Sometimes brides-to-be unknowingly wear a fake ring on their finger, and that’s when they realize the deception.
An engagement ring is one of the symbols of the commitment that a bride and groom make to each other. And this promise is much more important than the price of the jewelry. But not everyone has a big budget or wants to spend a lot of money on a ring. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as the person giving the precious jewelry is honest about its origin. However, several brides-to-be have realized that they were wearing a fake engagement ring.
This is what Sarah Tonen says. After working in a jewelry store, she explains in a Tiktok video: “The number of fake engagement rings I’ve spotted while selling jewelry is absolutely crazy.”. At the time, she remembers seeing many customers who came in to have their engagement rings resized, a free service offered for jewelry purchased in her store, or to have them cleaned. The problem was, a number of times, it turned out that the ring was actually… a fake.
As a jeweler, Sarah Tonen was easy to spot when it came to “fake” engagement rings. “You can’t change the size of a ring that isn’t made of a precious metal.”she explains. In fact, the metal has to be heated to fit the ring to the customer’s size, and non-precious metals immediately degrade when exposed to this high heat. So she simply couldn’t meet the customers’ demand and was forced to tell them the truth. “So women would come in (to the jewelry store) with their rings, which their fiancés had sworn they bought from our store, and ask for their rings to be resized. Guess who had to tell them that this ring that was “purchased here” is a cubic zirconia (a synthetic mineral, editor’s note) on a gold-plated copper band purchased on Amazon“, testifies the TikToker.
According to her, the women she had to reveal this information to were often “angry”and we understand them! “I personally don’t think you need to buy a nice ring to get engaged, I think you don’t need a ring at all. (…) These women were all turning red, screaming. They were embarrassed. And, frankly, if my fiancé had told me that he had bought a ring from a specific place and so I was going there to have it sized, and I was told that the ring was not bought there, and also that it’s not a real ring, I would be angry too. Not because the ring is not a real ring, but because our engagement started with a lie.”says Sarah Tonen.
A good number of Internet users share their point of view in comments “No matter what ring you buy, just don’t lie and don’t put your wife in a situation where she might be embarrassed.”comments a user of the social network. “I sold jewelry for years… Almost every day a man would come in and ask for a box for a ring (no, we didn’t give it away like that)”adds a former jeweler.
