Twincitiesgirl
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- May 5, 2005
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- 8
I am not sure if I am posting this in the right spot or not. My apologies in advance.
I was very happy to find all this information. My fiance and I are getting married this fall. We do not have an engagement ring yet. We have lived together for the past five years. We have saved up for quite some time for this ring and our wedding. This will be the most money we have ever spent on us too.
We were clueless when we started looking. I guess we thought that the places we went would tell us what we needed to know. Wrong!
After looking online I see the prices are much better for the grading. We are also the shy quiet types so shopping online without having to deal with a salesperson getting us flustered is nice. I guess I am glad we went to some stores because I had never even seen a diamond close up before. I did decide a few things too. I like the princess stones, and I like the thinner band, with channel setting(10-12stones) and a solitaire, because of money, I like the white gold. We have a budget of $2-3 for the ring.
Now here is our problem, we don''t have much time. It looks good buying online, however, what if we do need to return it, that may cause an issue cutting so close to our wedding. So I was hoping to find out if there were any very good places to shop in the twin cities?
Or if you could tell me relisticly, for my budget, what can I expect to get? From all the reading we have done, we know we want a very good cut. We were hoping for a .55 or more. I know carat doesn''t equal size. We were hoping for it to look balanced with the setting. We also were hoping for F-G/VS-SI. Am I silly to think this is possible?
It seems like he and I are sitting at our table comparing Fcolor with SI2 this etc, I just want a pretty ring and to be married. Does it really come down to a numbers game? I guess it feels like there is more pressure to decide "the right ring" because there is so much money at stake and because of how special the occasion is. Any info/opinions/advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!
M-
I was very happy to find all this information. My fiance and I are getting married this fall. We do not have an engagement ring yet. We have lived together for the past five years. We have saved up for quite some time for this ring and our wedding. This will be the most money we have ever spent on us too.
We were clueless when we started looking. I guess we thought that the places we went would tell us what we needed to know. Wrong!
After looking online I see the prices are much better for the grading. We are also the shy quiet types so shopping online without having to deal with a salesperson getting us flustered is nice. I guess I am glad we went to some stores because I had never even seen a diamond close up before. I did decide a few things too. I like the princess stones, and I like the thinner band, with channel setting(10-12stones) and a solitaire, because of money, I like the white gold. We have a budget of $2-3 for the ring.Now here is our problem, we don''t have much time. It looks good buying online, however, what if we do need to return it, that may cause an issue cutting so close to our wedding. So I was hoping to find out if there were any very good places to shop in the twin cities?
Or if you could tell me relisticly, for my budget, what can I expect to get? From all the reading we have done, we know we want a very good cut. We were hoping for a .55 or more. I know carat doesn''t equal size. We were hoping for it to look balanced with the setting. We also were hoping for F-G/VS-SI. Am I silly to think this is possible?
It seems like he and I are sitting at our table comparing Fcolor with SI2 this etc, I just want a pretty ring and to be married. Does it really come down to a numbers game? I guess it feels like there is more pressure to decide "the right ring" because there is so much money at stake and because of how special the occasion is. Any info/opinions/advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!
M-
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