Steps To Choosing The Perfect Wedding Ring

Steps To Choosing The Perfect Wedding Ring

Choosing for yourself or for your would be spouse the perfect wedding ring is quite an onerous task considering the would yours or your would be’s taste, style, price, design, matching with the engagement ring or not, engravings, quality specifications and stone guarantee, etc. which would consume a lot of time and energy.
Hereinbelow are some of the tips to make use of in choosing the Perfect Wedding Ring:

1.    PLAN YOUR RING SEARCH EARLY: Start early as before as around 3-4 months before the main event as this would offer space to try on and change the choice in the last moment if not comfortable with the choice so made. A lot of time is consumed in searching for the right jewelry brands, decide on the price, design, engravings, shape of the stones, etc.

2.    BUDGET: Allotting a budget is a must as once you start scouting for the perfect ring, you tend to get confused and alluded of the various exquisite choices in the market. Additionally, factors like engravings, Types of Stone and Their Shape, number of diamonds and stones to be fitted or even if it to be made in a customized manner or bespoke are all well to be decided in advance.

3.    PURCHASING THE MATCHED SET: Many jewelers offer engagement rings along with the wedding rings in a matched fashion in terms of style, luster and metallic combination. Choosing to shop both rings together gives the benefit of choices in terms of design and price discounts.

4.    LONG TERM INVESTMENT: Finding and putting on a Wedding Ring is not only about the occasion of marriage or engagement but is also about its worth in future to be used as a substitute for money in times of financial emergencies. So, before jotting to any type of ring, consideration should be made as to what would be the resale value in around 5-7 years down the line and the metal and stone which would fetch the highest value should be considered.

5.    LIFESTYLE: The kind of person that you are will determine the type of wedding ring to be purchased and used on a daily basis. If you are an outdoor person into various activities, then a slimmer and simple ring with one large gemstone with rounded edges would be perfect for you to enable less number of scratches and ease of usability. Personality wise, if you are not much into glam and glitter, a simple and elegant Platinum Wedding Bands can be a sure go with some ogham writings or otherwise, elaborate wedding ring styles are very eminent. much

6.    MAINTENANCE: Some wedding rings are coated with various metallic coatings like rhodium, copper, etc. which tend to lose its shine over the period of use, so before deciding on to one ring, cost of future maintenance also has to be considered. 

7.    METAL: Which type of metal to choose from whether be in gold, which type of gold: white, yellow rose, or other metals like platinum, sterling silver, titanium or even a mix of both in a very complimenting and alluding style can be considered depending upon the budget, usability and maintenance factors.or

8.    SIZE: Different things tend to affect the size of the Wedding Rings like fingers swell or contract due to heat, cold, water retention, weight gain, etc.  So, finding the right size to suit all weather seasons is a challenge. The golden tip here is that you should never finalize first thing in the morning as your body will have retained water from the night before) nor right after you've exercised (fingers swell) nor when you're extremely hot or cold (which can cause your hands to expand and shrink). Your body’s temperature should be fine and normal when jotting down the final ring choice.

9.    SETTING: The style of setting and engravings is quite important in that the higher the budget, better engraved and firm sets can be purchased. Some of the common wedding ring settings are bezel, Solitaire, channel, halo and flush/gypsy, etc.

10.    SHAPE: Many people are old schooled or some brides may be of new school preferring contemporary and new unique designs and so is the choice for their Shape of Wedding Rings. Some of the most popular shapes are round and princess, cushion, emerald, square, oval, pear, Asscher, and heart. 

11.    QUALITY: Another very important to be looked into is that whether there are two marks inside the Wedding Ring: the manufacturer's trademark (this proves they stand behind their work) and the quality mark(this proves the metal quality is what the retailer says it is), 24K or PLAT.  Quality wise speaking a "D" grade (which is defined as "colorless") is a top mark when it comes to diamonds. 
Quality in terms of: 

•      CUT: Cut determines how a diamond or gemstone is faceted and the amount of sparkle it may possess. There are different ways to cut a diamond and the type of cut impacts a diamond's sparkle. The cut that produces the most sparkle is the "round" (or "brilliant") cut, while "radiant" and "princess" cuts are good at hiding flaws. Other cuts include "square," "emerald," "pear," "marquise," "cushion," "Asscher," and heart-shaped. The oval shape looks best with larger stones, and as it looks bigger than the round cut. A high-quality cut is more important than weight or an extremely high clarity or color grade: a diamond, like a road reflector, shines a light back out the direction it came in and breaks it up a bit in the process.
•      COLOR OF DIAMONDS: Color of your wedding ring speaks much about who you are actually and your individual personality. Some may prefer, plain colorless diamonds while some other may opt for single solitaire or other hued diamonds as a spark to their personality. Rule wise, colors are graded from D (colorless and rare) and most good quality diamonds will be around F and H. However, all grades from D to I are almost identical when mounted. Additionally, in general, stay away from any diamonds that are below an H grade in color, as they are noticeably yellow. For colored gemstones, color purity is determined by the lack of brown or grey tint. For diamonds on the white scale, the presence of color indicates a lower quality.
•      CLARITY: Clarity is how jewelers describe inclusions or flaws in the diamond. (The most perfect, secondary to flawless, is "IF" or "internally flawless.) 
•      CARAT: Carat is a measurement of gemstone weight and is broken down into 100 ‘points’, which are essentially a measurement of the percentage of a karat that a diamond is. For example, if a diamond is 75pt then it is 75%, or 0.75 of a karat. Higher karat ratings generally mean larger diamonds and are more expensive.

12.    INSURANCE: Wedding ring consume a huge proportion of savings and money and thus t would be wise to choose what type of ring or jewelry seller which offer insurance of loss for your engagement/wedding ring.
 
13.    CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND WARRANTY CARD: On Purchase of Diamonds larger or at 1 karat, jewelers usually issue certificates of their source. Ask for this as well as ensure to receive a warranty card on your purchase in case of any defect in the stone or ring setting.