It would depend on a lot of things, the clarity and color of course and somewhat also the gold involved...the better the clarity and color the higher the price...for example I work at a pawn shop...we have a 2.75 (round)carat ring appraised at $28,000 by a jewelery store that someone sold and we are asking $12,000...we have also a 3 carat (round) that is less, because the color is slightly darker...If a diamond is cut properly or not can affect the brillance(sparkle) of a diamond...also different cuts can make a difference, ex: pear, marquis, princess. The bigger a diamond is the harder it is going to be to find one with decent clarity and color, also diamonds can also be laser treated to remove inclusions, and this also affects pricing.

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Okay, so here i am over thinking this when i told myself i wasn't going to... my fiancé & i have been together for over 6 years, & i love him more than anything in the world, he is the most amazing man i've ever met & i can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him! we've been engaged for about 2 years now but i'm just now thinking about a ring (well he actually brought it up). about four years ago for my birthday, my fiancé told me he would buy me a ring (not as a proposal but to replace the quarter machine rings we got on one of our first dates - i still wear mine around my neck though) i had picked one out & although it was more than what we were thinking of spending at first, i asked him if it was alright for me to pay for half & he was completely fine with it. i really love this ring, but it is modest & doesn't look like an engagement ring, so my fiancé asked if i would want a new one. at first i said no, cos it really doesn't matter, but low & behold, my girlish brain coaxed me into looking at some online. now, i do not like diamonds, i just don't find them that alluring, but i love sapphires (which is what i have right now) so i found one that i fell in love with, it's a peachy-orange sapphire w/ little white sapphires around it & in rose gold - at 1.5 carats for the center stone, the ring is about $1500 which i feel so uncomfortable about since my current ring was $400 & i paid for half of it. but about 5 months ago my fiancé got a new job, it has great benefits & the pay is nice, & he wants us to get married earlier now so i can get on his benefits as well. he's been looking at new cars & motorcycles & such, which i don't mind, it's his money & he deserves it. however, he does spend about $200 a month on video games & archery & blacksmithing, which again, i don't mind, it is his money & makes him happy. so i asked him the other day how much he would want to spend on a ring & he said no more than $500, which is still a lot, i think. but it hurt me because he's looking into $4000 motorcycles & spending a lot on video games for himself...& when i offered to pay for part of the ring (so i could maybe get the one i like, or something similar...) he said no, & that he's already been looking. he told me what he's been looking at & it is not what i want at all - like soft (but beautiful) stones that will chip after about a year of wear...i left it at that & then a couple days later i told him that i really don't need a ring, after all i do have a perfectly good one right now! and it's at the same price range that he's looking at, so to me it doesn't make much sense, we could just put that money towards bills instead. he still is looking though, &...i don't know. i feel i'm selfish, but i had my heart secretly set on this one ring that i won't be able to have, so i figure the next best thing is to stick with the ring i love & have now & forego a new one. i guess what is really bothering me is the fact that my fiancé doesn't want to spend more than a third of one paycheck on a ring for me, but he's content on spending more on himself. i guess i'm just hurt, cos i would like to help out w/ the cost, but i think he might take some offense if i did that... am i crazy & selfish? i mean, i really don't need a ring (& i keep telling him that), the whole point of an engagement is the promise that we're going to spend the rest of our lives together, & i honestly don't need some metal & rocks on my finger to prove it. i love him so much, but i fear if i bring this up to him, i'll sound like a child who would rather not have anything if she can't get exactly what she wants. should i just tell him to forget about the ring? i'm not sure if he really would take my word though... what really makes me feel bad is that i hardly ask him for anything, to me just having him home every night & by my side is much better than flowers that will wilt after a few days...often times, if he asks if i want to go out to dinner, i'll say no & cook something nice at home because i'm low on money & don't want him to pay for everything. i do often spend a lot of him though, which sometimes sets me back slightly financially, but lol i love showering him w/ affection & gifts. and he has never been one to shower me in a lot of physical gifts, i don't really mind & i don't ever complain either which is why i feel so bad about this whole ordeal! i feel like this is so out of the ordinary for me & i hate it. but i really would rather have him spend the money on something for himself or on bills than on a ring that i might not like - again, i already have one, so it's not like i'm missing out on anything. i dunno, guys (men) - would you feel like this is you really wanted a new truck & your girl was willing to go half & then she surprises you one day w/ a used sedan instead? we did have a date set for april 2nd of next year (on our anniversary), but now he's wanting to move up the date since we're more finacially stable and he would like for me to be on his health insurance. and again, i'm not really a traditionalist, i don't want a big wedding, i'd rather put all that money towards a house. we were planning on going to hawaii w/ his parents and mine and get married on the beach, although i'd be fine just going down to the court house. i'd feel uncomfortable w/ 100 people that neither of us know at a big ceremony for us - the marriage is about us and not what other people want. we're not low on money by all means either, so it's not like we're struggling and can't afford more, we just choose not to spend a lot of money on a wedding when it could go towards something like a house. but yeah, my fiancé wants to move it up to this summer, hence why i've been looking at rings lately. and we both currently have rings that we got each other for our birthdays years ago, so it's not as if there are no rings on our fingers. i was more so just worrying about my behaviour of him not wanting to spend atleast the same amount as he does on himself - or atleast let me pay for half. also, we're talking about getting a joint account in the next month, so i have been talking to him about spending habits and how to save, since he tends to splurge sometimes. it's just that i don't want to be one of those wives who does't work and uses up all their husband's hard earned money. i'm a firm believer in (trying to) help out equally since a marriage should be equal. i think some of you forgot that i already have a ring so the reason i'm torn is because i feel like getting a new one i may or may not like would be a waste of money and could be put to better use like bills. i don't need a new ring, i do understand what marriage is about, and the reason we wanted to have a longer engagement is because we wanted to do some growing up together instead of just rushing into it. also, my fiancé does care a lot about me. saying that just because he doesn't want to spend a small fortune on one piece of jewelry and that he must not care is absurd. there are other important things in life. it's not the fact that he wants to spend only $500, it's that he's willing to spend more than that on other things for himself. if the amount was $200 and he was still spending more on other stuff, i'd probably feel the same. it's not the dollar amount, it's the ratio.

$1,500 for an engagement ring is not a lot and is not selfish. It would be one thing if he was earning $10 an hour and struggling financially, then you shouldn't ask for an ring at that cost. However, it sounds like he spends a lot of money doing things for himself. I agree with you, it is his money and he should spend it as he likes. However, an engagement ring is a big deal in a girls life. You'll be wearing that ring, hopefully, for the rest of your life. Limiting to you to a $500 price limit is, well, kinda cheap given that the ring is a symbol of your commitment to each other. Do not offer to pay for half the ring, show him the ring you like and discuss the cost with him. He may not understand what quality jewelry costs and he also may not realize how much meaning this ring will have for you. Given that you still wear a vending machine ring around your neck, clearly you are sentimental. Its fine to ask for things that you want sometimes. In fact, you SHOULD ask for things occasionally. You two will be spending your lives together, everything doesn't have to be split 50/50. Right now I'm in grad school and my boyfriend works so he pays for the majority of our food and bills. I try to help out, but he won't let me because it he knows it will come from student loans and he sees my debt as his debt. If I end up making more money, I will contribute for the majority of our bills. At the end of the day, that's how an unselfish relationship works. If your fiance is doing better than you financially, he should be spending some of his money on you. If your fiance balks at buying you a better engagement ring, I'd actually have some serious concerns that he is the one being selfish. And while its true a relationship is better than flowers that wilt, sometimes a girl deserves a big bunch of roses!