Also, the gemesis colorless diamonds seem to be limited to a maximum of about 1.2 carats.
colorless diamonds take longer to produce than colored (sounds counterintuitive i know), and the payout is less than colored. So, for now, i’m not surprised
but they will branch out more. Last i read gemesis was adding like a new machine few weeks or something
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I just had dinner with both of my sisters and this topic came up.
They think that $15-20k is the right amount.
I think that anything north of $10k is excessive.
I went with legacy diamond my grandpa brought back from WW2 (don’t know where he got it). Reset the stone to personalize it. If I didn’t have a stone already not sure what I would’ve done.
wut?
That bish isn’t getting a ring like that unless I already have a 20k watch, a G63 AMG, and an M5. But if I had all that, I doubt I’d be getting married.
Sigh
^Does this have anything to do with your married girl?
You can get a one carat diamond, of very good quality and cut off of blue nile for around $6,000.
That’s what I got my wife and she loves it.
Look at it in terms of what you both make. She made 50k and I made 70k (at the time). We still had her grad school to payoff and hadn’t even started saving on a down payment for a house.
If you make 200k and you don’t have debt or other things and your wife is more materialistic, than $10k doesn’t sound too unreasonable.
bump. check out this article from today
http://nypost.com/2014/12/11/would-you-propose-with-a-lab-grown-diamond/#
recent advances in technology have led to a boom in high-end, lab-grown gems.
About 10 companies now produce them, with most suppliers to the US based in the Far East, India and Russia.
But the diamonds are not without their detractors. Conventional jewelers are understandably concerned about being undercut, while traditionalists argue that lab-made gems just don’t have the romantic associations of a mined stone.
sounds like OP should have stayed with the ex. curious to know if this one lasted
Itera, I may be buying one of those lab made diamonds soon. Sure, I like the appeal of a traditional gem, but not for that much $$$. I can’t wait for this company to take hold. The existance of the modern diamond scam irritates me.
itera which one u gonna buy for your lady
There are only 10 companies that make lab diamonds? Hmm. I guess it is an economic scale thing. Fyi, I paid $2600 (?) on Blue Nile for my wife’s ring. I was making a few hundred thousand at the time, but was still relatively poor (had only been out of school for a while).
I don’t like the idea that cost is the measure of how appropriate the ring is. My wife dresses like a hobo, so $10k ring would look ridiculous on her. Of course, there are other benefits to having a big ring, like becoming the alpha female in the social group. However, back then, everyone we knew was poor too, so maybe it didn’t matter at the time.
dude, what are you spending your money on?
You guys are loony.
I had the good sense to marry a woman (35 years ago this Sunday) who doesn’t like diamonds.
Our wedding rings are yellow gold with a white gold dove holding an olive branch: the leaves are jade.
Arguably, we get more compliments on our wedding rings than most people do for their diamonds. Total cost (in 1979): $600.
anyone who spends more than $4k on a diamond ring is crazy. one day, all diamonds will be virtually worthless. spend money on the metal instead. i.e. platinum over gold.
I’m totally with you. people have always hated on technology, from the days where they said cameras steal your soul, to galileo and his telescope, to pearls and now diamonds. Paying 1/3 the price for a near-flawless real-carbon diamond of good size is totally legit.
when you show people, no one’s goign to whip out a high powered microscope to examine it. screw the diamond cartels.
With CPI that is $2,000 in 2014 dollars, although applying standard CPI makes little sense here. My wedding ring last year was $300 or so. You were living large in '79!
I used an heirloom diamond that my grandparents used that has history from WWII, but had it reset. Only problem is that if my wife loses it it is irreplaceable. An expensive ring is just money.