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As someone in a three-year relationship, I’m in that all-too-common boat of knowing you want to spend the rest of your life with someone but not having nearly enough money to buy some 2-carat jewelry and a steak dinner for our 150 closest friends. Sure, we could elope or have a courthouse wedding, but in the age of social media and Pinterest, we’ve become obsessed with having the biggest, the best, and the sparkliest in order to be happy, and I’ve certainly fallen prey to that as exhibited by all of the screenshots of heinous and tiny rings I’ve sent to my other single friends over the years.
Ariel McRae found herself in the situation many of us have been in, knowing that she wanted to marry her boyfriend but not having a ton of freedom in her checking account balance, but that didn’t matter to her. She went to Pandora with her soon-to-be husband to check out a $130 ring set, when the saleswoman slammed the set to McRae, knocking women who purchase those for wedding sets as “pathetic.” McRae, however, took to Facebook and decided to set the record straight.
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Well, I officially feel like shit. I’m officially going to lay off the criticisms of rings under a carat and try to be a bigger person (that is, unless you decide to get married in college, and I’m still going to make sure you know my opinion on that). While I probably still won’t settle for a smaller diamond or cash bar, I do have a little more respect for those who do. If my boyfriend is reading this, sorry, but this newfound revelation doesn’t apply to you, and you’re still on the hook for that 2 carat Yurman cable cross set. Sorry. .
[via Mashable]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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The Recruitment Chair you should change your name to Richard or Tom because this article makes you look petty AF.
Women who care more about getting married than who they’re marrying are narcissists and should be avoided like the plague. And that’s coming from a narcissist. RC’s boyfriend should run as far and as fast as he can
Anyone know where to get cheap conflict diamonds?
Bahrain. Or, uh, so I’ve been told.
Can second that. Definitely Bahrain.
Was expecting her to lay down an absolute ass-chewing on the sales person. Was very disappointed.
She’s the ying to girl’s yang
*yin
Maybe that’s what BTC was going for:
“3-6-9 damn you fine/gonna drop one-thirty on a ring one time/ cuz we broke like an 18-wheeler/ stuck on the 5 in the middle of winter”
I respect that
The concept of equating love to expensive jewelry has always grossed me out. It’s refreshing to hear of a couple who realizes that having fun together as best friends is a way better track for marriage than expecting a huge diamond. Best of luck to them both!
Sup?
Can you do something about how the comments are being formatted? A lot of words are being separated and having a letter or two in the following line, it just looks budget. Also, if you’re up for it, please change the Tiffany’s-esque color thing you got going on, it’s shallow and pedantic
Both a 100 or a 10,000 dollar ring, would break my excel budget sheet
Either* fuck
“How will I ever know you love me if you don’t drop $15k (which could have gone to a vehicle, house, paying down loans, etc.) on this worthless piece of rock?!?!”
“Diamonds are almost worthless other than the value attached to them by the silly tramps you’ve brainwashed into thinking ‘diamond equals love.’ Guess what sluts, your quest for the perfect princess cut is supporting terrorism and genocide. Congratulations, your avarice has managed to destroy an entire continent.”
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Damnit I came late to the party. Looks like you’ve covered absolutely everything I was going to say. Hell yeah man!……hey smuts, go fuck yourselves. Spend that money on a cool trip to learn something about the world besides looking at it via Pinterest and Facebook you sad, sad sacks of human shit
This is just humble bragging over how cheap your ring is, which frankly is JUST as annoying as flaunting how expensive it was. You don’t need to spend a fortune to get something beautiful, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to give/get something beautiful which you plan on wearing for the rest of your life. It’s not about the ring (I’d marry my boyfriend with a dang supermarket twist tie) but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want something reasonable and beautiful that will last forever.
The fake “Oh my God, that ring is gorgeous!!” Facebook comments are almost as bad.