Wedding Jewelry Blog

By Martin Avanessian

The joy of starting out a life together entails choosing the perfect wedding bands that match your style and personality.  Not to mention, wedding bands that symbolize your lifetime of loyalty and commitment to one another.

Let’s face it.  While choosing the right wedding bands can be a fun event for new couples, it can also be overwhelming.  With so many styles, patterns, metals and colors available, one cannot help but find themselves in a vast pool of choices.  The main idea to keep in mind is that the perfect wedding ring is something you will wear and adore for many years to come.  At idobands.com, this entire process has been simplified by offering categories of bands that will best match your specific needs.

The first key factor for couples to consider is whether they would like to keep their bands simple or fancy with diamond accents.  The second key factor is choosing the color of the bands.  Many couples also opt for choosing matching bands or even a lady’s band that matches the bride’s engagement ring.

Whether you choose to go simple or fancy, there are many metals to choose from.  Among the popular metals are gold, platinum and a few others.  The most common of all these is gold which has different types of karat and color.  Popular colors of gold for bands and engagement rings are yellow and white.  Color and alloy are mixed with the pure gold during casting.  Higher alloy content means less karats, stronger material and is less costly.  Another popular choice is platinum although the metal itself is heavier and traded more expensive than gold.  When choosing the metal type for the lady’s band, it is always best to choose the same metal as the engagement ring since the band is meant to compliment and normally worn alongside the engagement ring.

On a more sparkly note, diamond wedding bands are not only trendy, they are also full of dazzle and brilliance.  Though they may be more expensive than plain bands, the simplest diamond band will draw much attention to its elegance and beauty.   The four areas of importance for diamond stones are color, cut, clarity, and carat. When choosing a loose stone for an engagement ring, the cut and carat of the diamond have the highest influence on the value of the stone.  On the other hand, when it comes to wedding bands alone, the most significant of these factors are cut, clarity and color since most diamonds on a band or a ring without a center stone are smaller in size.

No matter which color or style wedding ring you choose, remember, it is a treasure you will cherish forever.

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Your engagement ring starts the tie between a man and woman who are ready to devote their love and companionship for one another for a life time.  This is why choosing an engagement ring is probably the hardest part of the wedding planning process.  I have created a four step outline to guide individuals successfully find the perfect engagement ring and understand the 4 C’s more clearly.

STEP 1
The first step is finding a diamond that symbolizes the love you share together.  This step is the most important because the center stone is most likely going to be the most expensive part of the ring.  To establish the value of a diamond, four key factors must be considered: the cut, carat, clarity, and color.  The cut refers to the shape, proportion of the diamond’s brilliance and how well it represents its appearance.  If you are a trend savvy individual, the round stone is the most popular shape followed by ascher, cushion and princess which have been featured in many modern jewelry and bridal magazine.   However, keep in mind that the engagement ring represents your commitment and every couple is unique in their own amazing way.  So if you’ve always dreamed of a princess cut ring, why choose any other?  The carat is the standard unit of weighing a diamond.  The heavier a stone, the greater its cost becomes. The clarity is the relative position of inclusions a diamond has.  Other factors that determine the grading of the clarity are size, number and color of the inclusions.  Lastly, the grading of color involves deciding how much color a stone has.  Most diamonds have a trace of yellow, brown, or gray body color.  With the exception of some fancy natural colors, such as blue, pink and violet, the colorless grade is the most valuable.

We have over 1000 diamonds in stock. However, we currently do not provide it for sale online, but we do provide it in our showroom. So the best thing to do is if you already found the diamond you love, call us and we will offer you a quote for the same diamond. Since we are wholesalers, most likely our quote will be lower than what you have.

STEP 2
After you select your stone, the fun of designing your ring begins.  The shape and size of the diamond plays a big role in choosing a ring because most engagement rings are made to fit a specific diamond measurement.   The subcategories on idobands.com help individuals to search only the shape of their specific diamond.

The following are important facts to take into consideration before choosing:
1)  Do you like the ring to be simple or shinny?
2)  How wide do you want the ring?  What will look best on your finger?
3)  Lastly if you want to have a matching band, make sure the band can be snuggled next to it.

To select your perfect Engagement Ring go to http://www.idobands.com/index.php/semi-mount.html to select the one that matches your diamond.

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