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"Save the Date reader Erin has some serious bling&amp;amp;#8212;but her boyfriend doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to propose with it. Writes Erin: My boyfriend and I are shopping for engagement rings. We have small budget, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found a few options that I like. However, I just learned my mother is giving me the one-carat diamond from my grandmother&amp;amp;#8217;s engagement ring. I mentioned we could use my grandmother&amp;amp;#8217;s diamond in my engagement ring&amp;amp;#8212;but my boyfriend didn&amp;amp;#8217;t like the idea. He says he really wants to give me &amp;amp;#8220;my very own.&amp;amp;#8221; At first I dropped it, but the more that I think more about it, the more I love the idea of building a ring around the stone&amp;amp;#8212;my grandparents were married for 60 years! There&amp;amp;#8217;s no way we could afford a diamond that size&amp;amp;#8212;but it&amp;amp;#8217;s not about the rock. The sentimental value of the stone is just kind of weighing on me. I&amp;amp;#8217;d really, really love to have it as part of my engagement ring. Should I just be happy to wear it as a necklace or should I try and convince him to use it? Here are my thoughts: I might be the wrong person to answer your question&amp;amp;#8212;because I&amp;amp;#8217;m majorly biased. I adore the idea of a hand-me-down diamond! Especially one that saw your grandparents through 60 years of marriage. If you love the diamond&amp;amp;#8212;and what it stands for&amp;amp;#8212;that much, I think you should bring it up with your boyfriend again. He could pick out side stones and work with a jeweler to create a ring that&amp;amp;#8217;s one-of-a-kind and 100 percent your &amp;amp;#8220;very own.&amp;amp;#8221; I would say that you love the idea of starting your marriage on the same page your grandparents did, and tell him how having a ring that&amp;amp;#8217;s part them and part the two of you will make you doubly happy. Sure, making a necklace with the stone would be fine. But I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think you should settle for the second-best option. Plus, once that ring is on your finger, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll see it and smile 100 times a day. The only time you see a necklace is when you&amp;amp;#8217;re checking your reflection in a mirror or it&amp;amp;#8217;s hanging in your jewelry box. You might as well get maximum enjoyment from the diamond! Ladies, what do you think? Should Erin ask her boyfriend to work with her grandmother&amp;amp;#8217;s diamond? Or should she respect her boyfriend&amp;amp;#8217;s wishes and take whatever ring he picks out? More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! I Want to Ask a Friend to Be My Maid of Honor&amp;amp;#8212;But Her Husband Just Asked Her for a Divorce!&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! We&amp;amp;#8217;re Getting Gifts Before Our Wedding! Can We Use Them Yet?&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! How Can I Be a Long-Distance Maid of Honor?&amp;amp;#8221; More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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