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Engagement Ring Designs
With the huge variety of engagement ring designs available today, choosing an engagement ring can be a time consuming, and even fraught, process. Designer engagement rings can be stunning items of jewellery, custom made to match your needs exactly, but that doesn’t make choosing engagement rings designs any easier.
There are a few factors to bear in mind when you design an own engagement ring, and we’ll try to cover a few of the basic ideas here, to give you a head start if you’re looking to design engagement rings for your partner.
Custom Design Engagement Ring
If there’s going to be a wedding in your future, designing a custom engagement ring is a great way to avoid having to look over thousands of different rings, hoping to find the perfect one that catches your eye, and that your fiance will love.
If you are going to design the ring, there are some points to remember when it comes to engagement ring designs. Contemporary engagement ring styles offer so much variety that it’s important to keep the basics in mind.
Choosing The Metal
Unlike the wedding band in the past, engagement ring designs can incorporate many different metals, either in whole, or in part. Gold and a diamond of course remain one of the most popular approaches, but today other options are gaining in popularity, as people experiment with designs and materials that suit their unique personalities and style.
Titanium, white gold and platinum have surfaced as popular choices alongside the perennial favourite of yellow gold. When choosing the metal for your engagement ring, keep in mind your fiance’s preference. Most women have a clear preference for a certain metal in their jewellery, and choosing a white gold engagement ring when your partner only wears yellow gold is a recipe for disaster.
Choosing The Stone And Setting
The many different shapes, colours and cuts of stones, not to mention the various types of setting available, will all contribute to the overall design.
Trends in engagement ring designs change over time, but the perfect ring doesn’t necessarily need to follow those trends, as long as it matches your idea of what will be perfect for you.
Currently, trends for engagement rings are toward neutral coloured stones, sometimes surrounding a diamond, and sometimes on their own. Another popular theme is to surround the main stone with several small stones, often in an invisible, or pave setting.
Raised stones, usually in a prong setting, which lifts the stone above the band, are currently popular, as are twisted bands which give an intricate backdrop to the stone.
In The End
In the end though, trends and fashions should all be secondary to the engagement ring designs that feature the quality elements you consider most appropriate. Take your time, look at the various options available, and then choose a design that represents your own unique, individual style.