The story begins with your fiancé picking out a gold wedding jewelry piece. You tell her that it is expensive. You mean that it is overpriced, or that it is more than you can afford. She thinks you mean that that you cannot afford to buy her a ring and that she is not going to get a wedding ring. She starts to cry and you cannot understand why. After you calm her down, you laboriously explain to her what your budget is for a ring. She still thinks you are a miser, but you make the purchase.
This may be the end of it or it may not. I know one acquaintance that has purchased a gold wedding jewelry for his wife five times because he keeps imposing a budget on his wife. He went to Fast Eddie’s Discount Wedding Rings first. His fiancé buys the biggest, gaudiest ring she can find for the money, but she doesn’t like it because she keeps comparing it to my wife’s wedding ring.
His fiancé buys the biggest diamond even though it is of poor quality. My wife has excellent taste. I explained to my wife when buying a wedding ring about diamond quality. I told her about quality versus size. She picked a beautifully designed ring and a stone that was good quality and a reasonable size for the money. It was a little more than I wanted to pay, but it made my wife happy.
Her friend has somewhat kitschy taste. Big and gaudy is better in her mind. Yet when she keeps comparing it to my wife’s ring, she is unhappy. She keeps pressing her husband to trade up. Eventually, she will get the ring she always wanted. But it will end up costing more in the long run than if he had just bought the right ring in the first place. Remember, gold wedding jewelry is not cheap, but it can be very expensive if you don’t do your homework.