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Happy New Year PS'ers!
Long time lurker on PS from Australia who bit the bullet just before Christmas for a push present. The Mrs and I are expecting our first child later this month. Y'all on PS have been very helpful to many others and I was a beneficiary of that as I trawled through the thousands of threads on the forum (plus some other sites like BeyondThe4Cs) over the last couple of years to educate myself.
This was after purchasing a custom setting (18kt white gold cathedral style 4-prong solitaire) and stone (0.70ct G/SI1 GIA XXX) from a small independent Aussie bricks & mortar retailer in my neck of the woods for a wedding anniversary present. In the six months after that purchase, I ended up obsessively poring over the proportions wondering if I could have done better for the price by purchasing online....
Looked at a number of sites the weekend before Christmas (James Allen, WF, BGD, Victor Canera) but in the end, I narrowed it down to two stones from BGD's Blue collection based solely off the ASET on the grading reports.
The first was a 0.926 J/VS2 which was purchased at around the same time by another PS forum member for a pendant. That stone should look stunning in the setting they are going for.
The one I ended up going with was:
http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/diamonds/diamond-details/0.962-k-vs2-round-diamond-ags-bl-104091071008
Looking forward to seeing it set in this:
http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/engagement-rings/solitaire/freya-18k-white-gold-5985w18
Order was accepted just before Christmas so am hoping the ring arrives before Bub does!
Looking forward to actually participating in this forum more now that I've actually signed up.
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Long time lurker on PS from Australia who bit the bullet just before Christmas for a push present. The Mrs and I are expecting our first child later this month. Y'all on PS have been very helpful to many others and I was a beneficiary of that as I trawled through the thousands of threads on the forum (plus some other sites like BeyondThe4Cs) over the last couple of years to educate myself.
This was after purchasing a custom setting (18kt white gold cathedral style 4-prong solitaire) and stone (0.70ct G/SI1 GIA XXX) from a small independent Aussie bricks & mortar retailer in my neck of the woods for a wedding anniversary present. In the six months after that purchase, I ended up obsessively poring over the proportions wondering if I could have done better for the price by purchasing online....
Looked at a number of sites the weekend before Christmas (James Allen, WF, BGD, Victor Canera) but in the end, I narrowed it down to two stones from BGD's Blue collection based solely off the ASET on the grading reports.
The first was a 0.926 J/VS2 which was purchased at around the same time by another PS forum member for a pendant. That stone should look stunning in the setting they are going for.
The one I ended up going with was:
http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/diamonds/diamond-details/0.962-k-vs2-round-diamond-ags-bl-104091071008
Looking forward to seeing it set in this:
http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/engagement-rings/solitaire/freya-18k-white-gold-5985w18
Order was accepted just before Christmas so am hoping the ring arrives before Bub does!
Looking forward to actually participating in this forum more now that I've actually signed up.
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