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Good. When I told my fiance I was thinking of proposing, I asked if she would like to be involved in picking out the engagement ring, and if she minded whether

Good. When I told my fiance I was thinking of proposing, I asked if she would like to be involved in picking out the engagement ring, and if she minded whether it was genuine or lab-grown. She did not. We commissioned a nice, lab-grown Alexandrite stone, which she loves, and the several grand in savings allowed me to get her a nicer band to go with it. None of our family/friends that she shows off the ring to care that it's lab-grown. The only people who sneer that it is not a "real" diamond do not belong in our social circle. When the only difference between a lab-grown diamond and a "real" one comes down to "Some children in an African diamond mine had to suffer to bring you the latter," you could very reasonably argue that the cruelty is the point.

dylan604 3y ago
>The only people who sneer that it is not a "real" diamond do not belong in our social circle. Clearly, I'm not in that circle either. If someone shows me their ring that they a clearly proud of, just finding the gall to even dare asking "is it real" is so beyond me that I don't really even know where to begin. It's not like it's a knock off hand bag that these same people seem to embrace, so I really am quite content (more than that really) that I'm not in those circles. Congrats on having a good experience with that whole process.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  I imagine most of those people expect to hear "yes" as the answer, even if it isn't. I don't know exactly why they do that (I suspect it's just childish), but I know a few people that behave like that.
henry2023 3y ago
>> The only people who sneer that it is not a "real" diamond No one really cares about "real" diamonds