For the girl that has it all....

i don't know that you could just go to a diamond mine and pull out a diamond and have it be the one you cut and have it turn out great. there's alot more to selecting rough for cutting than just pulling it out of the ground. you could pull out what may be a Z colored I3 clarity stone when it's cut. sure you can get rough cut into a spectacular stone (maybe an eightstar if the brand would impress her and the rarity)...but finding the rough may not be easy if you want to find it in a mine.

why don't you design a ring for her with her in mind...adding special touches here and there..for me that's pretty meaningful. or have one of the vendors who cuts their own stones (aka a whiteflash) source a piece of rough for them to cut for you or something like that?

i would also venture to say that one of my best friends has tons of expensive things, diamonds, mercedes, her own house etc and i think that some guys end up thinking like you are..aka nothing is going to be good enough so it has to be some huge elaborate thing or a huge ring or something. bottom line is that my friend would be so ecstatic to find a man who loves her and wants to make her happy that she would not care if it was some special mined rough etc. she'd just be happy knowing that there was thought put into it and that the man she loved wanted to marry her.

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 Right!

Forget the silly thing....

And here's one more vote for the colored ring: I don't know what kind of rings she already has, but if you want to match their size and presence, many colored stones would help with the cost without compromise. Even if that is not feasible (what if all those diamonds are 10 carat pieces???? you haven't told us what you are coping with exactly... ) - It doesn't have to be a ring that is worn 24/7, especially since this is not her only by far. The meaning of it already makes it special and nothing else comes close about this particular piece of jewelry.

Lets put it another way: it can only be a good thing that you are not under pressure to supply the first valuable piece of jewelry to your girl as many e-rings are. That has already been taken care of. I suppose she can't possibly expect that you take some silly financial gamble for anything, including that engagement ring. She knows you, you budget and intentions...

Sorry to say this, but there is no need to attach allot of ego to this purchase. Your heart seems to be with it already, and this is the main thing. I have yet to hear of an exception to that rule among all women I know.

Ana "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." [Souren Melikian]

Since it came up....

It is not feasible to pick a diamond from the dirt: modern mining is incompatible with the proposition, panning African rivers a strange idea and even if you went to some silly public ground it may take a while, allot of luck and a mountain of dirt to find material for a ten pointer Like this  . Not that the idea is not romantic, but you'd both be old and poor by the time is done

Ana "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." [Souren Melikian]

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