My fiance and I have been engaged only a few months, but next week our one year anniversary as a couple is coming up. I thought I would get us matching diamond anniversary rings. Is this a bad idea?

If you don't have a diamond engagement ring yet, I can understand your desire for something beautiful, tangible, timeless and intimate like a diamond anniversary ring, to symbolize your relationship together. However, I think it might be a bit strange to get the diamond rings now, right before your wedding. You will both have wedding rings soon, which will be more special and more important than these rings. Personally I'd wait till after the wedding to get two matching anniversary rings. Why don't you tell him that you want an engagement ring, and that you two should shop together for a nice engagement ring to commemorate one year together as a couple and to solidify and signify your engagement?

If you insist on getting matching diamond anniversary rings for this one year anniversary, you shouldn't over-do it. Get something plain and relatively inexpensive. Maybe get two thin platinum or white gold bands each embedded with one tiny off-center diamond. That can be nice. Or get two silver bands without diamonds.  Maybe you can get  "right hand rings" that are engraved with the place and the day that you met one another on the inside of the ring. 

If you don't mind thinking outside the "ring box", then I'd recommend you get either bracelets, earrings (if he has pierced ears), diamond cuff-links for him and diamond earrings for you (that you can both wear at the wedding) or even a diamond pendant.  If you go for a diamond pendant, get a simple chain that you can both wear with a simple pendant with a few small diamonds.  Then, when you get married, you can hang your wedding or engagement ring(s) from the same pendant.  This is not only classy and practical, but also very sentimental.  That way, you will be holding both pieces right near your heart, you will both have matching pendants, and you won't have to worry about overloading your fingers with lots of rings.

So, bottom line, I recomend that you don't go for a diamond anniversary ring just yet. As anniversaries and traditions go, diamond rings are supposed to be reserved for the 60th wedding anniversary! According to that tradition, I'd say it's just a tad early (considering you aren't even married yet) to be getting yourself and your fiance diamond rings. Save your money for the wedding. 

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