How do you even begin to choose the right engagement ring? Making a selection is highly subjective, which is exactly the point. Use your extremely subjective criteria to peruse, compare, and select what type of ring you want. Here are a few suggestions to help simplify the process, whether you’re researching engagement rings in Valparaiso, Indiana, or neighboring cities.
Start With What You Like
There are no hard and fast rules about choosing engagement rings. By the time you choose to tie the knot, you’ve probably already discovered many of your likes and dislikes in terms of colors and shapes. Jot these likes and dislikes down and use them as the foundation of your criteria for evaluating the plethora of engagement rings on the market.
What colors do you like? Do you prefer roundish stones, square stones, and triangular stones? What’s you’re birthstone? What metals do you like? Do you usually reach for gold before reaching for any other metal? If so, what color gold and purity level excites you most?
After assembling your list of basic criteria, it’s time to sift through sub-categories and filters that either expand or streamline your choices. The filters vary seasonally, but the following is a general sample that applies in most cases.
Types of Engagement Rings to Consider
The four main types of engagement rings are halo, side-stone, solitaire and three-stone. Halo is an O-shaped setting that orbits a center gem. The side-stone ring has laterally placed side stones to complement and offset a center stone or stones. A solitaire, the most traditional, has a single diamond or other stone set in its center. Three-stone rings boast two smaller gems flanking a larger, central stone.
Three-stone engagement rings, also called trinity or trilogy, can double as friendship, fidelity and love rings. After deciding on your engagement ring type, explore side gem shape cuts, center stone shape, and metal type. Each of these can be modified to perfectly suit your criteria, requirements, and budget.
To see engagement rings in Valparaiso that fit all of the above criteria, visit Albert’s Diamond Jewelers in Schererville, Indiana, or Merrillville, Indiana, near the Chicago metropolitan area. You can also gawk at our phenomenal selection from the comfort of your home. We’ve been serving Chicago and Indiana since 1905, highlighting the highest quality, and most durable, stunning engagement rings on the market.
