Help!!! Need your opinion on 2 stones for an engagement ring

[akfong26]

Please help me choose between these 2 diamonds. I desperately need some advice for an engagement ring! After some research, I've narrowed it down to these two.

Diamond 1:
Carat 1.50
Cut Excellent
Polish Excellent
Symmetry Excellent
Color F
Clarity VS2
Depth 62.2
Table 56
Crown Angle 35
Pavilion Angle 40.8
Additional clouds not shown
Surface graining is not shown
H&A
Price $17,585.49
http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-2231290-1.50-carat-Round-diamond-F-color-VS2-clarity.aspx

or

Diamond 2:
Carat 1.50
Cut Excellent
Polish Excellent
Symmetry Excellent
Color G
Clarity VS1
Depth 61.7
Table 57
Crown Angle 35
Pavilion Angle 40.8
Price $18,309.68
http://www.b2cjewels.com/dd-2430611-1.50-carat-Round-diamond-G-color-VS1-clarity.aspx

I like Diamond 1 because of the F color and H&A, but the additional comments in the GIA report are turning me away from that diamond. Diamond 2 is more expensive but seems like a solid choice without any additional GIA comments, but it is a lesser color G but has better clarity.

I'm leaning toward Diamond 2. What do you guys think?

 

[stone-cold11]

Re: Help!!! Need your opinion on 2 stones for an engagement

Bout the same. Since the comments do not state that the inclusions are grade setting, those inclusions will be VS1 or better, you will only need to bother about the plotted inclusion.

 

[akfong26]

Re: Help!!! Need your opinion on 2 stones for an engagement

i just read that when a GIA reports has "Additional Inscription: H&A", it does not necessarily mean that the stone is a true H&A. Is this true? Kinda misleading...

 

[yssie]

Re: Help!!! Need your opinion on 2 stones for an engagement

i just read that when a GIA reports has "Additional Inscription: H&A", it does not necessarily mean that the stone is a true H&A. Is this true? Kinda misleading...

GIA is just noting what's already on the stone - someone somewhere had someone somewhere inscribe H&A onto the girdle. Since we don't know anything about who did it, how they determined H&A, whether H&A is even supposed to actually mean Hearts and Arrows...

 

[Dancing Fire]

Re: Help!!! Need your opinion on 2 stones for an engagement

i just read that when a GIA reports has "Additional Inscription: H&A", it does not necessarily mean that the stone is a true H&A. Is this true? Kinda misleading...

any pic of the hearts?