Getting "mind clean"

[iota15]

I'm sure this thought'll pass but, over the past year, I've studied fancy cuts, looked at numerous diamonds and finally, we made a purchase - a beautiful cushion cut. It has all the specs and the shape I want. It's in our price range, although I wouldn't mind one that faced up a little larger.

Anyways, it arrived this weekend and yes, I do love it. However, after the gourds of hours of searching, I'm having a teensy, tiny hard time letting go of all the other potential better ones out there (fancy cuts are so tricky). haha. Any of you ever have this problem (thanks, no thanks to PS)?

I actually loved the search process and reading up on diamonds, and interpreting Asets and all that. BUt, hmm.. now what?

 

[Haven]

Now you enjoy your stone, that's what!
You sound like a bride who is really into planning the marriage, but not at all into actually living it.

Seriously, though--are you sure this is the right stone for you? Perhaps you're having second thoughts because it isn't exactly what you wanted. It's a big purchase, I'm sure, so you should be 100% sure of it, IMO.

I bet people will be able to give much better feedback if you FILL this thread with pictures. too.

 

[iheartscience]

I understand. I totally had second thoughts after I got my diamond and setting. (Also a fancy-radiant cut, though.) I worried the cut wasn't good enough, I worried that maybe I should have just gone with a round brilliant, etc.

I think it's normal to have doubts about something you spend SO LONG researching. If you love this diamond, I would try to step away from diamond shopping! Easier said than done, I know.

That said, if you're not toooootally in love with the diamond, maybe you should keep looking?

 

[yssie]

Ditto Haven.

But even if you do continue stalking diamonds online - I think you'll stalk them for a few weeks, watch and cringe as prices jump by the hundreds or thousands, and your stone will look like the most amazing find in the world for your budget soon enough...

 

[iota15]

Thanks girls. Well, Haven - I'm not technically a bride yet and I haven't planned the wedding. Maybe I'll enjoy the planning more than the event. I do like researching and planning.

I think Thing2 has it. I think it's beautiful but with fancies, compromises with light performance have to be made somewhere. It's not a round afterall. I think the light performance and fire are really good. In exchange, I think I went down a little ittby bit in size... and I am a bit of a SW.

I'd post pictures but BF has it hidden away now. I guess I feel a little guilty thinking (even if I haven't led that on to BF yet and hopefully never will) that maybe, MAYBE, there's a cushion out there with just as great light performance but just a little bit bigger? (It's 7.71 x 6.91. I had hoped to hit the magic 8 mm mark so my rectangularish cushion could look more like the size of a round). I'm crazy, I know, and the grass is plenty green on this side.

I just searched for so long for this particular stone to show up that I'm stupidly thinking, maybe, maybe if I wait even longer, something else will show up. I don't know. Again, I'm sorry for being such a brat. I'm sure this feeling will pass... and yes, Yessie, the rising prices should put a stop to it soon too.

 

[gemgirl]

I went through the same thing and had the same thoughts when I bought my pear years ago. After three months of searching, I believed I had found "the one". After I received it and saw it in person, I forced myself to just stop searching through different vendors inventories. I actually go through a similar thing (most of the time) when I'm making any long awaited purchase. It doesn't have to be something tremendously expensive, just something I've been waiting until "the right time" to buy. The sofa in my formal living room, my black lamb leather jacket etc. I had to just - stop looking, shopping, searching, comparing.