Yea. While the forever single people in this forum were saying that no bish is worth a 5K rock, no matter how rich you are.
It's not hard to understand how someone would come to that conclusion, honestly. I dont think that necessarily makes them ineligible to partake in a successful relationship. It's simply a different point of view, whether that be motivated by ones own greed, frugalness, or just sense of practicality. Its not hard to make a strong case against it and be a perfectly normal intelligent human being. In fact i think its harder to make a case for expensive wedding rings.
The way i look at it, is that if i could support an auxiliary expense like that, it wouldn't bother me at all. But i wouldn't want her to spend that money buying ME a gift, because as the typical guy does, i find that kind of thing silly...
In my current situation, the girl i am going to marry doesn't really care. We're not engaged yet, and wont be for a good deal of time, but we joke about a tin foil ring all the time. She thinks its funny, and doesn't really care... i like that. I would buy her a 100k dollar ring if i could, but i can't right now, it is what it is.
As i said before, i wouldn't expect anything back really. I mean, i would hope i'd get a nice night out, or SOMETHING for all the effort i put in, but it wouldn't need to be material, or expensive if it was. Just to show me that she really does appreciate what i've done. Not to mention, next year when we're living together we'll probably have a joint account, if she buys me something nice with her money, it still comes out of the same account... so i just dont see the point, i'd rather save that money for our first house.