‘I have never seen such a hideous engagement ring… I hate it’

“I’ve been waiting YEARS to get engaged and I can’t believe this is what he chose,” the woman said as she invited others to shame her ring.

Today I walked past a couple peering in the window of a jewellery shop, looking at the diamond engagement rings.

Clearly they were newly engaged, and instead of chancing a guess on the perfect ring, the woman’s fiancé decided to involve his future wife in the process.

My first impulse was admittedly old-fashioned, I thought it spoiled the magic of the proposal that he asked her to marry him and then said, “Let’s go shopping”.

But I guess asking and telling what we want is about good communication, and good communication is the foundation of a happy relationship.

Good communication certainly would have helped one woman posting in a ring-shaming group on Facebook.

“I’ve been waiting YEARS for this. I am literally shaking in my boots. Let her rip,” she captioned the photo of the ring.

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The woman hated her engagement ring and welcomed others to insult it. Photo: Facebook

Woman brutally shames own engagement ring

The woman’s ring was a simple 1.8 carat, princess-cut diamond. If it was a photo on the internet, we’d call the orientation “landscape”. There are no claws, and the band looks gold-coloured.

Of the nearly 400 commenters, nobody liked the ring, calling it “boring” and “hideous”.

“It looks like it’s taking a nap for boring itself to sleep,” one person said.

“Take it off and put it in a drawer where it belongs,” said another.

“Why does it look like one of those plastic beads you get in kids’ necklace making kits,” a third person said.

The disappointed bride-to-be might have taken a page from the book of another woman whose not-so-stealthy hints got her the ring of her dreams.

The woman posted photo updates to Facebook that were totally unrelated to engagements or diamond rings.

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The woman dropped her fiance hints about her dream engagement ring. Photo: Facebook

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“I need to bring this with me everywhere,” she captioned a photo of her iPhone charger.

“I need to get my nails doneeee,” another caption read.

In the background of each photo was the Pandora website, open to a page with a diamond engagement ring.

Hint, hint, get it?

Originally published as ‘I have never seen such a hideous engagement ring… I hate it’