Diamond engagement rings are the ultimate symbol of romantic love. And since the mid 1960s, the diamond solitaire has become synonymous with engagement. And as increasing number of couples are choosing other styles of Diamant rings for their engagement piece, just about anything goes it seems! But what can you choose if you want a traditional ring, but are looking for a way of making it more unique?
Fancy colored diamonds are stylish and attractive way to make your engagement ring stand out from the run of the mill crowd. The current fashion for colored diamonds and the newest methods of color enhancement means that fancy colors are more readily available and more affordable than at any time in the past.
Yet it can be difficult to find colored diamond engagement rings. So why not design your own?
After all, if you design her engagement ring, your future bride will be left in no doubt just how much effort and thought you have put into the proposal, nor how much you mean it! Presenting your future bride with a one of a kind ring that YOU designed is very romantic.
The first thing to do is decide how much you can afford and set a budget. Colored diamonds can be significantly more expensive than white diamonds so do your research beforehand. Your budget will have an influence over the color of diamond you can choose. Some colors, such as red are so rare that they have never been seen by most professional jewelers!
Decide A Colored Diamond
Next think about the setting. You may decide a colored diamond solitaire would be the best choice. However, depending on the color of the diamond, this may not be the best choice. Whilst it may work very well for a blue diamond set into platinum, a brown, chocolate, champagne or yellow diamond may be mistaken for a white diamond with poor color. These fancies are best accented with small white diamonds to bring out their beauty!
If your budget will stretch to it, why not choose a three stone setting, with the central white diamond being flanked by matching colored fancies? This would certainly draw the eye and works especially well with lighter fancy diamonds. Deeper colored fancies look better with the dark gemstone flanked by two white diamonds.
Choosing a champagne, blue or yellow diamond as the centrepiece for an engagement ring is a sensational way to make a ring unique and special to you. However, these stones can be pricey so if you do want to customize your engagement ring in this way, you might like to get the input from your future bride!
Fancy a ‘Fancy’ Stone? Try a Yellow Diamond Engagement Ring
As far as engagement jewellery goes, there is no disputing the power of the diamond as the most popular stone. Even in recent decades, when a number of alternative stones and materials made a surprising bid at its hegemonic reign, this expensive and dazzling gem has managed to maintain its foothold on the market and remains the first choice for the vast majority of couples planning to get engaged or married.
Fancy Diamonds
Fancy diamonds, in particular, with their speckled sparkle and unique appearance, seem to strike the fancy of a significant portion of potential buyers. For most brides and grooms enchanted by their glimmer, however, these types of stones possess one major problem: their price. Considered by most to be the ‘elite’ of the diamond world, fancy diamonds can command forbidding amounts, which put them out of reach of the common man or woman on the street.
There is, however, an exception to this rule: yellow diamonds. For some reason, this colour variant, specifically canary yellow, is usually much more affordable than its counterparts and therefore more accessible to the general public. A yellow diamond engagement ring can therefore be an excellent entryway into the world of fancy diamonds, or an excellent alternative for couples who wish to possess a stone of this type, but find themselves limited by a restricted budget.
Mr. Yellowstone
Despite ‘yellow’ being considered an umbrella sub-category of the general ‘diamond’ denomination, it would be a mistake to think every yellow diamond engagement ring has an exactly similar stone in it. As with all other categories of diamond, the spectrum of yellow can range from almost white with small speckles of yellow to the opposite – virtually all yellow with very little white thrown in.
However, each of these diamonds shares at least one characteristic in common: they all fall within the D-to-Z scale of diamond colour grading. This might be why, unlike jewels set with pink fancy diamonds, for instance, a yellow Amethyst engagement ring can be obtained at a reasonably low price. Pink diamonds do not fall within the usual spectrum, and are therefore highly uncommon. Yellow diamonds, on the other hand, while still considered ‘fancy’, are much more common, and therefore easier to obtain and more affordable.
Yellow Diamonds
This does not mean, of course, that all yellow diamonds will be cheap. As with any other jewel of this type, it is all about the ‘four C’s’, and a stone of exceptional quality in this regard can still command imposing values. However, for the most part, a yellow diamond engagement ring can constitute a viable alternative for couples wanting to try to own fancy diamonds but are unable to spend astronomic amounts on a stone.
