You could go with Sapphire.. I myself wanted to get it for my wife but I went with a solitaire diamond anyway. I'm very traditional and my idea of a diamond ring is just a simple thin ring that emphasizes the size of the rock. I went with half carat and I think that'll please any girl, really.

Plus, it goes well together with a wedding band.

Just go get one now and it will save you the trouble throughout your life. Next time if anyone get married or so on when their friends and family flash out the diamond ring. you will get the pressure.

Custom Platinum ring = RM800.
Solitaire 0.5 ct diamond = RM3300

Total = RM4100.

I did get the diamond on sale though. Average price for half carat at the time was around 4k.

You will never know man. my buddy also recently got his wife a diamond ring cause he did not do that when he was younger and it seems everytime wife see ppl having diamond ring she will hint hint. so better do it now and save yourself all the trouble. You will not know how it will be in the future haha.

I bought mine in wah chan.. among all the shops i think they are the one with the affordable price tag. in terms they mark up much lesser. Get one with GIA certificate. 0.5C will cost around 6.5k to 8.5k for the stone itself. All in with the ring i got mine around 9k if not mistaken.

Alot of them they have their own in house certificate for the gem but those cert's i've never actually heard off before. Most of them are selling 0.5C for > 10k.

Then get a wedding band first lo. older days when she bising only you topup. or maybe when she bising you can start thinking of tukar bini liao. i not sure with the normal wedding bands out there but mine is pretty sure not affordable as well.

Malay or Chinese bro? For malay your only option would be platinum right?

trust me.. i'm not too good at it too. but i got the diamond ring first then later only we go for the wedding band.

money is also one of the con in the world maa. don't use money la. 

In short, no. It is not necessary. We are not living in a fairytale land where a diamond ring will guarantee the "live happily ever after". Right?

Went to 2 tomei outlets i can't find any 0.5c loose diamond at the price of rm4k.. cheapest also rm6.1k... bought your ring yet TS?

I'll say wah chan.. don't bother looking elsewhere.. Habib also.. quite affordable when got discount.

if budget allow go TSL have a look in gardens.. bought my wedding band there.

http://www.tslj.com/en-us/product/categori...ond/px020a.aspx

don't waste your time in diamond and platinum. overpriced imo. If you are chinese you still have much other choices than to platinum. The platinum casing/ring itself they are selling is even more expensive than a 18k white gold.

juz go for o.3c when ur budget is less than 3.5k ....someone might said can get 0.5c @ 4-5k , but its rare..u can almost forget about it  

if you are on budget don't go there for your diamond ring. when you are getting wedding band then only head over and have a look.

So far i guess.. Tomei, Wah Chan, Habib would price their stuff a little more affordable. I'll still prefer wah chan though.

buying diamond is all about budget .... if u buy 0.5c, u might need a bigger casing which cost about at least 1-2k to fit it ..else it might drop or cannot fit it properly... so end up u will spend 10K+- ....lol

go for normal diamond ring which cost 3k include casing+diamond ..no GIA cost the diamond is smaller than 0.3c ...

I don't know if it is worth the effort, I got the proposal ring from Lovis Diamond (West Gate) in Singapore. 0.4c / G / IF / triple Ex with GIA cert. HCA score 1.6 for $1775 inclusive of setting. After converting it is just below 5k.

They are selling loose stone and you only choose ring after stone. Takes them 2 weeks - 4 weeks to do the fitting. The great thing about them is that they do list their loose diamond with GIA cert number and price on their website. I basically study all their stone at my budget and ask them to prepare those that I am interested for viewing.

go to the shop only decide how many carat u want to buy ... 0.3 and 0.5c is a big diff in design .... if u buy 0.5c , dont really need to care about cutting , color etc already..go to shop and experience it ....those shop will tell u how to differentiate the quality ...

i am a fact & figure person so i use HCA tool to scope down my choice (Only accept score below 2.0). Basically i decide my budget, the minimum colour and clarity level i can accept to work with.

Frankly the sales person will always try to show you the scope and etc but how often you see a diamond under a scope?

go to wah chan and look for RM3-4k diamond ... see it and compare with similar pricing ...those sales person wont recommend u RM10k diamond if u only look at 4k ..LOL..in fact wah chan seksyen 14 PJ SA only explain to me the diff only..didnt push me to buy for it

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With your budget and the size you are looking at, i felt your best bet is Wah Chan. But then it is such a hassle on the spot to jot down the GIA number on the spot for further research.

Personally when i spend so much I would like to make sure i spend it right thus I try my best to use some tool to evaluate the value. I know HCA tool is not a perfect tool but it give me facts and figure while all other 'measurements' are so subjective.

Here are some street price i gathered in MV during my hunt, note these in house brand emphasize on perfect hear and arrow thus the premium.

Crack? do you know diamond is hardest mineral ?

Small stone with too much cutting will make the stone look too congested.

Color on the other hand is important for all size of stone. U want the pure brilliant shining not the yellowish dirty shine don't you?

Ermmm budget.....

So many...love co, diamond and platinum ,wah chan, Poh Kong , Tiffany

Had a very bad experience with Le Lumiere Gardens. Their resize job was terrible. Just look at the pics below.

First picture shows the egg shaped ring after resizing.


Second picture below is a collage of the original (bottom pic), resize (middle pic), and fix attempt (top pic) of the resize. Middle pic shows the milgrain pattern virtually polished off, while the top pic shows their clumsy attempt of trying to recreate the milgrain but is is still obviously not uniform.



Now they are telling me that I need to pay extra if need to remake with new stones if the stones are higher carat. When asked why cannot reuse the existing botched ring's stones, the salesperson even had the gall to say might scratch the stones...WTH...are the diamonds fake?

The salesperson actually showed us a sample ring which was resized and it looked seamless. Yes he acknowledged it was horrible workmanship. Thus they tried to fix it. But the way the milgrain design was polished off makes it beyond redemption.

I did escalate to their branch manager and even posted to their Le Lumiere's facebook page. After the so called fix, they removed my post and refused to allow new postings! 

I did not accept the outcome of the 'fix' and demanded a new ring be made. Now they are saying cannot reuse the old stones and if the new ring's stones are bigger carat then I have to top up. I already paid in full. And the wedding is in a few months time...

Should I demand a refund and try to get my ring somewhere else? I'm seriously running out of time.