NY_Resonant
Shiny_Rock
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Hello everybody!
I’m recently engaged and have been going through the process of choosing a wedding band (and vendor!) with my fiancee (FI). I would love any thoughts/comments that the people here might have.
1) We are based in NYC and it was important for my FI that we go to someone local to facilitate the process which in my mind brought IDJ to the top of the potential list of vendors for me. I’ve spoken with Yekutiel and he knows i’m from PS and would want “PS Quality” diamonds.
2) The engagement ring is a 7.48mm solitaire (Equivalent to avg 1.58ct in size), G VS1 — Brilliance focused type stone. FI finger size is 6.25.
3) Our goal for the the wedding band is for it to be versatile, able to do stacking and size-able enough for FI to wear it alone on her ring finger at times.
I’ve taken her to a few stores for us to learn what she wants. We looked at pieces like this but FI thought they weren’t big enough if she used them alone:
We eventually found one style she liked at (cringe at the 6.5k price) Tiffany: 7 Stone ring, 8 pointers for a total of 0.57ctw. They LOOKED bigger than 8 pointers to me which made me think the label was wrong…
I then took FI to IDJ on 47th street’s diamond district. We met with Yekutiel, who came across as a very warm kind person, and worked with one of his very nice female SA’s.
I made it a point to express that i’m from Pricescope, how we want PS quality when they give us quotes, etc. What that seems to mean, based on my conversations, is: F color, SI clarity but 101% eye clean (I mentioned I was a bit picky but SA laughed and just said I was from PS), excellent-ideal diamonds. I indicated that I was not stressed by hearts and arrows here but that I wanted the ideal table/crown/pavillion proportions to avoid light leakage. I said i’d request ASET images for these tiny stones and they were very kind by agreeing to provide that for me. Overall, a very positive experience at IDJ so far.
We looked at a number of rings. The Tiffany 8 pointers definitely looked larger than they *should be* the more I looked at different diamond sizes, so weird! Anyhow, we kept going with larger diamonds until my FI decided she couldn’t go larger when stacking… We ended up with 15 pointers which I am a LITTLE worried might be too big but doesn’t look bad from picture I took — would love opinions on that too!
Pictures are of a 5 stone, 15 pointer ring FI liked. We would get it as a 6 stone to provide full top-down coverage without having diamonds hit the adjacent fingers. I liked this design more than the one at Tiffany because the setting made the diamonds look rounder, the prong placement at tiffany kept giving me a *bit* of a square feel. FI agrees and liked this ring more than the one at Tiffany without my prompting (whew!). I think the larger rounder stones sold her on that, hah!
Regarding price, i’m quite pleased by my IDJ quote. $1775 for a size 6 14k WG ring, six stones at 0.15ct each of “PS quality” for total 0.95ct.
I’m recently engaged and have been going through the process of choosing a wedding band (and vendor!) with my fiancee (FI). I would love any thoughts/comments that the people here might have.
1) We are based in NYC and it was important for my FI that we go to someone local to facilitate the process which in my mind brought IDJ to the top of the potential list of vendors for me. I’ve spoken with Yekutiel and he knows i’m from PS and would want “PS Quality” diamonds.
2) The engagement ring is a 7.48mm solitaire (Equivalent to avg 1.58ct in size), G VS1 — Brilliance focused type stone. FI finger size is 6.25.
3) Our goal for the the wedding band is for it to be versatile, able to do stacking and size-able enough for FI to wear it alone on her ring finger at times.
I’ve taken her to a few stores for us to learn what she wants. We looked at pieces like this but FI thought they weren’t big enough if she used them alone:
We eventually found one style she liked at (cringe at the 6.5k price) Tiffany: 7 Stone ring, 8 pointers for a total of 0.57ctw. They LOOKED bigger than 8 pointers to me which made me think the label was wrong…
I then took FI to IDJ on 47th street’s diamond district. We met with Yekutiel, who came across as a very warm kind person, and worked with one of his very nice female SA’s.
I made it a point to express that i’m from Pricescope, how we want PS quality when they give us quotes, etc. What that seems to mean, based on my conversations, is: F color, SI clarity but 101% eye clean (I mentioned I was a bit picky but SA laughed and just said I was from PS), excellent-ideal diamonds. I indicated that I was not stressed by hearts and arrows here but that I wanted the ideal table/crown/pavillion proportions to avoid light leakage. I said i’d request ASET images for these tiny stones and they were very kind by agreeing to provide that for me. Overall, a very positive experience at IDJ so far.
We looked at a number of rings. The Tiffany 8 pointers definitely looked larger than they *should be* the more I looked at different diamond sizes, so weird! Anyhow, we kept going with larger diamonds until my FI decided she couldn’t go larger when stacking… We ended up with 15 pointers which I am a LITTLE worried might be too big but doesn’t look bad from picture I took — would love opinions on that too!
Pictures are of a 5 stone, 15 pointer ring FI liked. We would get it as a 6 stone to provide full top-down coverage without having diamonds hit the adjacent fingers. I liked this design more than the one at Tiffany because the setting made the diamonds look rounder, the prong placement at tiffany kept giving me a *bit* of a square feel. FI agrees and liked this ring more than the one at Tiffany without my prompting (whew!). I think the larger rounder stones sold her on that, hah!
Regarding price, i’m quite pleased by my IDJ quote. $1775 for a size 6 14k WG ring, six stones at 0.15ct each of “PS quality” for total 0.95ct.
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