0.65

My engagement ring is a 0.65c diamond. By today's standard, that's a SMALL ring. Back in Sacramento, all the girls in my group has 1.0c, they can sacrifice the quality of it, but it has to be 1.0c. After moving to the bay area, that bar has risen, now 1.1 is the new minimum. And I do mean minimum, cause it goes up from there. A girl at my work has 1.3, the other 1.8. I have a small hand, 0.65c looks pretty good on my finger.

Luckily, the success and happiness of a marriage is not represented by the size of the diamond. The ring does, however, represent the two core values of my marriage:

(1) we've made the commitment to not live beyond our means. We don't have to buy the best money can buy, or to keep up with the Jones. We just have to buy what we can (comfortably) afford.

(2) He's not a perfect person, and neither am I, far from it. But we are aware of each others' longs and shorts before we commit to this relationship and we accept each others' flaws and love each other nonetheless.