Exciting News!
So my mom and I were talking last night...
...and she offered me the diamond from her engagement ring for Penn and me to use in mine! Woo! It's a bit smaller than a half carat, round, and I don't know the clarity, but it's very nice.
She would have offered the setting as well, but she knows I don't like yellow gold, and it's a little too high for my tastes. It's also too big, but that's an easy fix.
That and a pair of diamond earrings that I inherited (my great-grandmother bequeathed individual diamonds from a necklace to all of the living female family members at the time) means we could get a nice three-stone setting, and it would be pretty darn cheap, since we wouldn't have to pay for stones.
This is also a big deal for me, because I feel like using heirloom diamonds makes it more special. Additionally, it means we wouldn't have to support unethical diamond mining practices. (This is more of an issue for me than Penn--his degree is in mine engineering, and he works in the mining technology industry--but even so, he doesn't like the idea of blood diamonds, or what some of the biggest diamond corporations are doing with their quarry)
Hooray! Now I just need to tell Penn--he's been away at a conference all week, so we haven't really been able to talk.
...and she offered me the diamond from her engagement ring for Penn and me to use in mine! Woo! It's a bit smaller than a half carat, round, and I don't know the clarity, but it's very nice.
She would have offered the setting as well, but she knows I don't like yellow gold, and it's a little too high for my tastes. It's also too big, but that's an easy fix.
That and a pair of diamond earrings that I inherited (my great-grandmother bequeathed individual diamonds from a necklace to all of the living female family members at the time) means we could get a nice three-stone setting, and it would be pretty darn cheap, since we wouldn't have to pay for stones.
This is also a big deal for me, because I feel like using heirloom diamonds makes it more special. Additionally, it means we wouldn't have to support unethical diamond mining practices. (This is more of an issue for me than Penn--his degree is in mine engineering, and he works in the mining technology industry--but even so, he doesn't like the idea of blood diamonds, or what some of the biggest diamond corporations are doing with their quarry)
Hooray! Now I just need to tell Penn--he's been away at a conference all week, so we haven't really been able to talk.
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