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A friend recommended your site and I’ve just spent 2 hours reading most pages. Your advice is great and really helpful. Before coming across your site I knew nothing about diamonds and my knowledge is still tiny. I am going to propose in the next few months and would like a beautiful engagement ring. I can’t ask her friends and I want this to be a surprise so I can’t ask her either.
Can you please help find a ring? My budget is $7.5-$10k. I’d like the diamond to be at least 1 carot (maybe more). The clarity should be IF, VVS1, VVS2. The cut should be ideal or excellent. Most likely to be brilliant round with white gold. I would just like it to be simple with one diamond in the middle. If you find something that is better and not in the exact points above then please include this too as you know best and I am quite flexible.
I live in the UK.
Many many thanks for you help and advice.
I’d be happy to make some recommendations. Before I do so, I’d suggest reading our post on clarity:
https://www.diamonds.pro/education/clarity/
I think you get far better value with an eye-clean VS2/SI1 from a site with photos. What do you think?
Thanks for you response. I thought it would be best to get better clarity but if you’re saying it won’t make a difference to the naked eye then I’m open to this. I just want to make sure it looks perfect but if you think it’s best to sacrifice clarity for a better but and higher carat then go for it.
Thanks
I would recommend this diamond for you:
It’s 100% eye-clean, bright and fantastically cut. It’s an excellent value. What do you think?
Thanks Michael. Do you have any others I can compare it with? I’d like to compare a few and see which one is better. I don’t mind spending about more.
Thanks for your help.
What exactly would you want to improve on? I’m happy to make more recommendations, but it would help knowing what you want to focus on.
Thanks. I’m also considering a square shaped diamond so perhaps that shape with a bigger diamond. Thanks again.
If you were looking for a square, here would be my suggestions:
Keep in mind that the carat weight doesn’t actually translate into a larger looking diamond. In fact, they both will look a bit smaller than the one carat round. Here is our post on diamond size.
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