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My opinion is, each person should get what will make them happy. This doesn't mean you should go expecting a six-carat Harry Winston or whatever. If you don't want an engagement ring, then that's cool. If you want a sapphire or a ruby or an opal or whichever stone, that's cool too. Engagement rings, or even the lack of them, express not only the love between you and your fiance, but something about YOU. In my opinion, its the girls who NEED their fiance to give them a ROCK who have low-self esteem... they have to broadcast to the whole world that they have this man (to make them feel good about themselves?) whereas if you don't need an engagement ring, you are secure enough with yourself to know that YOU love your man... and that's all that really matters when it comes down to it.
As I expressed in another thread, I am a total Charlotte type, and I have my dream ring... an emerald cut diamond in a classic platinum or white gold setting... and I want that ring because I feel like it is something that is very "me" - but if its .25 carats or 25 carats, I don't care, as long as I love the man who presents it to me. I'd rather love a poor man and have a tiny diamond (or even a CZ) than wear a ROCK from a rich man I don't care about.
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