This New Site Has the Prettiest Affordable Engagement Rings

Listen up: There's no need to spend three months' salary on your engagement ring. You can find a stunning version for less than the cost of the new iPhone 8—and you can find plenty of options all in one place to boot. As Refinery29 reports, Carried Jewels is a new direct-to-consumer e-commerce site that only stocks engagement rings under $1000, with most of them clocking in at under $650.
Who is Carried Jewels catering to, exactly? "The girl who doesn't feel the need to conform to conventional norms and who seeks out originality and practicality in her day to day life," the site's co-founder, Cindy Kaiser, told Refinery29. Translation: Anyone who wants a stunning piece of jewelry on her left hand for a reasonable price. Count us in.
Scroll down to shop our favorite engagement rings from Carried Jewels.
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Erin got her start as a Who What Wear intern in 2011—back when the site only published a single story per day. (We have since increased that number twentyfold.) She graduated magna cum laude from USC and lives in Los Angeles. In college, she also interned at Refinery29, where she was promoted to editorial assistant and then assistant editor. After nearly three years at R29, she came back to WWW in 2015, where she is now the Associate Director of Fashion News. From the Oscars to the Met Gala, she leads the site's entire red carpet coverage strategy. She specializes in celebrity and fashion news but also enjoys writing travel features and runway reports. She frequently contributes to WWW's social accounts and has a sizable following on her personal TikTok.
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