Despite the numerous styles and designs to choose from, diamond engagement solitaire rings remains to the choice of many brides to be. Originally a symbol to indicate that a woman is no longer free to accept suitors the engagement ring has now become a testament of undying love that two people share as one. Nothing best expresses this than a single diamond elegantly set on a ring. And solitaire rings need not be simple although most women prefer it as such as it is a symbol they believe of the purity of the love shared as well as the purity of intention to marry by their husband to be.

Traditionally cut round, recently solitaire diamonds have been shaped in either oval, elongated, and even square shaped cuts depending on the taste and meaning it is wished to convey. An oval cut diamond can appear larger than
in actuality while square or rectangular shaped cuts invokes a more modern, up beat feel. Traditionally chosen by the man alone and given at the moment they propose most women these days prefer to be part of the selection process and tend to choose rings that emulate their personality.

While by strict definition a solitaire ring must be devoid of other settings, how the ring is designed however is free for the designer’s fancy and imagination. Engravings and the use to two toned metals have become quite common place of late, as well as the use of asymmetric designs and twisted metal bands. Truly the solitaire engagement ring has come a long way from its practical if not superstition filled origins to its now symbolic and sentimental present. But one thing has remained unchanged, that till now it is any bride-to-be’s undying and enduring preference.