Hello,
I am a bit on a budget ($2500) and want to get my girl a ring (and married) before my next deployment. She was good to go with my last one, but I owe this to her (shes been putting up with me for a number of years, wow how time flies) and really want to give her a ring for her B-day (Mid Dec). Anyways, I have been looking here and there and the only thing that I can discern is that I like the clearer diamonds better (E''s and D''s) Anything less and I feel as if I could tell. Even without knowing what they were ahead of time. Anyways, I believe that puts my in the .5 ct category for a round cut, or there about''s when you factor in clarity and all that. (good thing she has thin fingers!!
I don''t have credit cards, made that mistake a while back, so want to do this in cash, which means I need to stay local, and for now I just want to get a nice diamond on a simple gold band, so when I come back we can later upgrade bands. (ever been to old gold? They have the perfect one there...for 5 G''s...too bad, maybe later)
So I guess my question is, where local, hopefully in Marin, but Ok in SF and I''ll even travel out to the East Bay, do you recommend that I should go?
Thanks for any help and advice!!
I am a bit on a budget ($2500) and want to get my girl a ring (and married) before my next deployment. She was good to go with my last one, but I owe this to her (shes been putting up with me for a number of years, wow how time flies) and really want to give her a ring for her B-day (Mid Dec). Anyways, I have been looking here and there and the only thing that I can discern is that I like the clearer diamonds better (E''s and D''s) Anything less and I feel as if I could tell. Even without knowing what they were ahead of time. Anyways, I believe that puts my in the .5 ct category for a round cut, or there about''s when you factor in clarity and all that. (good thing she has thin fingers!!
I don''t have credit cards, made that mistake a while back, so want to do this in cash, which means I need to stay local, and for now I just want to get a nice diamond on a simple gold band, so when I come back we can later upgrade bands. (ever been to old gold? They have the perfect one there...for 5 G''s...too bad, maybe later)
So I guess my question is, where local, hopefully in Marin, but Ok in SF and I''ll even travel out to the East Bay, do you recommend that I should go?
Thanks for any help and advice!!