How much should a man spend on a ring for the woman he wants to marry?

As much as it takes to get something you truly like and that has good quality. I'm not a fan of hard and fast numbers that can never cover every possible scenario. ETA: for example, where I live, even decent earners usually can't put aside more than a few hundred bucks a month for frivolous spends because of taxes. That also means that you have a higher baseline of social security if stuff goes wrong in your life and you're not as dependent on your partner for that. I would consider lavish weddings like in the US pretty excessive around here. I mean, if you really want that, go for it, sure. But if my hypothetical fiance wanted to throw an extremely costly party, I would question his financial responsibility.

As long as it comes from a jewellery store for wedding rings I don’t mind the price. I wont accept fake gold or silver. fake diamond etc because a ring should be a token of your love and devotion. I’ve seen a dude buy a ring from Target while he buys a console for himself.. no dude you can leave.

1-3 months salary. He pays for your ring. I think wedding bands are budgeted in with wedding costs. I’m not an expert & just a guess.

Been married twice. Get a cheap gold or silver ring with zirconia and a cheque on the side for $50.000 or so😅. Reselling a wedding band or diamond ring is not lucrative. Say you spend 10k on it you'll only get 1k for it if you sell it to a jeweler.

And, yes, I'm a big believer thatost marriages end in divorce.

I've always heard 2 1/2 months of his yearly earnings and/or salary. I don’t know if that came from Emily Post, or if it is an old "wives tale", still that sounds fair to me..

I've never been married so I can't say with certainty, but on a personal level IDC so much about price as much as the effort and care put into buying the ring. Now if they get me some $25-50 Walmart ring, I'd get rid of them ASAP. I pay more than that for my own jewelry.

I also want to be the first owner of my rings. I don't want someone else's wedding set or something from a pawn shop. I believe in energy being transferred into objects and I'm not sure what kind of things went down in the marriage when the previous owner had it.

IMO, this is super dependent upon the woman’s tastes. If she wants a huge rock with a million little diamonds around it, okay, then she should get that. But if she’s a hardcore athlete and just wants a ring that won’t bother her while she’s exercising, then that’s a totally different budget. Really, it’s whatever makes her happy. I would never expect it to cost less than $1k.

In so far as how much to spend on a man’s ring-I would probably factor it into the wedding costs. The man should be paying for most of the wedding costs. The max I would spend…maybe a grand, on the high end?

At least three months salary.

My criteria:

1. I will not accept heirlooms (i.e. needing to ask grandfather/grandmother/aunt/whoever relative for the ring).

2. A rock solid, real diamond is all that I will accept in gold, sterling silver, or platinum from a reputable jewelry store. Period. No lab created/grown, cubic zirconia, etc. As soon as the ring is on my finger, I'm getting it appraised to verify the authenticity and get it insured.

To clarify the first point: I wear a size 5 ring (yes, my fingers are slender). People tend to get very, very territorial with any sort of alteration to heirloom pieces. Second, in the event that it already belongs to a living family member or was passed on, it makes me feel extremely uncomfortable to have that piece of jewelry just taken away from said person. It is selfish of the person wanting to marry me to even think that was appropriate, you know? Most of all, that ring would never feel like mine.

Second, fake is fake. I hate how some men try and sell women on this idea about how diamonds are a bad idea. So, cheapening out on the woman you want to marry is supposed to be acceptable to her? No, stop pissing on our backs and telling us it's raining. My father didn't buy a cheap engagement and wedding ring for my mom that turned her finger green or contained cheap (fake) stones that chipped or fell out of the setting because he knew my mom deserved the best. Not only that, my dad fully supported my mom getting the ring appraised and having it insured just in case anything ever happened to it.

P.s. Obligatory scrote story:

My previous ex's sister was proposed to with a ring that came from a wholesale club. My ex's dad lost it about how this was a slap in the face to his daughter that her soon-to-be-husband was so cheap that he wouldn't even go to a proper jewelry store and buy her a proper ring. That wasn't the only thing that my ex's dad held against the guy, but you guys get the point.

I don't think there's really an exact amount. For me it should cost enough that you getting what you want but not so much that they are going into debt to buy it.