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The engagement ring is more than a piece of fine jewelry. It signifies your promise to each other and your commitment to your relationship.

The traditional engagement ring is a diamond in a yellow gold setting, although white gold and platinum are often substituted even in the most traditional rings. Armed with other engagement ring tips, you decide the setting, the cut or the size of the stone or even choosing one big diamond, or a cluster of smaller ones.

Modern brides often pick gems other than diamonds or other precious metals for mounting the stone, but whatever you're choice the big concern is deciding where to buy your engagement ring. It's a major investment. You want to get a good price, but you also want to make sure that your ring is really worth it.

You've heard stories about getting rings appraised to find that the diamond had invisible flaws or the grade was misrepresented. You want to avoid those sad engagement ring experiences and still stay within your budget.

These sites will help you to learn about buying and building diamond engagement rings - the 4 C's, : carat weight, clarity, color and cut, and the other information you'll need before you buy and good places to shop once you know exactly what you want...

More about choosing & buying an engagement ring around the Web:

Choose Your Engagement Ring - Check out great advice on buying an engagement ring from Blue Nile. Along with a offering very large selection of rings at competitive prices, they cover the information on settings, shapes, and stones that you'll need, provide an engagement ring building tool and help with answers to the hardest questions...

A Guy's Guide to Building an Engagement Ring - Think of engagement ring shopping as a technical problem that needs to be solved. You'll survive!