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My boyfriend and I dropped into a Tiffany's B&M store the other day for a bit of a laugh, just to see what the blue box hype was all about. He has not officially proposed yet, but in light of the fun we are having with designing our anniversary ring, he suggested starting to look into my engagement ring.
I have been fairly adamant that I don't want a diamond. Mostly because of the cost and marketing and well, colour-less-ness, and who doesn't love a gorgeous blue sapphire amiright?
So we had talked and vaguely settled on an an unheated blue round sapphire, about 6.5 mm. This was based off online research that said a 1 carat MRB diamond is about 6.5 mm in diameter. I have tried on my mum's 1.5 carat MRB and felt it was a little too much bling for my size 6 (US) finger.
Well to cut a long story short(er)... the lighting in Tiffany's is amazeballs! We kept looking up to gauge the angles, haha, what can I say we are engineering geeks. The assistant who spoke to us was friendly, a pleasant surprise for me as I had half-expected snobbishness. I tried on a variety of solitaire MRB diamonds ranging from 0.5 carats to 1.8 carats. Well I didn't realise til then that perhaps there is a little bit of a size-ist in me!
Based on that one visit, we have determined that I look pretty good with either a 1.29 carat or a 1.61 carat solitaire - so I guess a stone that faces up between those two in terms of coverage (as an aside, why can't Tiffany's round up the weight, it offends my OCD lol).
Once we were out of the store my boyfriend admitted that he had not liked the idea of diamonds either. But he thought a diamond solitaire set in platinum looked elegant on me, and he especially liked the 1.61 carat.
Question for my CS friends here - so again looking online quickly that would mean our search for a well-cut, sparkly, unheated round sapphire would be centred around a 7.3 - 7.5 mm stone... is this even possible? And we haven't even gotten into the issues around hue yet...
And hopefully at a price point that doesn't mean we give up on a CS and look for a well-cut MRB?
p.s. The assistant at Tiffany's was definitely trying to sell us on the brand name, and the carat and colour and clarity. Luckily for me, I had previously peeked into RockyTalky and have read up a bit on the importance of cut, and my boyfriend definitely gets the importance of faceting angles etc. We won't be paying the premium for a Tiffany's diamond if we do end up going down the diamond route, which made the sticker shock a lot more bearable - thanks PS!
I have been fairly adamant that I don't want a diamond. Mostly because of the cost and marketing and well, colour-less-ness, and who doesn't love a gorgeous blue sapphire amiright?

Well to cut a long story short(er)... the lighting in Tiffany's is amazeballs! We kept looking up to gauge the angles, haha, what can I say we are engineering geeks. The assistant who spoke to us was friendly, a pleasant surprise for me as I had half-expected snobbishness. I tried on a variety of solitaire MRB diamonds ranging from 0.5 carats to 1.8 carats. Well I didn't realise til then that perhaps there is a little bit of a size-ist in me!

Once we were out of the store my boyfriend admitted that he had not liked the idea of diamonds either. But he thought a diamond solitaire set in platinum looked elegant on me, and he especially liked the 1.61 carat.
Question for my CS friends here - so again looking online quickly that would mean our search for a well-cut, sparkly, unheated round sapphire would be centred around a 7.3 - 7.5 mm stone... is this even possible? And we haven't even gotten into the issues around hue yet...
p.s. The assistant at Tiffany's was definitely trying to sell us on the brand name, and the carat and colour and clarity. Luckily for me, I had previously peeked into RockyTalky and have read up a bit on the importance of cut, and my boyfriend definitely gets the importance of faceting angles etc. We won't be paying the premium for a Tiffany's diamond if we do end up going down the diamond route, which made the sticker shock a lot more bearable - thanks PS!
