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When your wedding is fixed, the first thing that comes to your mind for shopping is a beautiful ring, and the choice usually is a gold diamond ring. Gold diamond ring is being used for engagement and marriage since long time. A ring specifies bond of love and diamond means forever. A diamond ring symbolizes a bond forever. If you are planning to buy a gold diamond ring for your marriage or engagement and want to know more, just read this article to find many things that you need to know before buying a gold diamond ring.

Diamond is mounted in gold, silver or platinum to form ornaments; like ring, necklace, stud, earring and bangles etc. Here we discuss about gold diamond ring. You can customize and design a gold diamond ring to exact specifications that you desire. Gold diamond ring comes in white gold as well as yellow gold and called as white gold diamond ring and yellow gold diamond ring. You can choose either 14k gold or 18k gold for mounting it. These rings come in beautiful gold designs.

To know more about gold diamond rings, let us read about gold and diamond components of the ring separately:

Gold
People prefer to mount diamond in gold metal. The reason is that gold is always in vogue. These days, people are more passionate about white gold diamond rings. They are turning away from traditional yellow gold rings. Whereas yellow gold diamond rings are excellent cultural choice, they don't match with every outfit. On the other hand, white gold diamond rings are hueless and match with every clothing. They can be worn on any occasion and with every dress code: may it be modern t-shirt jeans, or traditional suit or saree. White gold is an alloy of yellow gold, whereas yellow gold is a pure element. Yellow gold has atleast one white metal like nickel or palladium. Gold-palladium alloy is good for setting diamonds and other gemstones. This alloy is plated with rhodium to bring out proper white color. Be cautious while using nickel-gold alloy if you earlier had skin allergy to nickel.

Bright yellow color of gold makes it very attractive. Gold is corrosion resistant and does not react with most of the chemicals. It can be polished to regenerate its shine after some years. These characters make gold most suitable for making jewelry such as gold diamond rings. Chemical symbol of gold is Au.

Gold is a quite soft metal. Due to its softness, 100 percent pure gold can't be used to make rings and other jewelry. Pure gold is called 24 carat or 24k gold. Since gold diamond ring is used for daily wearing, and it should hold diamond stone, it should be made up of harder material. Gold is made harder by mixing it with other metals like copper, nickel, silver or palladium.

Gold is mixed with copper to form rose gold or yellow gold ring. Gold is mixed with nickel or palladium to form white gold diamond ring.

On the basis of purity, gold is graded as 9k, 10k, 14k, 18k, 22k, 23k and 24k. The 9k gold is the least pure gold but the hardest one and 24k gold is the purest gold but the softest. For making gold diamond engagement ring, 14k and 18k gold are considered as the most suitable ones. Sometimes 22k gold is also used. But usage of 22k gold is not recommended because it is too soft to hold diamond stone effectively. With 22k gold, there is always a risk that diamond will fall away from the ring.

14k gold has 58% gold and the 42% other materials, while 18K gold is 75% gold and the rest 25% is other materials.

14k or 18k gold?

Since 14k gold has less purity of gold than 18k gold, 14k is harder than 18k. If you want to wear the gold diamond ring on daily basis, go for 14k gold diamond ring. On the other hand, 18k gold is more beautiful than 14k gold because of its purity. Go for 18k gold for more precious and formal wear diamond rings. You have to take more care of these rings.

Diamond
After reading about gold, it is time to know more about diamond stone mounted on the gold diamond ring. Please read detailed information about cut, color, carat and clarity of the diamond stone. The diamond stone should be well cut, it should have good color, good clarity and carat weight. Go for certified diamonds. Since it is very difficult for a layman to distinguish between original diamonds and fake diamonds, proper bill and certificate ensures that you receive a pure diamond ring for your engagement or wedding. Proper bill may attract tax on shopping. Don't hesitate to pay tax which is often nearly one percent. By paying one percent tax, you can buy 99 percent peace of mind that your investment is safe.

Diamond Shapes

There are many types of shapes in which diamond can be cut. The most common shapes are round brilliant cut, princess cut and pear cut etc.

Gold Diamond Ring Setting: There are different ways to set a diamond stone in the gold mount of the ring. You can choose any one of the following settings:

Bezel Set Diamond Rings
Claw or prong set diamond rings
Channel Set diamond rings
Pave set diamond rings