flurrsprite
Rough_Rock
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- Jun 13, 2010
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good morning ps-ers!
i''ve been lurking around here digging up information for a couple weeks now
so informative, you guys are amazing!! i am hoping to get your advice on my own future precious e-ring...
wee bit of a back story, i hope you''ll all bear with me!
fi and i have been talking about getting engaged for a while now, and i started looking up rings to get an idea back at the beginning of the year. we had planned on picking out a ring (together -- fi knows that since i don''t wear much jewelry i''d want a say in what i''d be wearing haha!) around this time but he''s in the movie industry and there''s been a bit of a delay between gigs so we''re holding off until there''s a bit more security! also, that means that i''m not too keen on spending too much on my ring (after all, i can always upgrade later right?), so our current budget is somewhere around $3k ($2k, if i had my way.. but my tastes seem to have risen exponentially since i''ve found pricescope and all of the delicious rings to drool over!).
i fell in love with marquise stones, but to my dismay, i haven''t found much variety in setting styles for that shape. most marquise settings seem to be very simple and plain or very ornate in a blocky angled sort of way. both are beautiful but i''m hoping to have something with a little more delicacy and something... swirly!
i did see this beautiful ring (http://www.pricescope.com/idealbb/files/MAchickside1.jpg) but i''m hoping for a um north-south? alignment, rather than east-west.
(i should note that i discovered this cushion ring (http://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/2-05-cushion-avc-gog-in-jbeg-setting-t144146.html) which makes my heart skip every time i see it... so i went and studied up on cushion stones and then took a trip out to singlestone (i live in l.a.) to see some antique cushions in person and they''re even better than pictures... however, my budget would only allow for mayyyybe the stone itself, and i think i''ve decided that i want a nice setting as well instead of going the get-the-great-stone-and-plain-setting route... after all, i''ll mention that whole upgrade idea again...
haha! so i''ve decided that for the time being, a marquise is the way to go)
so! i''ve looked up sites that seem to work with custom designs, and i''ve been trying to come up with a design based off of round/cushion/princess cut designs that i''ve seen into a marquise shape, such as these beauties:
http://www.jewelsbyericagrace.com/jbeg_signature_settings__custom_design (that sophie... le sigh
)
http://www.whiteflash.com/engagement-rings/styles/solitaire/santorini-engagement-ring_1413.htm#
http://www.whiteflash.com/engagement-rings/styles/solitaire/swan-solitaire-engagement-ring-by-vatche_1421.htm#
i''m going to attempt to attach a picture of a sketch that i made up... sorry for the poor quality and i hope you can decipher it! basically, the point of the marquise would have a prong that''s leaf-shaped, and the sides would be swirls.. not sure if this is possible, but hey! and the band could either be plain or with the pave where the metal looks like it''s scooped out so you can see the diamonds through the sides? like that cushion ring above i suppose that would all depend on what it ends up costing!
which is one of my questions... based off of the prices of those similar rings that i listed, should i be figuring the design i drew up would be around there? or would it be much more due to it being a custom design? would it be better to point out one of those designs above and ask the person i''m working with to adapt it for a marquise? does anybody have any suggestions for where to go for that kind of custom ring? should i try online or would it be better to go to a brick-and-mortar store?
also, i''m under the impression that for me anyway, picking the marquise stone will be an emotional process rather than...numerical. i''m not too worried about inclusions (character!) and my only concern with color is that if i end up with a pave band that those diamonds match the center (does it seem odd when the center stone is yellow but the pave diamonds are not?). due to this thinking process, i was planning on hunting around here in los angeles and picking a stone i could see in person... however, i have noticed that many sites online will show pictures and even videos. does anybody know of particular sites that are great for marquise stones (like how gog/erd/jbeg are good for cushions)? or if i should stick with the brick-and-mortar route, a good store in los angeles? i''ve walked into a few and i tend to get crazy looks when i say i''m looking for a marquise engagement ring... even had one girl tell me that that''s a bad idea and i should only get it for a fashion ring... eesh! but they all say they can pull some in so i can take a look... i just don''t know how i could trust their opinions after the scoffing! i also figured that if i got the stone at the same place as the setting, maybe it''d be easier / i''d get a deal?
i do know that i would like my diamond to be somewhere around .50 carats
it''s great how it looks so much larger than other shapes! i''ve done some basic recon online and it looks like i can get a decent marquise for around $1000... which would leave $1500-2000 for the setting... would this be unreasonable, considering the style that i want?
i''m looking forward to your replies!! thank you so much for reading through all of that if you did. i really appreciate it!
~maiko
i''ve been lurking around here digging up information for a couple weeks now
so informative, you guys are amazing!! i am hoping to get your advice on my own future precious e-ring...wee bit of a back story, i hope you''ll all bear with me!
fi and i have been talking about getting engaged for a while now, and i started looking up rings to get an idea back at the beginning of the year. we had planned on picking out a ring (together -- fi knows that since i don''t wear much jewelry i''d want a say in what i''d be wearing haha!) around this time but he''s in the movie industry and there''s been a bit of a delay between gigs so we''re holding off until there''s a bit more security! also, that means that i''m not too keen on spending too much on my ring (after all, i can always upgrade later right?), so our current budget is somewhere around $3k ($2k, if i had my way.. but my tastes seem to have risen exponentially since i''ve found pricescope and all of the delicious rings to drool over!).
i fell in love with marquise stones, but to my dismay, i haven''t found much variety in setting styles for that shape. most marquise settings seem to be very simple and plain or very ornate in a blocky angled sort of way. both are beautiful but i''m hoping to have something with a little more delicacy and something... swirly!
i did see this beautiful ring (http://www.pricescope.com/idealbb/files/MAchickside1.jpg) but i''m hoping for a um north-south? alignment, rather than east-west.
(i should note that i discovered this cushion ring (http://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/2-05-cushion-avc-gog-in-jbeg-setting-t144146.html) which makes my heart skip every time i see it... so i went and studied up on cushion stones and then took a trip out to singlestone (i live in l.a.) to see some antique cushions in person and they''re even better than pictures... however, my budget would only allow for mayyyybe the stone itself, and i think i''ve decided that i want a nice setting as well instead of going the get-the-great-stone-and-plain-setting route... after all, i''ll mention that whole upgrade idea again...
so! i''ve looked up sites that seem to work with custom designs, and i''ve been trying to come up with a design based off of round/cushion/princess cut designs that i''ve seen into a marquise shape, such as these beauties:
http://www.jewelsbyericagrace.com/jbeg_signature_settings__custom_design (that sophie... le sigh
http://www.whiteflash.com/engagement-rings/styles/solitaire/santorini-engagement-ring_1413.htm#
http://www.whiteflash.com/engagement-rings/styles/solitaire/swan-solitaire-engagement-ring-by-vatche_1421.htm#
i''m going to attempt to attach a picture of a sketch that i made up... sorry for the poor quality and i hope you can decipher it! basically, the point of the marquise would have a prong that''s leaf-shaped, and the sides would be swirls.. not sure if this is possible, but hey! and the band could either be plain or with the pave where the metal looks like it''s scooped out so you can see the diamonds through the sides? like that cushion ring above
i suppose that would all depend on what it ends up costing!which is one of my questions... based off of the prices of those similar rings that i listed, should i be figuring the design i drew up would be around there? or would it be much more due to it being a custom design? would it be better to point out one of those designs above and ask the person i''m working with to adapt it for a marquise? does anybody have any suggestions for where to go for that kind of custom ring? should i try online or would it be better to go to a brick-and-mortar store?
also, i''m under the impression that for me anyway, picking the marquise stone will be an emotional process rather than...numerical. i''m not too worried about inclusions (character!) and my only concern with color is that if i end up with a pave band that those diamonds match the center (does it seem odd when the center stone is yellow but the pave diamonds are not?). due to this thinking process, i was planning on hunting around here in los angeles and picking a stone i could see in person... however, i have noticed that many sites online will show pictures and even videos. does anybody know of particular sites that are great for marquise stones (like how gog/erd/jbeg are good for cushions)? or if i should stick with the brick-and-mortar route, a good store in los angeles? i''ve walked into a few and i tend to get crazy looks when i say i''m looking for a marquise engagement ring... even had one girl tell me that that''s a bad idea and i should only get it for a fashion ring... eesh! but they all say they can pull some in so i can take a look... i just don''t know how i could trust their opinions after the scoffing! i also figured that if i got the stone at the same place as the setting, maybe it''d be easier / i''d get a deal?
i do know that i would like my diamond to be somewhere around .50 carats
i''m looking forward to your replies!! thank you so much for reading through all of that if you did. i really appreciate it!
~maiko
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