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Are Fancy Engagement Rings Passé? · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: A lot of couples are saying, hey, is the engagement
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  Speaker 1: ring really worth it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about that.
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  Speaker 1: What's the average cost? Ten grands?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't the average? The average is ten grand? Which is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Average cost of an engagement ring in the US ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Think about what you could do with your
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  Speaker 1: partner for ten thousand dollars. How important is the engagement ring?
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  Speaker 1: And I think more and more people, more and more
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  Speaker 1: couples are practically thinking about that.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they're starting to really consider is this worth it?
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  Speaker 2: And some are choosing to skip the expensive ring altogether
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  Speaker 2: use the money for something else, Like you're saying, maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's a trip, maybe it's a down payment on a house,
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  Speaker 2: all that type of stuff, And so they're opting for
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  Speaker 2: simple bands. Like back in the day, I say, like
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of years ago, that's what it was. It was
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  Speaker 2: just simple bands. I don't know when the engagement ring
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  Speaker 2: turned into this big leg because one of the jewels.
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  Speaker 1: It was literally a commercially driven thing with only the
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  Speaker 1: jewelry company.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and now social media, so we're all on instag
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  Speaker 2: TikTok and you're getting fed, especially if you're in that
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  Speaker 2: you know, you start searching for engaging rings and that's
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  Speaker 2: all your feed and that's all your algorithm, and so
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  Speaker 2: this might be a thing of the past. I think
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  Speaker 2: it will.
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  Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense, I honestly think. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this because when I meet my human
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  Speaker 1: and it's that time, we're gonna have experiences together. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna focus on building our bond doing things together. Love
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna go on adventures together. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna think about. We're not think about you. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: think about ventures and building something together, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we want to do. That should be the priority. On
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