How to Choose Your Engagement Ring - And What Your Ring Says About You

 Buying an engagement ring is a very exciting time for a girl and a very worrying time for a guy. She wants the biggest sparkler that he can afford and he is hoping he will not have to sell his cat and all his personal possessions to buy it. Seriously though, in the old days the man would go out and buy a ring himself, without consultation, and then surprise the woman with it. In fact, the woman could more of a surprise than she had bargained for if he lacked good taste in rings. However, in these days of equality, more couples are looking at rings together and then discussing which rings she likes and how much is going to be spent on a ring. When most people think of an engagement ring they naturally think of a diamond ring. The bigger and more sparkly, the better! However, times are changing and nowadays it is quite acceptable to have mixture of diamonds and another birthstone or a different birthstone on it's own. Diamond is a birthstone in its own right but there are many other...