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Rough_Rock
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- Aug 13, 2007
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Ok, so here's the reader's digest condensed version of how I ended up back at the drawing board and need some advice. First off, I'd like to thank everyone on this forum. Reading through past posts I've learned a lot and answered most of my questions for this logical/illogical engagement ring purchase.
Timeline:
1) Met positively amazing girl, dated for a couple years , decided to propose. I have many slightly zany proposal ideas, but alas, I am presently ringless.
2) Picked out ring in a virtual manner consulting with Whiteflash (I live in Houston) and Angara through, settled on ~1 ct, VS1, F color round with the sleekline Legato solitaire setting.
3) Consulted with one of Jillian's best friends and while she really liked the setting, she suspected that Jillian was looking for some a little more unique. This confirmed my suspicions about Jillian's taste in engagement rings. Jillian is a creative, spontaneous type. To give you an idea some of her current favorite possessions are creatures we've made out of chiyogami paper, a crazy quilt she brought back from the middle east, complete with shards of mirrors to depict the night sky and interesting lamps from ikea. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30102747
4) Consequently I've become ensure of setting, diamond shape, basically everything other than I'm going to propose to this girl.
5) Risking spoiling the surprise, I decided to take Jillian to a local B&M claiming to be the world's largest engagement ring store. Out of the 300 or so ring varieties -- exactly 0 met her requirements. The end result was a diplomatic "I'll love anything you get me."
What I've learned:
1) 1 Ct might be too big, she wears a size 4.5 band and found most of the rings too ostentatious.
2) She like pears and possibly marquise shapes.
3) Doesn't have to be a diamond, but in principle I'd like to get her diamonds. Could be faintly colored but that is probably out of my price range for natural stones.
3) She likes delicate, subtle settings suggesting nature. Also, she seems to the prefer the wedding bands to the engagement rings. She considered the bands on all the rings she tried on to be too thick.
In addition, we've discovered that her dad and my dad both set their engagement rings for the respective spouses.
Way forward with proposal:
Well, I'm open to them. One idea was to find a pair of high quality pear diamonds ~ 0.8 Ct total weight and work with a designer to come up with a design similar to http://www.szul.com/product_details.asp?ProdId=PRR3509RB but in platinum with a better flow.
Budget is ~$9000
Questions for pricescope:
Does this sound doable?
Any suggestions for a designer or prexisting setting?
How thin can you go on a platinum or palladium band?
Source for fairly matched pear diamonds?
If I'm matching the diamonds myself, how close do they need to be in weight and cut for one not to be able to tell with the naked eye?
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
Timeline:
1) Met positively amazing girl, dated for a couple years , decided to propose. I have many slightly zany proposal ideas, but alas, I am presently ringless.
2) Picked out ring in a virtual manner consulting with Whiteflash (I live in Houston) and Angara through, settled on ~1 ct, VS1, F color round with the sleekline Legato solitaire setting.
3) Consulted with one of Jillian's best friends and while she really liked the setting, she suspected that Jillian was looking for some a little more unique. This confirmed my suspicions about Jillian's taste in engagement rings. Jillian is a creative, spontaneous type. To give you an idea some of her current favorite possessions are creatures we've made out of chiyogami paper, a crazy quilt she brought back from the middle east, complete with shards of mirrors to depict the night sky and interesting lamps from ikea. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30102747
4) Consequently I've become ensure of setting, diamond shape, basically everything other than I'm going to propose to this girl.
5) Risking spoiling the surprise, I decided to take Jillian to a local B&M claiming to be the world's largest engagement ring store. Out of the 300 or so ring varieties -- exactly 0 met her requirements. The end result was a diplomatic "I'll love anything you get me."
What I've learned:
1) 1 Ct might be too big, she wears a size 4.5 band and found most of the rings too ostentatious.
2) She like pears and possibly marquise shapes.
3) Doesn't have to be a diamond, but in principle I'd like to get her diamonds. Could be faintly colored but that is probably out of my price range for natural stones.
3) She likes delicate, subtle settings suggesting nature. Also, she seems to the prefer the wedding bands to the engagement rings. She considered the bands on all the rings she tried on to be too thick.
In addition, we've discovered that her dad and my dad both set their engagement rings for the respective spouses.
Way forward with proposal:
Well, I'm open to them. One idea was to find a pair of high quality pear diamonds ~ 0.8 Ct total weight and work with a designer to come up with a design similar to http://www.szul.com/product_details.asp?ProdId=PRR3509RB but in platinum with a better flow.
Budget is ~$9000
Questions for pricescope:
Does this sound doable?
Any suggestions for a designer or prexisting setting?
How thin can you go on a platinum or palladium band?
Source for fairly matched pear diamonds?
If I'm matching the diamonds myself, how close do they need to be in weight and cut for one not to be able to tell with the naked eye?
Thanks for your help,
Andrew