Are engagement rings getting bigger?

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Anonymous wrote:

If I were getting engaged now, I think I would choose a gorgeous, rare colored stone vs a diamond - something unique and special.

Me too

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed that a lot of the large center stones aren’t actually a single stone, but multiple small stones set close together to resemble a large stone. It’s how so many young brides are getting huge rings.

If I were getting engaged now, I think I would choose a gorgeous, rare colored stone vs a diamond - something unique and special.

Right, I love emeralds but they're not ideal for daily wear. I guess fancy diamonds are the best of both worlds.

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Anonymous wrote:engagement rings bigger than 3-4ct are so cheugy. i wish we could end this trend.

We can. By not participating in it.

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I think it's a combination of new diamond options in the market (ie, lab grown, etc) and that there's just more wealth and money in this country than ever before. So where 1 carat was the former standard of the upper middle class, it's now 2-3...at least that's my observation from where I sit.

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So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

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Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

No omg are you stupid.

Labs are the same as a Natural diamond.

This is not hard.

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Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

Unless people carry microscopes... no.

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Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

No.

But that is not to say that some people won’t think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:They're getting bigger and they are not a status symbol anymore. Having multiple homes is a much bigger flex.

Nah. The biggest flex is being "self-employed" and/or retiring very very early. Fat FIRE FTW!

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Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

I'm going to disagree with pps who said no.

I don't know if it will, but if you look at the market of other man-made items, the natural versions still fetch a premium. A pp used the example of pearls. Natural pearls are absolutely a flex. They are far more expensive than cultured versions, even though cultured pearls are generally what's put into jewellery. Colored stones also have man made versions, but the naturals are again worth far far more.

So who knows what the future holds. Maybe the majority of jewellery will start to be made with lab diamonds. It's certainly attractive to the jewellery who drops their costs dramatically, and to the consumer who can afford some gorgeous bling that may not have been in their budgets before. But there will always be people who prefer natural/mined diamonds, I'm just not sure who their consumer will be in the future when all the MMDs are equally as beautiful, sparkly and much lower price.

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I was at a lecture where the jewelry expert said young people are going for larger lab diamonds, but thinner bands that won't support the rock forever and that will thin with wear.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

I'm going to disagree with pps who said no.

I don't know if it will, but if you look at the market of other man-made items, the natural versions still fetch a premium. A pp used the example of pearls. Natural pearls are absolutely a flex. They are far more expensive than cultured versions, even though cultured pearls are generally what's put into jewellery. Colored stones also have man made versions, but the naturals are again worth far far more.

So who knows what the future holds. Maybe the majority of jewellery will start to be made with lab diamonds. It's certainly attractive to the jewellery who drops their costs dramatically, and to the consumer who can afford some gorgeous bling that may not have been in their budgets before. But there will always be people who prefer natural/mined diamonds, I'm just not sure who their consumer will be in the future when all the MMDs are equally as beautiful, sparkly and much lower price.

A Natural diamond loses at least half it's value or more right after it leaves a shop. A Natural diamond is also sold at a cost that depends on the seller and the buyer not much consistency. Not a good investment.

And now we have DeBeers leaving the natural stone market because Labs are kicking their butt.

Labs are not worth anything once they leave a store so I guess a natural is sort of better, but honestly given it's not a great investment spending less on a Lab makes way more sense financially.

Anyone thinking natural diamonds are better it's a slim better and now that DeBeers is selling they will be worth zip.

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Lab diamond is fake, it didn't go through the earth and have the labor to mine it. No better than a cz

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is having a real diamond vs a lab diamond a flex?

No omg are you stupid.

Labs are the same as a Natural diamond.

This is not hard.

Wrong. And they are like costume jewelry with etchings to indicate easily they are fake

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Wealthy people and celebrities are not getting lab diamonds