Finding Your Perfect Engagement Ring

The tradition of getting an engagement ring as a promise of marriage goes back to 1477 when Archduke Maximillian of Austria presented Mary of Burgundy with a gold ring set with a diamond as a token of his love. From then onward, this royal tradition lived on for centuries with the engagement ring becoming almost as important and as much of a milestone as the engagement itself. Today, approximately 70% of brides settle for nothing less but a diamond engagement ring, the bigger the diamond the better. If you’ve decided that you are all set to tie the knot then believe it or not, there is no way that you can just bypass choosing and buying an engagement ring that costs at least one to two months' salary.

When it comes to getting an engagement ring, many men tend to think that it is best to buy the ring together with their woman, letting the bride-to-be take as much time as she needs to try the different engagement rings and choose what suits her best. Logically, this is the rational thing to do but then again, perhaps falling in love and being in love has nothing rational about it. If you want to surprise your woman, you want to be careful about making sure you get the engagement ring right. The last thing you want to happen is for you to spend a little fortune on a ring that the person you give it to never bothers to wear because she does not like it. To make sure you get your engagement ring home and right, if you are going to just pop the question out of the blue when she is least expecting it, then try to look out for styles she likes on her friends, in advertisements or in the window of the jewelry shops she swear by. Perhaps the safest and the most popular engagement rings are the diamond solitaires, followed by clusters and the increasingly fashionable three stone ring. Emerald, sapphire and ruby also make beautiful engagement rings.

Diamond engagement rings

The engagement ring as we know it today, and the romantic traditions that surround it, are in large part the creation of some of the world’s most renowned jewelers including Tiffany & Co., Adria de Haume and Peter Norman & Co. In 1886, a trend was introduced that literally revolutionized the cherished custom of offering an engagement ring as a token of love and a promise of marriage: the innovative, six-prong setting that is capable of lifting a diamond away from the band of the ring it rests on, permitting a more complete return of light and generating a stunning radiance that captures perhaps most appropriately the consuming power of love’s fire and intensity. A design of timeless beauty, the six-prong setting remains a popular and worthy design for the symbol of lifelong commitment.

As far as diamond engagement rings go, some jewelers are undoubtedly better than others with a track record that evidences the incomparable quality of their diamonds. This is just how things are; some jewelers outshine all others with the sheer charisma of what are, demonstrably, the world’s finest diamonds, mounted to complement exquisite platinum or gold settings.

Brilliance when it comes to top-tier diamonds is defined and characterized by how skillful the diamond cutters are trained to be, adhering to strict exacting measurements, including symmetry and most importantly precision of cut. Together, these factors give diamonds their extraordinary presence: generating the breathtaking show of light, with utmost dispersion and scintillation that we have come to expect of diamond rings created when light enters the stone, reaching the perfectly sculpted facets and mirrored directly back through the crown. Diamonds are meant to generate an extraordinary show of light that continuously intensifies with every movement and if you buy a diamond engagement ring that does not dazzle then you might as well spare your wallet the horror.

Thinking about your bride-to-be

For a number of years now, two rings have been circumscribing the romantic ritual of courtship and marriage: the engagement ring that declares two will become one, and the wedding ring that commemorates the ceremony of vows. For over eight generations now, jewelers all over the world have been struggling to be the premier resource for the selection of diamond engagement rings and wedding bands that best reflect personal taste as well as time-honored family traditions. The conceptualization of the diamond solitaire ring with the diamond set away from the band permitting a more complete return of light made it possible to make your engagement ring and your wedding band come together in a masterpiece of clean and sensuous curves.

When choosing an engagement ring for your bride-to-be, it is advisable that you think long term. A diamond ring will, of course, last for a lifetime and should reflect the taste and personality of the wearer. In addition to that, as a general rule, it is best that you buy your engagement ring and your wedding band at the same time allowing for the wedding band to match the engagement ring, and this is, to some extent, true for men’s wedding bands as well. When selecting a band, couples are advised to consider not only value and design but rather they should take into account workmanship and comfort as well.

Diamonds vs. Gemstones

The worldwide reign of diamonds started in 1848 and since then, it never stopped with evidence of diamonds being used throughout every era including the platinum age of diamonds, the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s era of cocktail-style jewelry.

Undeniably, diamonds are the perfect representation of unquestionable glamour. Diamonds dazzle the eye with a fiery allure and modern attitude due to precise cutting for brilliance, and gem-quality stones.

Whether color is put out there in force or merely whispered, it is the key indicator of style and fashion. The source of its power lies in nature, perhaps from those mysterious depths of color coming forth in dramatic ways from Mother Earth. When it comes to engagement rings, you don’t have to settle for the safe choice. You can go for spectacular and fiery: you can go for translucent gemstones instead of diamonds. Colored gemstones are arguably a measure of nature’s magic, sparkling and exquisite. Prior to the middle of the 19th century, colored gemstones were almost unheard of as far as American jewelry goes but all of that changed in 1876.

With the brilliant gems out there, color-saturated engagement rings are make sense and they can be exceptionally and incredibly lavish as well as much sought-after. While it’s true that diamonds have no equal, the creations of a few gifted designers have forced people to think a little outside the box and the most fitting example for this would be Jennifer Lopez’s engagement ring given to her by Ben Affleck, a 6.1-carat pink diamond engagement ring.

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