It’s an exciting time, to be planning popping the question to your girlfriend. This is a fantastic time of life, filled with excitement about your passion and love toward her. This momentum should carry you through the finely-tuned planning that also has to take place, initially for your proposal of marriage, followed by choosing the details for the wedding and everything it represents. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, what process should be used to find the perfect engagement setting?

The 4 Cs are a well-known set of diamond properties: cut, clarity, color, and carat weight. Still, after defining these four attributes precisely, the most noticable aspect of a diamond is associated more with the balance of its physical dimensions and the height of the diamond’s widest girth. These have an influence over the facet structure and light reflectivity and appear “white” to the viewer instead of extinguishing the light into cavernous dark spots. The best specimens of diamonds are known as ideal rocks, with the cream of the crop revealing a hearts-and-arrows structure such as the Solasfera. You will see that these diamonds are more expensive, but, the increased light return often cause them to appear larger than they actually are, and the increased “sparkle” will make your girlfriend especially proud of her engagement ring.

Emma Parker & Co. is known worldwide for expertise when it comes to jewelry, with customer service staff that offers particular recommendations to assist clients meet their budget by investing money in the particular jewelry components that will give them the greatest value in their jewelry purchase – (one example is considering sapphires instead of traditional stones.) A particular practice we recommend is choosing a stone with a lower clarity rating, since this is the trait that is often least noticable, although it’s commonly used by jewelry stores as a scare tactic, causing people to spend more than necessary for their diamond.

A critical factor of diamond rings, of course, is the personal fashion taste of your future bride. Do you find her to like larger, showy jewelry, anticipating a big rock when the time comes for you to propose? Some women pride themselves on having an ostentatious oversize diamond expectation of how they imagine their bridal jewelry should display. By contrast, others prefer less overt fashion styles, and appreciate simple rings, even those that don’t include diamonds. Other gemstones, i.e. rubies, can be popular and appropriate in some cases.

The diamond industry is price-controlled by a few high-volume wholesalers managing the mining and inventory practices of diamonds, and these companies work hard to set particular price points and a pricing structure that keeps most jewelers’ retail costs approximately level. As a consumer, the benefit to you is that you can spend your time on identifying the “perfect” diamond, knowing that nearly all retailers operate under standard policies in the respective pricing for the inventory they carry.