Lots of guys, even Southern gentlemen, struggle with what sort of gifts to get their ladies. Increasingly the standard gift sets and manufactured gifts for the fairer sex seem like trite and passive purchases. Though I won't suggest that you avoid everything new, for those bigger gifts try something vintage. It shows that you put a bit of thought into it, that it's unique, and it puts your own taste on display rather than that of a marketing executive.
If you're from a town with good antique shops, go by and ask the shopkeeper. If there's much "old money" around, then check the estate sales for the best bargains. For those of you who (like me) have no time or neither of the above options I've recently been turned onto Fay Cullen's online store. Take a look at the collection of Art Deco and Edwardian jewelry.
Personally, I'd rather turn up with something with history over some trite, mass-produced junk that happens to come in a little, blue box. (Of course, Tiffany and Co. is great once you pass a certain minimum. Just don't get suckered into a $500 carnival trinket.) Oh, and when buying old diamonds you can frequently get lovely stones that aren't "certified" for much less money. The diamond market is totally fabricated (mostly by DeBeers), and "certification" is nonsense designed to drive up prices on cartel diamonds over old stones. You can still get great diamonds, measured in all the ways in which "certified" diamonds are that predate the DeBeers monopoly and the "blood diamond" conflicts for far less money than new diamonds which might be tainted by both.
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