I have been working on a pair of sapphire and diamond cluster style earrings. I was able to find a pair of 5.5mm sapphires that I liked, and I was going to have 2.3-2.5mm diamond cluster. But my gut feeling is I wanted just a little bigger sapphire, so I requested maybe 6mm, but my jeweler found these 6.9mm pair which are sooo much bigger than what I imagined for. 1.4mm difference!
Only problem, doubles my budget! Part of me really feels like since a big portion of the original budget was in the setting/labor cost, that maybe it makes sense to get these bigger stones? A slight worry would be the bigger stone might make the earrings too formal/fancy? Thoughts?? Opinions?? Just can’t get over how much bigger the 1.4mm makes. Also somewhat bummed that the bigger stone is much nicer color... color stones are so hard to choose!
Only problem, doubles my budget! Part of me really feels like since a big portion of the original budget was in the setting/labor cost, that maybe it makes sense to get these bigger stones? A slight worry would be the bigger stone might make the earrings too formal/fancy? Thoughts?? Opinions?? Just can’t get over how much bigger the 1.4mm makes. Also somewhat bummed that the bigger stone is much nicer color... color stones are so hard to choose!