Engagement Ring Styles
The very first thing you need to consider before buying an engagement ring is the lifestyle of your beloved one. Is she very active to outdoor activities? If your fiancée is quite adventurous, you should probably choose ring styles that can protect the stone well. Most people follow the following three principles when they choose an engagement ring:
1. Practical to wear
This will depend on your lifestyle. If you are an office staff, you can choose a high setting engagement ring. On the contrary, if you have a job where you have to use your hands and it my touch equipment, it is safer to have an engagement ring that won’t get caught.
2. Withstand everyday use
Keep in mind that the engagement ring has to endure everyday wear constantly.
If you need to work under an abrasive environment, choosing a stronger band would be a smart decision.
3. Holds the stone well
Usually people select 4 prongs setting to hold the stone. However, 6 prongs may be better choices. Also a bezel setting is safer than a prong setting. A stronger band is usually preferable over a finer band. Meanwhile, lower settings are not easily damaged.
The next thing you would need to think about is how the ring would look like on your beloved. What we mean here is how large is your fiancée’s hand and what is the shape of her fingers. All of these facts should be taken into consideration when choosing your engagement ring. For example, a wide banded ring will not make a small hand with short fingers look good. However, it can balance a sleek fingered hand. It is important to think about the hand size and proportion when deciding on an engagement ring.
Scrutinize your fiancée’s hand and see what the best size to fit her hand is.
If your girlfriend likes contemporary styling in her jewelry then you will probably want to go the same direction for your engagement ring style as well. However, there are other engagement ring options for people who are more traditional too. One sentimental favorite is to take a family inherited ring and to have it sized to fit-or to use either the setting or the stones. Vintage rings are also enjoying a surge in popularity. Of course you can always go for a traditional classic engagement ring style that
will become a future heirloom.
The safest way in purchasing an engagement that will match your fiancée’s taste and lifestyle would be you two go shopping together. It is very common nowadays for young couples to talk about their engagement ring and make the decision together. She would be happy to pick the ring she is mostly interested because the ring would accompany her for the rest of her life!
Currently a lot of young people rebel from the traditional motif of wearing diamond engagement rings. They choose the stones they like such as a ruby, sapphire, amethyst, garnet, turquoise or others. Then they’d like to design their own engagement ring style that reflects not only the light but also what is important to their lives.
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