The fascination with near bankrupting yourself over a piece of overpriced jewelry rather than putting the money towards a house or something similarly required to actually live tells a lot of what is wrong with modern society. OTT weddings are a similar issue.
Yeah if you want a ring a simple silver or gold band is fine. If you want a gem there are cheap ones that still look good and synthetic gems. There is no reason to spend a huge amount for one other than wasting money.
Things like rings, wedding ceremonies, and even white frosting on cake were reserved for the nobility. These days, every woman thinks she's a princess.
As someone from Scotland the idea of wanting to be a prince or princess is akin to eventual suicide. A lot of Americans in particular forget just how often nobles and royalty were killed by other nobles or revolutions. Whole thing is so badly romantised the literal horrible history of wars fought for the right to rule is left collecting dust on some shelf.
The fascination with near bankrupting yourself over a piece of overpriced jewelry rather than putting the money towards a house or something similarly required to actually live tells a lot of what is wrong with modern society. OTT weddings are a similar issue.
Yeah if you want a ring a simple silver or gold band is fine. If you want a gem there are cheap ones that still look good and synthetic gems. There is no reason to spend a huge amount for one other than wasting money.
Used market too. $300 - $500 will get you a very nice piece that would normally otherwise cost you 5 - 20x the price.
With a shovel and a little elbow grease you can get one for free.
Things like rings, wedding ceremonies, and even white frosting on cake were reserved for the nobility. These days, every woman thinks she's a princess.
As someone from Scotland the idea of wanting to be a prince or princess is akin to eventual suicide. A lot of Americans in particular forget just how often nobles and royalty were killed by other nobles or revolutions. Whole thing is so badly romantised the literal horrible history of wars fought for the right to rule is left collecting dust on some shelf.
It's about having the excess wealth to display. There's more than the material aspect of it.
weddings are worse, at least the ring has lasting value, can be sold in hardship or passed down to a later generation.
They view it as a dowry still, the money they can run off with if times get tough and they decide to hell with for better or worse.
The ring matters because it's their escape raft. They are already focused on divorce before the marriage begins.
These same women are more concerned with the wedding than the marriage.