How Can Customizing Bring Down the Price of My Engagement Ring?
Saturday, February 10, 2018
If you are asking this question in your mind, you probably are planning to buy an engagement ring, or make one from the scratch. Either way, it’s an excellent decision and best wishes for the proposal. The word customization has gone around a lot in the last half a decade and that has sprung up a miscellany of questions in the minds of the people. This, here, one of the often asked questions. So, to shed some light on it, let’s hit the points that explain spot-on how through customizing, one can manage the price of a ring and eventually bring your engagement ring cost down to an agreeable figure.
Pick a Metal, Any Metal
The beauty of customization is in its freedom of choice. Jewelers, in the past few years, have gradually released the control to buyers, to the point that customizing has now become an assembling exercise. As a buyer, you are in control of all the key components of the ring, beginning with the metal. There are three main choices in metals, namely, silver, gold and platinum. Others like rhodium, palladium, tungsten, etc., are least popular in the engagement ring section. Of the mentioned three, silver hardly ever gets picked. So, between gold and platinum, there is a tough competition. If you want gold, but is not happy with the bling, pick white gold. For what it’s worth, white gold is cheaper than yellow gold of similar karat, and yellow gold in turn is cheaper than platinum. So the call is yours. There however is a third choice which is incredibly popular among women, the rose gold. Being an alloy of gold, it is less expensive than gold, but is aesthetically at par with it.
Make Economy in the Carat and Karat
The metal and gemstone are where your chances of exercising economy are. So, make use of it. If you are not too eager to cough up a crippling amount for the ring, pick gold under 18K. If the ring has diamonds or other gems, the karat grade starts from 18K because that’s the start for jewelries carrying gems. Get the foot on the door by choosing 14K gold, and then move to make further cuts in the diamonds. As it is, 14K brings down the cost substantially, and now you can use what you saved in buying a big carat diamond. Choose from the lower grades to save big.
Cut Corners on the Making Charge
How much a jeweler will cost you for crafting a ring depends on how much details it has. A delicate and dainty solitaire with no significant details and engravings has the lowest making charge. Vintage-inspired rings with a whole lot of filigree and mil grain works cost the most. So, depending on your choice of design, you can either stick to the minimal designs or find something that has a balance between both.
The points discussed are where you can save huge. How much successful you come out however depends on your decisions.
