Stone in your class ring?

[ilisao]

My high school ring was red because our school colors were red and white. My college ring was black onyx because it looked nice.

 

[petrymom]

I have a peridot for a birthstone and hated it when I was younger. I didn't like our school colors so that wasn't an option. I just picked a color I liked, since I was paying for my own ring.

I would let her have whichever stone she would like. Good luck!

 

[lilmrsellis]

Mine turned out to be Red Kryptonite which caused a lot of problems for this one guy. I'm such a dork! No really, I didn't get one because I have always thought the are hideous.

 

[CarolinaBlue]

My high school colors were black and gold, so my ring has an onyx stone with gold initials (high school name) on it. My oldest dd chose here birthstone (peridot) for her ring.

 

[Ilovemylife]

My stone was my birthstone (peridot).

 

[Ilovemylife]

Well first, I'll state that they were the biggest wastes of money ever, but I got caught up in NEEDING these things that mean very very little to the universe.

Maybe for you they were, but it certainly wasn't a waste of money for me. I loved my ring and wore it every single day...until my high school boyfriend lost it.

I often wish I still had it..to wear and to show my kids.

I didn't bother with a college ring...I had my engagement ring to wear instead.

 

[Camicar]

Mine was my birthstone -- peridot.

Class ring was one of the biggest wastes of money of my life. DD has the same birthstone as me, so I told her she could use my class ring or do without. Luckily, she doesn't care about it in the slightest.

And yeah, I'm the meanest mom ever. I won't buy a class ring or a yearbook except for her senior year.

 

[talulabelle]

Weird. I never ever heard of putting your birthstone in your class ring. It's a class ring, not a birth ring. It's not about your birth month, it's about showing you are part of your class. At our school we didn't have a choice, everyone had to have the simulated ruby. We all wanted to be alike to show we were a part of our school. If I wanted a saphire or emerald than I would have bought a different piece of jewlery for that, but I was proud to be part of my school and part of my class. A couple of girls that wanted to be different went to different jewelers to pick a smaller more feminine setting. But they still went with ruby and the class shield.

 

[Dixie Luvr 98]

Mine was emerald because it was out school color. We had to order it even though there were other choices on the order form.

All three of my kids ordered sapphire, which is their school color and because they liked it

Did anyone ever see the episode of Law and Order SVU where the ADA is questioing a teen girl believed to have helped her friends kill a classmate? The ADA "proves" that the witness is wearing the murdered girl's class ring since it has a Sept. stone and the witness does not have a Sept birthday. DD and i just looked at each other Neither one of us has our birthstone on our class ring. Expected the girl to say, "No, but it is my school color!"

 

[suzimar57]

when i graduated in 1975, i chose amethyst (because it was purple....)

school colors were red/black - my birthstone is that icky august stone (forget the name, it's yellow/greenish...)

but i went with the purple - no regrets, it sits in my shadow box now.

when my DS graduated the same HS, he chose his november birthstone.

oh - and my ring cost me $65 in 1975 - DS paid over $200 for his in 2003!

 

[Ilovemylife]

Weird. I never ever heard of putting your birthstone in your class ring. It's a class ring, not a birth ring. It's not about your birth month, it's about showing you are part of your class. At our school we didn't have a choice, everyone had to have the simulated ruby. We all wanted to be alike to show we were a part of our school. If I wanted a saphire or emerald than I would have bought a different piece of jewlery for that, but I was proud to be part of my school and part of my class. A couple of girls that wanted to be different went to different jewelers to pick a smaller more feminine setting. But they still went with ruby and the class shield.

And I have never ever heard of people using their school colors until this thread!

 

[talulabelle]

And I have never ever heard of people using their school colors until this thread!

Wow. This is one of those jaw-dropping culture clash moments for me. I had no idea it was done differently in other areas. Maybe it is a Maryland thing, most definatley a Baltimore thing. I can pass any teenager on the street and glance at their ring finger and know immediately what shcool they go to by the stone. EVERYONE goes with the standard issue class ring with school colors. My school colors were red and black. In a million years I wouldn't have dreamt of putting blue (my birthstone) in my class ring. It would have been anti-loyal. People would have thought I went to the school on the east-side of town.

 

[GirTheGecko]

I went with onyx. I went with a class ring design that had oak leaves on it. The ring looked better if the stone was dark. They put my name on one leaf, my grad year on another, and my school name went around the stone. My birthstone is citrine (yuck!), my school colors were orange and green (yuck!). My mom was so jealous when she saw the final ring.

After wearing it for several years, I now unofficially retired it with my grandfather, fathers, and mothers class rings. I now wear my mother's anniversary band and a different rings for regular wear.

 

[Golf4food]

Not being overly fond of my high school or one to spend that kind of money on something I would only realistically wear for a couple of years, I opted for a normal mens ring instead of a class ring with the full blessing of my parents - so my ring wound up being nothing at all school related, and I can still happily wear it today ten years after graduation and not feel weird in public.

 

[pr surfer]

I opted for a nontraditional no stone design with my HS class ring and had a solid white gold ring instead.

Didn't do a college/university ring.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

My high school ring stone is blue, one of the school colors. My college ring stone is emerald, my birthstone. I don't even know what my college's colors were.

One DD got peridot for her HS ring...her birthstone. The other got the main school color.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I don't even know what my college's colors were.

Just looked it up. Oh yeah, now I remember.

 

[Pungodingy]

My birthstone is opal/pink and my school colors were blue and gold. I chose ruby...my ring, my choice...

 

[Minnesota!]

We didn't get a choice of stone - had to go with Emerald as green (and white and black) were our school colors. We just gave them our size and the engravings we wanted on the sides and that' it!

 

[VirtuallyMe]

Really it is what you want- but does make more sense to match school colors. My high schools colors were blue, maroon and gray- I chose a saphire with two diamonds for my class ring.