A Guide to Buying the Perfect Diamond Engagement Ring
Friday, September 30th, 2011Choosing an engagement ring can be troublesome. One of the hardest things to choose is the stones and if you’re selecting more than one stone how these should be combined. A solitaire diamond is historically given as an engagement ring, but so too are clusters.
If you’re choosing a cluster you options are to have a stone of your choice surrounded by diamonds.
In a number of cases the centre stone is also a diamond, but this isn’t as usual.
If you’re going for the solitaire style ring you’ll have tons of choices to make. First you need to think about the scale of the diamond.
There are three major areas to consider when you decided on the dimensions of your diamond; how often will the ring be worn and what’s going to be a practical size, the size of the hand that’ll be wearing it, and ultimately how much you wish to spend?
Most individuals will wear their engagement rings every day but probably not for all activities. For instance it will be removed for swimming or housework. As a general rule, the larger and more prominent the diamond sits from the band the more it will interfere in daily activities and be moved. This is one of the reasons why 2 carat diamond engagement rings are so hot. The diamond is large enough to be striking and pretty, but still a really practical size.
The other troublesome thing, is making absolutely sure that the diamond will look good on the wearer. Just as everybody has different faces, so they have different hands. Not just the skin tone is different, but also the length of the fingers and the proportion of the hands. It is really important to bear this is mind when choosing the setting and design on an engagement ring.
The cut of a 2 carat diamond will impact how it looks significantly. The most popular cuts are the princess cut and the round cut. Both of these make great solitaires. If you are going for a rather more complicated band then the round cut is the slightly more well-liked choice as it is better to have smaller round diamonds to match added each side of the main diamond or embedded in the band of the ring.
Whatever the fashions, you can be certain that a 2 carat diamond engagement ring will always be well received by any bride to be. For the more bold you can always find loose diamonds for sale which can on occasion be set in a unique band.