Currently shopping for an engagement ring. How many of you have decided to go the Moissanite route? Regrets? GF is onboard with it as well.

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Or you could find a wholesaler for lab diamonds and land on a middle price point. She won't have to explain it's not a diamond every time. Chemically identical. 1.5 carats, custom cast platinum micro pave band + labor landed me at $4k last year.

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American Grown Diamonds in NYC. They'll eat the labor costs and do a CAD rendering for free if you go custom on the band. The melee stones cost next to nothing and they'll match the color grades with the main stone. All of the work is done on site and they'll even ship the final product out of state to remove the sales tax.

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I proposed to me fiancee using a Sapphire ring - I made sure she was onboard with it first, of course. Nearly as hard as a diamond, unique and elegant, and actually valuable/rare to boot.

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Sounds cheap to me...But you do you

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If she is onboard, then just do it

Diamonds are a really expensive way to show her and her family you’re serious about the relationship. If you and her (and her family) don’t need that, then absolutely go for alternatives.

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