Other than a diamond engagement ring, what other stones may be used?
Great idea! Traditionally, engagement rings were any stone a woman wanted or a man felt like giving. If you read novels even back from the 1940s, all kinds of stones were used. The most popular precious gems are ruby, sapphire, and emerald. Even Princess Diana, for example, had a famous and beautiful oval sapphire surrounded by smaller diamonds. My mother had an emerald-cut emerald with a little cluster of very tiny diamonds on either side. I know a woman with a deep red ruby, princess-cut, flanked by two smaller princess-cut diamonds and it suits her coloring very well; people admire it all the time. Because it is one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry a woman owns, traditionally a precious stone is used – but again, that’s tradition, not the law. If it’s not important to you to have an expensive ring, then there are a lot of semiprecious options, like opal, moonstone, topaz, aquamarine, or amethyst. I also know a woman with a very big aquamarine engagement ring, and it is absolu
