umgoblue2003
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2006
- Messages
- 49
hello!
we are still in the process of getting quotes from various places for the ring... whiteflash gave us a quote that was a bit high ($800 more than what we got at Jared), and i''m wondering if it''s because they use such high quality stones? (we have our own center stone, 1 ct princess F VVS1, so it was not included in the quote) The side stones are all princess and are going to be 0.2 main sides (0.4 tw) and then a total of 0.5 channel set. Since they are so small, I was thinking that they likely don''t need to be VVS stones (Which is what whiteflash said they use).
So I was thinking I could buy my own stones to save a bit of money. I want a good color, since the ring is yellow gold; but I was thinking I could go down to SI2. After seeing so many larger stones that are SI1/2 on here that look amazing, i figure that the teeny channel set diamonds and even the 0.2 ct diamonds can be SI1 or SI2...
anyhoo... I just wanted suggestions on a. where to buy such small stones (the smallest i found on the search here is 0.23), and b. what clarity/color y''all recommend.
merci!!
we are still in the process of getting quotes from various places for the ring... whiteflash gave us a quote that was a bit high ($800 more than what we got at Jared), and i''m wondering if it''s because they use such high quality stones? (we have our own center stone, 1 ct princess F VVS1, so it was not included in the quote) The side stones are all princess and are going to be 0.2 main sides (0.4 tw) and then a total of 0.5 channel set. Since they are so small, I was thinking that they likely don''t need to be VVS stones (Which is what whiteflash said they use).
So I was thinking I could buy my own stones to save a bit of money. I want a good color, since the ring is yellow gold; but I was thinking I could go down to SI2. After seeing so many larger stones that are SI1/2 on here that look amazing, i figure that the teeny channel set diamonds and even the 0.2 ct diamonds can be SI1 or SI2...
anyhoo... I just wanted suggestions on a. where to buy such small stones (the smallest i found on the search here is 0.23), and b. what clarity/color y''all recommend.
merci!!