Stone in your class ring?

[clgwli]

I got April's birthstone, which is not mine. I saw someone's with it in theirs and I liked how it looked. Not a school color either. Same for college. I hardly know anyone who did school colors.

 

[I'm a Divaaaaa]

I wanted to get the white gold princess cut. Since my birthday is in April, thus my birthstone being a diamond, I didn't want white on white. Also, they didn't even diamond it was white sapphire. So I got a blue sapphire in mine and I think it looks cute.

 

[c4a]

My HS class ring has my birthstone-a ruby. Christmas present-my mom picked out. She like you, thought that it should either be birthstone or school colors. Very cute. Very girlie.
My College ring has an Onyx with two small diamonds on either side-neither which were my college colors. I picked it out-I liked the effect. It reflected me more...a new stage in my life. Plus, I figured I would be the one wearing it & paying for it-it should be something I liked.

 

[Barb]

Mine was supposed to be my birthstone. I kept thinking the stone didn't look right, but didn't think very hard about it. Then I was talking with the girl who came right ahead of me alphabetically and said the same thing-she didn't think her stone was the one she ordered. We determined that she has my stone and I have hers. Everything else was correct. We left it that way, it made for a fun story.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I have always hated my birthstone (ruby). I had a blue topaz in my class ring because I liked it.

 

[tonilea]

I chose my birthstone (December), but didn't particularly like it, so wished I had chosen an Emerald or something else!

 

[chisnpeke]

I got my birthstone, which is a sapphire.

 

[Rora]

Mine was pink because it is my favorite color. Those rings are expensive!! Let her pick it out, just to make sure she wears it!! Plus, my friend got her college ring in Aquamarine and it was gorgeous!

 

[simba928]

When I got my class ring (and I just graduated this year, so it was only about 2 years ago) my mom told me that if I were going to get a class ring it had to be a "traditional" looking ring with my school color in it. I couldn't get one of those pretty rings. It was either get that (I could choose which ring as long as it was traditional and I chose what was engraved and the images one it) or nothing at all. I did have friends, though, that got their birthstone and others just got a random stone. I was one of the only ones of my friends that got the traditional looking one. I think most of my friends got a stone other than the school color.

 

[cristit14]

mine was aquamarine, because I liked that one at the time

 

[NYPDwife]

My school stone was an emerald, but I didn't like that one so I went with a peridot. It was still green, just lighter.

 

[nephthys43]

i didn't know which way to vote. technically, it's my school's color; but it's also my birthstone.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I voted other because I honestly don't remember. I don't know where my class ring is. I think I wore it for a week or so, then it disappeared into my jewelry box, and I have no idea what happened to it.

I think I just picked a color I liked, though. My birthstone is hideous, and so were my high school's colors. Hmm, it's kind of coming back to me. I think it was red.

 

[amyhughes]

Funnily enough my birthstone (Ruby) is the same color as my School colors (Scarlet and Gray) so it is both.

 

[slk537]

When my brother got his 4 years ahead of me, my mom had him pick his birthstone - he didn't care. But then when he got it, he realized that with a birthday in October, he ended up with a brightish pink stone the size of a grape...

He never wore it...

When I came up and it was time to get mine, I wanted my birthstone too (amethyst - purple). However, at the time I had transferred from the public school junior high to the Catholic high school and I desperately wanted to transfer over to the public HS with my friends. And that school was purple and white. My parents had already decided I could leave if I still hated school after the first semester was over but didn't tell me (wanted to see how I adjusted). They didn't want to tip the scales by getting me a ring with the other school's colors.

So I ended up with an emerald for my school colors and also ended up loving my HS and staying put until graduation. My ring is really boring, but I loved it...it was gold with the school name around the stone and the year engraved on the sides, nothing else. In the end, I was glad to have the green.

 

[Linzybrooke]

I chose a ruby because I like red, but it also happened to be my school color. Had I gone somewhere where the colors were, say, orange and black I probably would have gotten a saphire. But, since a love ruby's as well I went with the class color.

 

[MrsPete]

For a CLASS RING, I don't see why anyone would choose anything other than the school colors. It's a symbol of your school.

If you want to choose your birthstone or your favorite color, why not go with any old ring that you like? It'll cost considerably less.

 

[Kimmumum]

I chose a saphire because I liked blue. Not my birthstone or one of my school colors. If they don't like it, they won't wear it, so I'd let her choose what stone she wants.

Ditto

 

[HsvTeacher]

My school colors were red and black, and my birthstone is garnet. Since I didn't like any of those colors, I chose a sapphire since blue is my favorite color.

 

[EMom]

For a CLASS RING, I don't see why anyone would choose anything other than the school colors. It's a symbol of your school.

If you want to choose your birthstone or your favorite color, why not go with any old ring that you like? It'll cost considerably less.

Growing up, there was no other choice than your school colors. One look at a ring and you knew where someone had attended high school. We were maroon, so ours were garnet. Come order time, the ring rep came and we all sat down with our order forms and their limited choices. One stone only......garnet. A birthstone would have been unheard of. I think it still it.

I was the first one in my HS to refuse to order from the usual company. I had small fingers and that big old clunky ring was just too huge. I found a jewlery store and ordered a daintier one that did not have room for a ginormous garnet stone in the middle. But it did have room for a decent sized diamond. So that's what I went for! I was the envy of every senior girl who was forced to sport a monster-heavy ring.

Still, the traditional garnet clunkers are the favorites.

At our university, things were very traditional. One choice. You could get a diamond in the center if you wanted, but that's it.