WOW!! If I had to pick one word to describe my ring....OK, a few others would be gorgeous, perfect, SO me....[I could keep gushing].
So he asked me back in Feb (!! girl meter went on high for an any day now proposal....!!) to show him some ideas of rings I like. We make iCloud albums for all kinds of stuff so that's how I compiled rings I found that made me go mmm....which turned out to be a great resource for him and Melanie Harlin to get to the one he ultimately (finnallllly, on our one year anniversary, which he'd been planning the whole time!) got for me.
Melanie only works with the highest quality diamonds - VS and up, for example....mine is a flawless oval (which I love that he picked as I also liked radiant and emerald cuts, but an oval is more unique!) with tiny round diamonds around it and along the band. Harlin Diamonds is accessible through someone who can get into the Apparel Mart and i am so thankful that a dear friend of mine connected us.
Price and such are not something on which I can comment, but I can say that the process of getting to the ring-ready-proposal day didn't take long. He met with Melanie twice, they looked through my pics then at the loose diamonds she had (note: everyone with experience says that buying loose, then setting the diamond, is the way to go because you get to see exactly what you are getting, any flaws that could be hidden by prongs, etc), and proceeded to sizing (he did borrow a little band i was wearing all the time, sneaky guy) and voila! I won't bore you with the on-one-knee part, rather say that this ring (and I can imagine, the bands I will get to pick to go with it for the wedding part!) is just...perfect. read more