E-Ring Setting & Diamond help!
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2nd the Leon Mege reference....
I think rounds give you more bang for your buck. You can cover more real estate on the hand for the price of the stone, cushions are smaller in actual size to carat weight.
As for the setting/basket interfering with a wedding band... there are ways to design the setting so that the band below is flush with anything. I THINK the cushion you showed (I am spacing on the screen names of those girls) has a head that kind of comes off the shank and would inhibit another ring sitting next to it. Ritani's halo rings (endless love) are good example of that. I know personally that's a mandatory thing with me...a "regular" band HAS to sit completely flush or it's not going to fly. ANother thing to remember is that if you do pave on morethan just the "top" or a knife-edge style pave you will endure major rubbing issues, and that could eat at the structural integrity.
I think rounds give you more bang for your buck. You can cover more real estate on the hand for the price of the stone, cushions are smaller in actual size to carat weight.
As for the setting/basket interfering with a wedding band... there are ways to design the setting so that the band below is flush with anything. I THINK the cushion you showed (I am spacing on the screen names of those girls) has a head that kind of comes off the shank and would inhibit another ring sitting next to it. Ritani's halo rings (endless love) are good example of that. I know personally that's a mandatory thing with me...a "regular" band HAS to sit completely flush or it's not going to fly. ANother thing to remember is that if you do pave on morethan just the "top" or a knife-edge style pave you will endure major rubbing issues, and that could eat at the structural integrity.
2nd the Leon Mege reference....
I think rounds give you more bang for your buck. You can cover more real estate on the hand for the price of the stone, cushions are smaller in actual size to carat weight.
As for the setting/basket interfering with a wedding band... there are ways to design the setting so that the band below is flush with anything. I THINK the cushion you showed (I am spacing on the screen names of those girls) has a head that kind of comes off the shank and would inhibit another ring sitting next to it. Ritani's halo rings (endless love) are good example of that. I know personally that's a mandatory thing with me...a "regular" band HAS to sit completely flush or it's not going to fly. ANother thing to remember is that if you do pave on morethan just the "top" or a knife-edge style pave you will endure major rubbing issues, and that could eat at the structural integrity.
thanks for the tip
i will definetly keep that in mind
Some basket settings do not allow a wedding band to sit flush, but Ritani now makes their settings so that any wedding band will sit flush. Mine is a basket setting with diamonds around the basket, and my wedding band will sit flush.
Cushion is so chic, and looks fabulous with halo setting! Of course, the round diamond is more brilliant and sparkly, but the cushion is more stately! However, a cushion cut needs to be bigger in carat weight to have THAT presence IMO vs the round. Either way, congrats!!!
If you have two stones of the same weight and quality, the RBC is going to give you more "size" than the cushion because of how the corners are cut on the cushion. I am not sure of how the difference in carat weight compares, but a diamond expert can show you stones of comparable visual size. Both are beautiful. The RBC is also going to have more fire and brilliance just based on the cut, and look fabulous regardless of size...whereas sometimes a smaller cushion cut stone does not give the same effect. I really don't think you can go wrong either way! I hope you will post pics when you decide!
And I am going to go against the crowd here and say that I think a narrow pave band that does NOT sit flush with the halo ring is very chic. I think Brooke Shields has something like this if you want to seach pics and see how it looks "on."
And I am going to go against the crowd here and say that I think a narrow pave band that does NOT sit flush with the halo ring is very chic. I think Brooke Shields has something like this if you want to seach pics and see how it looks "on."
