How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over time?

[diamondseeker2006]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

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I decided to try a 2 ct AVR and then a 2.3 ct AVR!!! So I went from thinking my 1.6 ct rb was too big to a 2.3 ct AVR!!! It was a process, but I finally have the right diamond for me (I love them in larger sizes, but I am really not comfortable wearing a diamond any larger than the one I have)! As for the setting, it is in my Vatche Tiffany repro because I cannot commit to one setting! They are too expensive to keep changing, and it took me about 3 tries to even get the right solitaire setting with the rb's!!! So I am happily wearing my ring and will reset when I find something that I think I can love forever!

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DS, I see one more upgrade coming soon!... [/quote]

Oh, gosh, DF!!! I hope what you are seeing is a second ring with an AVC!

 

[Roxy]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

I love my ring and i chose it with DH's approval but i can't get over the fact that my bands don't sit flush with it and i can't have it fixed, because this would mean re-making the entire ring

This. I planned to wear my ring by itself, thinking the pave on the band would serve as both engagement ring and wedding ring, and I wanted a larger bottom of the setting so it wouldn't be as likely to slip around on my finger. But it looks like an engagement ring and not a wedding ring at all, and it totally bothers me that a wedding band wont sit flush with it. I am wearing it without a wedding band and just enjoying it for the moment. A reset is always a possibility for someday.

This would get even more interesting if along with your feeling it would be good to know if the ring was just given to you or did you have a say in the ring you got.

Yeah, I'm another one who likes my rings to sit flush on my finger. It's weird because I really love the look of mixed/non-matchy/creative combinations on other PSers fingers but they always look out of place on my little knobby fingers LOL !

I had a say in my first wedding set and actually designed the wedding band specifically for the e-ring (a lot of yellow gold in a ring guard style ... yeah, it's dated). After 5 yrs of marriage and coming across Pricescope I started falling for the look of white metal and the difference between the sparkle of ideal cut side-stones vs the little chips of "I don't know what kind of cut/grade" that were in my initial e-ring setting.

For our 5th anniv, DH suggested that I upgrade my setting (I love my original center stone & didn't plan to change it at all) but we ended up building a house that year, so I put the upgrade on the back burner (@Hospatogi I've been where you are ). Fast forward to our 15th anniv and DH started really pushing for me to resume my quest (he actually started at around our 13th anniv since he knew it would take me a couple of years to settle on "the" setting).

Sure enough after 2 years of researching, contacting vendors, getting pics of mock-ups/handshots/different angles/etc, seeing samples and wearing tons of CZ versions of the designs I was considering (I was all over the map for a while), I narrowed down to the current rings that I received a little over a year ago. One of the toughest things was having to switch out my original center stone w/ one that was larger and whiter because of the color difference between the center stone and the melee in the eternity bands. I know that sounds odd, but I'd always felt that my first stone was large at 7mm, so having one that's 9mm just seemed a little over the top on my hand.

I'd read about DSS, so I've been waiting for the day to come when the stone would begin to "shrink" or I'd stop being so enamored by the new setting but both DH and I are really surprised that day hasn't come yet. I usually get over the thrill of a new piece of jewelry after a few weeks or months, so this has been wacky. I never wore my previous set when I was at home (it was the last thing I put on in the morning and the first thing I'd take off when I got home in the evening) but I have a tough time taking this set off. I'm sure at some point the novelty will begin to wear off, and I'll be the first to report when that happens because I find the whole "DSS" phenomenon fascinating.

I'm so sorry this went on so long!! I'm like @Circe and LOVE reading insight from others in PS community so I try to think about the types of things that I find helpful when researching stuff, but I hate that I can't seem to do it in under 50 pages LOL !

 

[yssie]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

I love my ring and i chose it with DH's approval but i can't get over the fact that my bands don't sit flush with it and i can't have it fixed, because this would mean re-making the entire ring

This. I planned to wear my ring by itself, thinking the pave on the band would serve as both engagement ring and wedding ring, and I wanted a larger bottom of the setting so it wouldn't be as likely to slip around on my finger. But it looks like an engagement ring and not a wedding ring at all, and it totally bothers me that a wedding band wont sit flush with it. I am wearing it without a wedding band and just enjoying it for the moment. A reset is always a possibility for someday.

This would get even more interesting if along with your feeling it would be good to know if the ring was just given to you or did you have a say in the ring you got.

Yeah, I'm another one who likes my rings to sit flush on my finger. It's weird because I really love the look of mixed/non-matchy/creative combinations on other PSers fingers but they always look out of place on my little knobby fingers LOL !

I had a say in my first wedding set and actually designed the wedding band specifically for the e-ring (a lot of yellow gold in a ring guard style ... yeah, it's dated). After 5 yrs of marriage and coming across Pricescope I started falling for the look of white metal and the difference between the sparkle of ideal cut side-stones vs the little chips of "I don't know what kind of cut/grade" that were in my initial e-ring setting.

For our 5th anniv, DH suggested that I upgrade my setting (I love my original center stone & didn't plan to change it at all) but we ended up building a house that year, so I put the upgrade on the back burner (@Hospatogi I've been where you are ). Fast forward to our 15th anniv and DH started really pushing for me to resume my quest (he actually started at around our 13th anniv since he knew it would take me a couple of years to settle on "the" setting).

Sure enough after 2 years of researching, contacting vendors, getting pics of mock-ups/handshots/different angles/etc, seeing samples and wearing tons of CZ versions of the designs I was considering (I was all over the map for a while), I narrowed down to the current rings that I received a little over a year ago. One of the toughest things was having to switch out my original center stone w/ one that was larger and whiter because of the color difference between the center stone and the melee in the eternity bands. I know that sounds odd, but I'd always felt that my first stone was large at 7mm, so having one that's 9mm just seemed a little over the top on my hand.

I'd read about DSS, so I've been waiting for the day to come when the stone would begin to "shrink" or I'd stop being so enamored by the new setting but both DH and I are really surprised that day hasn't come yet. I usually get over the thrill of a new piece of jewelry after a few weeks or months, so this has been wacky. I never wore my previous set when I was at home (it was the last thing I put on in the morning and the first thing I'd take off when I got home in the evening) but I have a tough time taking this set off. I'm sure at some point the novelty will begin to wear off, and I'll be the first to report when that happens because I find the whole "DSS" phenomenon fascinating.

I'm so sorry this went on so long!! I'm like @Circe and LOVE reading insight from others in PS community so I try to think about the types of things that I find helpful when researching stuff, but I hate that I can't seem to do it in under 50 pages LOL !

I, too, have no inkling of DSS and I've had my centerstone for over three years now

It took several upgrades and resets to figure out exactly what I wanted in a ring. Now that I'm there, I honestly can't imagine wanting a different ring. I can't imagine wanting to change any part of my ring - the stones or the setting! (Nor can I imagine actually spending the money to change stones or setting, which I'm sure helps!) So... DSS is not an inevitability, even if you do spend considerable amounts of time on this forum

 

[heididdl]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

didn't have a choice with my first 1 carat pear shape poorly cut ring in 1985.. Five years later I picked out another ring a trillion cut 1.66 with two .25 tcw trillions on the side. As I've state many times I lost my mother in 2001 and inhereted her 3.66 EC which I now wear as my ering. So I still have my trillion which I wear here and there and I had the pear made into a neclace which was stolen used that insurance money to fund my first pair of 160 studs.

 

[iota15]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

Hi LLJ. I'm an old poster. It's been a while but this is my 1000th post. This seems like an appropriate occasion to sum up my pricescope/ering experience.

I spent an enormous amount of time learning about fancy cuts, absorbing everything on this site and beyond. I even visited a bunch of vendors in New York to see a large amount of stones for myself.

Now while I am extremely happy with what I ended up with... Now. I was only just fairly happy with it at the time of purchase (about 3-4 years ago now). We bought what my husband and I could comfortably afford at the time, and that required some compromise. Through my research, I chose criterias I thought made the most sense to me (like high-ish colour, lower clarity, a certain amount of surface area (appearance size), etc.)

It was beautiful but when I first had it on my hand, I couldn't stop "PS'ing". Lol. Wondering if it was too small, whether I made the right choice, wondering what else was out there, whether the setting should change. (I should note I did immediately change the setting - but this was always the plan.)

I think the concern that bugged me the most though, was my concern about its size. I know it sounds crazy to an outsider but for what we spent, I wondered if it was too small. Maybe I should have picked a poorer cut, colour, etc. in exchange for a larger size. The more I wore it though, the larger it got! (What's the opposite of DSS?)

Rather than focusing on up close pictures or putting it right next to my eye, I saw it get bigger when I caught my stone in the mirror and saw it sparkle across an elevator or bathroom. It also got bigger when I wore smaller stones in my jewellery box next to it, or on another hand. I don't want to play the comparison game but I also realized how good I had it when I was out in the real world, and off PS!

Sometimes I still get DSS but it's quite rare now. I've also had a few years to settle with it, and see how large my stone actually looks on my 4.5 finger. While I still want to play with my setting a bit, and I would love several three carat stones in a variety of fancy cuts - at some point, you just have to look down at the amazing little star on your hand and say - this really is amazingly great. I am so lucky to have it.... I really am.

And maybe take some time away from PS, although I do love you girls!

 

[packrat]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

I wish my stones were just a bit bigger, but I can't see spending the money to change it ever, b/c I'd never change the setting itself. Had I known I was going to do another project a couple years later I'd've just kept saving for bigger stones instead and not done the strand band but I can't see spending money on the redoing a bigger version of the same exact setting.

 

[ringbling17]

Re: How have your feelings about your e-ring changed over ti

I got my diamond (2.417 ACA on size 5.5 finger) in 2009 and had it set in a WF Harmony set as a temporary set.
I have wanted to change my setting a number of times and each time I have changed my mind, so for now it is my temporary "forever" setting.


Last year I contact VC about the Ann Marie setting bc I loved it so so much. I love the cushion shape with a round diamond and the split shank that merges into one shank with larger diamonds.

I decided that I would change my setting finally and had plans to send it to VC but then the thought of spending all that money and then not being completely happy made me hesitate. I didn't want to get it and not wear my ring and find out that I wouldn't wear it as much as I thought.
As is, I don't wear my ring that often in its current setting.

So, just as I was about to make the plunge, I found the exact ring I wanted, exactly like the VC that I adored and modeled after it. It was my size in platinum and had rubies placed in the inside of the shank, exactly like I was planning to do.
It's by ERD (I think the Bridgette setting) but had all the things I wanted and so I purchased that instead and kept my 2.417 in the Harmony setting. Plus it fits so nice with harmony wedding band.

I am completely happy with the ring (and i am super picky) and even though I would have loved a VC, I don't think I would wear it as often. The diamond halo really makes a statement and I some days I want something understated.

I currently only wear my ERD once a month for a few days. Then move on to another ring. I have also not worn my ACA for months at a time.

I like having the options of different rings though. Sometimes I think I want the Vatche u-113 and then I change my mind again!!