Diamond Wedding Ring Sets — Symbols of Eternal Love

Diamond Engagement Rings – So Many Beautiful Choices
Executive Summary about Engagement Diamonds by Brian Welsch

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Diamond engagement rings, with their perfect clarity and indestructible nature, have come to symbolize the purity and eternal commitment between a man and his wife.

Diamonds are relatively new as gemstones for engagement rings, the result of some very clever marketing by the diamond trade industry about 150 years ago. Today, diamond engagement rings dominate the bridal jewelry industry.

Current bridal fashion favors a solitaire diamond engagement ring set in a band of yellow or white gold, sterling silver, or platinum. The cut of the diamond may catch your eye; Princess cut, Tiffany cut, Cartier cut, Square cut, Pear cut, Teardrop cut, Bezel cut, or Round cut – all are stunning and irresistible.

The clarity of the diamond engagement ring is important to many brides. Most diamond engagement rings must pass rigorous tests by the Gemologist International Association to be declared IF-VS2 clarity, and are considered to be either Ideal or Premium cut.

While we generally consider diamonds as being clear, in fact diamonds come in many colors such as yellow, blue, or pink. Colored diamonds are always the subject of delighted comments from buyers and friends of the bride who see these rings as unique and very meaningful.

An increasing trend among diamond engagement rings are cubic zirconium and moissanite stones. Among diamond traditionalists, these are “fake diamonds” of little or no worth. The only difference is that these diamonds are man-made in laboratories rather than by nature over hundreds of years.

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Executive Summary about Engagement Diamonds by Archie Cohen

People who are looking for diamond engagement rings should start with the Four C’s of diamonds since these are the benchmarks on how diamonds are graded and valued. The Four C’s of the diamond industry are the Cut, Clarity, Color and Carat of the diamond.

Shapes of loose diamonds include marquise, pear, heart, emerald, princess, cushion, and round brilliant.

The Cut of the diamond refers to the expertise and skill involved in the actual cutting and polishing of the diamond. A diamond with a excellent cut grading is one that will be able to show an excellent light performance.

A diamond’s clarity scoring is a measure of the number of blemishes and inclusions (also known as flaws) that a diamond has. As some jewelers point out, the inclusions of diamonds is one way of identifying a diamond because the patterns that these inclusions form act as the diamond’s fingerprint.

Colorless diamonds are scored using a letter scale which starts from a D rating (truly colorless) to a Z rating (brownish). A top quality diamond is one that is close to being colorless as possible.

The carat weight of the diamond is one of the critical considerations in how a diamond is priced.

The quality of the diamond for your engagement ring is rated by the combination of all the factors that were discussed in this article.

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