Rings and Engagement Rings

Engagement rings symbolize an emotional commitment and intention to get married. They are intended to be worn for a lifetime. So naturally you want to buy the best engagement ring you can. And that generally means buying the best diamond you can. So which diamond cut is the best for an engagement ring?

This really is like asking, “How long is a piece of string?” The answer depends on so many variables that it is impossible to answer simply.

In essence, the “best” cut depends upon what you mean by the term best.

The Best Cut in Absolute Terms
The cut of a diamond actually refers to how well a diamond has been facetted. Some diamonds are cut more precisely than others. A GIA Diamond Grading Report authenticates the quality of the cut of the diamond and grades it as Ideal or Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair or Poor. Diamonds with a cut graded as Ideal or Excellent are the most valuable diamonds and are therefore the best cuts, irrespective of diamond shape.

The Best Cut For Maximum Sparkle
If you consider the best diamond to be the one with the best sparkle, then you should buy a brilliant round cut white diamond with the best clarity and cut grading you can afford and prong set it into a solitaire.

Once you move away from a round cut brilliant, the amount of sparkle reduces. This is because of the different faceting for the different shapes of diamonds. A well cut marquise for example may well look like it has a shadow in the center in the shape of a bow tie! However, if you are looking for best sparkle, avoid Emerald cut diamonds because their faceting gives them the least amount of sparkle.

The Best Cut For Individuality
Brilliant round cut white diamonds account for a massive percentage of the engagement ring diamond cuts. Some estimate it as high as 75% of all gem grade diamonds sold. So if you want something that will show off your personality, the round brilliant cut would be the worst cut for you! In this case a fancier cut such as a marquise, heart, trillion or even an Emerald will be the best cut.

Best Cut For You
You are the only one who can decide what is the best diamond cut for your engagement ring. Buying diamonds is all about personal appreciation of the gemstone. After all, engagement rings are never bought solely for their investment value! So find the best clarity, best color diamond with the highest cut grade you can afford. After that, just pick a shape you think she will like. You will have the best cut diamond engagement ring

For Amy Winehouse and her ex-husband Blake it has been nearly three months and the (on paper only) divorced couple are planning on getting married again! Will she ever learn?

A pal of Blakes said that the couple aren’t ‘completely’ divorced being that the divorce still has not been finalized, this according to British tabloid the News of The World.

“We’ve been talking on the phone five or six times a day. And speaking of diamond engagement rings, on Friday she told Blake that she was going to put the engagement ring on. “It’s the engagement ring I gave Amy the first time,” Blake told his pal. “I think it cost £2,000 from Tiffany.

The couple even has changed their status on Facebook indicating that they are married. This was done just for fun but now they are feeling really good about the idea. She says she is very happy about it.

Now that the ringis back on her finger she says she feels good that they both tried tomove on but she always knew down in side that they would tie the knot again some day.

Twoheartedriver

In 1995, thinking I was ready to get married, I began looking at diamond engagement rings  for the first time in my life. I ended up buying a nice 1ct round solitaire from an Oklahoma City jeweler and shortly after I went on to proposeto my girlfriend while strolling together on the Riverwalk in San Antonio Texas. I was 23, I had just finished college and was living in Oklahoma City at the time with no idea that in less than 3 months my fiance and I would no longer be together, the engagement ring would be sent back to me and I would be living in New York with no desire to get engaged any time in the near future.

She was the oldest daughter of 18 kids and it wasn’t until we finally got engaged that it struck me to wonder why she had so many siblings. In actuality I already knew, but I was too blind in my determination to cross the finish line, get married and start a family to even consider why her family had decided to have so many kids. I’ll make a note here and simply mention that we were both bible believing Christians however, her folks had adopted a firmer more rigid appraisal on the proliferation of babies than my parents had, and so after long discussions on the matter of our future reproduction it became clear to me that my fiance was very much the daughter, in ALL ways, of her parents. There would be no dictating or controlling the womb!

We sat together in a park in downtown Houston and I made my concerns known to her. Frankly I didn’t want as many kids as nature would allow, but rather, I wanted a small more controllable brood of about 3 to 5 kids. We deliberated and her parents got involved. There was no bending and we agreed to call it off. I left Texas and eventually moved away from Oklahoma (the city of proximity) and returned to the state of my birth. Two months after I arrived in New York my mother called to let me know that a package had arrived for me. when I opened it there was a solitary solitaire in a jewelry box; no note, just the ring.

I still have the ring and I have been happily married for two year now. Prior to getting engaged I let it slip that I was one step ahead of the game since I already had an engagement ring! Upon hearing that I planned to recycle my old engagement ring my girlfriend at the time threatend to send me packing; she didn’t even want to see it! “The very idea!”  she said, “makes me sick!”

J.A.ROE

I read a story recently about a volunteer fire fighter in upstate New York who was going to propose to his girlfriend one night but was abruptly called to a fire at a local wooded park. Apparently in a moment of showing duty over desire he shoved the ring into his pocket, called his girlfriend to cancel dinner, turned his car around and went to fight the blaze. Evidently while he and his fellow fire fighters were in the midst of putting out the fire the engagement ring fell out of his pocket and disappeared.

You can imagine the disappointment he felt upon learning that the ring he was planning on giving to his girlfriend was lost somewhere amidst the soggy charred timbers of the park forest.

When his fellow firefighters found out that he had lost his ring they took up a collection from all the other fire departments in the state! When it was all said and done they were able to collect enough money for him to upgrade to a ring twice the size of his previous one. So after looking at all the diamond engagement rings available he chose a 2ct solitaire which was up from the 3 quarter carat stone that he previously purchased and he got engaged the same that the new ring arrived. The only other change was where he popped the question. Instead of the restaurant where he had originally planned to propose he instead had they entire volunteer fire department present at the fire house when he brought her in for the big surprise.

Like a band of brothers, this gritty gang of fire fighters came to the rescue of not just some citizen in distress but this time it was one of their own, and last I heard they all were present on the big day.

J.A.ROE