Your own opinion or your sense of how the rest of the female population would feel:
1.3 to 1.5 for E/F; round; ideal; VVS1
Or larger carat with less in the other categories?
Would a woman rather have an extremely high quality stone that might be of average size or would a woman rather just have a 2 ct. rock that everyone will ooh and ahh at without having to jusitfy (to her close friends) a relatively smaller rock by saying "oh, but it's an E..."
Any insights appreciated
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Size vs. Quality
Started by Guest_Guest_*, Nov 24 2002 07:20 AM
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Posted 06 July 2003 - 04:21 PM
go with that, as close to the 1.5 as possible. a yellow, blurry diamond is not something that will impress anyone! and that sounds like great choices.... and quite large!! she will be happy
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Posted 26 August 2003 - 03:15 PM
I can't decide if I want size or quality. I've said all my life that I want a HUGE ring but only now realizing that for me to get a huge ring I will have to sacrifice quality ( our budget is not high enough for me to get huge and great quality). But I keep asking myself if the only reason I want a huge ring is to impress my family/ friends, even strangers looking at the size of my rock. Am I getting the ring to impress others or as a symbol of my love and marriage? What shall I do?
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Posted 08 November 2003 - 06:04 AM
Being a woman I would say that you might consider a lower clarity (vs2 or even sl1, if its completely eye clean) and near colorless range (not lower than H). You won't see the difference and in my opinion that most important. How many people carry a loupe so their friends can examine the stone or a master set of stones to show them the difference in color? You can get an ideal cut (which is very important), larger stone, that is visibly the same for a better price.
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Posted 19 December 2003 - 01:28 PM
Dont compromise on cut, get the best cut. As for clarity and color. Dont pay for what you cant see with the naked eye. So instead of going VVS clarity, go down to VS2 or Si1, and go down in color to a G or H, and get the bigger stone. Most women love diamonds, but funny thing is most women know nothing about diamonds, what really makes them beautiful.
If i were you, i would go G or H SI1 and get the biggest stone with your budget.
If i were you, i would go G or H SI1 and get the biggest stone with your budget.
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Posted 01 February 2004 - 09:11 PM
The answer lies in your girlfriend and perhaps there's a way to poke around and ask her. If you don't want to ask her, then there are a couple of ways to find out - see what her style/values are, and check out her peer group.
For example, I'm a woman and I run with a crowd of relatively "bling bling" girls. One drives a new Porche for god's sake! I hope this doesn't sound awful or vain, but my girlfriends (educated, beautiful, professionally accomplished, worldly women, 30ish) secretly talk about minimum expectations for diamonds. You are being let in on conversations we have that I am embarassed to admit having. Anyway, bottom line is that 1.5 is minimum carat size for at least 2 of the women I know. They make lame excuses like "but my hands are big!" However, these are girls that look like they would expect something like this. Designer clothes, bags, make-up, etc. I feel sorry for their future fiancee's. They better start saving now.
So you should think about your girlfriend and see if she's more "quality" oriented, or "size" oriented. You can kind of tell, I would think. If you are 20ish, 1 carat is enough I think. I notice that now that we are in our 30's, there's lots of chatter about "upgrading." I think age and values of the girl need to be your starting point in making this decision. It's also tragic that things don't change much when you're an adult and just like teens who feel peer pressure, you have to see what the "average" diamond is in her group of good friends or professional circle.
Also, whenever a girl gets engaged, if a question is broached, it's always, "how big?" and never "what's the clarity?" so vvs1 is higher than you need to go. i'd go down to vs2 since it's eye clean, color no lower than h or i though your proposed e color would be beautiful and i'm particularly color sensitive so i like that. oh, and get ideal cut. don't compromise on the cut!
For example, I'm a woman and I run with a crowd of relatively "bling bling" girls. One drives a new Porche for god's sake! I hope this doesn't sound awful or vain, but my girlfriends (educated, beautiful, professionally accomplished, worldly women, 30ish) secretly talk about minimum expectations for diamonds. You are being let in on conversations we have that I am embarassed to admit having. Anyway, bottom line is that 1.5 is minimum carat size for at least 2 of the women I know. They make lame excuses like "but my hands are big!" However, these are girls that look like they would expect something like this. Designer clothes, bags, make-up, etc. I feel sorry for their future fiancee's. They better start saving now.
So you should think about your girlfriend and see if she's more "quality" oriented, or "size" oriented. You can kind of tell, I would think. If you are 20ish, 1 carat is enough I think. I notice that now that we are in our 30's, there's lots of chatter about "upgrading." I think age and values of the girl need to be your starting point in making this decision. It's also tragic that things don't change much when you're an adult and just like teens who feel peer pressure, you have to see what the "average" diamond is in her group of good friends or professional circle.
Also, whenever a girl gets engaged, if a question is broached, it's always, "how big?" and never "what's the clarity?" so vvs1 is higher than you need to go. i'd go down to vs2 since it's eye clean, color no lower than h or i though your proposed e color would be beautiful and i'm particularly color sensitive so i like that. oh, and get ideal cut. don't compromise on the cut!
