Posted on 12/07/2016 8:54:28 PM PST by punknpuss
Pandora has apologized to a bride and groom who were left humiliated by one of its store workers when they made fun of a set of $130 wedding rings as the couple was buying them. Speaking to DailyMail.com on Wednesday, Ariel McRae confirmed the company had been in touch to offer its apologies after her Facebook post about its staff's treatment of her went viral. 'Pandora has reached out to me and offered me their sincerest apologies and I accepted,' the 22-year-old student said. It came after an incident in a Tennessee store while Ariel and her husband Quinn were shopping for a cubic zirconium and sterling silver ring ahead of their wedding. As the bride tried them on, a store assistant scoffed: 'Can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic.' Mrs McRae, who is studying to be a K-6 teacher, penned a heartfelt Facebook post about the experience in which she described telling the woman afterwards that it wasn't a ring's size or cost that mattered but 'the love that went into buying it'.
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I think this is a sweet story about the value of love and commitment over materialism. I was a court house bride and it was the happiest moment of my life. Who needs the hoopla?
Thanks to our paper currency, financialized economy courtesy of the Federal Reserve and its member banks, and manipulated interest rates, Americans are encouraged and expected go into debt for literally everything - cars, education, homes, medicine, vacations, and yes - engagement rings.
congratulations to two young people are are avoiding the trap.
So I guess you’re not a “real man” until you pay out the nose for a piece of carbon that is utterly worthless (other than as an abrasive) and is only propped up in monetary value by a cartel that manipulates supply. “Diamonds are forever?” More like “Diamonds are for suckers.”
My dad paid $5 for my mom’s engagement ring, on his way to WWII and they were together for 70 years. Several rings, however.
I picked out our wedding bands. We bought them at a hardware store that had a jewelry department.
I wasn’t going to watch my husband go to work and slave for months just to pay for what I used to call “hard glass”.
I always told him he was my diamond.
De Beers created the so-called two month’s salary rule as a marketing ploy.
I was a broke E-3 and my girlfriend an E-2 when I proposed. I had not planned proposing and it was out of the blue so I didn’t have a ring. Since neither of us had much money we pooled the little bit of money we got back from our tax refunds and bought a simple three ring wedding set from a jewelry store. That was 37 years ago and we are still together.
Thank you. Wish I still had him.
I’ve never been one for expensive, ostentatious jewelry.
I’m not into status symbols and flaunting them and I’m always too afraid I’ll lose it.
And besides, who can tell if it’s real or not and they are really only worth what people will pay for them.
And you can’t eat them. At some point, their value would be meaningless.
My wife designed her own ring. She used the diamond her Grandmother handed down to her and then had it mounted in a thick matted gold band. It’s beautiful too. Simple but elegant. She is a “less is more” kind of gal. Best part is the the three bands cost me a Benjamin.
“Pandora should teach it’s salepeople not to bad-mouth the merchandise they’re selling - it’s not exactly a good sales technique.”
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A Target worker was talking about me while I was in earshot. She was actually mocking how often I was in the store (2-3 times a week for groceries and the needs of a large family). Target won’t notice the loss of my weekly $200 +/-, but I didn’t step foot in that store again.
Not only is training poor and the worker bees lack perspective, but now it is way too difficult to fire bad workers.
Sometimes, I go to my Walmart (less than a mile away) 3-4 times a week. Hit the Kroger across the street, too.
I walk through and pick nearly all only same day expiring food on sale that me and Mrs. Gaffer can eat in a day or two. Saves a lot of money.
My husband and I got married on our farm kind of last minute. I had one week after he gave me the ring to find someone to wed us. I found an older female minister who brought her husband and brother and my basset hounds were our best men. My cream colored linen dress came from a department store off the rack, $30 and I bought 2 dozen beautiful ivory roses from the grocery store and wrapped the stems in ivory silk ribbon. I found out that wedding bands needed to be preordered so I bought 2 silver wedding bands from Walmart instead. I was barefoot, walking in our field on a path that my husband had just mowed with his John Deere Jubilee to be married under a dogwood tree that was in bloom. Thirty minutes later, I donned workbooks and plowed a field in my wedding dress to prepare for the pumpkins we were going to plant in a few weeks. Our wedding cost $200 including the minister’s fee and wedding license.
I wish the tradition would change from the diamond to a simple metal band. The whole diamond ring thing was created in the 50’s by a marketing campaign, or at least that’s what I read a while back.
Mrs. RWA and I made our own simple gold bands.
work boots, not workbooks
This sounds like a couple who values the marriage rather than the wedding.
Good for them.
My wife has a small diamond but the band is wearing thin so half the time she wears a ring she bought online for about $20. When we got married 29 years ago, my ring was the cheapest one we could find. I think it was $60. It’s scraped up, bent, out of round but surprisingly I never lost it.
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