Weddingbee Blog

I have a client with an emerald cut Sapphire e-ring. You can definately see scratches in it, despite the setting prongs being set higher to help protect it. Her jeweler told her that while it is a 9 on the hardness scale, the difference between 9 and 10 is very big. Apparently a cut with smaller facets would show the scratches less.

That said, I love the idea of different stones for e-rings!

Wonderful! I want a ruby engagement ring, and the boy already knows it! I also want a ruby wedding band. Well, actually, it doesn’t even have to be ruby. Lab created deep red stones are fine with me.

i think that a non-diamond engagement ring is great. i told my fiance that a diamond wasn’t necessary, but i still got one anyways. i wanted an aquamarine (his birthstone). and in “the old days” diamonds weren’t used in engagement rings…

I have a beautiful, traditional solitaire diamond ring with a white gold band and a perfect diamond. I was very open to a non-traditional (or rather, traditional prior to the diamond) ring, and my fiancé was open to them too. We did not want a conflict diamond, and so this was a good option. I trusted him to pick out the perfect ring though - and I am so happy. We ended up going with the diamond because we both felt that I didn’t want to have to explain myself everyone looked at my finger. I wanted people to know right away that I am getting married!

My ring was the result of a collective search at a local art fair. We scoured every jeweler’s booth there and pretty much the last booth that existed had The Ring. It’s set in sterling silver and has a pink tourmaline stone, with intricate carving around the band. We love that the ring is conflict-free, uniquely-made, and that the story of finding it is so fun. The jeweler was engaged herself, so we got to meet both of her and her fiance.

We’re still deciding on wedding bands, but I think this ring will turn into a right-hand ring.

I have a peridot e-ring, which i love, since I didn’t want diamonds and it is extra special since its my birthstone and also the month my fiance proposed in!

my fiance and i were both opposed to new mall-store diamonds– cookie-cutter, conflict-ridden, over the top. a friend of a friend owns an antique jewelry store in town (2 of our friends’ engagement rings came from her), and that’s where he went for mine. it’s circa 1930, handcrafted, and has so much more personality than the new ones. i just love that he went in this direction– it’s very us. pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/intermittent/sets/72157602079543280/

I could have written this post! I was leaning toward a colored stone anyway, but we were in a mall store, and what they had for colored gem settings wasn’t very inspiring. I ended up trying on the traditional rings, but hated how they looked on my hands (”too blingy” was exactly how I described it!). So I started to think I’d skip straight to a single band ring that would double as my wedding band … and discovered anything thicker than 4 mm gave me “man hands.” There was one diamond right-hand ring with a setting interesting enough to consider, but it was a high setting that looked easy to damage… I finally found my ring in the clearance rack. It’s tanzanite, and I am not normally a big fan of purple stones (my birthstone is amythyst, and it looks like a chunk of grape jelly to me), but the stone is a nice icy lavender that is perfect on this ring. However, the real draw for me was the setting, which has deep-set point diamonds and baguettes, and a sort of estate-jewelry look. And my husband loves that he paid less than $200 for it.