Yes. Take it through airport security. Wear it on your finger and walk through the metal detector like it's not there, because for a ring it almost...
Your engagement ring insurance covers three things if it's a proper standalone jewelry policy: theft, accidental damage, and mysterious disappearance. It...
Your ring isn't going to dissolve in the shower. Gold, platinum, and most engagement-ring stones (diamond, sapphire, ruby, moissanite) are chemically...
For most rings, hand sanitizer won't damage the metal or the stones, though I hear this question at least once a week now that every client I see keeps a...
A ring box that disappears in a pocket. That's the whole job. For a surprise proposal, the engagement ring box is not a presentation piece. It's a...
The sapphire that sold me on sapphires sat in a tray on 47th Street for three months because nobody photographed it well. 1.4 carats, unheated Ceylon,...
The question assumes a clean binary where none exists. Lab-grown diamonds can be the more ethical choice, but they aren't automatically, and the marketing...
Most independent jewelers charge between $45 and $185 to resize a plain engagement ring. In my shop, a straight 14k gold band moving up or down half a size...
Wrong size is the most fixable problem in this business. Whether you can exchange an engagement ring if it's the wrong size comes down to one thing: whether...
The best proposals I've seen were rehearsed within an inch of their lives and still looked unrehearsed. That's the entire secret to proposing in a way that...
One essay, one object, one quiet recommendation — delivered slowly, the way these things ought to be.