moana posted:

It's total 100% bullshit made up by an industry that would have said a year's salary if they thought they could get away with it.

Ask her mom if there are any heirloom diamonds in the family you could get reset. My ring cost less than $200 because I just got my grandmother's necklace reset as a ring, and drat, it looks amazing and is way more sentimental for me than anything else I could have gotten for thousands and thousands of dollars.

The part that worries me most is this: "with little consideration of my opinion, lol" because if you can't talk about something like this together, you should not be getting married. In my experience, my girlfriends who have insisted on X amount of spending on an engagement ring are also usually the crazy entitled ones. I love them as friends, but I pity the man who has to pay for their upkeep.