Fancy Yellow Diamond Engagement Ring

Have you seen a stunning Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond up close?

In natural light, they exhibit a beautiful blue sparkle that will take you by surprise as the diamond is essentially yellow coloured.

Yellow diamonds, and fancy-colored diamonds in general, continue to grow in popularity. Larger yellow diamonds have made headlines in recent years for their natural beauty and gemological rarity. With natural fancy-colored diamonds, the value increases with intensity of color and how evenly distributed the colour runs through the rock. See GIA Color Scale Chart below:

Diamonds that display color purity--or the absence of modifying colors, Meaning the Fancy Intense and the Fancy Vivid--command the highest prices in the marketplace.
 
They are the Canary Yellow diamonds coveted and adorned by the celebrities of Hollywood. Carrie Underwood, Heidi Klum, Paris Hilton... just to name a few.

How a diamond is faceted also affects the brilliance and fire of the color bouncing back to your eye. If you are looking for a fancy colored diamond, being able to view the stone and have a second opinion from a reputable jeweller is a must. See how the color chat also links us back to the white diamond color chart?

2.00ct Diamond Stud Earrings for your Engagement

I once had this conversation with a fellow jewellery designer that after sketching and helping so many clients with their engagement ring, that her choice of an 'engagement gift' is not the ring, but a stunning beautiful pair of diamond studs. I know the struggle first hand when the time came for me to choose my own ring design. My now husband got away with this one! But studs! Remember you get TWO diamonds... That's just brilliant an idea! For the modern, strong woman, who loves her hands free, plays lots of sports or music and is probably left handed.. (the ring gets so in the way).

Here's story to share.

It's one of those days... where size is clearly relative. My one carat round brilliant cut engagement ring all but looks a baby next to this lone stud earring, of a 2.00ct diamond size (each) with a further enhancement of the halo ring effect adding a definite impact to them.

Those are my client's every day earrings, which her young son had placed in his mouth, thinking they were lollies when he saw them in her jewellery box. True story! She had to have them cleaned (for obvious reasons, check out this photo) but thankful he spat them out. The son was a very normal four-year old who loves sweets :)

Beautiful pair of stud earrings, are they to die for?

"Will you marry me?" says Prince Charming on his white horse

Buy this Fragrance & experience the romance of riding white horses with your loved one...

One of my all time favorite true proposal stories I love to tell... depicted by this beautiful image.

The picture of Ralph Lauren's Women's fragrance Romance brings a smile to my face. (By the way it is not quite easy to kiss and ride two horses yet look feminine, romantic and elegant all at the same time. So credit to Ralph Lauren's marketing team for capturing such a brilliant picture. )

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Perhaps it's the fairytale of Cinderella, Snow White... blame Disney Princesses! But something about white horses galloping gallantly away into the sunset conjures romantic happy ever after imagery.

He was a quietly confident man, soft-spoken and gentle in demeanor. Ordinary yet quirky at the same time. Sitting down in our jewellery boutique, he started to relate his engagement proposal as they all do, when they feel so comfortable like we as consultants have become their mate. It was a quiet late afternoon after a busy lunch time and the team on the floor started to gather around him as he shared his experience. Adding the 'Oooo..'s and the 'Aahhh... 's at the appropriate time like it was perfectly rehearsed.


"... I first planned to rent a Horse Drawn Carriage to ride up to my girlfriend's house and propose, but I decided to go that step further, learn some horse riding , then lease a nice white horse.... which I did..." he spoke so excitedly. His girlfriend is a teacher at the local primary school, so he thought to it innovative to take it that step further, seeking permission from the school principal and staff to propose to his beloved at morning assembly in front of the whole school.

I can hear all our hearts racing as me and my team listened intently to his story. I know many ladies including myself, would have died (of shock? embarrassment? horror?) if my boyfriend asked to marry me in front of a few hundred people, young or old, dressed in a rented gleaming crisp white suit, and riding to morning school assembly on a pristine white stallion (or as in the movie Shrek... a noble steed). Coming down from his horse, going down on one knee, and saying those words through a microphone already waiting for him, as he pulled out the ring box...

Well that is exactly what he did. It really takes one to know another. It takes someone so brave and mad dare I say to carry out what he planned. It also takes a girl so brave to say 'YES' in front of so many and probably recount this tale to the last day of her life, laughing or cringing? Perhaps she can still hear the thunderous applause and cheering that must errupt from the assembly of students, in awe of what they had just witnessed. Oh bless the little girls who love Disney...

He thanks us for all the help for his beautiful engagement ring and strides out of the boutique grinning ear-to-ear, beaming a smile he cannot wipe from his face.

Cheers to romance!

Custom Made Engagement Ring Design Sketch for a special Proposal

Flying is such therapy.
Listening to the purr of the plane engine and oblivious to the world.
Sketching on the plane was surprisingly fun and efficient use of my time!

A stunning engagement ring for a very special and beautiful couple.
He proposes tomorrow! Who is the lucky girl? :)
My client muses that she keeps the diamond and he keeps the framed hand sketch of chosen ring design.

 

 (Hand Crafted custom designed engagement ring. By appointment only - Faith Jewels )

A Proposal on the way!

Really looking forward to a grand proposal next weekend!

A trip to my jeweller to pick up the completed engagement ring I designed for my client awaits me in the next week.
After hundreds and hundreds of couple I have met over all these years, there's still the thrill of helping a guy pick the most beautiful engagement ring to propose with.
 
Every proposal is special and every couple is unique. I feel joy when I see love and I pray that the couple remembers this beautiful moment for the rest of their lives even at the darkest moments that sometimes descend through life. 

An engagement ring carries with it hope for a future, for a new chapter and sometimes in the midst of winning a sale or a client for the sake of business, it is easy forget the romance and the true essence of why we are here. 

I want to remember everyday that love is what keeps the world going round... 
Let's share some today!