Wedding rings...

[Mopar_magic]

I bought my wifes ring at Rocky Mountain Diamonds. They are a wholesale place and you need to be referred to them. They made the ring my wife wanted from a picture and did a great job. I probably saved between 4 and 500 dollars buying from them versus the Mall jewelry stores. Only one catch, they dont do payments. The ring that I bought appraised for much more than I paid. Just a tip, have an appraisal done and put it on your home owners insurance.

 

[Caleb]

After shopping around a TON (from Vegas to Salt Lake) I decided on using J Brook Jewelrs. The service was awesome and pricing ended up being very nice. I bought my wife a Platinum ring, the reason being is partly because of wear, when you wear a ring all day everyday (like most wives do) the ring will wear thin, part of the reason for this is when you scuff it or anything like that with gold you are actually leaving part of the material on the item you scuffed against. Platinum doesn't do this, it will still scratch but it just "parts" out of the way but remains on the ring. Also, platinum will hold its shape MUCH longer than any gold ring will. The ring I bought my wife was about $12K for the band, however my wife ended up knowing the salesman's wife and he gave us a family discount, I got it for less. The band is a designer band, the next closest business that sells this ring is in Los Angelos so you likely wont find another one like it. Thats the problem we found with the "mall" jewelrs and the like, they do sell cheaper bands, but they all sell the same cheaper bands. My wife tried on all sizes of stones, her hands are very thin so anything larger than .75 carat looked bulky and overdone, so we got her a VVS1 .75ct princess cut diamond. The other thing we liked about J. Brooks is they send each individual diamond to some national jewelrs lab (forget the real name of it ) in Vegas and they scan the diamond, that gives it a grade and give you a printout of your diamond, showing where any imperfectins are. Very cool thing to have. A lot of Jewelrs use in house "specialists" to grade their diamonds, thats great but problem with this is you are now basing it on someones opinion...we noticed the difference when comparing my wife's diamond to my sister's which is supposed to be the same quality in the same cut but my sister's was bought at one of the "mall" jewelrs. I also vote for putting it on your homeowners, I pay $30 a year to ins it at $0 deductible unconditional, meaning even if she drops it down the drain or just looses it by misplacing it, it gets covered at 100% replacement cost. Very cheap piece of mind for a $10K ring

There's a ton of stuff to know, visit a bunch of stores and do a lot of research, I remember I spent a couple months researching all this crap (which most, I have forgotten by now ).

Goodluck...er, I mean tell Bob goodluck and a possible congrats :greg:

 

[Caleb]

oh yeah, for my ring I just wanted titanium because its tough as nails and I never wear it. $199 for an ornament isn't too bad

 

[mbryson]

You probably had hair back then too

Yep....

 

[KToy]

kurt when u getting married

 

[Tacoma]

oh yeah, for my ring I just wanted titanium because its tough as nails and I never wear it. $199 for an ornament isn't too bad

that's what I like about mine: takes a hell of a beating, and I dont' have to worry about it. It once saved my finger too: SM465/205 combo slipped and smushed into my ring and not my finger. Well, it kind of got the other ones but not as bad as it would have hahahaha

 

[britney]

A good way to go is to get a really nice solitaire..nothing fancy..just a single beautiful stone. That way after you get married( or sooner) she can go pick out the wedding set she wants and then you just put that stone in it. My husband did this, it was a great idea. I was surprised,I had a pretty ring to wear, but then I did get to pick out what I want.

I like this idea.

The ....."surprise I picked a ring out for you"...theory is very thoughtful and romantic, but you don't want her secretly complaining to her friends that she wouldn't have picked the same one, especially when you're dishing out that much money.
Let's face it boys, woman are picky!!!!
You choose the perfet diamond and let her choose the rest.

 

[cruiserkitten70]

I like this idea.

The ....."surprise I picked a ring out for you"...theory is very thoughtful and romantic, but you don't want her secretly complaining to her friends that she wouldn't have picked the same one, especially when you're dishing out that much money.
Let's face it boys, woman are picky!!!!
You choose the perfet diamond and let her choose the rest.

I liked it alot too. He picked a really pretty princess cut stone. On our first anniversary we went to the Shane Co. and I picked out the wedding set I really wanted and put that stone in it. All of their rings come with out the center stone...and it was like 50.00 dollars to have it mounted in the new ring.

 

[Clutch]

I agree on "The Time Shop" I too have dealt with Jeff.
Williams up in Olympus Hills Mall is good too.

 

[RKCRWLR]

If a diamond is involved, and you, uh, I mean Bob, is planning on this being a long-term thing, try to get a setting that is more than 4 prongs. With 4, one good bump and the stone is gone, particularly as the prongs wear down. I did the 4 prong thing on a inexpensive ring (dirt poor college student at the time). Wife actually was excited a few years later when the stone fell out. It was not cut out for the 16 years and going thing. Also, tell Bob to stock up on 4x parts now! The truck is cool until the ring comes into play. Then there are always "other things" that draw down the parts fund! My $0.02.

 

[bryson]

Come on down to the shop and choose your metal, look around on the floor for a while 'till you find something that would look good welded to it. We will turn down your chosen metal to the correct size for the girlie finger, and then we'll tack-weld your stone on.....and VOILA!!!


btw...I guarantee to beat the prices of those mall-jewlers...!

 

[Tacoma]

wow! 16" mud rings AND jewelry services. That rocks.

 

[Johnny Quest]

i hate to do it, but im gonna bring this back from waaay back when.

'a friend of mine' is looking, and was asking if alot of these same places were still around, and if they were still recommended. He was also wondering if there were any new places in the area; Stroud(?) was a name that 'he' heard of, but wasnt sure what everyone else has heard.

 

[jeeper]

I walked into "Jared" in my coveralls ready to buy (had a couple grand in my pocket) but couldn't get anyone to give me the time of day. I guess I didn't look the part. Walked into Shane co. and was well treated and taken care of. I ended up buying from Morgan Jewelers.-They had the ring that matched what I had been looking for, and for a good price.

 

[Stephen]

INDustrialized Nation. John is a good friend of mine and does amazing work. His site is a little out of date, but if you give him a call, he's always happy to chat and have you over to see a selection of his work.

 

[Gravy]

Brian Passey is still around and a member on RME.

We drew my wife's ring up in CAD (it's quite unique) and shopped around for someone who could build it and could stand behind it.
Fred Meyer Jewelers in Bountiful has a great custom guy and still has a great warranty, and there are enough of them so if there ever is an issue we can get it serviced anywhere in the nation.

Tom Shane used to substitute teach at my High School, and I really liked him.
But his companies business' practices bug me.
They bully their way into your business telling you that everyone else doesn't know what they are doing and will cheat you.
I personally like buying from sales people who are paid on commission: it generally means they will work harder for your business and be willing to deal, and I believe sales people should be rewarded based on performance!
Sometimes I feel uncommissioned sales people grew up on a team where every kid gets a "#1 participant" trophy lol.

Massey's Jewelers has my business for mens rings. We've bought two for me from them.

 

[Kiel]

John did mine, turned out great. Pretty cool that he does it outta his house and invites you in etc.

 

[Brian P]

Quite a few of us deal with each other from time to time as we all "know" each other.
I would be happy to help answer any questions you might need, weather you buy from us or not.
Good luck!

 

[Stephen]

John did mine, turned out great. Pretty cool that he does it outta his house and invites you in etc.

You know John? Who doesn't that guy know. I swear!

Quite a few of us deal with each other from time to time as we all "know" each other.
I would be happy to help answer any questions you might need, weather you buy from us or not.
Good luck!

Oh, yes. Don't forget Passy and Son's. Awesome work there too. And Brian has luxurious, flowing hair to soothe you while you look at rings!

 

[ChestonScout]

i was very happy with the shane co. so is my wife