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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Stevepage on November 24, 2010, 07:28:49 PM
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I'm going to propose to my girlfriend in a week or two when we go out for the day in Winter wonderland (hyde park). I've got quite a bit of money saved up to help pay for a ring (and other things).
And I'm trying so damn hard to not buy another guitar :x I could afford another PRS too aah :x
what to do....
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Youre asking here?
Buy the guitar/s!!!!
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+1 for the PRS
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It's this one too
http://www.coda-music.com/product_info.php?cPath=170&products_id=8663
It would go great with the blue CE22 I've got :lol:
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A guitar is forever. But if you do get married you might want a band so I'll sit on the fence here.
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Buy the guitar...
It will look more beautiful as it ages, will give you hours of pleasure & you can be sure that the only other men who play with it will do so only with your permission... The same cannot be said for the average wife. :?
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Maybe I can work my charm on her and get her to buy it for me as a sort of 'engagement present' seeing as I'll be paying out a lot for a ring PDT_019
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I was going to add in.
Is she likely to buy you a guitar? If so go for it.
My GF bought me my Marshall TSL and also bought me my MQ neck so you could gain more by not buying the guitar as you'll also have a fiancee
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At least it's a nice choice to have to make. :D
Caught between Rock and a.... soft place.
I'm sure you'll do the right thing. Whatever that is.
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Go to a pawn shop and buy both.
Make sure to remove the old engravings in the ring. :lol:
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Marry her... pimp her out... boom! you'll have 10 PRS' before you can say "exploitation"
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I can imagine the many euphemisms that will entail this thread, lol..
Marry her then drop tune her for some br00talzzz!
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I understand that feeling. I proposed (successfully!) to my girlfriend in September. I think you need to clear your mind about guitars from that point on ;-) be happy with what you got. Ring cost a lot and there'll be wedding ones and ... oh yes! ... the wedding. That is not gonna be free either.
Anyway, if she's worth it she is! That's what you got to remember!
Good luck then on the proposal!!! :D
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May be a idiot question, but most of people I saw marrying here on south land had just one pair of rings... Usually milionary here get a ring to propose and a new one to marry...
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Don't know really, I will get two. Luckily, my fiancee wants a "nice" ring, i.e. something that is nice and looks nice, not something tacky with a huge price tag which makes it looks like a ring a footballer would give to a model.
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(http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00501/000_nic509767_780d1_501032t.jpg)
If she's really special get her a ring "fit for a princess" :roll: above in fantastic "Diamonique" :? for only $54...
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/app.nav/params.class.6662/walk.yah.1001
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I'm torn between this too. There is an old sg std by my place for 600 € (neck break repaired but who cares smoking guitar anyways) and even an old jackson usa but for our 4 years she seems to want a ring aswell...
Well she paid my secondhand esp eclipse (almost) and wants to offer me a bkp neck pickup for my les paul so I guess I'll go for the ring.
ps : reading this topic made me think about how many of us talk in secret maneer of 'sex' using guitar technical words... :lol:
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Only 29 million.
(http://newsliteimgs.s3.amazonaws.com/101117_ring.jpg)
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that's minging!
speaking of cheap rings, I heard common folk can't tell the difference between diamond and cut glass, I also heard they can't tell the difference between silver and aluminium
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they can't tell the difference between gold and onion.
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Go to Tiffany, buy a ring. The Tiffany box and sparkling diamond is a view she won't forget for the rest of her life.
That PRS stinks, I can smell it from here. Get an SE and put in a BKP, costs much less and sounds better.
Make your girl happy, much better for your life.
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Go to Tiffany, buy a ring. The Tiffany box and sparkling diamond is a view she won't forget for the rest of her life.
That PRS stinks, I can smell it from here. Get an SE and put in a BKP, costs much less and sounds better.
Make your girl happy, much better for your life.
best advice so far
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Only 29 million.
(http://newsliteimgs.s3.amazonaws.com/101117_ring.jpg)
I hope that's for all three :lol:
I proposed over the phone without a ring and said we could go shopping for one which was a really good day out.
However you choose to do it, the best advice I could give is to get yourself to the jewelery quater in Birmingham as there's about 300 jewelers in a mile radius. We got my wifes wedding ring made there and it was much much cheaper than buying it elsewhere. She wanted it custom made so it was exactly the same width and matched her engagement ring. We had it valued at a jewelers we really trust and the value was a lot more than what we paid..... should have sold it and bought another.
I can find out the name of the shop that we used for the wifes ring if you want. Think they only do platinum though (which is enough to keep most women happy). If you have a size and grade diamond in mind and know what sort of band, it may be worth giving them a bell for a quote.
Good luck whatever you do.
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Go to Tiffany, buy a ring. The Tiffany box and sparkling diamond is a view she won't forget for the rest of her life.
That PRS stinks, I can smell it from here. Get an SE and put in a BKP, costs much less and sounds better.
Make your girl happy, much better for your life.
best advice so far
+ 1.
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get the ring for the girl I think, seeing as you are lucky enough to be in a successfull relationship in the first place hold onto it whilst it lasts, guitars are good but it's literally a piece of wood, what's better human or wood? me thinks human...
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...what's better human or wood? me thinks human...
I've got wood....
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on a slightly more serious note, I don't really believe in spending an arm on a leg on an engagement ring.
When I proposed to my wife, I was earning less than minimum wage (which didn't actually exist at the time), and I spent very little on the ring. Didn't mean that I loved my wife any less, and I've more than made up for it over the last 12 years or so.
Buy her a ring that you can afford, and by all means sacrifice a guitar to do it. But if the marriage is worth anything, she won't be doing it for a ring.
Mark.
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Some good advice guys. I'm getting her a cheaper ring for now as work is starting to slow down, so by December I won't have any work till the new year. I've got to service, MOT and tax my car by the end of the year too so I'm taking her out early next year to buy a much nicer ring.
I think I'm gonna look into getting a PRS SE One and fit it with a Pig90 or Aftermath, so we'll see what christmas brings :P
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Don't be stingy.
Tiffany Setting is a classic and the way to go.
(http://www.verycool.it/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/3.jpg)
They have them in all price classes. I got a 0.4ct one with highest clarity and colour, cost me as much as an SLO100 (and I still want an SLO100 :? ) They're all Platinum and surely blood diamond free.
You buy it in standard ring size (unless you're 100% sure about the size), normally it should fit or be too big when she gets it. Then she can go to Tiffany afterwards and have it made to fit. Also it's part of the experience and she will feel special when she goes there, too!
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Blimey, expensive business this engagement lark! :lol:
I'm off to the PRS website. :wink:
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There's no way I could afford a Tiffany ring. I don't earn a lot of money so my budget is £700. I've been saving up for a few months now and I've seen some very nice rings for that much. We've spoken about getting engaged before and she's said she's not in it for the ring but I'd still like to buy her something special within my budget.
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I was a student when I proposed to my wife (and did my PhD for the first 3 years of our marriage, too!) so I couldn't spend a fortune on a ring, but I did have a summer job during my undergrad years, and it was during my 2nd-3rd year summer break that I saved up all my money towards the engagement ring. We'd spoken about rings a bit before, and I took her window shopping on a couple of occasions (and to try rings on) to see what suited her, and find out what she liked.
It was still a surprise for her which ring I went for, but obviously she knew the proposal was coming. To me (then and certainly now), and also to my wife, it's more about the fact that it's a style of ring she likes and that suits her fingers, and it's right for her, rather than a generic expensive large diamond for the sake of show.
Best of luck with it!!
Roo
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...what's better human or wood? me thinks human...
I've got wood....
same here lol
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Buy her a ring that you can afford, and by all means sacrifice a guitar to do it. But if the marriage is worth anything, she won't be doing it for a ring.
^ +1
Its easy to say "take her to Tiffanys", but for many people that is not a reality and the right partner will understand that. It is simply a symbol of your commitment to each-other, not a fashion statement.
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Don't be stingy.
Don't be patronising. Sorry for my directness but that comment makes me quite irritated. Some people simply can't afford to pay a lot of money for an engagement ring, and don't require someone atop his high horse telling them they're being stingy because they don't bankrupt themselves to appear flash. Frankly, if the women in question were to actually consider it stingy, then the suiter would be better off rid of the shallow magpie witch.
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spoken like a true Scotsman... joke joke joke.
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Don't be stingy.
Don't be patronising. Sorry for my directness but that comment makes me quite irritated. Some people simply can't afford to pay a lot of money for an engagement ring, and don't require someone atop his high horse telling them they're being stingy because they don't bankrupt themselves to appear flash. Frankly, if the women in question were to actually consider it stingy, then the suiter would be better off rid of the shallow magpie witch.
I thought pretty much the same thing as you, it was patronising and offensive.
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(serious mode on)
I always thought it was "one months salary" - whatever that may be - as a rule of thumb...
And I agree that any woman who can't understand the value of the commitment is greater than the value of any ring ain't worth sh1t.
(serious mode off)
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Don't be stingy.
Don't be patronising. Sorry for my directness but that comment makes me quite irritated. Some people simply can't afford to pay a lot of money for an engagement ring, and don't require someone atop his high horse telling them they're being stingy because they don't bankrupt themselves to appear flash. Frankly, if the women in question were to actually consider it stingy, then the suiter would be better off rid of the shallow magpie witch.
I thought pretty much the same thing as you, it was patronising and offensive.
My bad. But rule of thump I was told it was apropriate to invest 2 months net salary in a ring. Well not sure if that's a must. What had disturbed me was the OP saying before that he's gonna buy a guitar instead of investing in the ring, which is why I said stingy. Maybe I was patronising, but the OP asked for my opinion, and that's my opinion.
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It was more of a tongue in cheek post. It's just always the way that when you don't have the money to spend on a guitar that the guitars you really want pop up, but when you do there's nothing that's of interest.
Anyway, 12th of December is the date and it looks as though work will kick off again in January, so I should be able to get her a much nicer ring that she can pick out much sooner.
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Anyway, 12th of December is the date
Keep us up to date! Not that it's any of our business. :lol:
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Good Luck!
On the ring front, my GF said that the engagement ring should be at least
the same value as the most expensive guitar that
I have bought (and it counts for the one I owned for 18 hours)
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Interesting reading this :D
I fully understand where Hunter's coming from, but I'm more in tune with nfe/etc myself :lol:
I have experience of buying two engagement rings, neither of which cost nearly as much as one month's salary. In both cases, we were already engaged before the ring was even thought of. But although "a ring" was very secondary in our considerations, it was still very high on the agenda the minute the deal was done. Also, in both cases, it was a joint shopping trip where the lady in question chose the ring she wanted. I was prepared to go to one month's salary even though that would have left me in debt in those days, but both ladies chose extremely modest items from the options that we looked at and that I was indicating were achievable.
Both ladies regarded the wedding ring as more important, and spare cash/funds for other things as more important than having an expensive version of either. Luckily for me, this all matches my views on the subject :lol:
In the case of the current Mrs R, we've bought far more expensive jewelry since. Just because she's nice, she saw something that made her go "ooo!" and the funds were available. But even then, we've never spent more than half of one-month's salary on a single item (actually, the same applies to guitars/etc - we've never spent more than a half a month's salary on any musical instrument!)
However, I know at least one woman (friend of Mrs R) who expected a "one-month's-salary" jobbie from her new fiance at a bare minimum!! I don't know for certain, but I suspect that this would have amounted to a £3K ring. Now, she might have been joking, but we didn't think so, she sounded pretty serious, even when challenged. We assume that he did what was expected of him, because we think he probably has the same expectations of engagement rings. We can't quite see how they come to those expectations, maybe it's just tradition, but those are their expectations, and good luck to them... But we still think Mrs R's ring is nicer!
I reckon it's pretty much horses for courses. If you've picked the right girl (and she's picked the right boy) she's going to love whatever you do. Good luck to you both, hope the moment is every bit as romantic as you both hope it will be :D
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I'm definitely on the side of "it's the thought that counts" and "if you've picked the right girl" etc. It shouldn't be about the monetary value.
But I thought this was a pretty fair point:
On the ring front, my GF said that the engagement ring should be at least the same value as the most expensive guitar that I have bought
They're both "luxuries", not necessities, but if you can afford the guitar you can afford the ring.*
(* Twinfan excepted - good job he's already married! :P )
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Marry a woman who plays guitar.
Then buy her a f**k-off expensive guitar instead of a ring.
Win/win.
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my GF is not a traditionalist and has said she'd buy me a watch for an engagement present
me: I'll have a custom guitar if there's one going
GF: a watch
me: A non custom guitar?
GF: a watch
me: mumbles incoherently and walks away moaning about how i already have a nice watch
:D
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you know, there was talk of up to 3 months wages when i was looking - but i think that was just some cheeky jewelers
we spent £600 in the end, i had more available but she chose what she liked and what she was comfortable wearing. since she had already lost a ring i brought her at 18 she really didnt like the idea of wearing more than that
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Marry a woman who plays guitar.
Then buy her a f**k-off expensive guitar instead of a ring.
Win/win.
Even better, marry a woman who can't play but loves guitars...
Buy her a f**k-off expensive guitar instead of a ring.
Then play f**k-off expensive guitar.
Win/WIN :lol:
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You must all watch this great sketch that pretty much puts IT ALL in perspective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimiDBAK2wA
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I find myself laughing as soon as I see Nicholas Burns' face, never mind when the jokes come in. :lol:
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You must all watch this great sketch that pretty much puts IT ALL in perspective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimiDBAK2wA
:lol:
Never watched that series, but that was very funny. Was it a sitcom, or a sketch show?
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that was hilarious, pmsl - never seen it before.
and there's more...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ff13zZ0h0k&feature=related
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I thought this was a pretty fair point:
On the ring front, my GF said that the engagement ring should be at least the same value as the most expensive guitar that I have bought
They're both "luxuries", not necessities, but if you can afford the guitar you can afford the ring.*
(* Twinfan excepted - good job he's already married! :P )
Ha ha! :lol:
My wife's engagement ring was around one month's net salary to me at the time, and way more expensive than any guitar I owned at that point. I guess I fit all the 'rules'?!
To my mind the ring doesn't have to cost the earth, but the lady will be showing it off to all her friends and family. I guess that means it needs to be the best you can afford. A £20 cheapie from Argos is probably taking the p1ss, but if someone cuts out beer/fags for a bit (or sells a guitar etc) than that commitment won't go unnoticed by the recipient.
As someone said earlier, keeping your other half happy makes for a good life :D
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Get her a traditional ring and then you can wear one of these:
(http://cdn.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/hothand.jpg)
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More comedy gold - wedding stuff starts at 2:00 into the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhkzVVapQo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhkzVVapQo)
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Guitar.
If you get rid of a guitar you get back half the money you spent, but if you get rid of a wife, you lose half the money you have left.