How long were you together before you got engaged? 5 years exactly! (He proposed on the anniversary of the day we left)
Did you talk about it before it happened? Yes - nut barely
Did you pick your ring? I picked it when I was 12! He surprised me with it.
How many carats? OCD - carats for diamonds is spelled with a 'c', for gold with a 'k'...sorry, I work in jewelry (can you tell!
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Edited because I can't spell...love irony!
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I thought I would add...according to the trainers at Tiffany, the word 'carat' comes from the ancient 'carab' which are bean like thingies that were used back in the day to weigh diamonds; they were believed to have been the most accurate when measuring weight. I just found the info below...read away (sorry if my OCD is annoying, I annoy those I love the most!)
Carat, karat, caret, and carrot are all pronounced the same, but each has a different meaning. Carat and karat, of course, have very specific meanings in jewelry. Misusing either word can be an embarrassing, if not an expensive, mistake. Spelling carats or karats as carets or carrots will make you look foolish and unprofessional.
How do you know which word is correct? Let's look first at where the words came from and then at their current meanings. Many of us are familiar with carob, which is often used as a substitute for chocolate. Few of us, however, know that “carat” and “karat” both trace their ancestry to “carob.” Carob trees have grown in the Mediterranean region since antiquity. The trees produce small, edible seed pods containing carob beans. Carob beans are unusually consistent in size. This means that carob beans usually all weigh the same, no matter when or where harvested.
This characteristic of consistent weight led to carob beans becoming a unit of weight in early times. The Greeks were the first documented users of carob beans for weight. By 1500, writing in Latin, alchemists were still using carob beans as a basic unit of weight, the carratus. Carat and karat are the modern derivatives of carratus.
Although they have a common origin and are pronounced the same, carat and karat now have different meanings. A carat is a unit of weight in gemstones. A karat is a unit for measuring the purity of gold. Carat is abbreviated as c. or ct., while karat is k. or kt.
