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Brilliant_Rock
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- Aug 13, 2004
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Erin - oooh...what does your dress look like? I can''t believe you have it already you bad girl! I''m jealous!
TT - we''ve totally played the baby gene mix game - his eyes, smile, athleticism, enthusiasm, compassion and general likabilty/charm
my nose (X on the strong spanish nose
), brains, skin, hair, grace, and height
I thought WE were being silly...but I guess we''re not the only ones! Oh and my bf initally had the exact same reaction as your does about ring buying...but I persevered and now both of us are educated and equally involved in the ring buying process. Oh, and as far as I understand, there aren''t "ïdeal" stats for fancies, only rounds due to optics, physics, etc..., but there are general ranges I think...but of course nothing beats jsut looking at the stone to see if its pretty to you. I think there is a link somewhere on pricescope to these numbers. hmmm...won''t let me insert the link...http://www.gemappraisers.com/chartFrameset.htm. or oyu can go to knowledge, fancy shapes, ideal cut and premium parameters.
FTLoD - oh how cute are you two! you look RADIANT in the picture! Ooooh...I totally wanted to get married next to a waterfall! Absolutely agree with the whole fairy tale analogy...we could stick ya''ll right into the Disney logo!
Alley - You, I''m at aBaylor. Actually there are two med schools in houston, BCM and Univ. of TX Health Science Center. Wow...you and i have some weird cosmic tie thing going on here! Yeah...so the whole paying thin, we figured we would pay for immediate family...i.e. parents and siblings....and all else come if you want share our day with us while giving yoursself a mini vacay....I have over 50+ relatives in houston...he has 30ish or so...HUGE families...all very close, so I don''t know how its gonna work out. Luckily, both our parents aren''t very social outside of the family, so only a few very close family friends...it just the very numerous, very close relatives thats the moola drain here. I don''t know how its all gonna work out...I WILL be a little sad if I can''t be around all my family (esp my cuzins who I am very close to) but the reality of money is a factor. Honestly, the reason a destination wedding came up at all is because we are actually afarid of how our extended families will get along at the reception. I don''t want my day marred by snotty comments about one family foma another, y''know? Sigh....we''ll see.
Oh and tacori...way more delicate in real life. I Don''t like the tacori pics myself, makes e''m look a alittle clunky. My first requirement in a ring is that it looks delicate, graceful, and flowing...which is how the Tacori Rosebud looks (on my finger anyway!) Except for the prongs...which I want changed.
blueroses - hugs! i know what you''re going thru...my grandama was in the ICU two weeks ago and we were all scared to death...but she came out ok and I have every faith that the doctors will make sure your dad does too. They caught it relatively early so that''s good. My thoughts are with you...keep us posted.
amaleekel - welcome! jenwill is right, you prob will get more in depth and thorough info in rocky talk...taht''s where I learned most of what I know about diamonds...i recommend searching the archives first for the basic questions, most have been answered pretty thoroughly already. Then if you have more pecific questions...post it in rocky talk and the experts that hang out there are usually more than happy to help. You can totally ask questions here too...but you will prob have better luck with in depth info in rocky talk. We got our diamind from blue nile and are very happy with it. We bought it before we were totally sure about online buying...so we went with the bigger name and the small price hike for the reliability. The service was very nice and I love my rock. No regerts..but if i had bought later on...I prob would have gone with one of the other vendors...where there is less of a price hike.
TT - we''ve totally played the baby gene mix game - his eyes, smile, athleticism, enthusiasm, compassion and general likabilty/charm
my nose (X on the strong spanish nose
I thought WE were being silly...but I guess we''re not the only ones! Oh and my bf initally had the exact same reaction as your does about ring buying...but I persevered and now both of us are educated and equally involved in the ring buying process. Oh, and as far as I understand, there aren''t "ïdeal" stats for fancies, only rounds due to optics, physics, etc..., but there are general ranges I think...but of course nothing beats jsut looking at the stone to see if its pretty to you. I think there is a link somewhere on pricescope to these numbers. hmmm...won''t let me insert the link...http://www.gemappraisers.com/chartFrameset.htm. or oyu can go to knowledge, fancy shapes, ideal cut and premium parameters.
FTLoD - oh how cute are you two! you look RADIANT in the picture! Ooooh...I totally wanted to get married next to a waterfall! Absolutely agree with the whole fairy tale analogy...we could stick ya''ll right into the Disney logo!
Alley - You, I''m at aBaylor. Actually there are two med schools in houston, BCM and Univ. of TX Health Science Center. Wow...you and i have some weird cosmic tie thing going on here! Yeah...so the whole paying thin, we figured we would pay for immediate family...i.e. parents and siblings....and all else come if you want share our day with us while giving yoursself a mini vacay....I have over 50+ relatives in houston...he has 30ish or so...HUGE families...all very close, so I don''t know how its gonna work out. Luckily, both our parents aren''t very social outside of the family, so only a few very close family friends...it just the very numerous, very close relatives thats the moola drain here. I don''t know how its all gonna work out...I WILL be a little sad if I can''t be around all my family (esp my cuzins who I am very close to) but the reality of money is a factor. Honestly, the reason a destination wedding came up at all is because we are actually afarid of how our extended families will get along at the reception. I don''t want my day marred by snotty comments about one family foma another, y''know? Sigh....we''ll see.
Oh and tacori...way more delicate in real life. I Don''t like the tacori pics myself, makes e''m look a alittle clunky. My first requirement in a ring is that it looks delicate, graceful, and flowing...which is how the Tacori Rosebud looks (on my finger anyway!) Except for the prongs...which I want changed.
blueroses - hugs! i know what you''re going thru...my grandama was in the ICU two weeks ago and we were all scared to death...but she came out ok and I have every faith that the doctors will make sure your dad does too. They caught it relatively early so that''s good. My thoughts are with you...keep us posted.
amaleekel - welcome! jenwill is right, you prob will get more in depth and thorough info in rocky talk...taht''s where I learned most of what I know about diamonds...i recommend searching the archives first for the basic questions, most have been answered pretty thoroughly already. Then if you have more pecific questions...post it in rocky talk and the experts that hang out there are usually more than happy to help. You can totally ask questions here too...but you will prob have better luck with in depth info in rocky talk. We got our diamind from blue nile and are very happy with it. We bought it before we were totally sure about online buying...so we went with the bigger name and the small price hike for the reliability. The service was very nice and I love my rock. No regerts..but if i had bought later on...I prob would have gone with one of the other vendors...where there is less of a price hike.
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