Thanks! Actually, the whole "certification" thing is not a "must have" but it is optimal just so you can be confident you are, indeed getting what you paid your hard earned money for. My best friend's dad is a custom jeweler and I trust him 10000% (I have known them since I was 10 and I am 28 now). My center stone (Princess cut, G/H color vs2, 2 ct.) is not certified and it is as beautiful or more than a certified stone. He showed me the diamond under a microscope, etc. so I "knew it" and what I was getting. Since I got it from a trusted and respected jeweler, the cert is just a piece of paper to me.
I could send it to GIA to have it certed, but I am to lazy to take it and have it sent off and you have to pay $250-$300 to do it. But, if I ever wanted to sell it privately, it would be very hard to sell w/o a cert.
Also, I forgot to mention in my first post about this was that my princess diamond was chipped on the very corner (common with custom setting princesses) when they were originally setting it and they recut it and it only went from 2.03 carats to 2.0 carats. Plus, it looked even more sparkly and beautiful after the recut, so there is hope if it needs to be recut!!
All very true and you are lucky to know someone so trustworthy. Even the cert. doesnt always refect how beautiful the stone will be irl. Having someone you trust is worth alot.
With your recut, its lucky that the stone remained in the 2 c. range because the difference in value between a 1.9 c. and a 2 c. is quite a lot!!!! And lucky for you that the recut gave it some extra fire...the cut is so important!
