I agree. Should be able to discuss this at least or why are you planning on getting married? Maybe it's a joke but he is watching your reaction very closely. I personally wouldn't be getting married to someone I call cheap on FML. Aren't you supposed to marry the man of your dreams?

A nightmare is a dream too.

It's not an allergic reaction, skin turning green or any other color is what happens when you wear copper jewelry or many other cheap metal jewelry with plating- when the plating starts to wear off where that metal makes contact with the skin- there is a discoloration.

Well it's the same concept, I'm sure you can find a decently priced ring that won't hurt the girl for less than the price of solid gold with 20 karat diamonds. The price tag isn't really the issue here so much as the judgmentalness of the Op. He didn't know the ring was going to do that, so she shouldn't be mad at him for it.

He shouldn't have to go broke, but that doesn't mean he has to lie to her face about it. They're not even married, and he's already taking her for a fool. People can wag their fingers about materialism as much as they want, but there is no excuse for him wanting to start their life together on a lie.

Wanting a real ring for your marriage doesn't make you some gold digging materialistic crazy. Nobody said she expected to have a huge rock sitting on her hand. It is a bit disheartening that he wouldn't put out a bit more money to get her something that would last. I mean she is going to be your wife forever. If you disagree then you shouldn't marry them.

#16...are you really that stupid? Come on now, please tell me you're joking?

The size of the ring doesn't turn your finger green, the material it's made from does.

Wow, it actually took an entire 18 comments for some dumbass to make a 'dump him' comment. Way to go, champ.

Well, if it was too tight on her finger... But that would be a whole different FML.

I think that trust/honesty is probably more of an important concern than money here. And if OP's fiancée presented the ring as anything other than the poor-quality item that it turned out to be she has a right to be upset or mad. I would be too.

Correct, honesty is key, which is why I'm suggesting being sincere. I bring up the money issue because if she is calling him cheap, then they need to come to an understanding on how to spend. You wouldn't want your husband calling your spending frivolous nor do you want to suffer from a life you feel is below your standards due to his penny pinching.

I agree 100% with you. Take it from someone who's been happily married for 22 years. You need to be equal partners in everything.

Well, we don't know what the proposal was like, since OP chose to focus on her cheap ass ring... (oops, did I say that out loud). The proposal could have been quite romantic. As an honest question (not baiting, or anything) how would you feel if you had the most romantic proposal you could imagine, but later (after you said yes, of course), you found the ring was not up to your standards?

Being easily dissapointed is one of my characteristics I'm not so proud of. So yes, I would be dissapointed. But, I've told my partner already that I just want one ring for both proposal and marriage, and that I want to pick it out myself. Just to avoid these situations.

I personally would take a cheap ring if it meant he was willing to commit

I find it a bit pathetic that so many people on this FML are on the side of a man who wants to marry a girl, but is too either too cheap to buy her a decent ring, or is too much of a douche to be honest about the fact that he can't afford one. If a guy proposed to me with something that cost less then 30 dollars but was honest about the fact that he couldn't afford anything fancy, I wouldn't give a shit. If he got me something cheap but tried to lie about it, then I would be upset. Honesty and trust are far more important then expensive diamonds, neither of which the OP got from the man who wants to be her husband.

She was overwhelmed because she thought the guy spent alot of money on the ring. Dating someone who is cheap like that, it means so much more when they buy something expensive. Do you honestly think she cared about the size? "today my boyfriend proposed with a tiny ring that was real. Wahh."

It doesn't say anywhere that he lied to her, fake rings are usually fairly obvious and if not then its probably a decent looking ring, which isn't a bad thing. Is he supposed to ruin a romantic proposal by telling the OP how fake it is before he gives it to her? "Oh honey, I got you the fakest ring I could afford because I'm so poor; now, will you marry me?"

If you give someone a fake knockoff and lead them to believe it's real, then that's lying to them. Not something you want to start a marriage on.