Jewelry

Macon engage­ment rings, wed­ding rings, and wed­ding sets of out­stand­ing qual­i­ty are ready for you down­town at Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry. No mat­ter how much you plan to spend this is where to get the most sparkle for your money.

How much do Georgians spend on average for engagement rings?

A recent report in Busi­ness Insid­er ranked the 50 U.S. states from low­est to high­est based on the aver­age amount of mon­ey peo­ple in that state spent on an engage­ment ring in 2018. Geor­gia ranked 23rd in the U.S. with Geor­gians spend­ing an aver­age of $6,868 for an engage­ment ring. With prices, up to 80% off mall retail jew­el­ry store prices, imag­ine the incred­i­ble Macon engage­ment ring that $6,868 can buy when you shop at Howard’s Pawn and Jewelry.

Do Not Make the Diamond Shape-Preference Mistake

Before you give the gift of dia­monds or pre­pare to put a ring on the hand of your beloved with a pro­pos­al, you need to find out which dia­mond shape your one-and-only prefers. Some­times peo­ple who give dia­monds as a gift or along with a mar­riage pro­pos­al do not con­sid­er the receiver’s dia­mond shape pref­er­ence. Do not let this be you. Giv­ing a Mar­quise-cut when to a Cush­ion-cut lover can end up being an uncom­fort­able sit­u­a­tion. Let buy­ers deter­mine carat-weight, clar­i­ty, and col­or, leave cut, and shape pref­er­ences to dia­mond recip­i­ents. This is pecu­liar­ly impor­tant when buy­ing fan­cy-shape engage­ment diamonds.

What is a Fancy-Shaped Diamond?

The fan­cy dia­mond shapes include every shape oth­er than round. Round cut dia­monds account for most dia­monds sold today, but fan­cy cuts are gain­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty. These are the fan­cy shapes:

• Radi­ant
• Heart
• Princess
• Cush­ion
• Ass­ch­er
• Pear
• Emer­ald
• Oval
• Mar­quise

Take A Second Look at Fancy-Shaped Diamonds

Elon­gat­ed fan­cy shaped dia­monds cuts like the Pear, Emer­ald, Oval, and Mar­quise of the same carat weight look larg­er than tra­di­tion­al round dia­monds. On top of that, at retail jew­el­ry out­lets, shop­pers save 25% or more when select­ing fan­cy-shaped dia­monds rather than a round stone com­pa­ra­ble in qual­i­ty and size.

Fancy-Shaped Macon Diamond Engagement Rings

It is no sur­prise to see fan­cy-shaped dia­monds on the top of an engage­ment ring shop­ping list. In fact, one third are set with fan­cy-shaped dia­monds. Buy­ers love the larg­er look and the low­er price tag. Radi­ant, Princess, and Cush­ion cut are the fan­cy shapes among the most sought-after among trend­set­ters. It is easy to fall for these big glit­ter­ing show­stop­pers espe­cial­ly with their love­able low­er price tags.

You will always hear dia­mond cut and dia­mond shape terms used inter­change­ably, and this sounds con­fus­ing. Dia­mond cut is an assess­ment of the light per­for­mance of a dia­mond and is based on the pro­por­tion­al­i­ty, sym­me­try, and the over­all sur­face con­di­tion or the pol­ish of its facets. Where­as, the dia­mond shape is deter­mined by the sil­hou­et­ted shape of a stone or its out­er edge outline.

Cut Determines How a Diamond Sparkles

A well-cut dia­mond is cut pleas­ing­ly in pro­por­tioned dimen­sions with facets posi­tioned for max­i­mum sparkle and bril­liance. The depth to diam­e­ter ratio sig­nif­i­cant­ly informs a diamond’s beau­ty and price. But every dia­mond shop­per wants to get the most sparkle for their mon­ey. The diamond’s cut most sig­nif­i­cant­ly affects its radi­ance and the way it sparkles.

Ask the Experts at Howard’s Pawn and Jewelry

At Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry, Nathan Reed, the Store Man­ag­er and GIA Dia­monds Grad­u­ate, knows why dia­monds sparkle. Three light-reflect­ing prop­er­ties com­bine in the essence of a well-cut-dia­mond. Specif­i­cal­ly, these char­ac­ter­is­tics are extra­or­di­nary bril­liance, fire, and scin­til­la­tion. Dia­mond bril­liance grades the amount of reflect­ed white light. Dia­mond fire mea­sures the amount of light dis­persed into the col­ors of the rain­bow and vibran­cy of those col­ors. Final­ly, scin­til­la­tion is the dra­ma of con­trast between dark and light areas—it is a grade of the sparkle.

The Only Diamond Shopping Rule You Need

Look to cut for dia­mond sparkle when decid­ing which dia­mond, you want to buy. A dis­pro­por­tion­ate cut too shal­low or too deep destroys poten­tial dia­mond sparkle reveal­ing sad dull glassy rocks with no fire. Remem­ber this sim­ple shop­ping rule, and do not devi­ate from it when shop­ping for a diamond:

Buy the best cut grade that you can afford.

Select an Engagement Ring, Wedding Ring, or Wedding Set to Celebrate Your Union

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, an engage­ment ring comes with a mar­riage pro­pos­al and wed­ding rings are part of the “with this ring, I thee wed” part of the wed­ding cer­e­mo­ny. An engage­ment ring can be more ornate than a wed­ding ring or not. Round dia­mond soli­taire engage­ment rings are a tra­di­tion­al choice. A mod­ern cou­ple may choose to exchange match­ing wed­ding bands or dou­ble up on sparkle, with dia­mond infin­i­ty bands to sym­bol­ize their endur­ing love.

Do You Know The 4 C’s of Diamonds?

To reach the cor­rect val­u­a­tion of an indi­vid­ual dia­mond requires pre­cise mea­sure­ment and analy­sis of its char­ac­ter­is­tics in four fun­da­men­tal cat­e­gories. Known as the four C’s, carat, col­or, clar­i­ty, and cut round out the four C’s. Carat, col­or, clar­i­ty, and cut as crit­i­cal fac­tors to eval­u­ate dia­mond qual­i­ty and deter­mine dia­mond worth globally.

For an exact assess­ment, exam­ine a loose dia­mond before it is set. For dia­monds in set­tings, qual­i­ty and val­ue are esti­ma­tions only. Minor vari­a­tions in col­or, clar­i­ty, and weight can have a major impact on val­ue. After set­ting a stone, the deter­mi­na­tion of a pre­cise grade in terms of col­or, size, and clar­i­ty is not pos­si­ble for a grad­er of any skill level.

Learn More About Cut, Carat, Clarity, and Color

To learn more about the cut, carat, clar­i­ty, and col­or come by Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry. The jew­el­ry experts at Howard’s will show you the biggest choice of wed­ding sets in Macon. In addi­tion to carat, clar­i­ty, col­or, and cut some appoint the 5^th C when it comes to dia­monds. What the final or 5th C stands for is up for debate. It some­times stands for con­fi­dence. The con­fi­dence at play here is in the accu­ra­cy of the dia­mond grad­ing and certification.

At Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry, the 5th C stands for cost con­fi­dence. Shop with cost con­fi­dence know­ing the dia­monds at Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry are top qual­i­ty priced below retail. When you are plan­ning to exchange wed­ding vows, you can be con­fi­dent that the ring you want will cost less with us.

Where to Shop for Macon Engagement Rings

There is only one place to shop the widest selec­tion of engage­ment rings and wed­ding sets in Mid­dle Geor­gia. Of course, Howard’s Pawn and Jew­el­ry is your one-stop-shop when you want the most your mon­ey can buy. For dia­mond wed­ding sets, wed­ding rings, and engage­ment rings see Howard in down­town Macon.