[CarreraDan]

Shop around--I have casually been looking for a while and prices can be drastically different for basically the same thing. I am lucky that my future mother in law was very involved with gems and diamonds and really knows her stuff, she has friends that even cut their own diamonds--one has a huge blue diamond he got in South Africa. Stay away from the mall, my best friend did that route and got ripped for the quality (or lack of it) in his wife's ring. I am kinda stuck b/c my girlfriend likes a certain style that is only available at one jeweler locally. Also, be sure he gets ring insurance in case something happens like the ring gets lost--my brother's ex lost her ring at the lake one day and they had a new one within a couple weeks.