Dream Engagement Rings

Why buy all sorts of engagement rings from various sites that sell this type of products? You have the possibility of designing your own engagement ring as you want; you can select its shape, weight, color, clarity and most important, its price.

For this operation, I recommend you the jamesallen.com site, where you can find information related to engagement rings, how to create the perfect ring and others and also a place from where you can buy jewelry, such as rings, earrings and pendants.

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Diamond 3 Stone Engagement Rings (Source: images.jamesallen.com)

You can create your own engagement ring by selecting first the setting or by choosing the diamond. The available ring collections on this site are: solitaire, channel set, sidestone, pave, three stone, contemporary, gemstone, wedding sets and Danhov. We have already selected the three stone collection, because one of our user has requested us to write about diamond 3 stone engagement rings. You can choose to see all the three stone diamond rings or you can narrow your search, by choosing the metal from which the band will be made. You can choose between, platinum, yellow gold and white gold. Also, the rings can be arranged according to their price from low to high or from high to low.

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Diamond 3 Stone Engagement Rings (Source: images.jamesallen.com)

Because a diamond can be combined only with the best metal there is, I have selected the platinum band. Four rings are included in this category, the first one being the platinum round brilliant diamond three stone engagement ring, that has the price of $3550. Then we have the platinum 0.50 carat three stone princess cut diamond ring ($3025). In the end, we have 2 expensive rings: the platinum 1.0 carat 3 stone diamond ring ($4450) and the platinum three stone diamond engagement ring ($6750). All the rings have the name of the jeweler engraved on the inside.

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Diamond 3 Stone Engagement Rings (Source: images.jamesallen.com)

Let's talk about the first ring. This one has 0.45 carat round brilliant cut diamonds placed on each side of the ring. The average color of these diamonds is F-G and the average clarity, VS2-SI1. Besides these diamonds and the central one, the ring benefits of 10 other diamonds, that have a minimum carat total weight of 0.25. The average color and clarity are the same as those of the side diamonds.

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Diamond 3 Stone Engagement Rings (Source: images.jamesallen.com)

And now, let's discuss about the most expensive of the diamond rings presented here, the last one. This product has only 2 side diamonds, that have no less than 0.50 carat each. They are also accompanied by GIA Laboratory reports. The available ring size starts from 3 and ends at 7.75. The price remains the same.

It is good that you are searching for diamond engagement ring these days, because many sites still offer discounts for their products, even though the holiday season has gone. A site that always offers discounts – you just need to find them – is Amazon.com.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Discounts (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

The first ring presented here is the round diamond solitaire engagement ring in white gold, created for these sizes: 4 – 9.5. The discounts offered by SuperJeweler, the company that sells this product is of $1600, which is 73% of the original price of this product, which was of $2199. This makes the current price of this engagement ring be of $599. However, if $600 seems too much for you, Amazon offers you the possibility of buying this product now and paying it during the next 12 months. This beautiful ring is created for a stylish girl, that likes natural things. I'm saying this because the stone is natural, not treated. It has an I2-I3 minimum clarity and the J/K minimum color. Minimum total carat weight of the diamond is of 0.75 carats.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Discounts (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

The next product is designed for a queen or at least for a person that acts as one. I'm talking about one of the most beautiful engagement rings present on Amazon: the Princess cut diamond 3 stone engagement ring in white or yellow gold. As you probably imagine, this is a more expensive product, still not very expensive for its value: only $1799. The discount offered in this case is of $2700 (60%). Amazon offers that 12 month financing in this case as well. Related to the diamond, I have to say that the minimum color is F-G and minimum clarity is VS2-SI1. Minimum total carat weight is now of 2.0 carats, much more than in the previous case.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Discounts (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

And now, to make everyone happy, we will present a product very similar to the first one (in fact, it is sold by the same seller), a product that is really, really cheap: $199.99. The original price of this product was of $399, but SuperJeweler offers these days a discount of 50%. This product is an engagement ring in white gold, that has in the middle a round shape diamond, that has the J-K minimum color and the I2 minimum clarity. Obviously, the total carat weight in this case is the lowest, only 0.25 carats. Fortunately, we are not discussing about an artificial diamond or somehow treated. This is a natural, not treated diamond, that is extremely suitable for people that don't need expensive products, just to show their love. Like the first product too, this one is available in sizes from 4 to 10.

A great company from where you can buy engagement rings in Canada is Tiffany & Co. Here you will find beautifully crafted pieces of remarkable elegance, made in silver, white gold, yellow gold, having diamonds and other precious gems. We are interested in some diamond engagement rings that can be bought from this site, this is why we will discuss only about diamonds today.

Where love is true, the Tiffany engagement rings are in order. They even have created an application for the iPhone that allows you to browse their collections of engagement rings and determine your ring size. However, if you don't have an iPhone, but only a computer and you are interested to see their engagement ring models, you can access tiffany.ca, because it is basically the same thing. You can refine your search by taking into consideration one or more of the possible features of your future engagement ring, such as the shape of the diamond, the setting of the ring and diamond, the metals used for the creation of the band and also the potential designs invented by Tiffany jewelers.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Canada (Source: fashionboxes.net)

I am glad to see that the metals used by the Tiffany professionals in order to create diamond engagement rings are platinum and gold. I have to say that I have found online engagement rings that had one or more diamonds placed on a silver band. This is not acceptable, because the diamond is one of the most precious stones ever and you simply cannot combine it with silver. Don't get me wrong, silver is great as well, only that it cannot be combined with diamonds, since it is not the most precious metal.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Canada (Source: fashionboxes.net)

Alright, we have discussed about metals, but how about diamond shapes? The available Tiffany shapes for the diamonds they use when creating diamond engagement rings are: Emerald, Princess, round, Lucida, pear, cushion, heart, marquise, square and oval. And the available settings are: solitaire, diamond band, side stones, pave and three stone.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Canada (Source: fashionboxes.net)

Regarding the Tiffany designs, we have the Tiffany setting (they were named earlier), Tiffany Legacy, Embrace, Lucida, Soleste, Etoile, Bezet, Novo and Grace.

Let's say you want to design your own Tiffany ring. The first thing you need to do is to select a shape for your diamond. You cannot select for example the diamond to be round and also marquise at the same time. I have selected Princess, for example. Immediately after this, the unavailable settings for this shape of the diamond were deactivated. The available ones are only solitaire and diamond band. Let's select diamond band. After this, you have to select the metal, which in our case is platinum only.

Engagement rings can have many designs, can use different stones and metals. The good thing related to engagement rings is that you can design it by yourself. When we are discussing about these items, we think that the future husband, if he will be lucky, proposes to his future wife by offering her a ring. So, in most of the cases, this ring is a surprise. But because many things happened and the future bride refused the ring or did not like it, now a lot of the husbands-to-be allow their girlfriends to select their own ring and even to design it.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Designs (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

A site where you can create your own engagement ring is rokstok.com. I have spoken about this site before and I have told you that you can follow 2 possible paths; the first one is to select the setting and the second one, to start creating the diamond engagement ring by selecting the diamond. You need to know that by “creating your ring”, we don't mean to actually design the ring by yourself, buying a certain stone, carving the metal and performing other operations that are normally performed by jewelers. No, these operations will still be performed by jewelers; you will only select how the ring will look like, taking into consideration the available diamonds and settings present on rokstok.com. This is not the only site that allows you to design your engagement ring. It is enough to use Google in order to search for what interests you and you will discover several hundreds of sites that allow you to do this. And this, only in the United States. Worldwide, we are talking about thousands of sites like this.

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Diamond Engagement Rings Designs (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Rokstok jewelers have more than 40 years of experience and they have created custom jewelry for couples for generations now. If they offer you advice regarding your future engagement ring, you better listen to them, because they know what they say. They have a passion to create the world's most amazing bridal jewelry designs and they succeed in doing this.

You need to know that the engagement ring that you are creating now is going to be a ring that you will wear for the rest of your life, so it must be perfect. In the past, in order to create this perfect accessory, the Rokstok jewelers used old techniques, some of them dating as far back as the 1800’s. Luckily, now they use computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing software, that has created a whole new universe of possibilities. Now the user can see how his custom ring will look like way before buying it.

An engagement ring is made not only from a certain metal, having a certain gemstone or being designed for a specific size; it wears also the signature of its designer. So if you want to select a great engagement ring, you also have to pay attention to the designer. Thankfully, on theknot.com, the Wedding section, you have the possibility of searching for platinum rings, white gold rings, rings that have round stones, that have a vintage style, a modern style and so on, but above all that, you can select the designer. You can select an individual professional or a company that deals with creating and selling engagement rings.

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Designers Of Engagement Rings (Source: media.theknot.com)

For example, you can select to see the Jeff Cooper's designs or maybe the ones created by A. Jaffe. Gemvara is another designer we recommend and so is Hearts On Fire. Let's say that you have selected one of these designers. If you want to see their creations, you can click directly on Go, but if you want to narrow your search, you can select also the style of engagement ring, its stone shape and also the metal from which the ring is made.

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Designers Of Engagement Rings (Source: media.theknot.com)

I have selected Parade Design, because I have heard this company creates beautiful rings. The available styles that you can pick are: colored gemstones, milgrain edging, solitaire, multiple stones, unique style, traditional style, modern style, with matching bands, with diamonds and more. Let's say that we want to see only the diamond engagement rings created by Parade Design. After this you can select the stone shape. The shapes used by this company may refer only to Cushion and Round, so before saying that you want, let's say an Asscher diamond engagement ring by Parade Design, you have to be sure that this company cuts diamonds in this mode. Luckily, if this is what you want, find out that Asscher is a possible option. The rest of them are: Calla Cut, Cushion, Round + Oval, Emerald, Heart, Marquise, Pear, Princess, Dream, Radiant, Square + Rectangle. I like the round diamonds, this is why I will select Round.

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Designers Of Engagement Rings (Source: media.theknot.com)

After this, in order to see the Parade Design rings, you have to select the metal. This is your final choice that you have to make. The available choices are: Palladium, platinum, white gold, yellow gold, rose gold, white metals or yellow metals. Because I have selected to see the diamond engagement rings, I will select the band to be made of platinum, because this is the metal which is most appropriate to be used with diamonds. Alright now, let's click on Go and see the results. They appear all in this article.                          

Something unique for your future wife can be represented by an engagement ring that combines diamonds and emeralds. It is recommended to buy such jewelry from authorized diamond sellers, because in general they are very expensive and you don't want to buy something that has a much lower value than the one you expect. Luckily, this thing doesn't happen on Amazon, where sellers are verified. Unfortunately, their products are not and if you want to buy an engagement ring with diamonds and emeralds, for example, from one of the Amazon sellers, you have to read more information about that certain product you are about to buy. If we are discussing about a ring that is $5000, most likely you will not find any information whatsoever on Amazon, where prices like this are usually avoided by customers.

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Diamond & Emerald Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

However, you have to take into account that here we are discussing about a diamond and emerald engagement ring and this type of stones are expensive. Nonetheless, if you have the money, don't hurry to offer them to an unknown seller. I will recommend you 2 rings, but it remains up to you to search for information related to these products and sellers. On Amazon, the place where I have found these products, none of the rings that will be described, has a rating. In other words, none of the customers, if they had any customers, has evaluated yet those rings.

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Diamond & Emerald Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

The first ring is an emerald and diamond engagement ring, made from white gold. The emerald is flanked by two smaller square diamonds and it is princess-cut. The diamonds are 10 at number and are inserted into a white gold band, forming a sleek channel set row at the left and right of the emerald. This ring can be found at FineJewelryVault and is $1458. If you don't benefit of such amount of money, you can use the 12 month financing offered by Amazon.

If you don't have $1000, most likely you don't have $2499, the price of the second ring. So use the financial plan! This is another emerald and diamond engagement ring, that has a white gold band. This is an adjustable ring, that comes having the size 7, but which can be transformed to match thinner and thicker fingers. For example, it can be used as a size 5 ring and also as a size 10 ring. It is found at FineDiamonds9 and presents a center diamond and 2 side emeralds. These side gemstones have 0.60 carats each and the diamond has 0.80 carats. Such a ring is perfect for any occasion, but it is recommended to offer it as an engagement ring.

When a man proposes to his girlfriend, he usually uses an engagement ring. But this is more than just metal and a gemstone. It represents the bound that will be made between that man and that woman. Engagement rings have been used for centuries and are a sign of commitment. This is why they are named “engagement rings”. Otherwise, they would be named just “rings”. There is no difference in shape, color, clarity, cut between an engagement ring and a regular ring; any ring can become an engagement ring if it is offered to a lady under the circumstances mentioned in the first line.

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Engagement Rings Meaning (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Engagement rings signify that now you are engaged or betrothed. Their meaning is that those two people that are connected through an engagement ring are in love and they are going to spend a lifetime together. An engagement ring is equal to a future relationship, which is the marriage.

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Engagement Rings Meaning (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

This jewelry is worn on the left ring finger and usually comes with a diamond. This happens mostly in the United States and United Kingdom, because in other countries, the engagement ring can be worn on other fingers as well. However that particular finger, the left ring one, is considered to have a direct connection to the heart and because love is represented by a heart shape, the tradition says that you have to wear your engagement ring on the left ring finger. An engagement ring is not the same with a wedding ring, which usually doesn't have any diamond whatsoever. The wedding band may have precious or semi-precious stones, but in this case they are many, not a single stone like it happens in the case of an engagement ring. Some women prefer to match the engagement ring with their wedding band in terms of color, metal and gemstone. It is correct, because you simply cannot combine a silver engagement ring, that comes with no diamond, but with other stone, that is not so valuable with a platinum wedding band, which in the middle has an ideal or AAA diamond.

Related to the origin of the engagement ring, it is considered that at first the groom wanted to show his future wife his commitment. But not any kind of commitment, but the financial security that he was capable of. The more valuable the ring, the highest his wealth. So, if he offered a diamond ring, it meant that he has the financial support his wife needs. Not mentioning that in the past, prior to the 19th century, women were not allowed to own property, so “owning” a ring was a true success for them.

We have discussed about this matter before, but I believe it is about time to go back to this subject again. I have presented the categories in which a diamond can be included, according to its cut. It can be too shallow, ideal or too deep. Today, we will see what this means and we will discuss about other factors that affect the light performance of a diamond.

A diamond that is too shallow unfortunately lets the light escape out the bottom of that diamond, instead of letting it go away through its top, the same place from where it enters the diamond. Let's imagine a perfectly cut diamond; it is not too elongated and also not too flat, like it is the deep, respectively shallow diamond. In the case of an ideal diamond, light is properly directed through the entire surface of the diamond, ensuring an optimal size and brilliance for that particular diamond. Even though it may seem more appropriate for a wedding ring, the diamonds that are too deep let the light to escape out the sides of the diamond. The result is the diamond will look dull.

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Custom Designed Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Those that want to buy a deep diamond, because these are also sold, have to know that it is better to buy a smaller, but ideal cut diamond, if you have the money, instead of getting a diamond that is not cut correctly, and which in addition seems smaller taking into account its actual weight. Deep diamonds have the tendency of appearing smaller than they actually are. You must not let yourself tricked by this, considering that you see in fact an ideal cut diamond, which is small by its nature. You may as well talk about a deep diamond, which is not small at all, but which appears to be, because of its shape that was given by a poor cutting process.

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Custom Designed Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Other factors that influence the brilliance and fire of a diamond are the depth of that diamond, its height, length, width, pavilion height and table size. However, the stone’s proportions are those that influence greatly the roadway of the light. These proportions were mentioned at the beginning: two shallow, too deep and ideal.

Before cutting the diamond, cutters examine the stone to see what is the shape that will retain most material without waste. If you want this phrase expressed differently, let's just say that in some situations, cutters are the ones that decide to cut a diamond too deep or too shallow, in order to keep more stone, so this is not always a cutting mistake.

About the cut of a diamond that is used on an engagement ring we can say a lot. We can begin, for example, by saying that the cut of a diamond is not the same thing as the shape of that diamond; the shape is something that appears during the cutting process, in other words, it is just a part of this process, not the entire process, which is named “cutting”.

This procedure is recommended to be performed by professional cutters, because it doesn't matter if you have a valuable stone, better said a diamond, if you manage to ruin it by performing a poor cutting. The cut of a diamond can be referred to as the proportions of that stone, which include all the facets and the way these facets are positioned one to another. When you send light to a particular facet, the light will be refracted in a certain way. When that light goes through more facets, it will form something that jewelers name “brilliance”. So, all these facets and the way that they are placed influence the brilliance and fire of a diamond.

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Cut Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Diamonds do not have their colors express in: white, blue, yellow and so on, but by using letters. These letters express how clear the color actually is. What I'm trying to say is that even when you have a perfect colored diamond, with a perfect clarity, you can still have a stone that is not that brilliant, if it is not cut correctly. The cutter knows always how to cut a diamond, so that the final design of the stone to be brilliant. If we are talking about a professional cutter, that is. You cannot unleash the fire of a raw diamond, without cutting and faceting it the right way.

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Cut Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

However, there are so many other factors that affect the brilliance of the diamond. This is also called as the “light performance”. When a jeweler wants to see how valuable a stone is, he actually looks at how the light goes from the top of the diamond to its bottom. The greater the brilliance, the more precious the diamond.

According to their cut, diamonds can be shallow, deep and ideal. Unfortunately, the first 2 models are something that jewelers don't want to happen, this is why nowadays they have started to use software programs that allow them to see before doing the cut, how the light will perform when directed to a diamond. We will discuss more about this subject in the article to come. Until then, don't forget to read our archive and hope for an ideal diamond for your engagement ring.

To customize your engagement ring, first you need to know something about the customization of metals and gemstones. If you don't, you can address a jeweler. But you have to be careful because some jewelers want the best only for themselves, not for their clients as well; they can try to trick you, by telling you that only certain gemstones match a certain metal, in order to get more money from you.

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Custom Design Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

When you create your own ring, you have to select the setting, the gemstones or diamond you will insert in the band, the style of your ring, its size and more other things. Once you have chosen a gemstones/diamond, the metal you are about to select must match that gemstones/diamond. This works in reverse as well; in other words, if you have started the customization of your engagement ring with the diamond, for example, after selecting it, you have to select a matching metal. For example, I would never combined a white diamond with yellow gold. Also, a bad combination is between diamonds and silver. Diamond is for those that want only the best and silver is for everybody. This is a metal that is used by most of those that wear jewelry and is definitely not a metal that can be used for a unique engagement ring.

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Custom Design Engagement Rings (Source: ecx.images-amazon.com)

Because we have mentioned diamonds, you need to know something about how to choose them. Alright, we have already established that you need to properly combine metal and diamonds, but there are some other things that have to be taken into consideration, such as the diamond shape, cut, clarity, color, polish. If I tell you that a diamond that I have selected for my engagement ring is an excellent diamond, you may think that this is the best diamond there is on market, since I have used the word “excellent”. But you don't know that there are also “ideal” diamonds and also a very small percent of diamonds included in a category named: “AAA”.

So you must not take into account only the words that you can find on the Internet. If you want to discover more about diamonds and how to personalize an engagement ring, the right way, I invite you to enter rokstok.com, because there you will find a large range of categories and information related to this subject. And not only this, this is a site from where you can also order engagement rings. Great information about how to customize an engagement ring and still remain with a lot of money in your pocket can be found on Amazon.com as well, the Diamonds section.