Irish woman saves €12,000 on engagement ring and has…

Irish woman saves €12,000 on engagement ring and has top tip many couples don't know

Weddings should (supposedly) be the happiest day of anyone's life, which means that there are tons of traditions and superstitions around engagements, build-ups, planning it and that's before you even get to the big day itself.

For example, traditionally an engagement ring should be bought with at least three month's salary of the proposer.

It's an old-fashioned rule and is pretty much a non-goer in 2022 thanks to the spiking costs of pretty much anything and everything.

Enter Irish TikToker Lucy Blu.

The bride-to-be has a wedding date coming up in 2024 and took to social media recently to show off her snazzy engagement ring.

The story of how she got it was a very interesting one, particularly as we're smack in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

She told her 4,000+ followers: "Two weeks before we went to Dubai, we tried on some rings in Ireland and I simply did that so I knew what engagement ring I even wanted - cut, style, the whole lot.

The 'lab-grown' ring caused quite a stir (Lucy Blu/Tiktok)

So I picked my ring and then I contacted Cara Jewellers in Dubai to make it.

"The cost difference from one to the other was phenomenal."

She then showed off the natural diamond ring that she had found in Ireland - which would've set her back a cool €14,000.

Which made the €2,750 she paid for the lab-grown diamond ring on her finger look like a bargain!

"If I had wanted to buy a natural diamond ring in Dubai, it would've been around €6,000. It's just a no-brainer, the price for anything in Ireland is extortionate but it's just saturated with marketing and the notion that the more he spends the more he loves you, the better the ring." Lucy continued.

"Three and a half times the salary? It's absolute crap, it's a marketing technique. My ring is perfect - side by side to an actual diamond ring you would not know the difference."

Commenters were divided on the cost and the idea of lab-grown diamonds.

One wrote: "Is the price difference not because it’s lab grown rather than being from Dubai? What would the lab grown price have been in Ireland?

Another added: "Your ring is beautiful but, the difference between a real diamond and a lab grown is, a diamond has value and the lab doesn't."

However, one person quickly fired back: "If you're worried about the resale value of an engagement/wedding ring you probably shouldn't be getting married."

Another said: "Lab grown is the way forward."

Lab grown diamonds share all the real properties of natural diamonds but are not mined from the earth. That is why they are sometimes called ethical diamonds as they are less harmful on the environment.

Lab diamonds are created in a lab using the same pressurised process that causes diamonds to form in the earth. They shares the same physical, optical and chemical properties.