Need help picking a half eternity band (BGD or WF)

[OCgirl]

I am in the process of picking a half eternity band to go with my engagement ring. There are so many choices out there and I am getting kind of lost...
I went through the "show me your eternity band" post to get an idea and I got even more lost!!!
Please let me know your thoughts!

Engagement ring spec:
1.22 ct Brian Gavin Blue G SI1 round brilliant
Six prongs white gold setting
Width: ~2.2 mm

Brian Gavin Dream Half Eternity:
11 x 5 pointers F/G VS melee = .55 ct total weight
Width: 2.5 mm
http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/home/ring-details/?product_id=5392

White Flash
14 ACA Hearts and Arrows melee = .50 ct total weight
Width: 2.3 mm
http://www.whiteflash.com/wedding-bands/diamonds-for-an-eternity-1-2-diamond-wedding-band-1391.htm

A few questions:
-I also got a quote from BGD for 6 pointers and 7 pointers. Jamie recommended the 5 pointers but should I go bigger to get the WOW factor (don't want to overpower my center stone though)
-I saw a post discussing shared prong bands eating your engagement setting. Will I need a spacer?
-I am open to other options so let me know!

Thank you!

 

[Dreamer_D]

What is the height off the finger of the WF band? The Dream band (named after yours truly ) is about 2mm off the finger so very low profile. I would want a band that matched the height of my engagement ring.

It will eat your ring though. If I could do it over I would get this setting which Lesley told me will not eat into adjacent rings: http://www.briangavindiamonds.com/home/ring-details/?product_id=5433

 

[OCgirl]

Must be nice to have a ring name after you Thanks for the reply! Love your new AVC btw.

See the thing is I originally bought a thinner wedding band when I got my ring set a few months back. The thinner band features .22 ct of melee. I am starting to think it looks so thin and fragile next to my engagement ring. I also like the look of a prong set because it looks like the diamonds "stick out" rather than "set in"...



This is the one I originally bought.

 

[ame]

I am in the process of picking a half eternity band to go with my engagement ring. There are so many choices out there and I am getting kind of lost...
I went through the "show me your eternity band" post to get an idea and I got even more lost!!!
Please let me know your thoughts!

Engagement ring spec:
1.22 ct Brian Gavin Blue G SI1 round brilliant
Six prongs white gold setting
Width: ~2.2 mm

May I make a suggestion? Go with the skinnier of the two or even skinnier than those you were thinking of, even with smaller stones as the option. In this thread you can see my old band containing 10 5pt stones with my new band, containing MUCH smaller stones (1.5pts each) and what a difference that makes to the size and look of the set. It made my 1.15ct stone seem much "smaller" than it is.

The old band is shown in the first post, and I believe the new band is in the next.

[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/big-mouth-shows-the-bling-finally.164595/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/big-mouth-shows-the-bling-finally.164595/[/URL]

Part of my reasoning is actually because with the larger stones, you're going to have "competing" fire with the ering stone and the band stones. The other part is simply that the larger stones in the band will detract from the main stone.

 

[OCgirl]

Ame - Thank you for your advice!!! I saw your thread before but I didn't notice you got a thinner band! I agree the thinner band goes MUCH better with your engagement ring. I think that's why I'm gonna try to go to some B&M store and try on the bands to see which width & ct weight make sense. I do feel the current .22 ct band I have is a lil too small. I want something that complements my engagement ring and at times I can also wear it alone. It's a tough pick.

I'm also worried now that the shared prongs will eat/scrach my engagement setting. I guess there's no other way to avoid this other than wearing a spacer or solder the two rings together?

 

[ame]

The prongs aren't what you need to worry about, it's the girdles of the stones. Two rings next to each other will always scratch each other. But the stones can do the real damage.

I went with this thinner one because it did compliment my e-ring better than the old one with larger stones. My e-ring setting btw is 2.3 mm wide. My plain band is 2.1, my new diamond band is 1.9. This is just enough bling to give me all the fire (these stones are QUITE firey) but not take away from the main stone.

I personally am not a big fan of either vendor you're considering because of past workmanship and customer service issues, so I won't weigh in on that.

 

[rainydaze]

if you go with a shared prong, i would definitely get a spacer. there are some 1mm options on etsy; i am currently waiting for one myself. i had a shared prong full eternity once and it only took hours for it to start eating away at my ering. i returned it.

i recently wore my mom's diamond band with 4 pointers with my ring (1.36ct) and something wasn't right. i thought i wanted bigger stones (5-7 poiners, like you) and 2 - 2.5mm width. i was sure it had to be a shared prong for me to love it. a bunch of other considerations later, i went to a jewelry store and tried on a high quality channel-beadset band, full eternity with .60tcw, approx. 2mm wide. it was nothing i had wanted, everything i thought would look wrong with my ering, and yet... PERFECT!!! the diamonds are tiny, but so well cut (H&A ISee2s) that they put on a hella show in a way that compliments my ering, dazzles my eyes, and just... works. (i should mention that part of why that wouldn't have worked is that my ering diamond is an OEC and even at 4 points, modern RB melee just doesn't 'go' with it... whereas they totally do in the tiny size i ended up with.)

just my experience, FWIW, since it sounds somewhat similar to your own journey.

 

[OCgirl]

if you go with a shared prong, i would definitely get a spacer. there are some 1mm options on etsy; i am currently waiting for one myself. i had a shared prong full eternity once and it only took hours for it to start eating away at my ering. i returned it.

i recently wore my mom's diamond band with 4 pointers with my ring (1.36ct) and something wasn't right. i thought i wanted bigger stones (5-7 poiners, like you) and 2 - 2.5mm width. i was sure it had to be a shared prong for me to love it. a bunch of other considerations later, i went to a jewelry store and tried on a high quality channel-beadset band, full eternity with .60tcw, approx. 2mm wide. it was nothing i had wanted, everything i thought would look wrong with my ering, and yet... PERFECT!!! the diamonds are tiny, but so well cut (H&A ISee2s) that they put on a hella show in a way that compliments my ering, dazzles my eyes, and just... works. (i should mention that part of why that wouldn't have worked is that my ering diamond is an OEC and even at 4 points, modern RB melee just doesn't 'go' with it... whereas they totally do in the tiny size i ended up with.)

just my experience, FWIW, since it sounds somewhat similar to your own journey.

Thank you for sharing you experience with me. That was actually VERY helpful. I have a feeling that I'm going the wrong direction. My engagement ring is in the safe right now waiting to get appraised and insured. We won't be able to get to it in two weeks since we are going out of town. I think I need to try on some bands to see what's really right. It's really hard to not want something that looks beautiful (but doesn't really go with the engagement ring). Bringing/having the engagement ring with me will remind me that I need to find its match or "partner"

I guess I didn't realize wedding band shopping can be so stressful. I knew exactly what I wanted when we were getting my engagement ring but when it comes to the band... I'm a mess