Tip - Always buy honeymoons/rings ASAP
Posted on February 14, 2008 in the General Wedding Plans, Tips/Reviews category
This is a pricey lesson that me and David have learnt these past few days. Remember last month we went to the jewellery quarter in Birmingham to look at rings. We had 2 quotes from 2 different shops about the custom made rings we wanted, one quoted £1400 for both and the other £1200 which was from a shop called Cirrus.
We didn’t buy from any of them that day. The week after we got a quote from Cirrus again saying that he could do it for £1150, we thought we could wait and try and get it for cheaper. Boy, was that I mistake. This week we went back to Cirrus and the guy told us platinum prices have shot up crazily. He said if we wanted the same rings, the best price he could do it for was £1350. So in 1 month the price of platinum rose by £200. We wanted to check if he was really telling the truth so we left the shop, ring-free. I have just checked online and he was telling the truth. I don’t know if it will drop but we really should have bought are rings when we first went to the shop.
I haven’t told Dave this yet but the price for our Honeymoon has gone up aswell. I found the cheapest online quote for a 7 night honeymoon at the 5 star Anantara resort in the Maldives B&B for £2208. I have just checked the price, it is now £2294.
We could have saved ourselves £286 last month if we bought straightaway. If only I persistently nagged Dave about getting a move on with the plans, anyway its a lesson learnt which means we need to book and buy the honeymoon and rings ASAP.
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Oh no hun….. gold and platinum has gone up becasue I waited for it to go up to sell my GOld, its like the most exp time to buy gold and platinum atm. I made a lot from my Jewellery tho.
The £2xxx for honeymoon - is that per person or for two?
that price is for 2 people. Well i think platinum and gold will go up more. I don’t see it dropping back to what it was in January so I guess we’ll just have to put up with the price
yes we (I) will have to put up with the price increases
My shares in gold have shot up teehee. Be sure to use moneysupermarket for your honeymoon and buy travel insurance seperately.. that’ll save Dave a few bob
Yes Dave there is nothing we can do about it, as long as we buy now so it doesn’t go up anymore (hint hint)
Thanx for the tip Leon, I’ve checked moneysupermarket and I couldn’t find the resort we wanted on there and it’ll be Dave’s job to sort out the travel insurance…..thats if hes got time to do it
Its actually cheaper to go to Maldives from Hong Kong - me and sang are going to do that for ours. Take a trip to HK and go Maldives and Japan for our honeymoon. Grrr im still waiting tho
Thank you for your information. I will tell my fiance that. We are getting in August and we haven’t done any wedding rings research yet. What is your wedding rings look like?
Platinum prices went up because the mines in South Africa, which accounts for four-fifths of the world’s supply, ground to a halt for five days at the height of last month’s power crisis. I’m not sure whether the platinum price will go down after that but maybe you can check.
I’m sure Sang will take you soon Ling. We’ve booked our honeymoon to the Maldives now. I’m going to write a post about it later.
Thankx Tiffany and Christine for your comments.
I wrote about a post about our wedding rings already and posted a picture of similar rings. Check out the post if you have time.
We’re going to buy the rings on Sunday. No excuses, even if its gone up again, we just have to put up with it.