speedycoche1
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Well, when I was looking, all of the rings in the size I was looking at were significantly less than that price range. The rings they showed me that approached and/or exceeded the price range I "should" have been in just didn't do anything for me, and it wasn't necessarily just about the size of the rock either. I knew that she would want something fairly simple and plain, and not something with alot of different stones/filled with diamond chips/etc... Like I said, I found a high quality, clarity, and color stone in the size I liked and put it in the band I liked and bought it...Spoken like a true engineer.
Not for anything I recall that when I was "shopping" for a ring about two decades ago, a "perfect" 1-carat (not overly huge) stone was going for ~$11,000. So (to me anyway) pricey doesn't necessarily mean big. Conversely, you could buy a 5-carat diamond for ~$3000 that was essentially yellow with black inclusions visible to the naked eye.