Your Guide to Buying a Diamond Engagement Rings
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Before you pop the question, you’ll want to pick out the perfect engagement ring to present to your girlfriend when you ask her to marry you. Of course, as you begin shopping for a ring, you’ll quickly find that many diamond rings are available to choose from today. If you shop for jewellery online, you’ll find even more options available to you. How do you make the right choice so you can present her with a ring she’ll love? To help you make the right decision, here is a simple guide to buying a diamond engagement rings.
Know Your Budget
Before purchasing an engagement ring, make sure you know your budget. Figure out what you can afford before you ever visit a jewellery store. The last thing you want is to get talked into a piece of jewellery that is far over your budget. When trying to figure out how much you can spend, it’s recommended to never spend more than two months’ salary, so you avoid overextending your budget. Once you know how much you can spend, then decide how you’ll be making the payments, such as using a credit card, financing the ring or paying with cash.
Choose the Metal
The next thing to do is to choose the metal you want for the ring you’re purchasing. Some of the top choices available for diamond rings include platinum, yellow gold and platinum. If you’re going with gold, 14k gold is usually the best option. While platinum is a stunning choice, remember that it can be very expensive.
Decide on the Diamond Shape
Now you’ll need to choose the diamond shape. One of the most popular and affordable options is the round, or brilliant cut. This option looks amazing and you’ll never go wrong with this choice. Of course, the princess cut diamond is also quite popular, and this shape of diamond looks really big as well. While these are the most popular options, you may want to research and consider some of the other cuts available as well.
Consider the Three Cs (Carat, Clarity and Color)
Next, you need to consider the three Cs when picking out the perfect engagement ring. The three Cs are Carat, Clarity and Color. Keep in mind that the solitaire stone is the main showpiece, so focus most of the carat weight in this stone. The exact carat weight you choose will probably depend on the amount you can spend. Clarity is important as well and it’s a good idea to research clarity and the different ranges of clarity. Average clarity in diamonds is considered SI1 clarity and it’s usually a bad idea to go any lower. Last, color is important as well. H-Color is the average color available; however, going up to a G-H can definitely be a great choice. Keep in mind that the closer to pure white you get, the brighter the diamond appears.
These are just a few of the helpful things to keep in mind as you consider the various diamond rings available and choose the perfect one for your girlfriend. Make sure you do plenty of research before making your final decision. Also, don’t forget that you want a ring that you and your fiancé to be will love.
By Dave G Thompson
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I don’t know whether a jeelewr will dip your ring. If they can, I think that they probably aren’t the best jeelewr .seems fishy to me. I’d go to a jeelewr and look at their settings. Find one that is the same or very similar to the one that you currently have and have the jeelewr reset the diamonds. Even if it were possible to dip a ring, it would be so much more expensive! If you have them take the diamonds out of your current ring and put them in a new ring, then they can melt down the yellow gold and keep it in exchange for a discount on your new settings and the labor involved in setting your diamonds. If you just dip your old ring (which, as I said, I’m not sure is even possible), then you are paying for the new white gold/platinum AND you still have that yellow gold underneath! Unless they aren’t dipping it in real metal and are just dipping the yellow gold in something that will turn it white .in which case, there is something VERY wrong. It shouldn’t be possible to just dip yellow gold in something and have it change color. White gold has a different chemical composition from yellow gold. You have to actually melt yellow gold down and add stuff to it (I think nickel?) in order to make it white. I’m not a jeelewr. I could be totally wrong, but I’d just go with finding a similar setting. Unless your old rings were antiques (in which case you DEFINITELY shouldn’t mess with them!), the style is probably still around somewhere or is easily recreated by a skilled jeelewr.