wanted to surprise her and I wanted to make sure that he actually bought a nice ring! He spent quite a lot on that ring, but after close to 33 years of marriage, she deserved it! She's not a jewelry person, but has been so grateful to have it! Wish I had a picture, but I'm sure you all can imagine...

 

[pearaffair]

I'm loving these stories!!

Here is the ring my mom wears daily (channel set) and her original wedding band which has 5 claw-set stones and belonged to her grandmother. She had the original diamonds taken out and made into earrings for me and my sister. Years later, as a surprise I got F/G VVS1 stones put back into her original setting. She loves it but never wears it - doesn't suit her lifestyle.

 

[Bluegemz]

I'm loving these stories!!

Here is the ring my mom wears daily (channel set) and her original wedding band which has 5 claw-set stones and belonged to her grandmother. She had the original diamonds taken out and made into earrings for me and my sister. Years later, as a surprise I got F/G VVS1 stones put back into her original setting. She loves it but never wears it - doesn't suit her lifestyle.

That's a very touching story, Pearaffair!

 

[Ally T]

So I don't think my mom has her original engagement ring. She didn't really like it. It was a tiny overly processed ruby in a heart setting. Similar to the one attached. Now she wears the two rings attached dbelow

Niel, your mothers rings are BEAUTIFUL! Absolutely drooling over the emeralds

 

[missy]

Well funny you should ask as I happen to have a photo I just found on my computer while backing it up. LOL. Not a good photo at all but the only one I have so I will share it with you.

My mom's engagement ring. When my dad proposed he had no money so they married with just a platinum band. A year later he bought her this 3.5 carat FVS1. More than 53 year later it is the ring she wears though she had to reshank it with one of those adjustable shanks due to her RA.

 

[tyty333]

Neil...your moms new rings are beautiful. I remember you making them...so sweet.

Missy...your dad must have hit it big in that year! That's gorgeous!

I think all these rings that our moms started out with are so sweet. Helps to remember where they came from and that you dont have to have anything big to
represent your marriage. I know my parents were just happy to be together and would have gotten married without a ring if they had to!

 

[missy]

Tyty333, I agree completely! I would have married my dh ring or no ring. As my mom married my dad (with a simple platinum band in 1963).

The true test of a marriage that will last has little to do with bling after all.

 

[BlingDreams]

My mom didn't have an engagement ring. She told my dad that she didn't want one (can you even imagine???! ). So they got married with a plain, thin gold wedding band. Fast forward and a few years later my mom says that she would now like an engagement ring, so Dad went out and bought her a small solitaire on a gold band, probably around 2/3 ct.. Over the course of my life I can remember that ring making an occasional appearance, but it usually just stayed in a drawer somewhere (because she really was a plain person at heart, not because the ring was awful). For their 20th anniversary, my dad bought her a beautiful diamond eternity band. Again, that band spent most of its time in a drawer. My mom just was not a bling person. It must skip generations!!!

When she passed four years ago Dad gave me her rings. I took the diamond from the solitaire and had it made into a necklace pendant, and I sometimes wear her eternity band on my index finger. My plan is to give the eternity band to my son to use the diamonds for his engagement ring when he decides to get married. He and my mom were very very close and I know it would mean a lot to him.

 

[pearaffair]

Very sweet stories

I, too, am thinking bling addiction might skip a generation! Imagine not wanting an engagement ring!!! And then getting one later, and not wearing it!

Different strokes for different folks, I guess!

 

[Bluegemz]

Yes, jewelry lovedoes skip generations! my mom loved art and is an intellectual. She loves elegant things, but loves ideas more than things. She always wanted to have paintings and experiences more than anything else. My father was an inventor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur in the early days, before Silicon Valley became what it is today, so he had some means, but the attention was simply not ever on jewelry. It is strange for me because life without jewelry would be unimaginable quite frankly! My grandmothers both adored gems and jewelry, and now 2 of my three daughters don't care much for it,while one has inherited the passion.

 

[Asscherhalo_lover]

When she was married to my Dad (he passed 20 years ago) it was a 2ct marquise on a simple, thin, white gold band. But the wedding ring was a totally 80's marquise wrap that made the whole thing a knuckle to knuckle monster (IMO).

She sold it after he passed to help with bills. When she re-married in 2002 it was her DH's Mother's half carat early MRB (still fairly white and eye clean) which they re-set into an engraved platinum setting with some side diamonds and a matching band. She mostly likes the engraving. Now her knuckles are very arthritic so she mostly only wears a simple band.

 

[Natylad]

My mom's engagement ring is a 1.14ct F, VS1, round brilliant diamond set in an six prong, 18 kt white gold solitaire setting. I will try to take photos of it as soon as possible and post them here!
Sometimes I'm telling her that one day I'm going to...inherit that ring and she is always answering: "No way and don't make any plans about having my diamond reset, I will pass it on to my granddaughter"!!!! Damn....!!

 

[Tourmaline]

This is a nice image of my hand and my mom's hand, neither of us wearing wedding bands, even though both of us are looong-married, haha! My ring was platinum in this picture (then rose gold, then yellow gold).

 

[KaeKae]

My mom had a beautiful one carat diamond set in a white gold solitaire. When it came to me, my ering was in a yellow gold solitaire, so I reset her stone into a yellow gold bezel necklace. I love it, but cannot find it! This is what I get for hiding my sparklies in the house. We are now getting ready to put the house on the market. I pray I find the necklace before we go. (adding that she had a wider white gold wedding band, which my father had her buried wearing. She also had a yellow gold alternaive set, with a pearl ering and very wide yg band. Yes, that's in the safe deposit box, too.)

My mom has a .75 "blue white" (the original 1965 scam) diamond (it's a pretty stone) in a 6 prong yellow gold solitare.

whitewave, this is how my grandmother described her stone. It's a lovely .35ct H or I. Not sure how that translated to blue white, but my aunt says that's how Grandma described it. She would have recieved hers in 1928 or 1929, so maybe the term is even older than the 60s?
I don't have a picture of this ring, either, but I do have it, in our safe deposit box. Unfortunately the ring is rather fragile. Some day, I will get it to a good jeweler who can maybe strengthen it up for special occasion wear.

 

[-Bella-]

My mum and dad got married 30 something years ago, the choice was they bought a block of land instead of an engagement ring, she got married with a lovely gold wedding band that had two hands joined engraved on it. It got stolen by some low drop kicks two years ago. The insurance money they got for all her jewels (I don't think it was much because how can you prove a 10ct solid gold chain passed down from her mum who bought it in Malta was legit?! she was devastated) went into building her new kitchen in their new house. She just put her jewels in to a local jeweller to get remade (she had three pieces on her when they went away camping and she left the rest at home). She did have some beautiful things collected from her travels, mum likes rubies and opals, and she had a couple of diamond things but they were bought from chain stores. She isn't a huge jewellery fan but does like to wear jewels. Unlike me I am lucky to wear earrings some days and if I am feeling fancy a necklace ha ha

 

[AprilBaby]

1954, .50ct diamond fishtail platinum setting wth two smaller diamonds on either side and a matching band just like the setting in tyty333 pictures. Mom died when I was 4. My sister get her rings minus the .50 and she put in an ugly dark sapphire. My dad reused the .50 for my stepmom a year later. He died in 2000 and she got remarried with a bigger ring. I have asked for my moms diamond but she won't give it. I think she is going to give it to her granddaughter. That makes me very sad.

 

[Bluegemz]

1954, .50ct diamond fishtail platinum setting wth two smaller diamonds on either side and a matching band just like the setting in tyty333 pictures. Mom died when I was 4. My sister get her rings minus the .50 and she put in an ugly dark sapphire. My dad reused the .50 for my stepmom a year later. He died in 2000 and she got remarried with a bigger ring. I have asked for my moms diamond but she won't give it. I think she is going to give it to her granddaughter. That makes me very sad.

Aprilbaby, that is very, very sad.

 

[pearaffair]

Aprilbaby, that is very, very sad.

I agree

 

[plpinkinsa]

My mom lost her ering at the beach! I have no idea what it looked like. I do have my dads wedding band. My mom has my grandmas ering from my late grandfather. It's a blue star sapphire with diamonds on the sides

 

[doberman]

My mother had hers stolen durjng a realtor open house. It was a small marquise with side stones in white gold circa 1962. I think it was an Art Carved setting.

 

[AprilBaby]

Thanks. I have my own beautiful bling. It's more the sentiment than the actual diamond. I know at one time my parents estate was to be divided between 4 of us and I offered to forget my share in exchange for the diamond. Now with the new husband I'm probably cut out entirely anyways.

 

[foxinsox]

I've got my mum's e-ring which I think is a 90s reset but still quite close to the original. It's about 0.4ct, not sure of colour and clarity in a palladium head on a yellow gold band with 6 small flanking diamonds.

 

[Ally T]

I agree

Me too. What a nasty woman she must be