Engagement rings typically follow the tradition of big center stone with smaller sites tones. With tanzanite having so many different shapes to choose from, you don’t need to stick to the traditional round as you would in a diamond. You could opt for an elegant pear shape, a pointy marquis, a squared off cushion shape and even an emerald cut. One of the more popular center stone shapes for this gemstone is the trilliant shape. This is because tanzanite in its rough form is very well suited to being cut into a triangular shape unlike many other colored stones like sapphire and emerald where too much weight would be lost trying to cut the shape into a trilliant.
One of the nice things about tanzanite is that it is available in larger sizes and it comes very clean in the same way that you see big sizes in aquamarine with very few inclusion if any. When you pair that with tanzanite’s vibrant purplish bluish color you get a triangular stone that is quite beautiful face up. A tanzanite diamond ring in this shape is a thing of beauty. It scintillates and plays with the light while at the same time giving off that nice color. Also, it is an attention getter because 3 carat plus sizes are readily available and are not that expensive when compared to ruby, sapphire, emerald and even fine tourmaline.
In a tanzanite and diamond ring you could opt for small diamonds running down the shoulder of your mounting to complement the tanzanite or you could do a three stone version of your tanzanite engagement. You could have matching side stones in shapes like trilliant, heart, oval,pear and half moon. All these sides tones in a nice white color of diamond in the range from E to H would look good and play up the color of the tanzanite nicely.
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