{"id":19027,"date":"2019-02-22T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/?p=19027"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:25:11","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-spend-3-months-salary-on-an-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/why-you-shouldnt-spend-3-months-salary-on-an-engagement-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn\u2019t Spend 3 Months\u2019 Salary on an Engagement Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The adage that you need to spend three months\u2019 salary on an engagement ring is painfully outdated.<\/p>\n

Where Did This Saying Come From?<\/strong>
\nThe notion that you need to spend so many months\u2019 salary on your engagement ring stemmed from a De Beers ad launched in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

De Beers ran a series of \u201cTwo Months\u2019 Salary\u201d ads with tag lines like, \u201c2 months\u2019 salary showed the future Mrs. Smith what the future will be like,\u201d that essentially put a monetary value on the emotional value of a couple\u2019s relationship. The amount inflated over time from two months\u2019 salary to three months\u2019 gross salary; thus, we are left with the saying that you should spend three months\u2019 salary on your ring.<\/p>\n

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How Much Should You Spend on an Engagement Ring?<\/strong>
\nAn engagement ring budget is entirely personal and there really isn\u2019t a hard-and-fast rule to determine how much you should spend. But, if you\u2019re looking for a ballpark figure, Americans spent, on average, $6,351 on an engagement ring in 2017 according to The Knot\u2019s 2017 Real Weddings Study.<\/p>\n

We hope this all helped dispel the belief that you need to spend three months\u2019 salary on your engagement ring and, if you\u2019re looking for ways to save on your ring, read our tips for how to cut costs on your ring without sacrificing style or quality here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adage that you need to spend three months\u2019 salary on an engagement ring is painfully outdated. Where Did This Saying Come From? The notion that you need to spend so many months\u2019 salary on your engagement ring stemmed from a De Beers ad launched in the 1980s. De Beers ran a series of \u201cTwo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[312,142,135,703,704,162],"class_list":["post-19027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-style","tag-engagement","tag-engagement-ring","tag-wedding","tag-wedding-day-jewelry","tag-wedding-jewelry","tag-wedding-ring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}