How to Choose an Engagement Ring Your Partner Will Love for an Eternity

One of the most exciting times in anyone’s life is when they have their wedding.

There’s so much love, joy, and energy in the air, it’s hard not to feel it in your body, your heart, and your soul. However, as we’re all a little too familiar with, getting to that perfect wedding day can be quite the wild ride. This all starts with the moment the person proposing actually decides to take the leap and pop the question. This is an act of bravery, it’s courageous, gut-wrenching, and absolutely nerve-wracking. All of these are very natural feelings to be having when you’re gearing up to make the big ask. The last thing you want to be burdening your shoulders during your proposal is whether or not your partner will like the ring that you chose for them. 

Selecting the perfect engagement ring can take time, patience, and the right dedication. Plus an engagement ring should be a reflection of your personality, their personality, and the love that you share with one another. Keeping this in mind will help you in your selection and shopping process as you filter through your seemingly endless options when it comes to engagement rings.

Deciding Between Lab Grown and Natural

One of the first decisions you’ll want to make when you’re conducting your engagement ring shopping is whether or not you want to opt for a natural diamond or a lab-grown diamond. This is an important decision to make because it will greatly influence the price-range of the engagement rings, as well as other factors that modern members of society hold dearly to their heart. 

For instance, there is no doubting the additional carbon footprint that’s associated with mining natural diamonds. In fact, the diamond mining industry has long been scrutinized for their labor-practices. Beyond the price range and the carbon-foot-print though, lab-grown diamonds are chemically virtually identical to organic natural diamonds. 

This means that you can opt for a lab-grown diamond, reduce your carbon footprint, and save yourself a significant amount of money. The only real difference between lab-grown diamonds and natural diamonds are their availability. The lack of supply of natural diamonds in concert with their high demand, creates a market in which natural diamonds soar in value. Not only that, but they also retain their value for much longer than their lab-grown counterparts. 

This is all because of the way that supply and demand impacts the marketplace and pricing of certain goods and services. 

Picking a Cut

Once you’ve decided between a lab-grown diamond and an organic diamond, the next daunting decision you’ll need to make is what type of cut you want the diamond to take on. There are a variety of cuts out there that can really emphasize the shimmer, sheen, elegance, and beauty of a diamond ring. 

Some of the most popular cuts of diamonds include the round cut, the princess cut, the trillion cut, the emerald cut, the marquise cut, the oval cut, and the radiant cut. Each one of these cuts can emphasize all the glorious beauty of the precious stone that you’re pouring all the same heart, soul, and love into as you do your relationship.

Once you’ve chosen a cut for your engagement ring, you’re going to want to think about the color of the diamond as well. 

Choosing the Color

Diamonds are an incredibly diverse gemstone. Organic diamonds form deep within the earth over millions of years of extreme pressure. The various environmental chemicals in the soil and the air can sometimes change the hue of the diamond from white to other colors. Some diamonds end up with a yellow hue, others blue or pink, and some of the rarest organic diamonds in the world take on a green hue. 

Colored diamonds that are mined are extremely valuable, and therefore expensive on the consumer side of things. So if you want to select a diamond ring that has a little bit of color without completely breaking the bank, you may want to consider opting for a lab-grown diamond over an organic one. 

Making a Perfect Setting Selection

Now don’t go getting ahead of yourself, this is far from the last stressful decision you’re going to have to make between now, your proposal, and your wedding day, but the final choice you’ll need to make in creating the perfect engagement ring for your special someone is in the setting selection. 

There are a wide variety of ring-settings that consumers can choose from, each of which offers a little bit of unique style to the engagement ring. 

Some Final Thoughts on Picking the Perfect Engagement Ring

When it comes down to it, the engagement ring is really just one piece of the puzzle. A proposal is really just about expressing your love and your desire to spend the rest of your life building and growing with your partner. The ring, of course, is a special piece of this puzzle, but it is certainly not the end all be all.