FrekeChild
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FYI, orange is my least favorite color. This will get long...Skip towards the end if you don't want the full story!
For years, my mom had taken an opportunity here and there to remind my dad that she didn't get an engagement ring because they were very poor when they got married. Since getting married, my dad had done very well for himself, and yet, my mom still had received no diamonds. In 2001, my mom had just been told she was in remission from breast cancer, and we had all had a really hard year. I had bought this horrible CZ solitaire to be silly, and shown it to my mom. She mentioned not having a diamond from my dad, and how she really wanted one. So I went to my dad and likely said something similar to the following, "Dude, you've been married for 27 years. Your anniversary is in a month, just get her a damn diamond already."
And amazingly enough, he did. He and I went to various local stores and learned about diamonds. When he heard that a square was called a princess cut, he jumped on that idea. So we bought her a 1.5ct princess cut diamond. Since picking out the diamond was so stressful, when it came time to pick out the setting, we just told the lady to put it in something yellow gold - my mom always wore YG. So she put it in a Jabel 18kt YG setting.
I wouldn't find out until later that the reason my mom only wore yg was because no one had ever bought her any other color metal, but turned out she really liked white metals too.
My mom passed away in December 2006 when her cancer came out of remission. I expected my dad to give me her ring sometime after she passed away, but no, he waited until we moved to California last year. She had told him to give me the ring "When I grew up."
Long story short, I found a preowned platinum setting for the diamond, and had it reset, figuring that eventually I would use the original yg setting for something else. I felt like the diamond should have had a home like that from the very beginning, instead of us letting the salesgirl pick something out for her.
So, for the past year, I've kept an eye out for something to fit in the YG. If you've ever looked, princess cut stones are hard to find in colored stones. So I started playing with the idea of changing out the head, and getting another shape entirely. I wanted something that would really go well with the YG.
Plus, then, I saw miraclesrule's spess ring, and couldn't keep my eyes off of it.
And then I was offered a spess from a friend...
Cut by Gene Flanigan at Precisiongems.com
And now pictures. There will be a lot of them.
For years, my mom had taken an opportunity here and there to remind my dad that she didn't get an engagement ring because they were very poor when they got married. Since getting married, my dad had done very well for himself, and yet, my mom still had received no diamonds. In 2001, my mom had just been told she was in remission from breast cancer, and we had all had a really hard year. I had bought this horrible CZ solitaire to be silly, and shown it to my mom. She mentioned not having a diamond from my dad, and how she really wanted one. So I went to my dad and likely said something similar to the following, "Dude, you've been married for 27 years. Your anniversary is in a month, just get her a damn diamond already."
And amazingly enough, he did. He and I went to various local stores and learned about diamonds. When he heard that a square was called a princess cut, he jumped on that idea. So we bought her a 1.5ct princess cut diamond. Since picking out the diamond was so stressful, when it came time to pick out the setting, we just told the lady to put it in something yellow gold - my mom always wore YG. So she put it in a Jabel 18kt YG setting.
I wouldn't find out until later that the reason my mom only wore yg was because no one had ever bought her any other color metal, but turned out she really liked white metals too.
My mom passed away in December 2006 when her cancer came out of remission. I expected my dad to give me her ring sometime after she passed away, but no, he waited until we moved to California last year. She had told him to give me the ring "When I grew up."
Long story short, I found a preowned platinum setting for the diamond, and had it reset, figuring that eventually I would use the original yg setting for something else. I felt like the diamond should have had a home like that from the very beginning, instead of us letting the salesgirl pick something out for her.
So, for the past year, I've kept an eye out for something to fit in the YG. If you've ever looked, princess cut stones are hard to find in colored stones. So I started playing with the idea of changing out the head, and getting another shape entirely. I wanted something that would really go well with the YG.
Plus, then, I saw miraclesrule's spess ring, and couldn't keep my eyes off of it.
And then I was offered a spess from a friend...
Cut by Gene Flanigan at Precisiongems.com
And now pictures. There will be a lot of them.
And I also think it's wonderful you were able to use your mom's setting. What a lovely memory to be able to have with you. Thank you for sharing that touching story about your mom.
Love the orange tree shots!
! Congrats on the beautiful ring and inspiration. 
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