Hello everyone I am currently looking for an engagement ring for my long time partner, I figure we have 3 kids its about time! 
But seriously she is an amazing woman and I would have married her sooner if she showed any interest! So recently conversations have gone that way and it seems like she will say yes if I ask! So I told my mom and she said "you better not get her a ring from the mall". Well that crushed me because that's what I was going to do! What do I know! So I started my diamond education...
And I'm swamped covered up! I thought I was doing good by learning about cut, clarity, color, and of course the "almighty" carat.
So I started looking and thinking I was getting somewhere, then I see about florescence and table size and I'm clear stumped and dumb founded.
Now she says she likes all the different shapes and to get something small because it wouldn't matter if it was from a cracker jack box.
I reckon the cracker jack box ring wouldn't work though somehow! We have 3 children so our budget is tight but I managed to put up 800 dollars and I reckon I got two hundred my buddy owes me coming so for 1000 I was trying to find something as nice and special I could be.
I was thinking I could go with a J color since her name is Justine and Ive seen alot of nice comments about people with J rings being real white lookin and not yellow and I thought that might save a few dollars. And I reckon the setting maybe the 190 one in white gold from blue nile maybe and might find a .3 or .4 diamond in the price range of 1000? I just want it to be nice lookin as can be since its so small.
It's pretty intimidating to post up here for help with a price range like that but I take good care of my family, there just isn't much left after, but love! I reckon I can do a little better than a cracker jack box for 1000 or so (maybe not much better but hey around here oatmeal beats no meal!)
So yet again a clueless man bows before you begin for help! Can anyone help me find something nice? I was thinking maybe a Marquis cut J color stone might be had around half a carat for 700 or so, maybe that would help it look a little bigger, but from what I see a J you gotta pick the right stone to get the nice illusion affects of pure whiteness? Is a marquis any more danger of falling out of a setting? If anyone with some expertise would be kind enough to spend a minute or two to help and old southern gentleman like me out I'd sure appreciate it!
But seriously she is an amazing woman and I would have married her sooner if she showed any interest! So recently conversations have gone that way and it seems like she will say yes if I ask! So I told my mom and she said "you better not get her a ring from the mall". Well that crushed me because that's what I was going to do! What do I know! So I started my diamond education...
And I'm swamped covered up! I thought I was doing good by learning about cut, clarity, color, and of course the "almighty" carat.
So I started looking and thinking I was getting somewhere, then I see about florescence and table size and I'm clear stumped and dumb founded.
Now she says she likes all the different shapes and to get something small because it wouldn't matter if it was from a cracker jack box.
I reckon the cracker jack box ring wouldn't work though somehow! We have 3 children so our budget is tight but I managed to put up 800 dollars and I reckon I got two hundred my buddy owes me coming so for 1000 I was trying to find something as nice and special I could be.
I was thinking I could go with a J color since her name is Justine and Ive seen alot of nice comments about people with J rings being real white lookin and not yellow and I thought that might save a few dollars. And I reckon the setting maybe the 190 one in white gold from blue nile maybe and might find a .3 or .4 diamond in the price range of 1000? I just want it to be nice lookin as can be since its so small.
It's pretty intimidating to post up here for help with a price range like that but I take good care of my family, there just isn't much left after, but love! I reckon I can do a little better than a cracker jack box for 1000 or so (maybe not much better but hey around here oatmeal beats no meal!)
So yet again a clueless man bows before you begin for help! Can anyone help me find something nice? I was thinking maybe a Marquis cut J color stone might be had around half a carat for 700 or so, maybe that would help it look a little bigger, but from what I see a J you gotta pick the right stone to get the nice illusion affects of pure whiteness? Is a marquis any more danger of falling out of a setting? If anyone with some expertise would be kind enough to spend a minute or two to help and old southern gentleman like me out I'd sure appreciate it!
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