Ariel and Quinn McRae had met online when they were 20 years old. He made her sparkle more than a gigantic diamond ever could. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to agree.
Recently, Ariel took to Facebook to defend her $130 engagement ring. According to her: My husband doesn’t have a lot, neither of us do. We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but after almost 2 years of dating we decided that we couldn’t wait anymore, so we didn’t.
I wasn’t even thinking about rings, I just wanted to marry my best friend, but he wouldn’t have it. He scraped up just enough money to buy me two matching rings from Pandora. Sterling silver and CZ to be exact. That’s what sits on my ring finger, and I am so in love with them.
But when the couple were purchasing the jewelry set, the sales associate made a remark that left Quinn visibly shaken.“She said, ‘Ya’ll can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic,’” Ariel recalled.
“When she said that I watched my now husband’s face fall. He already felt bad because he couldn’t afford the pear-shaped set that so obviously had my heart and covered my Pinterest page. He already felt like a failure, asking me again and again, ‘Are you sure you’ll be happy with these?’”
She would have married Quinn if he had popped the question with a 25-cent ring from a gum-ball machine. “When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her a $3,000-+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring?” she asked. “Why do material possessions equate love??”
Though Ariel knew she would marry Quinn since the day she met him two years ago — the pair made it official in a courthouse ceremony on November 18.
Ariel's inspiring message received 250,000 likes and more than 71,000 shares after it was posted to the Love What Matters Facebook page.
Source: Inspiremore
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