I'm would wager she pushed him to make it happen, but if Elle had any creative control over that engagement, the ring would have been a LOT different.
I agree with you, but I think she may have sabotaged her chances at getting the diamond of her dreams - the one shown on the finger below:
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Elle: āYou know, Iām NOT like other girls. Iām the type of girl who wants a UNIQUE engagement ring, not one of those ubiquitous princess-cut 2 ct diamond rings you see everywhere.ā
Rick: *Files this information away into his simple, idiotic, granola mind.*
Elle: Brings up marriage whenever possible. āI really hate living across the continent from you and not getting to fall asleep in your arms every night. But I really donāt think we should move in together unless weāre really committed, you knowwwww?ā
āWonāt it be so nice when weāre living together and you can come home to a home-cooked meal thoughtfully prepared by me every night? But that seems so far in the distant future unless we really get serious about moving in together and on to the next step.ā
āItās been so great traveling with you to all these exotic places (NOLA) and falling asleep in your arms every night. I canāt wait for this to be permanent. I really think we were meant to be, donāt you?ā
āWreck (
I recently watched her #GIRLBOSS VANCOUVER VISIT VLOG from Sept 9, 2019 and this is how she pronounces āRickā), I need to seriously think about if Iām going to renew the lease at my Vancouver apartment soon. It just doesnāt make sense to be paying for two separate places if weāre going to be getting more serious, donāt you agree? But Iāve also had some negative experiences with moving in with guys who werenāt serious and ended up breaking my heart and leaving me unprotected. Iām more cautious now, so I canāt move forward without an indication from you that weāre serious.ā
Rick: *She will give me sex and cook for me every night if we live together.*
*She will not move in with me unless I propose. Okey dokey.*
*She is out of my league yet still wants me.*
*She wants non-traditional ring. Canāt afford Royal Engagement Ring. Will buy colored gemstone ring. Lucky me, can spend fraction of price of traditional princess ring. This yellow color is not traditional. I win big prize.*
Cut to the photoshopped engagement on hill.
Elle moves in with her fiancĆ©, the LOVE OF HER LIFE, and gets everything sheās ever wanted. Until he switches on the one bare lightbulb and the Abraham Lincoln portrait is staring down her low-cut shirt in the dining room, while Rick bobs his head maniacally from the living room dad recliner some neighbor put on the curb and he dragged home, while loudly mansplaining Jeopardy Questions to her.
I still think Elle suddenly saw Rick for the creepy perv he actually is, and realized she can do much better (In HER mind. I personally think theyāre a match made in heaven).
Rick is just as insufferable, smelly, superior, and as big an imposter (he and she call him an Attorney and Law Professor...) as she is, and he defended all the victimy shit she claimed she suffered in her lifetime, and he called her gracious and brave in his Guru Gossiper infiltration. He saw absolutely nothing wrong with her behavior or lies. Plus she spread her legs for him and made him a mac and cheese that evoked in him a Lebanese philosopherās ethos.