Quote Originally Posted by Flur View Post
I had a woman outright insult my ring because of its size. No joke. She was DH's hairdresser. She called my center stone a "cute little baby stone" and implied it was not up to her standards. A number of women made faces to the same effect. I also had a good friend insult my wedding band (which I picked because it went nicely with my engagement ring) because of the diamond size. She said that my ring was "nice, but I want a ring that looks like a wedding ring." She picked out a very similar ring with much larger diamonds in it. Seriously. Everything that was said just made me more happy to have what I had.
And this snobbery goes both ways. I've been insulted and had it insinuated that I'm spoiled or rich because of the size of my ring...also an heirloom. When my DH told my mom that he wanted to marry me, she gave him my grandmother's diamond. He had it set into a ring before he asked me to marry him. It's not huge (it's not multi-carrat or anything), but I've certainly been in situations where people have made plenty of derrogatory comments about it's size. Personally, I find it rude and it makes me uncomfortable. I love, love, love my ring both because I think it's fricken gorgeous and because of the sentimental value (both from DH and from my grandmother/grandfather), but I hate that I find myself in situations where I feel that I'll be better recieved if I keep my hand in my pocket.


About those ads...the very first thing both my DH and I commented on to each other when we first saw them was "wow, bad timing, much?". I'm not personally offended by the ads (or by the people who buy cars for gifts), but I also can't say that Lexus is really making that big of a business mistake by running them. From their perspective, so what if they offend people struggling to get by...those people aren't their customers, right? I mean, yeah, it's not in good taste and they should care about their company image...but really, from a business standpoint, does it really matter?