WARNING: I''m being childish and materialistic, but hoping that writing it down will make me feel better. Kind of long............sorry
When my FI and I started looking at diamonds, my heart was set on an antique setting w/ an asscher or cushion. My FI wanted a RB solitaire. PROBLEM! The jeweler we used showed us the round diamonds he had in-house, but none of those worked for us for various reasons. Because he owns a small shop, he had to bring diamonds in from other sources, and the selection of asschers and cushions he was able to get was not that impressive, much to the delight of my FI.
He did however, show us a very pretty 1.25 ct RB, so my FI and I agreed that we would compromise and go with a RB pave/halo setting. Much to our surprise, the diamond was under our budget and we were able to afford a larger diamond. (All of a sudden that RB didn''t seem so bad!
). We couldn''t afford the 1.5 ct so we told him that we wanted to go as large as our budget would allow, w/out compromising quality; we figured this to be 1.4 ct or just under. He warned us though that those sizes are very hard to find and I needed to be patient. YEAH RIGHT. So about a week later he called and said that he hadn''t forgotten about us but he''s still looking for that size stone, and that he did find a very nice 1.28 ct for us to look at if we were interested. My FI wanted to go look but I was just not into it; I had already compromised on the cut. Well it may as well have been the Hope Diamond because he thought it was the most beautiful thing he''s ever seen in his life, and I was like, "ehh"
. I wasn''t that impressed; I thought it looked small. (Although I''m sure part of it was because of my salty attitude). They both looked at me like I had 2 heads and said that if I wasn''t happy we could keep looking. Now the jeweler was very patient and helpful and I had no doubt he was more than willing to keep going. My FI, on the other hand, was getting very impatient with me by this point, so what did I do? Folded again. So we put a deposit down on the diamond and he said the ring would be ready in 3 weeks (he was making the setting and we had already discussed that part of it). So for 3 weeks I was trying to come to terms with the fact that I wasn''t getting the original cut I wanted and I was getting a smaller ct weight than what we had originally hoped. Well the 3 weeks FINALLY came and I had a ring on my finger and cert in hand and then I found PS. UH OH
. My diamond is a steep/deep and only faces up like a 1.20 (6.9 mm average). Now some people might say that''s not that big of a deal but it really upsets me that we paid that much $ for a 1.28 ct that looks like a 1.2 ct. I feel like the jeweler should''ve warned me that it was cut a little deeper, especially since he knew we were looking for something bigger than a 1.25 ct in the first place. I kick myself for not asking more questions about the information on the cert when he originally showed us and for not holding my ground on the cut I wanted.
I really, really, want to LOVE my ring but I can''t help but to think we could''ve had a much better quality ring for the $ we paid. Did anybody else go through this? And if so, who had to kick you in the A** and say STOP BEING A BRAT!! Thanks for listening everybody!
When my FI and I started looking at diamonds, my heart was set on an antique setting w/ an asscher or cushion. My FI wanted a RB solitaire. PROBLEM! The jeweler we used showed us the round diamonds he had in-house, but none of those worked for us for various reasons. Because he owns a small shop, he had to bring diamonds in from other sources, and the selection of asschers and cushions he was able to get was not that impressive, much to the delight of my FI.
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