what is the normal price of an engagement ring?

Answer 1

The question is how much you can afford, usually the determining factor is 3 times the man's monthly salary. It also depends on the style and quality that you want. Maybe you should go talk to a jeweler

Answer 2

Everyone mentions that its 1-3 months salary (personally i say 2), but no one is mentioning the differences in rings themselves! that is the most important thing that drives up the cost.

There is a huge price jump at 1.0 carat. If she wants "around a carat" then a .92 will cost you a lot less than a 1.1 and its not visable.

Also how clear (clarity) she wants it. You can't tell much difference til you get down the scale and you notice it's a bit milky looking. A very clear stone will allow you to see each individual cut that is made in the bottom of the stone. Nearly perfect is gonna have a lot of letters--V V S 1. But its gonna get cheaper if you go down to SI2.

Plus the color! I think this is the #1 factor in cost. A diamond rated a D stone which is near perfect in color can have a slightly lower clarity and still look perfect. But a D stone is going to cost you a lot more than a G or H--which is going to have a tad shading of yellow in it.

Getting a 1 carat perfect stone can run you 10K or more. You can get a HUGE stone for 10K if you get an G in color that isnt that clear (I2). And I mean Huge. Basically you are going to have to decide on price before you decide anything else.

Realize its a lot like buying a sweater. You know as a man that you can buy a sweater on sale at Walmart for 5 dollars but your girlfriend comes home from Saks with a cashmere sweater for $135. It's a sweater either way. Same with engagement rings--there is no normal price for the ring. It can range anything. There is a normal price for a 1 carat, D, VS1 stone. but just a diamond in general--just look up how much celebrities spend on their 15 carat rocks.

Answer 3

I have heard that the engagemet ring should cost about the same as a month's take home salary. Diamond rings are not a great investment they don't appreciate so if you aren't hung up on the natural 'diamond' fad, consider cubic zirconia for a fraction of the cost and put the rest in the bank. On average the guy spends $3000 - $4000 just for the diamond solitaire, then more for the wedding set.

If I had to do it again I'd go the CZ route with a nice 3 carat size ring for about $200 and save the other $4000 for the honeymoon! No one will be the wiser but you.

Answer 4

As a older married woman for many years who when got married we used a ring I had recieved in the mail. I smile even 28 years later thinking about it. Wasnt till the first year after our marriage did I recieve a real wedding band. We used money that most young people today use for rings for buying a house and setting it up for living. We couldnt see getting married in debt. As any marrage we knew that was something we were going to try to avoid. In the years past Ive recieved some beautiful rings none were so beautiful than the one I got that day of my wedding. So my answer would be from a price of nothing that was priceless to hundreds of thousands of dollars . Congratulations

Answer 5

First of all, don't believe in the myth that it should cost the equivalent of two or three months' salary - that is marketing hype put out by jewellers and diamond merchants. It is simply something which has no basis.
Usually, the guy knows how much he can afford comfortably; there is no reason for him to go into debt because of a ring, when the two of you could be saving for your wedding and your future.
Engagement rings can be gotten for $100 and up. Probably the average is 600-800.

Answer 6

one full months pay . for the engagement ring . 2 months pay for the weeding ring .please consider not getting a diamond there are people who are being forced to mine the demons or a military group come passes a hat around and has ever person young and old gets a folded paper then the have to hold you the paper to the soldiers and if it says hand on the paper right then and there the soldiers cut of the hand it could be a child a man a woman or some Senior citizen this is where over 99% of the diamonds are coming from and they are bought by a family called deburres
they are a jewish family and have controlled the dimond trade world wide for moe then 3 generations .
if you do not belive then searh the net type something like dimonds and violence and you will find lots of thing about this

Answer 7

Both my engagement and wedding rings were expensive, but my husband loved them and wanted to buy them for me, so the cost didn't matter.

Go ring shopping together and pick out something you both love -my husband asked me to do this after only 1 month of dating and we had so much fun with it. We've been married over a year now and together almost 4 years.

Here is an average price for a somewhat decent ring: $5,000. To get a truly nice ring, spending $8,000 or more is highly advisable.

Answer 8

I think, nowadays it can be just about anything. My engagement ring was about $400; I've heard that there's a "2-month salary" rule - but, according to this, my ring should have cost us around $20,000! That would have been crazy to spend this kind of money on a ring when we could travel the world instead (went to Russia, Caribbean, East Coast and Japan the year we were married). So, it really depends on your priorities and your situation.

Answer 9

The tradition/old wives' tale/thing girls made up to get nice rings is 1 month's salary for the man. I think it just depends what you can afford. When my friend's parents got engaged he was at college training to be a dentist and didn't have any money so he made a ring out of melted down gold for fillings! Quite sweet (but he bought her a proper ring too years later)...

Answer 10

I think you have to remember that your engagement ring is just a small symbol of your committment. It is NOT your actualy committment! Think about what you actually want to wear on your hand for the rest of your life. My fiance kept showing me rings and I honestly didn't want to wear some flashy, gaudy, nouveau rich thing.

Think about your own lifestyle not what the diamond marketing agencies of the world would like you to equate with your partner's love and conviction. (Have you noticed that about 10 years ago they said it was one month's salary and now it is two! Crazy!)

And think about this - wouldn't it be nice to use that money to either:

1) Help pay for the wedding
2) Take a longer honeymoon
3) Put it toward a downpayment for a house

rather than start your life together in debt!

Insisting that your life partner spend more than he can realistically afford is not a great way to start your life together.

By the way - I became engaged last November and my fiance (who is wonderful and actually listened to me!) chose a simple band with a few small diamonds set into it. Perfect and appropriate for my lifestyle and job. (I think it was about $1000. )

Answer 11

I have always been told that a man should spend about two month's salary on an engagement ring. You can check out www.adiamondisforever.com for some great information about diamonds/proposing/buying guide etc. Hope this helps.