What Are The Most Popular Designs For Engagement Rings?
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Even though there are many different cuts available for engagement rings, most couples choose to stick to just a few popular ones.
When choosing an engagement ring, if you think of such qualities as the safety of the setting, whether it will be stable when worn under daily conditions of work and play, often you will choose a simple stone or at most a ring with minor chips as embellishment for the central stone. The restrictions of a single stone in a safe setting, or a triad of stones similarly safely mounted, all intended to be suitable to nearly any event, means that choices tend to favor simple, elegant cuts that can be securely mounted, and which provide strong visual elements even when along in a minimal setting.
The round cut stone has always been one of the most popular through the times. Many jewelers say that round cut is the best with very best fire and all facets of the stone are taken care of. Round cuts in what are often called “Tiffany settings” or raised prong settings, are the classic idea of an engagement ring: a single stone floating just above the band of the ring, with maximum exposure of the stone to light. A Tiffany setting is at its best when set with a brilliant round cut diamond. There are few places to hide a small, muddy, stone.
Beautiful green emeralds really shine when cut into long rectangles. Not as ostentatious as the round cut, the emerald cut can carry a very large stone, show it to its advantage, yet appear quite traditionally formal. A square cut stone, the Princess cut, is also able to securely give a stable, cube, look with fair fire. If mounted correctly these linear cuts can be very safe because of prongs on the corners and protecting the side.
One diamond that is very flexible from a design standpoint is the cushion cut diamond, it merges well with different stones, can balance both the shine and glitter of round cut diamonds with most of the dignity and grace of linear cut diamonds. A cushion cut stone is square or slightly rectangular, with rounded off corners.
Pear cut, or tear drop diamonds are too beautiful, but the uneven balance of the form is more difficult to utilize in a stable and ordinary setting. A solitary stone unless placed in a very carefully designed setting can look lopsided and out of balance — and many of the design choices that can make a pear cut diamond a delight do not mesh well with the hoped for eventual wedding ring. These beautiful gems might be more appropriate for necklaces, earrings, or rings that are designed to work alone rather that together with a wedding ring.
The Marquise, a long eye-shaped cut roughly oval but sharply pointed at each end, is often used in multi-stone rings. A particularly beautiful setting is a central marquise cut diamond or stone surrounded by triangular trillion cut stones.
Despite other options, diamonds remain the preferred standby because of their inherent perfection. If you master these few cuts, you have the basic knowledge of most classical engagement ring design.
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