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A week from tomorrow I'll have my wedding set back where it belongs-on my ring finger! It'll be nearly 4 months since I've shipped her out to GOG to sell the center stone and replaced it with an AVR and I am so excited to see one in person finally.
Had we known we were going to sell them the diamond only to replace it with one of their own stones we would have waited until closer to the holiday to mail it out (GOG had it ready to go the next day after we made our decision) but since we thought we were replacing it with a totally different set (still would love to own one of JM pieces one day...we'll see!) and had other travel arrangements in place. Since GOG is in NY I couldn't just cross the boarder to pick up my set without getting hit with NY taxes. Had we known when we mailed it to GOG that we were trading the diamond for a different one + cash the forms would have been filled out differently so that way we wouldn't get charged 13% tax on something we already owned (sort of lol) so we could have shipped it back home directly.
So we've had to wait until Thanksgiving to make a trip to visit family and my poor wedding set has been keeping GOG company all this time. I figured it was safer there where it's fully insured vs sitting around at my parents house until we pick it up.
No one in real life understands (and actually only one person noticed that my set was missing-that goes to show you how many people in my social circle understand my love for bling) and my husband and I have no plans on telling anyone that we switched out the center stone.
I will admit that I am a bit nervous to go from a good cut H VVS stone to an ideal cut N SI stone. I have seen plenty of lower colored OEC's in person but I guess some part of me has this silly thought that people will see my big diamond-notice the tint and think 'she skimped on color to get size' which isn't the case at all!
I realize this is super silly on my part (and in reality I really don't care what anyone thinks about me or my jewelery) but for some reason that thought is in the back of my mind. Who in their right mind would sell a stone like I had to "downgrade"?
I tell myself that even though we spent twice as much on this diamond-out of pocket for my wedding set was only 2500.00 after selling my diamond and replacing it with an AVR and we got back part of the orginal investment to use to do some pretty major renovations on our house (we changed the master loft roof line and now I have a bathroom twice the size it was AND a walk in closet
GOG has been amazing though out this whole process (poor Jonathan has been my FB friend for many many years and I can't tell you how many countless messages I have though the years going back and forth on we're thinking of selling...no we're not ready yet...yes we are...no wait we're not lol). I joked to him when it finally arrived if he did a double take since for nearly 5 years I've been going back and forth with him.
We got a fair price for my stone-and got an even better price on the AVR
In fact Jonathan removed this AVR from his mens ring-so I know it'll be a beauty
It should be back from the engraver (wedding date engraved) today and ship tomorrow. After owning an AVC I know I won't be disappointed in this change. It feels like this journey has taken forever but all good things comes to those who wait and I know my husband is very happy that we still have the orginal set that he gave me after he proposed.
Thank you all so muh for your support and guidence with this whole journey. I know many of you are very familiar with it and without PS as a sounding board none of this would have been possible.
I'm posting here out of excitment since I haven't really allowed myself to dwell on being ringless this whole time. I've missed it but at the same time not nearly as much as I expected-and since I can't chat with anyone in real life I figured I'd share it with you all.
A formal thread will happen when we get back from our trip. I'm so geeked!
Had we known we were going to sell them the diamond only to replace it with one of their own stones we would have waited until closer to the holiday to mail it out (GOG had it ready to go the next day after we made our decision) but since we thought we were replacing it with a totally different set (still would love to own one of JM pieces one day...we'll see!) and had other travel arrangements in place. Since GOG is in NY I couldn't just cross the boarder to pick up my set without getting hit with NY taxes. Had we known when we mailed it to GOG that we were trading the diamond for a different one + cash the forms would have been filled out differently so that way we wouldn't get charged 13% tax on something we already owned (sort of lol) so we could have shipped it back home directly.
So we've had to wait until Thanksgiving to make a trip to visit family and my poor wedding set has been keeping GOG company all this time. I figured it was safer there where it's fully insured vs sitting around at my parents house until we pick it up.
No one in real life understands (and actually only one person noticed that my set was missing-that goes to show you how many people in my social circle understand my love for bling) and my husband and I have no plans on telling anyone that we switched out the center stone.
I will admit that I am a bit nervous to go from a good cut H VVS stone to an ideal cut N SI stone. I have seen plenty of lower colored OEC's in person but I guess some part of me has this silly thought that people will see my big diamond-notice the tint and think 'she skimped on color to get size' which isn't the case at all!
I realize this is super silly on my part (and in reality I really don't care what anyone thinks about me or my jewelery) but for some reason that thought is in the back of my mind. Who in their right mind would sell a stone like I had to "downgrade"?
I tell myself that even though we spent twice as much on this diamond-out of pocket for my wedding set was only 2500.00 after selling my diamond and replacing it with an AVR and we got back part of the orginal investment to use to do some pretty major renovations on our house (we changed the master loft roof line and now I have a bathroom twice the size it was AND a walk in closet
GOG has been amazing though out this whole process (poor Jonathan has been my FB friend for many many years and I can't tell you how many countless messages I have though the years going back and forth on we're thinking of selling...no we're not ready yet...yes we are...no wait we're not lol). I joked to him when it finally arrived if he did a double take since for nearly 5 years I've been going back and forth with him.
We got a fair price for my stone-and got an even better price on the AVR
In fact Jonathan removed this AVR from his mens ring-so I know it'll be a beauty
It should be back from the engraver (wedding date engraved) today and ship tomorrow. After owning an AVC I know I won't be disappointed in this change. It feels like this journey has taken forever but all good things comes to those who wait and I know my husband is very happy that we still have the orginal set that he gave me after he proposed.
Thank you all so muh for your support and guidence with this whole journey. I know many of you are very familiar with it and without PS as a sounding board none of this would have been possible.
I'm posting here out of excitment since I haven't really allowed myself to dwell on being ringless this whole time. I've missed it but at the same time not nearly as much as I expected-and since I can't chat with anyone in real life I figured I'd share it with you all.
A formal thread will happen when we get back from our trip. I'm so geeked!
Absolutely gorgeous VL229! That diamond is fabulous and looks perfect in the setting! 
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