moobasgirl
Rough_Rock
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- Dec 21, 2010
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Hello everyone
I'm in the UK and I'm currently trying to choose my engagement ring.
I am still in University (I'm 22) and my fiance is 12 years older than myself, is a director in a pretty high profile firm. We are trying to choose a round stone to go into a legacy style, but round, halo. We want the diamond to be I VS1-VS2, excellent cut, but just aren't sure how big is too big, especially in the UK where I don't really seem to see many large diamonds. Furthermore, because I am pretty young, I don't want to look silly.
Our budget allows us to go just over 3ct for the centre stone in this quality and I am a size 4.5. However, when we visited a local jewellers (which sells the largest, best quality diamonds in the area) I was only shown halos with 0.5 and 0.75ct centres and the lady told me that any bigger would look gaudy!? I don't think so, but at the same time I don't want to give off the wrong impression.
What would you say is as big as I could go?
I'm in the UK and I'm currently trying to choose my engagement ring.
I am still in University (I'm 22) and my fiance is 12 years older than myself, is a director in a pretty high profile firm. We are trying to choose a round stone to go into a legacy style, but round, halo. We want the diamond to be I VS1-VS2, excellent cut, but just aren't sure how big is too big, especially in the UK where I don't really seem to see many large diamonds. Furthermore, because I am pretty young, I don't want to look silly.
Our budget allows us to go just over 3ct for the centre stone in this quality and I am a size 4.5. However, when we visited a local jewellers (which sells the largest, best quality diamonds in the area) I was only shown halos with 0.5 and 0.75ct centres and the lady told me that any bigger would look gaudy!? I don't think so, but at the same time I don't want to give off the wrong impression.
What would you say is as big as I could go?