...could do with your advice...
We are ready to buy the engagement - v exciting!! My dilemma is do I buy here or buy from US and get bigger rock?! The setting we want is ''Hearts on Fire'' - i''ll post a link below. My concern from buying from US is that it will get stopped by customs here. I know we will have to pay roughly 25% customs - thats ok we''re still making a saving. My worry is that the ring might get damaged/lost! We were at a jewellers today and the manager said something about customs damaging rings when they hallmark them (apparently they have to be hallmarked when they come in to the EU from outside) and that there might be a big delay in getting the ring. Until today I was planning on buying the stone from Whiteflash and getting them to set in the HOF setting (they kindly said that this would be poss). Now i''m thinking we''ll just get the ring in Ireland to save all the hassle.
Any Irish girls out there have any advice for me - really not sure what to do now.
http://www.heartsonfire.com/#/us/en-us/diamond-collection/view-details.php?item_id=3068&item_name=Truly%20Bridal%20Leaf%20Three-Stone&style_name=TrueL3R&type_id=1&type_name=Rings&subtype_id=1&subtype_name=Engagement%20Rings
We are ready to buy the engagement - v exciting!! My dilemma is do I buy here or buy from US and get bigger rock?! The setting we want is ''Hearts on Fire'' - i''ll post a link below. My concern from buying from US is that it will get stopped by customs here. I know we will have to pay roughly 25% customs - thats ok we''re still making a saving. My worry is that the ring might get damaged/lost! We were at a jewellers today and the manager said something about customs damaging rings when they hallmark them (apparently they have to be hallmarked when they come in to the EU from outside) and that there might be a big delay in getting the ring. Until today I was planning on buying the stone from Whiteflash and getting them to set in the HOF setting (they kindly said that this would be poss). Now i''m thinking we''ll just get the ring in Ireland to save all the hassle.
Any Irish girls out there have any advice for me - really not sure what to do now.

http://www.heartsonfire.com/#/us/en-us/diamond-collection/view-details.php?item_id=3068&item_name=Truly%20Bridal%20Leaf%20Three-Stone&style_name=TrueL3R&type_id=1&type_name=Rings&subtype_id=1&subtype_name=Engagement%20Rings