{"id":12137,"date":"2019-03-27T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2024-04-23T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:27:32","slug":"how-to-buy-a-perfect-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/how-to-buy-a-perfect-engagement-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Buy a Perfect Engagement Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flo-entry-content\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bullet.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bullet.gif\" alt=\"Capturing Love: Toronto's Top Wedding Photographer &amp; Photography Services\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deco-arrow-small-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/deco-arrow-small-2.jpg\" alt=\"Capturing Love: Toronto's Top Wedding Photographer &amp; Photography Services\" width=\"50\" height=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bullet.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bullet.gif\" alt=\"Avangard Photography - Toronto Wedding Photographer\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"How To Buy &amp;quot;Bling&amp;quot; | Diamond Buying Tips for Dudes | Engagement Ring Shopping Tutorial\" style=\"width:1280px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_2HAB6NBQlLc\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2HAB6NBQlLc%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2HAB6NBQlLc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M41S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-02-20T16:59:33Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_2HAB6NBQlLc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2HAB6NBQlLc%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">How To Buy &quot;Bling&quot; | Diamond Buying Tips for Dudes | Engagement Ring Shopping Tutorial<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2HAB6NBQlLc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2HAB6NBQlLc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"How To Buy &amp;quot;Bling&amp;quot; | Diamond Buying Tips for Dudes | Engagement Ring Shopping Tutorial\" width=\"1280\" height=\"700\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"James Allen: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ICyRA8 *Special Alpha M. thank you to JamesAllen.com for sponsoring this amazingly helpful content! http:\/\/bit.ly\/JamesAllenJewelers My Website: http:\/\/www.iamalpham.com My Services and Products: http:\/\/www.aaronmarino.com Best Hair Product: http:\/\/www.peteandpedro.com Best Grooming Tool: http:\/\/amzn.to\/1YrOnCJ Tiege Hanley Skin Care: http:\/\/www.tiege.com All promotion and advertising inquiries: Terry@MENfluential.com Alpha M. App: http:\/\/www.alphamapp.com\/ Best Hair Product: http:\/\/www.peteandpedro.com Best Grooming Tool: http:\/\/amzn.to\/1YrOnCJ Free Hairstyle E-Book: http:\/\/www.iamalpham.com\/ezine Pete &amp; Pedro: http:\/\/www.peteandpedro.com FaceBook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IAmAlphaM Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmAlphaM My Businesses: Alpha M. Consulting: http:\/\/www.aaronmarino.com i am alpha m: http:\/\/www.iamalpham.com Pete &amp; Pedro: http:\/\/www.peteandpedro.com Squirrel Lab: http:\/\/www.squirrellab.com MENfluential Media: http:\/\/www.menfluential.com StyleCon: http:\/\/www.mensstylecon.com Tiege Hanley: http:\/\/www.Tiege.com Alpha has never been more confused and out of his comfort zone than when he bought his wife&#039;s engagement ring. He had zero idea what to expect, what he was looking at, what it should cost, or if he was getting ripped off. Clarity, color, setting, budget!? He had no idea! All he wanted was a diamond ring! In this video men&#039;s style, grooming, fitness and lifestyle expert, Aaron Marino of IAmAlphaM, AaronMarino, and Pete &amp; Pedro has teamed up with leading online diamond bridal jeweler http:\/\/www.jamesallen.com to help viewers understand the diamond buying process including what you&#039;re looking for, why you&#039;re looking for it, and the different aspects of buying a diamond. Tips to save some cash are also given. The goals is to give you enough info so you know what you&#039;re doing when you shop for some bling. Alpha doesn&#039;t understand the allure of diamonds. Women lose their mind over them, however. When&#039;s the last time when you were sitting with your girl when she exclaims, &quot;OMG, did you see the size of that ring!?&quot; Diamond Buying Basics First, determine the diamonds shape. Alpha discusses each with a chart and recommends selecting &#039;round&#039; because it&#039;s always in style &amp; in vogue, and she&#039;ll always love it. Other options are emerald cut , princess cut, heart, radiant, oval, marquise, asscher, and pear. Next the four Cs are discussed: Color - colorless is the best quality with near colorless next to the best (D,E,F,G,H). Slightly tinted, faint yellow, very light yellow, and light yellow round out the not desirable (I - Z). Clarity - inclusions are spots that are out-of-place and less clear. The less inclusions, the more expensive the diamond. Alpha discusses with a chart (IF, VVS1, VS1, SI1, I1) Cut - Alpha discusses the versions which dictate what the diamond looks like. The sparkle is more lustrous from the &#039;ideal&#039; cut diamond: very shallow, shallow, ideal, deep, very deep). Carat - the carat is the weight of the diamond and correlates to the size of the diamond. The setting is the band and prongs that the diamond is set-in and can make the diamond look 20% larger. Buy what you can afford. Set your budget and upgrade later. Buying online can afford you a bigger diamond at a lower price. Great Resource and Educational Tool A great resource and educational tool is JamesAllen.com http:\/\/www.jamesallen.com. They have over 70K conflict-free diamonds to choose from. You set all of your criteria, such as diamond cut and clarity, and your results are revealed. JamesAllen.com shows you the actual diamonds that you can chose from with their HD 360\u00b0 view of their diamonds-- zoomed up to 40x magnification! They also have gem stones and wedding bands. Buying online with a site like JamesAllen.com is 30-50% cheaper than regular retailers. JamesAllen.com offers a 100% 30-day money back guarantee. Their sales associates are non-commissioned and available 24\/7. Each purchase comes with a life-time warranty, and you can get your ring resized for free.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:1280px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h1><strong>How to Buy a Perfect Engagement Ring?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>I have never been more confused and completely out of my comfort zone like the time I went and bought my wife&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engagement_ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engagement ring<\/a>. I had absolutely zero idea what to expect what I was looking for and how much it was supposed to cost.<\/p>\n<p>Here I&#8217;m going into the jewellery store and like hello; I would like to buy a diamond engagement ring please. Congratulations have a seat I&#8217;ve got a few questions. What were you thinking in terms of clarity? What color do you like? How about carat size and what about setting?<\/p>\n<p>All these questions made me almost ran out of there, and you would have found me in the fetal position underneath a parked car. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. What was I getting into? And all I wanted was just a diamond ring without making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/23\/the-worst-engagement-ring-mistakes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the biggest mistake<\/a> in my life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Today I have teamed up with my go to online diamond retailer James Allen to help you understand the diamond buying process. What you&#8217;re looking for while you&#8217;re looking for the perfect engagement ring.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We will talk about different aspects of buying a diamond, not to mention how to save some cash. Our goal today is to give you enough info and make you confident enough next time you decide to shop for some <a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/toronto-engagement-photography-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engagement<\/a> bling.<\/p>\n<p>Now for me personally I don&#8217;t understand the allure of diamonds. I also don&#8217;t get why women lose their ever-loving mind over them. When&#8217;s the last time you were sitting with your girlfriend and watching a movie and she exclaims O-M-G!!! Did you see the size of that ring!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11911\" src=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6.jpg\" alt=\"four season hotel toronto wedding pictures by top toronto wedding photographer\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/four-season-hotel-toronto-wedding-pictures-1-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get started with some diamond buying basics. First item of business is determining the shape of the diamond. Here are some typical shapes of diamonds are emerald, round, princess heart, radiant, oval, and pear. When in doubt always go round. It&#8217;s always in style. It&#8217;s always in vogue and she&#8217;s always going to love it.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s go over the four C&#8217;s diamond nomenclature. The first C stands for the color. Diamond color is based on a scale of colorless. The best quality is D all the way down to Z. Basically anything from D E F G H is going to be great. As you slide down and once you get past H, colors of the diamonds are going to get a little bit yellow to the eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Next C stands for clarity. When you&#8217;re looking at a diamond and there is this inclusion, like a little black spot that&#8217;s out of place, this means that the diamond is not clear. As you get less inclusions the more expensive the diamond is going to be. And of course there&#8217;s a weird scale to base it on.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Flawless diamonds have a clarity of F or internally flawless. VVS1 stands for very very slight inclusions, VS1 very slight inclusions, S1 slight inclusions and stand for one imperfect a visible inclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Our C number three is a cut. Sometimes you look at a diamond and you think it&#8217;s a nice diamond. Other times you look at a diamond it&#8217;s like popping you in the face with sparkly amazingness. It&#8217;s hard to describe the look but it&#8217;s basically the sparkliness\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11770\" src=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9.jpg\" alt=\"Maquette A Berkeley Wedding Venue Picture by Toronto Wedding Photographer Avangard Photography\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/maquette-a-berkeley-wedding-venue-picture-by-toronto-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-1-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A better cut diamond will bounce off and reflect light better. The scale of cuts goes from shallow to very shallow. Next you&#8217;ve got deep, very deep and super deep. You&#8217;ve got to decide do you want a diamond that&#8217;s going with a punch in the face with sparkles or do you want something more subtle.<\/p>\n<p>Our last C stands for carats. A carat is the weight of that diamond. It&#8217;s also going to correlate to the size the diamond. Diamonds weight is all over the board: everything from super teeny-weeny which I can&#8217;t even write, to super little, average 1-2 carats and big and monstrous like 20 carats aka celebrity engagement rings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The setting is simply the band and the prongs that that diamond is going to sit in.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that we have the basics covered let&#8217;s get ready to shop for a diamond. The first thing you need to do is set your budget. Remember you can always upgrade later if you&#8217;re not making a ton of cash now. Don&#8217;t sweat it and buy what you can afford. Remember it&#8217;s a gesture and a symbol. That&#8217;s what is most important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11311\" src=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26.jpg\" alt=\"Canoe Restaurant Wedding Pictures by Toronto Top Wedding Photographer Avangard Photography Studio\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canoe-restaurant-wedding-pictures-by-toronto-top-wedding-photographer-avangard-photography-studio-1-26-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shopping online is a great way to be able to buy a better diamond for a lower price. James Allen online store is an amazing resource and something I would highly recommend checking them out.<br \/>\nThey have over 70,000 different diamonds to choose from. The sweetest thing about this is that they&#8217;ve actually photographed each and every diamond. You go online, set your\u009d parameters and your price range and the system gives all options.<\/p>\n<p>They even got this proprietary software that gives you a 360 degree view of the specific diamond, where you can zoom in up close. And you can see what it looks like in real light.<\/p>\n<p>So gentlemen congratulations that you found that special someone, that fits you like a glove and you are going to ask her to marry you. Hopefully she will say yes and your adventure of <a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/engagement-definition-ideas-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planning a wedding<\/a> will be next. I hope you enjoyed this article and the information will help but your perfect engagement ring.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha M.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/how-to-buy-engagement-ring.pdf\">How to buy engagement ring<\/a><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12137-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/how-to-buy-bling-diamond-buying-tips-for-dudes-engagement-ring-shopping-tutorial.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/how-to-buy-bling-diamond-buying-tips-for-dudes-engagement-ring-shopping-tutorial.mp3\">https:\/\/avangardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/how-to-buy-bling-diamond-buying-tips-for-dudes-engagement-ring-shopping-tutorial.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Buy &quot;Bling&quot; | Diamond Buying Tips for Dudes | Engagement Ring Shopping TutorialWatch this video on YouTube How to Buy a Perfect Engagement Ring? 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