Help picking between two radiants.. advice?

[bbsoon2be]

Hi all!

I've heard wonderful things about this forum on weddingbee so here I am!

I am choosing between 2 diamonds:

Both are: Radiant, ideal, G color, roughly one carat, roughly same ratio (square.. my preference)and within my $5,000
Where they differ: Clarity (first is VS2 second is VVS1) and depth/table %'s (first is 67% table 70% depth and second is 62% table 66.6% depth) and of course price

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/G-VS2-Ideal-Cut-Radiant-Diamond-1465397.asp
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/G-VVS1-Ideal-Cut-Radiant-Diamond-1465396.asp

My questions are:
1. I know that a preferable depth is a max of 69% - in the first stone with the 70% depth, will it make that much of a difference in the sparkle etc?
2. Is the price difference mostly because of the clarity? I'm willing to pay more for a better cut and more sparkle but the clarity doesn't concern me as much if its eye clean.

Please don't send me any more stones to look at.. I respect what you do here but I've had a hard enough time narrowing it down to these two!

I appreciate all your help in advance, thanks!!

 

[Niel]

i dont like those, they seem like they might be a little bit leaky what about this
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/G-IF-Very-Good-Cut-Radiant-Diamond-1355014.asp

 

[bbsoon2be]

that one is definitely beautiful. It's deeper than I had originally thought was ideal 74%. I guess I'm just confusing myself more. I don't know whether to trust the image or the numbers. I'm set on buying one online I'm just so type A that when the numbers don't match up to a beautiful image I get confused.

 

[Niel]

Believe me I am no expert. Hopefully someone else will chime in. But I know that you can't judge a fancy by the numbers, you have to judge it by the way it looks to you. If you like that one I posted I'd ask JA for a ASET of it and a description of the light performance. They let you have 3. So if you want to use it for your other 2 then do that. But what I would do is go to there website set the price and the shape and the color you want and see what comes up. Don't worry about cut grade or clarity preferences. That one I think is a G or VGA cut but its very beautiful I think. I like those facets.


But if you like it hold it now. People lurk on these to snatch up diamonds

 

[bbsoon2be]

That's what I was worried about. I almost didn't post at all. Didn't know about the light test. Thank you!

 

[Gypsy]

I prefer (greatly) the second one you posted. http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/G-VVS1-Ideal-Cut-Radiant-Diamond-1465396.asp I'd ask for an ASET of this one. It's got great potential.

This one has potential as well: http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/F-VS2-Very-Good-Cut-Radiant-Diamond-1482403.asp

 

[bbsoon2be]

That's the one I prefer too. That one is beautiful as well!