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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emergent" data-source="post: 483247" data-attributes="member: 8929">I just got married this past January and we were engaged a year before that.  Two things:Don't spend more than you can really afford.  As a poor grad student, I was bummed I could not buy my now-wife something great and huge. But no matter what you get, she'll love it!  You can always add to it with more or bigger diamonds later, or drop lots of cash on the anniversary band in a few years.  Second, get her input.  While it is true she'll like it no matter what, it is also true most women have thought about the kind of ring they want already -- at least my wife had.  So she gave me some ideas about settings, stones, etc before I went a got one.  There is also all the complicated diamond stuff, but there are lots of web sites and books available to help.  I picked up The Grooms Survivial Manual before I went ring shopping and it was a big help -- not just for the engagement ring, but for all the stuff that comes after.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I hope this is helpful.  Best of luck and congrats!</blockquote>