I love seeing upgrade photos! I had an upgrade after only a few months but unfortunately don't have the pictures to the first ring. It was baaaaaad as in visible black dot! Both stones were about the same size though just an upgrade in quality. I don't remember how big the first one was a touch over a carat I'm guessing. My current is 1.17, I don't recall feeling the difference in the size but for sure in the sparkle. I wasn't even planning on an upgrade but smacked my ring so hard into the laundry machine it looked like I cracked it but as it turns out it wasn't cracked and then my parents when they brought it in to their jeweler to have it looked at, they upgraded my ring as a surprise, I never expected it. And my first ring was not sentimental because my dh didn't pick it out. I got married with out an engagement ring and after I was married for a couple of months my mom asked my dh what he could afford and then she took me one day to her jeweler and we picked the black dot on out lol on that budget. My parents I guess hated that ring and wanted me to have better and so they upgraded it.