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Hello,
I have a budget of about $2,200 for a round diamond solitaire engagement ring. I am more concerned about the quality of the diamond than the ring.
I appreciate any advice you can give me. I am practically an Arkansas hillbilly who knows little about diamonds even though my home state has the only state park open to the public for mining diamonds.
Thanks for all the info in your email. I’m happy to make this process easier on you.
I looked around and I love this combination for you:
Classic Four Prong Engagement Ring
This diamond is beautifully cut and will be very brilliant in that setting. J color is our usual recommendation for solitaire settings and it looks great.
What do you think?
Also, I figured I’d pass it along. Blue Nile loves the education we provide for consumers and offered a coupon for our readers. If you use this unique coupon code, you’ll get $100 off any purchase over $1,000. Just pump this code in your shopping cart. [contact us for your own unique coupon code]
Why J color?
We found out that you can drop in color to this color grade and the diamond will still look beautiful and white. That’s why we think you shouldn’t over pay for higher grades. You’d get the same look with the naked eye with a significant price difference.
I am considering a .56ct Signature Ideal Cut (Blue Nile LD06676025) over a .72ct Ideal Cut (Blue Nile LD07646788).
What do you think? Is there much difference to the signature to make it better that the bigger one?
Honestly, we ignore the Signature Ideals from Blue Nile and use our own parameters.
The 0.56 is well cut, but the diamond I sent you is only $100 more and it’s much larger (and fantastically cut as well). Also, my diamond will be more brilliant than the 0.72ct one you’re considering as its cut is much better.
You win, I win, she wins!
Thanks for your help and advice. We’ll have it next week.
Thank you.
I hope you’ll love it when you receive it.
What we love about them:
- No questions asked returns within 30 days of shipment. James Allen will send you a paid shipping label to return the ring.
- Lifetime Warranty
- Free International Shipping
- Free prong tightening, repolishing, rhodium plating and cleaning every 6 months
- Provide insurance appraisals
- One free resizing within 60 days of purchase
- Free ring inscriptions
- Best-in-class high quality imagery of all diamonds in stock
- 24/7 Customer Service
- Best-in-class packaging
What we love about them:
- No questions asked returns within 30 days of shipment. Blue Nile will send you a paid shipping label to return the ring.
- Lifetime Warranty
- Free Shipping
- Free prong tightening, repolishing, rhodium plating and cleaning every 6 months
- Provide insurance appraisal
- One free resizing within the first year of purchase
- High quality images of about half of their diamonds
- 24/7 Customer Service
- 100% credit towards future upgrades (must be at least double in value)
- Best in class fulfillment
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