Re: Your First Diamond?

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

DH and I picked out my engagement diamond in Phildelphia's Jewelers' Row in 1967. Ten years later I had it reset as a wedding band in a Florentine setting. I wear it everyday:

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

PhilaLady1 · ‎03-11-2010

If someone intends on giving me a diamond, they better hurry up while I am still on the top side of the grass. Geez, your first diamond, meaning there is or was more to come. I hope you all appreciate how financially blessed you are if someone gave you multiple diamonds for gifts 💎
Okay, I'll get off my soap box and answer the question. Mine was from my late husband, my engagement ring, when I was 18. The stone was in a ring from his family, I don't remember who, that they had reset in a new band to make my ring. It has a few tiny emeralds and a diamond. The generational and sentimental hand-me-down is the most beautiful thing about it.

MoonieBaby · ‎07-19-2013

My parents. And I threw them all away. Diamonds are nothing special, rare or unique.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

For me--just in both of my wedding sets--from 2 marriages--sold both of them a few years ago--after divorces---both were pretty unsubstantial in the diamond and the sentiment. Am not a diamond girl so that's not a thing for me.

sandy53 · ‎03-12-2010

When I was about 10 I was given a gold ring with a very small diamond from my grandmother. I wore it for many years and still have it.

I did not have another diamond until I was engaged at age 29. Back then everyone got 1/4 to 1/3 carat size engagement rings. Mine is 1/3 carat. I had that diamond reset because of problems with the original setting and still wear it. My DH has offered to buy me a larger stone, but I am very happy with what I have.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@MoonieBaby wrote:
My parents. And I threw them all away. Diamonds are nothing special, rare or unique.

It's not the stones that are special. It's the sentimental and loving gesture in giving.

Gifts don't have to be special, rare or unique. Most people would be happy with anything that was given with love.

Luv2Dnce · ‎02-07-2024

The first time I received diamonds as a gift is when I purchased a diamond ring for myself in my early 20's. I had a good job in corporate America and it was one of the first things I bought after I started that job. Years ago, old school days, you were usually gifted or waited to receive a gift that had diamonds. Although, I was very independent and felt that I didn't need to wait for someone to give me the gift of diamonds. I loved that ring and still have it today. When I look at it, it only shows me what I worked for and accomplished on my own. I have received diamonds as gifts since that time and will treasure them as well. Although, my favorite diamond gifts are my engagement ring and wedding bands.

Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

When I received my First Communion my parents gave me a 14k white gold chain with a cross with diamonds. I am now 70 years old and still have it.

drizzellla · ‎03-14-2010

My boyfriend during my Senior year of high school asked me to marry him shortly before Christmas. In my usual "tactful way", I replied that we hadn't sewn any wild oats yet. And I was not ready.

And it happened that my Dad wanted to take the family on a cruise to the Bahamas over Christmas holiday. So pretty much the entire Christmas holiday I was in Florida or the cruise.

It wasn't until I got home that I found out that my boyfriend had inherited money from his Grandfather's estate. My boyfriend used his inherited money to buy me a 3 carat diamond ring. He had taken the ring to school and shown everyone (except me) before our Christmas holiday.

I had no clue he bought a ring. There was a big party during the Christmas holiday. My boyfriend of course attended and since I was not around another girl "moved in".

As soon as I came home, another guy asked me out. I was shocked someone would ask me out. And he told me what happened at the party while I was gone. My now former boyfriend was hurt that I did not want to get engaged at Christmas. And now someone else "moved in" on him at the party. So we were done.

I never got to see the ring in person. But I was told it was beautiful.

He married girlfriend #2. I got to see the ring briefly at a Class Reunion. But they got divorced shortly after the reunion.(It was painful to watch them interact together). He slipped me his phone number at the reunion. But I was married by then. And I was not about to mess up my life.

Since my husband and I eloped I never got a diamond engagement ring. If he got me an engagement ring, people would be questioning when is the wedding. And we had seen enough family members and their intrusive input into weddings and decided to elope. So the only diamonds I got were diamond stud earrings. That I never wear.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

I admit I am a bit surprised how many people received diamonds as children or young teens. It's just not my experience. I don't remember anyone in my family or any friends getting diamonds until they got an engagement ring. I know married women who had diamond stud earrings given as anniversary gifts. I don't have a lot of diamonds. I still have and wear my diamond engagement ring with my wedding band.