Hi Girls! I used to be pretty active on tpf but have been lurking lately because of a lot of personal things (basically caring for a very sick father and the eventual passing of my beloved dad) going on in my life for the past year or so, but I think the saying goes something like after the rain there's always the rainbow or something hehe.
Anyways, my boyfriend and I are planning to take the next step, we're already in contract for our first ever home (YAY!) and he actually took the intiative to take me to the jeweler and look at rings with me (YAY! again lol).
He knows how picky I am with EVERYTHING, so he wanted me to pick out my ring and to just let him know and he'll pick it up once "the mood is right" LOL. So I've been looking around, the local jeweler we went to has this diamond that we did like, and I went online and found a few others that I liked also. I posted this info on PS (but no replies yet ) and thought I should post it here to see what my fellow tpfers think, since I personally believe that tpfers have amazing taste
The 1st ring, was the one that we saw in person at the jeweler, it was eye clean and pretty nice the 1st time we saw it. Yesterday when I took my gf there to look at it again, she said that it didn't look as sparkly as the other stones, so I'm kind of worried about that :/ The jeweler said that the price for that is $10400 if we pay in cash, and $11k if we finance.
1. 1.22 carat VS2 E ideal cut (hearts and arrow too i think) - attached
2. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-2397479.htm
3. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-2523209.htm
Now..next question: the setting. No solitaires for me, I've always been lusting after the halo setting
I have definitely narrowed it down to 2..
I LOVE the Tacori 2520 setting that I saw in person, this is the exact setting (courtesy of Antiquehalolover on PS, her thread with more pictures: http://www.pricescope.com/forum/sho...-with-halo-and-pave-t129800.html?hilit=tacori)
Or this Beverley K setting:
I haven't seen the Beverley K setting in person, but this vendor said they're going to ship a sterling silver c/z version of it to me so that I can look at it. I'm just worried that this setting might be a little thick base on the picture. My ring size is 5.5, so I don't have small delicate hands but my fingers are pretty long and narrow lol, so I don't want the ring to overwhelm it. So what do you guys think?
(sorry for the rambling, I'm just super excited )
Anyways, my boyfriend and I are planning to take the next step, we're already in contract for our first ever home (YAY!) and he actually took the intiative to take me to the jeweler and look at rings with me (YAY! again lol).
He knows how picky I am with EVERYTHING, so he wanted me to pick out my ring and to just let him know and he'll pick it up once "the mood is right" LOL. So I've been looking around, the local jeweler we went to has this diamond that we did like, and I went online and found a few others that I liked also. I posted this info on PS (but no replies yet ) and thought I should post it here to see what my fellow tpfers think, since I personally believe that tpfers have amazing taste
The 1st ring, was the one that we saw in person at the jeweler, it was eye clean and pretty nice the 1st time we saw it. Yesterday when I took my gf there to look at it again, she said that it didn't look as sparkly as the other stones, so I'm kind of worried about that :/ The jeweler said that the price for that is $10400 if we pay in cash, and $11k if we finance.
1. 1.22 carat VS2 E ideal cut (hearts and arrow too i think) - attached
2. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-2397479.htm
3. http://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut-loose-diamond-2523209.htm
Now..next question: the setting. No solitaires for me, I've always been lusting after the halo setting
I have definitely narrowed it down to 2..
I LOVE the Tacori 2520 setting that I saw in person, this is the exact setting (courtesy of Antiquehalolover on PS, her thread with more pictures: http://www.pricescope.com/forum/sho...-with-halo-and-pave-t129800.html?hilit=tacori)
Or this Beverley K setting:
I haven't seen the Beverley K setting in person, but this vendor said they're going to ship a sterling silver c/z version of it to me so that I can look at it. I'm just worried that this setting might be a little thick base on the picture. My ring size is 5.5, so I don't have small delicate hands but my fingers are pretty long and narrow lol, so I don't want the ring to overwhelm it. So what do you guys think?
(sorry for the rambling, I'm just super excited )