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According to the latest National Wedding Survey, the average engagement ring spend is now £2,500. While the traditional amount was always thought to be around three months’ salary, however, this is not the case anymore. The truth is that you should only spend what feels right for you and what you can afford.
This, of course, depends on your requirements. If you’re going for a bespoke engagement ring, the process can take between three to six eight weeks to complete. This includes everything from the initial consultation, 3D drawing, wax and handcrafting the jewellery by our experienced craftsmen in our Hatton Garden workshop.
If you’re buying from our website, or you choose a ring from our window it takes just a few days and or a week or two depending on royal mail special delivery (completely insured postage).
We advise that you do the majority of your searching in person – seeing the ring up close makes a big difference and will give you peace of mind that you’ve chosen the right one! It also means you can negotiate a price with the jeweller which is common practice when it comes to buying an engagement ring.
Therefore, we can’t recommend Hatton Garden enough. It’s a great place to buy an engagement ring in terms of value for money: you won’t have to pay the sort of premium that you might expect to spend in a Bond Street jeweller.
If you’re going for an engagement ring with set diamonds in, it’s worth knowing what signs to look out for when searching for a good quality stone. The best way to ensure you’re getting the best quality diamond is to follow the 5 Cs – clarity, cut, colour, carat and certificate.
It’s essential that you understand the diamond grading process when buying an engagement ring and why a certain stone might differ in value to another stone
The colour of the diamond is a fairly simple one, it’s referring to how clear or discolored the diamond is. The whiter the diamond, the higher its value will be. There is a slight difference from D-F to the unexperienced eye, we do recommend going for G and above to avoid any tinge of yellow in your diamond.
The clarity of a diamond refers to the blemishes that the diamond possesses. Almost every diamond on the market will have some level of inclusions or imperfections, but the key is to try and find one with as few as possible. To the naked eye there is no much difference between SI1 and VS1 for example, the difference will be seen only under 10x magnification. In another words clarity is not that important if you don’t see the imperfections by your naked eye.
cut is considered to be the most important out of the 4Cs because the brilliance and fire of a diamond depend greatly on its cut. A
perfectly cut stone will allow you to compromise on the other factors but still, have great brilliance and sparkle.
Carat simply, is the weight of the diamond, sometimes it gets confused with the size. There’s 100 points in one carat, so a diamond with 50 points would be described as a half-carat.
When purchasing any diamonds, make sure you get the correct certification with it, referred to by a diamond grading laboratory; this just clarifies the quality of the sparkler you’ve bought.
