Hey Everyone!
Longtime lurker, first time poster and wanted to first say a huge thank you to the wealth of information here on PS and to all the generous souls who've spent countless hours giving back advice.
I'm planning on proposing in the early part of 2013, and wanted to ask your opinions or better options that I can go with versus what I am thinking.
I have a strong idea of the style of ring that she wants, validated by herself & her friends, she just has no idea "when" or "how" I will propose. Her ring size is 4.75 - 5. I have a rough budget of 15K for everything, max.
The style is likely going to be building a custom ring from a local jeweler (or maybe even one of the online retailers?) of a ring setting similar to this A Jaffe five stone ring: http://goo.gl/bvrjy
Where I would like some help on is around the center stone selection, and I am looking seriously at the following brands (BlueNile Signature Ideal, WhiteFlash A CUT ABOVE, and JamesAllen TrueHearts).
These are the stones I am looking at:
Other info:
Planning on having the settling/band be in Platinum, with the following side stones: 4x 0.31ct BlueNile Ideal http://goo.gl/irG1o. I know that it's usually advised to go with a whiter color stone with a plat setting, but I've seen and read on this forum on many members with I/J diamonds with plat/white gold rings that say you can't even tell.
Any suggestions for the center cut or other thoughts to help?
Thank you for the help & Cheers,
Longtime lurker, first time poster and wanted to first say a huge thank you to the wealth of information here on PS and to all the generous souls who've spent countless hours giving back advice.
I'm planning on proposing in the early part of 2013, and wanted to ask your opinions or better options that I can go with versus what I am thinking.
I have a strong idea of the style of ring that she wants, validated by herself & her friends, she just has no idea "when" or "how" I will propose. Her ring size is 4.75 - 5. I have a rough budget of 15K for everything, max.
The style is likely going to be building a custom ring from a local jeweler (or maybe even one of the online retailers?) of a ring setting similar to this A Jaffe five stone ring: http://goo.gl/bvrjy
Where I would like some help on is around the center stone selection, and I am looking seriously at the following brands (BlueNile Signature Ideal, WhiteFlash A CUT ABOVE, and JamesAllen TrueHearts).
These are the stones I am looking at:
- 1.33ct WhiteFlash ACA / I / VS2 / $9.9K / HCA Rating: 1.9, VG/VG/VG/VG http://goo.gl/ZoZFf
- 1.5ct BlueNile Signature Ideal / H / SI1 / $11.6K / HCA Rating: 0.9 E/E/E/VG http://goo.gl/Gd04X
- 1.6ct JamesAllen TrueHearts / J / VS2 / $10.9K / HCA Rating: 1.6 E/E/E/VG http://goo.gl/6sVNU
Other info:
Planning on having the settling/band be in Platinum, with the following side stones: 4x 0.31ct BlueNile Ideal http://goo.gl/irG1o. I know that it's usually advised to go with a whiter color stone with a plat setting, but I've seen and read on this forum on many members with I/J diamonds with plat/white gold rings that say you can't even tell.
Any suggestions for the center cut or other thoughts to help?
Thank you for the help & Cheers,
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