When it’s time to ask your girl to spend the rest of her life with you, you want to make sure the diamond engagement ring you give her reflects the love you feel. You want the best possible diamond you can afford, which means only an Ideal Cut diamond will do.   The Ideal Cut diamond is just as it sounds – a diamond cut to exacting angles and proportions, which ultimately determine its beauty and value. Most diamonds cut in the marketplace are cut with maximizing carat weight retention, which can take away from the stone by winding up being cut too shallow or too deep. The result is significant light leakage, which takes away from the diamond’s intended brilliance.   An Ideal Cut diamond has been mastered to provide the round cut or princess cut diamond the maximum brilliance of all diamond cuts. Achieving perfect symmetry and proportions, the Ideal Cut diamond is as close as it gets to the perfect diamond. With that in mind, setting an Ideal Cut diamond requires some expert advice as well, since some settings can actually detract from the absolute brilliance of your diamond. The proper setting will actually provide the perfect foundation for the stone to radiate light for maximum, eye-catching sparkle.   The Ideal Cut diamond is further enhances by colored diamond or gemstone side stones in rich tones of blue, red or green. Of course, side stones of matching quality, Ideal Cut diamonds provide a wow factor that will make her heart skip a beat every time she looks at her beautiful diamond engagement ring which, for all intents and purposes, will be many. This is a ring she will wear for the rest of her life.   Whether you choose to design your own diamond engagement ring or request a jeweler’s help in choosing the best setting for your Ideal Cut diamond, the more you know about Ideal Cut diamonds the more confident you will be in every decision you make.   ###