11+ Point Checklist to Pick Your Lovely, Bling Dream Wedding Ring!

So you’ve found your one-and-only and are all set to pop the big question? Your love and commitment is just as precious as the ring you choose to signify your proposal with. With this thrill, a mind boggling plethora of options and trends can be overwhelming. Worry not, We at WeddingBazaar have got your back! We sat down with the experts of diamond district and got a step-by-step checklist curated for you to find your one in a million engagement ring!

All You Need to Know About Wedding Rings!

The Ring Trilogy

1. Posey Rings - Promise Rings

To begin with, engagement rings are the star of the romantic ring gift reel. Posey rings - promise rings are those lovey-dovey couples who’re not yet ready for a very official commitment with each other with their dates, poetries, love messages inscribed in them

2. Engagement Rings

Of the 3, the One and Only stands out and how! Engagement rings signify you’re taken by your one-and-only and now they want the world to know!

3. Wedding bands

Officially exchanged by the bride and groom during the wedding ceremony, think of eternity bands, channel rings - the last in the wedding rings saga. 

Planning to pop the question with a surprise?

If you’re a hopeless romantic man (we love!)  wanting to sweep your lady off her feet with pulling off a picturesque proposal, consider choosing a ring that suits her personal style, if you know what she’s always wanted for her engagement ring, sneak in to get her perfect ring size, take help from friends and family and also have options for her to exchange styles or make her own if she chooses to later.

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Budgeting

The 3 month salary rule is not cast in stone, but when gifting the love of your life a token of your love, leave no stone unturned. Nevertheless, with time - growing milestones of life and stronger bonds and deeper pockets, you can always upgrade your wedding rings on anniversaries and special occasions like the birth of a child. It’s always better to purchase jewellery from renowned jewellers who offer trade-in and upgradation programmes for lifetimes and are GIA certified. You can also choose a smaller diamond that can be built into a set later

Styling

Don’t fit in, when you were made to stand out! Let your engagement ring tell your love story with elements that suit your personal style. From adding family heirloom pieces to choosing coloured rocks, creating a moodboard for style that speaks to you will pay off for a lifetime!

1. Diamonds not your best friend? Play around with colours of myriad shades in sapphires!

2. When you're the pearl to his oyster, why not put a ring on it? Say "I do" with pearl rings!

3. Never will you have seen enamel colour coated channel bands besides haute couture! 

4. Mirror your love with your better half with couple sets!

5. Is less more for you? Whispers of elegance echo in these yellow-white gold bands, dainty promise ring assortments

Also Read: 51+ Latest and Trending Engagement Ring Designs

Maintaining your ring with your lifestyle

We’re all out for flaunting your bae’s bauble on your heart ring everyday1 Just in case your work involves putting on gloves, exposing hands to chemicals or rough tasks - gardening, cooking, cleaning, gymming you may want to choose patterns that won’t get stuck in fabrics, not fall off are easy to clean and maintain. When you wear your wedding ring everyday, ensure you clean them with dish soap and warm water and soft brush, polish as needed and get prongs tightened once a year. You could also splurge on fancier cocktail rings you’d wear occasionally and keep them safely in a plastic wrap after.

Elements

Engagement Rings are known by a big center stone sitting on top of the ring and diamonds picking up as a popular choice after DeBeers popularised the theme, ‘a diamond is forever’ in 1947. Cue to it’s rarity, brilliance, luxury, durability, versatility and elegance, no points for guessing wedding rings are synonymous with diamond solitaire rings today. 

Yet the world is your ocean! Choose your rock, shape - cut - setting and base metal aligned with your lifestyle and budget.

Bookmark: Most-renowned Wedding Ring Jewellers in your city 

1. Lab grown diamonds VS Mined Diamonds VS Moissanite

Moral of the story : Trust me, you want to pick a lab-grown diamond when you go shopping next (thank us later!) For more sustainable, ethically sourced diamonds with a smaller carbon footprint, at prices less than 15k, choose lab grown diamonds as real, pure and excellent at the 4Cs at India’s leading lab-grown diamond home Kalamandir now!

2. Loved Megan Fox's moi et toi ring Machine Gun Kelly gifted her? Explore shoppable rings for the same look but drop-dead prices here!

Must Read: India's most renowned and largest lab-grown diam house from Surat : Kalamandir Jewellers

3. While Moissanite is a compound of silicon carbide and not carbon technically, it is still a great budget-friendly option over diamonds as the trend ebbs in today’s day and age

4. Metals like gold are softer of the precious metal lot whereas rose gold when complimenting designs lends an italian-chique factor to it, silver can give you the rare sheen of platinum without slicing you off those big bucks

The 4Cs 

Cut, Carat, Clarity, Color - of the 4, Cut and Carat are non-negotiables, while the other 2 will add more brilliance to your diamond. Cut refers to polishing facets of the rock that make refraction of light within and shine out of the diamond like fire. Look at your diamond in natural sunlight to see it's fire. Carat is the weight of the rock while clarity refers to absence of cloudy inclusions and color iridescent hue that ranges from clear, blue down to yellow within a diamond. Color and clarity of diamonds are rarely noticeable to the naked eye. So, when choosing on a budget, let Cut and Carat be your priorities.

Must Read: Mag-worthy photography for and with your Wedding Ring

Upgrading your Wedding Ring

While it’s a relatively new concept in India, consider investing in a good quality rock and ring as much as your pocket may allow with the concept of adding more stones, detailing or revamping the design altogether by bringing a bigger rock or so. Choose your design accordingly.

Stacking rings

Combining promise or proposal bands, wedding bands like eternity bands and the main engagement ring is a traditional style that can well complement other rings that you like have a special meaning for you like an heirloom signet or baby rings, slay stylishly.

Also Read: Astro-Bliss: Find the Proposal Ring That Matches Her Zodiac Personality

Faux pas trends we wish ended sooner...

1. Semi-precious stones with precious metals 

Setting stones of lesser value in metals that cost much more vis-a-vis the rock itself may not be worth the buck unless the choosing such a center rock has value greater for you than what meets the eye - like a birthstone or heirloom piece.

2. Art jewellery as Engagement Rings

For an eternally priceless and unique love as your’s nothing but the rarest gem in the world would serve and befit it’s vanity. For penny pinchers, choosing the thinnest gold or silver band you could for the love of your life will bring you more adulation than gifting a plated ring.

3. Bubble bands 

Why not have the same effect in a pave’ setting, or an eternity band, without having the risk of having the rocks fall of due to impracticality/

4. Ring soldering

Many like soldering their multiple band stacks into one piece for them to align and fit perfectly but it could actually be counterproductive. Sliding the stack as a whole may turn out to be more of a painful hassle you’d be married to. Repairs and maintenance may risk damaging other rings too.

5. High rise settings 

Many skip the cathedral setting that does indeed make a rock look bigger than it actually is, mainly because it is highly prone to snagging and getting caught in hair, garments being more prone to scratches and a risk of falling off.

6. Traditional halos

Halos have had their time during the day, but with the rise of huge lab-grown diamonds, solitaire settings are IT rocks of today that enjoy the limelight by themselves. 

LOTS of Celeb Inspo

Not 1, not 2, choose from 15 paparazzi pleasers and pick or mix looks that you like and find shoppable places to get your Dream Wedding Ring with WeddingBazaar’s trusted partners!

1. Selena Gomez just hopped onto the envious engagement rings bandwagon with a marquise beauty gifted by beau Benny Blanco

2. Queen Bey rules the roost with her split-shank set, emrald cut 18 karat sparkler worth $5 million (est) gifted by Jay Z in April 2008

3. Blake Lively's 12 karat oval-cut pink diamond set in a micro pave band is just as exquisite as Ryan's love for her!

4. Serena Williams sets records not just with her bat but also her 15 karat massive round-cut diamond ring by Alexis Ohannian.

5. Mariah Carey's 35 karat emrald cut diamond ring by James Packer is one of the most magnamious rings ever

6. Amal Clooney's ethically sourced 7 karat emrald cut diamond sets just the right precedents for sustainanility from the fashionista evaneglist and her husabnd George Clooney

7. Add curio pieces close to your heart like Arianna Grande did by adding a pearl from her Grandpa's brooch to her toi et moi ring

8. Lady Gaga's 8 karat heart shaped sparkler has all our hearts!

9. Sofia Vergara's 7 karat cushion cut diamond ring by Joe Manganiello made headlines for it's elegance and the movie star's panache carrying it at once!

10. Jessica Biel's asscher cut diamond with row of smaller diamonds and small blue sapphires

11. Aishwarya Rai's massive emerald cut diamond ring

12. Victoria - Posh Beckham's out of the box pear cut diamond with a pave pronged setting

13. Kareena Kapoor Khan's only natural round diamond set

14. Kim Kardashian's drop dead gorgeous 15 and 20 karat dripping diamonds

15. Priyanka Chopra Jonas thoughfully chosen, tailormade emrald cut baguette pave set gorgeous Tiffany & Co. ring

16. Shilpa Shetty Kundra's Rs. 3 Crore (est) sparkler

17. Emily Rajatkowski's stunning moi et toi ring

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