How to Make your Diamond Look Bigger While Spening Less

When buying a diamond, here are some tips to help you spend a little less of your hard earned dollars and still come away with something that looks like you’ve lost your mind and spent a fortune. The cut, setting and shape are the key. Here are five ways to select diamonds, be it a wedding ring, earrings, or anything else, to make it look like you have more carats then you actually do:

1. Side Stones

A very classic style right now is the three stone engagement ring.  The stones are said to represent yesterday, today and tomorrow.  Its no coincidence that this setting ranks among the top engagement ring styles.  When you have smaller side stones, there are more facets, more light catching angles and more oomph. which is what we all want, right girls?

2. Bezel Setting

When a diamond is completely encircled by a rim, it is called bezel setting.  When set in platinum or white gold, the diamonds appear as one unit and look bigger than their individual parts.

3. One Word – Pavé

The pavé setting is so beautiful and it looks like a complete surface of diamonds but in reality, its many, many diamond clustered in tiny holes sitting in and on the band.  Think of it as a ring ‘paved’ with diamonds.  Although, the diamonds in a pavé setting will cost far less than one big single diamond, it is very labour intensive to set, so keep this in mind when looking.

4. Fancy Diamond Shapes

Cuts like the oval, marquis or the pear are considered fancy shaped diamonds.  The shapes cost less and usually look larger than round diamonds of equal weight.

5. Illusion Setting

Mounting the diamond on a mirror-type plate before setting it into the band, is called an illusion setting. The mirror-plate in the back reflects more light and makes the setting appear larger and more brilliant.  Many vintage rings have this type of setting.  Do keep in mind that repairing this type of setting is more difficult and more costly as a result.

Good luck!  Happy wedding!

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