here you guys go... hope you don't mind the link to imageshack. sorry i'm not a very good photographer. i just have a simple canon camera and i couldn't use the flash. my lighting is not very good as well (cheap yellow bulbs). i had no where else to do it in terms of privacy, lol.
to be honest, i'm very happy with the ring... at least much better than the ones I saw at local jewelers, including tiffany's. however, what will matter is what she thinks of it. she's got the hawkeye genes.
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by the way, I thank you all for the support, advice, and putting up with my spamming of posts here!