MrsDiamondHeart
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Hi there, I’m new to this forum and really impressed (and a bit overwhelmed!) by how knowledgable you all are. Hello!
We’ve been married for several years and I loved the ring my husband proposed with but it was definitely not what you’d regard as an engagement ring. Anyway, he wanted to get a ‘proper’ ring, and I refused to allow him to spend any more that £2k all in.
I thought I’d done my research into the 4c’s and after looking a sites in the UK and the US, we found one at Blue Nile. The fact that the 20% VAT was covered was a big plus. Getting a J colour was the only thing that I was nervous about but it did mean we could afford a 0.8 (which he really wanted us to do) so we ordered it and I just hoped it wasn’t a horrible yellow mistake. I had looked at JA and WF too but couldn’t get anything close to the BN price. Diamond and setting in 18kt white gold was £2.2k including VAT.
And then of course in the 4 week wait, I discovered PS and read everything you guys say on here and realised that even though we’d picked a GIA triple X 0.8 VS2 J stone, and thought we’d done the right thing, there was a lot more to it than that!! My diamond is cut quite deep at 63%, with great pavilion angles but quite steep crown angles. HCA gives it 2.3. I was really worried that we’d made an awful mistake.
It arrived last week and I absolutely love it, it sparkles and throws out loads of colours and looks (to us and our untrained eyes!) lovely and white and brilliant. But I also know that I’m really not an expert.
So my question is, with the budget we had, is whether this feels like, as HCA says, a good buy at the price? Or would you have gone for a smaller diamond that was below 2 on HCA? I suppose I’m wondering whether we made a mistake and what I see as a lovely diamond solitaire, is not actually that great. I keep looking at it to see if it’s faulty! I know that probably sounds stupid and I don’t even know what faults I’d be looking for.
Congratulations if you’ve read this far! And thank you if you can be bothered to share your thoughts
We’ve been married for several years and I loved the ring my husband proposed with but it was definitely not what you’d regard as an engagement ring. Anyway, he wanted to get a ‘proper’ ring, and I refused to allow him to spend any more that £2k all in.
I thought I’d done my research into the 4c’s and after looking a sites in the UK and the US, we found one at Blue Nile. The fact that the 20% VAT was covered was a big plus. Getting a J colour was the only thing that I was nervous about but it did mean we could afford a 0.8 (which he really wanted us to do) so we ordered it and I just hoped it wasn’t a horrible yellow mistake. I had looked at JA and WF too but couldn’t get anything close to the BN price. Diamond and setting in 18kt white gold was £2.2k including VAT.
And then of course in the 4 week wait, I discovered PS and read everything you guys say on here and realised that even though we’d picked a GIA triple X 0.8 VS2 J stone, and thought we’d done the right thing, there was a lot more to it than that!! My diamond is cut quite deep at 63%, with great pavilion angles but quite steep crown angles. HCA gives it 2.3. I was really worried that we’d made an awful mistake.
It arrived last week and I absolutely love it, it sparkles and throws out loads of colours and looks (to us and our untrained eyes!) lovely and white and brilliant. But I also know that I’m really not an expert.
So my question is, with the budget we had, is whether this feels like, as HCA says, a good buy at the price? Or would you have gone for a smaller diamond that was below 2 on HCA? I suppose I’m wondering whether we made a mistake and what I see as a lovely diamond solitaire, is not actually that great. I keep looking at it to see if it’s faulty! I know that probably sounds stupid and I don’t even know what faults I’d be looking for.
Congratulations if you’ve read this far! And thank you if you can be bothered to share your thoughts
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