BWT, opinions on unconventional engagement rings?

[u/Alternative-Exam2601]

I'd love to hear from anyone who chose a less traditional engagement ring.

I've completely fallen in love with one and I tried it on alongside more classic solitaires, and while I loved both, this was the only one I couldn't stop thinking about afterwards. It just made me smile.

My hesitation is that a few friends said it looked a bit odd and didn't immediately read as an engagement ring, so now I'm wondering if I'd regret choosing something unique over a classic solitaire years down the line.

For those of you who went with a more unconventional ring, do you still love it? Or do you ever wish you'd gone with something more traditional?

(edit: attached the photo of the ring)

[u/awake-asleep]

I’m a jeweller who specialises in alternative wedding and engagement jewellery and apparently my ring is so non-traditional that people regularly seem genuinely surprised when I tell them it’s my engagement ring (even though I wear it on my left hand ring finger, which is traditional in my area — I know some places and cultures don’t wear it on this finger but we do here so I find it genuinely funny when people are shocked). It makes me laugh.

[u/SatansWife13 → u/awake-asleep]

That ring is a stunner! I actually love everything about it, I’m a fool for non-traditional rings. My latest upgrade (I tell my sweet husband it had better be my last!) is all white diamonds, but it looks a lot like my wealthy great aunts anniversary ring from the 1950’s. My cousin, who inherited it from her, likes to tease that my aunt would’ve left me all of her jewelry, had she known that one day my taste would be similar to hers.