No. Not if you're actually lifting. Will you bend it? Almost certainly, if the bar has knurling and the load is heavy enough to matter. I tell clients to...
Put a hook by the sink. If you want to stop losing your ring when you take it off to wash dishes, the hook is the whole answer. Not a ring dish, not the...
A heavy engagement ring that twists over your knuckle or spins at the base of your finger is usually too big in the lower shank. Not always. Sometimes the...
Last July, a client named Sarah called me from the beach in Maine, and by the time she got back to the rental house, she'd stopped crying long enough to...
Rose gold after ten years looks like a deeper, quieter version of the ring that left the bench. White gold after ten years looks like whatever maintenance...
Usually, yes. The honest answer is that you can add a hidden halo to an engagement ring after it's already made, but it is closer to rebuilding part of the...
Most rings that look dated at twenty years were dated the day they were picked. If you want to pick a ring that will still look good in 20 years, the trick...
The ring was never going to be the surprise. Not really. If she knows the ring is coming, and she probably does after sitting through a stone approval or a...
Last October a client named Ben came in with his grandmother's old mine cut in a velvet box, and he told me he was proposing on a sailboat at sunset. He...
The loudest part of most restaurant proposals is not the question. It's the box. If you need to discreetly open a ring box at a restaurant proposal, the...
One essay, one object, one quiet recommendation — delivered slowly, the way these things ought to be.