[ScottBurson]

My wife and I, living in the SF Bay area and having no regard for convention whatsoever -- and not really liking diamonds -- went with a sapphire for her ring. She tells me that other women do sometimes ask her about it. This is unfathomable to me, but there it is.

[shawndumas]

same area; we went with ruby. they ask her about her ring all the time... though she reports never feeling judged.