I loved the ring, but a few things were strange to me. He said his father designed it for him in London and it was a whole process to get it here, but he didn’t want me to know the details because he said it wasn’t “romantic” to talk about such logistics. It was three carats and beautiful, a cushion cut. So after dating for two years and being madly in love, my boyfriend proposed with a big, fat ROCK. I never met his father or mother because they lived out there and we lived in New York, and the story was his mother had a horrible fear of flying.
My ex-boyfriend’s dad was supposedly a high-end jeweler in London. “He said his dad was a jeweler.” -Judy, 48, nurse (Just ask Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent, who accused her ex-fiancé of buying her a fake.) Here are four New York women, whose names have been changed, on discovering their engagement rings were fake. Yet even as dupes take over every other area of our lives, real diamonds may be the one thing we’re unwilling to give up. Synthetic diamonds are cheaper, more ethical, and often indistinguishable from the real thing. In theory, there are a lot of benefits to duping a diamond ring.