Engagement Ring Shopping! Alone? Together? Informed?

He did it on his own (complete surprise) - he knew I didn't want a new diamond, and that I like simple/delicate jewlery in general. He did really well.

We shopped together. But even though I knew what my ring would be, I didn't know when he bought it and the proposal was a surprise.

We the most we shopped was trying on jewelry at Tiffany's in Vegas probably a year before he proposed. Other than that we talked a little here on there like "I like princess cut, do you like princess cut?" "what's your ring size?" I didn't realize quite how serious he was about the questions so I just guessed a size. Ring didn't fit but it was still beautiful.

He did it all him self but he asked what style I liked

I sent him one picture about a year before he proposed randomly showing him what I liked. He went by himself. I don't think he asked anyone for their opinion. He did really well. I love it.

I gave hints... I left a pinterest page open and up on his computer for a while.

In the end he picked out something so unique and different from what I was expecting. I couldn't have picked out anything as beautiful!

We never spoke about rings...ever! But, I made sure key people knew what I liked and I had a few styles pinned on a Pinterest board that those key people could see. It worked perfectly because when he was ready, he took his mom and sister shopping with him and BAM, his sister whipped out her phone, opened up Pinterest, and I got the perfect ring I was always so torn on bringing it up and kind of ruining the surprise of it all or just letting him wing it and risk wearing something I didn't like at all. Couldn't have turned out any better though!

I'd send him pictures to his phone and he would message my cousin because she knew what I wanted. She told me the one I got was the one he picked out by himself (which I'm shocked at how good he did!)

I caught him looking at rings on his phone one night and we looked together for a little bit that night. We both liked the same things - white gold and a princess cut diamond. Then nothing else was said about it for a while. He did finally mention "maybe you should go get sized" but not until he had tried to figure my ring size out himself with a set of calipers. So glad he believed me that a 4 would definitely be too small - I'm a 7!

I had absolutely NO idea that he was going to propose.

I had a beautiful claddagh ring show up in my facebook feed one day, it was a dark band with a sapphire, and some czs around it, and I commented on how beautiful it was, and went about my day.

Come to find out, he tried to order that exact one, but it never shipped, so he looked for something similar, and picked out my ring!

I couldn't have picked a better one on my own. Its everything I wanted.

ETA: I kept stealing rings of his to wear, and we wear the same size, so he didn't even have to ask my size.

We went together and it was so much fun! When we started talking about getting married, he sent me some photos of rings he liked. That's when I realized he needed some guidance. His style is just wayyyyyyyyy different from mine. So we went to Jared together and he ended up buying the ring and wedding band that day, and I cried, and it was wonderful. And now I have what I want instead of the gaudy monstrosities he would have picked.

FH and I have been together 5 years but have known each other for 20 years. His sister and I are best friends and his family is my extended family...his parents have always been mom and dad to me. About 10 years ago he asked his then girlfriend to marry him and he picked out the ring himself. It was the ugliest e-ring I or his family had ever seen. Nobody liked the girl...she wasn't friendly, and no one said anything because they figured it wouldn't last anyway...which it didn't.

I love FH dearly but he is incapable of buying for a women. The only time he hits the mark is if he knows what I want before hand. So, over time when anyone brought it up I would always say that if and when I get married "we'd" have to shop together because I know what I like. He got the hint and saved the shopping for both of us!!

We shopped together. I wasn't there when he bought the ring, but we had a sit down at a jewelry store and went over the four Cs and what I had in mind.

I was easy, though... very simple specifications. Princess cut diamond solitaire in a classic Tiffany (knife edge) setting. FH insisted on at least a carat, but that wasn't really important to me.

FH had randomly been looking at engagement rings like a year before he proposed, I think it was so gauge what I liked. He also told me some story about his mother wanting to get rid of some of her jewelry and asked what size ring I was. I was sort of on to him. But the waiting made me doubt anything was happening.

In the end, he chose it on his own. His mom went with him, but he tells me he knew me enough to pick the perfect one, and it is. I love my ring.

My husband picked mine out with his aunt and I am glad he did. About 6 months after our engagement, he gave me a ring as a gift....it is cute but not something I would've ever picked out. Later on I found out that is the ring he originally purchased for my engagement ring then he showed his aunt and she told him he needed to re-evaluate whether the ring was my type or his type. He decided that he did indeed pick a ring that he liked, not a ring that he thought I would like. LOL

His aunt took him the second time and they purchased my e-ring and wedding band set together. I absolutely LOVE it!! I never knew it wasn't his first pick though until way later.

We didn't talk about it and he didn't ask. I had said to myself if he didn't ask me by New Year's Day of this year, I was going to start leaving hints around the house Lol. I didn't have to, he asked me the weekend before Thanksgiving and picked out the ring on his own. It wasn't what I thought I wanted, but I love it because he put the thought into buying the one he liked for me.

So how did you or your FH/FW pick the ring out? FH picked it out

-Did they do it all by themselves? I believe he went with a friend who was also looking for an ering, but thats what I was told from someone else may or may not be true

-Did the two of you go ring shopping together? we went browsing together a couple times before (just at the mall, walk into a jewelry store) but not intending to buy or even try on

-Did he ask a family member or best friend of yours what you would like? not to my knowledge

-Did you give them hints? i told him a solitaire, something classic, but i got a classic ring but not a solitaire. I told him no yellow gold, but it wasnt at the store just in general I dont like yellow gold rings.

FH bought the ring alone, but I had sent him a few pictures of what I liked when we started talking about getting engaged.

The proposal and ring were a complete surprise. FH collaborated with my best friend and she spent months subtly finding out what I liked. After he had some of that info, he picked it out himself. I absolutely love it.

We went together accidentally, we just stopped at a shop and I was only going to point out the styles I liked and things i would wear, but we found the perfect ring and bought it on the spot! So thankful we did too, the jeweler told us when we came back to pick it up after sizing that someone had come in the following day to ask about it as they had been on the fence the previous day!