Engagement rings are one of the must-have items for your wedding. Without the rings, there won’t be any wedding.

Can you imagine a wedding ceremony without wedding rings?

This only shows the utmost importance of wedding rings and you must only get your wedding rings from reliable and trustworthy sources.

In Singapore, some may prefer to get from the local jewelry shops. However, I realise that with internet payment getting more hassle-free, more brides are getting their precious diamond rings from the the internet.

So how do you go about choosing the right online vendor?

There are so many online wedding rings vendors and how do you go about choosing one that provides real customer service though they may be thousands of miles from where you are staying.

I found a really interesting website named “Danforth Diamond“.

I love their mission statements which include educating the customers that diamonds are more than just stones.

I remember the first time I visited this jewelry shop with my wife. This salesman just took out the rings for us to see and really wanted to sell us the more expensive ones.

The next stop we made gave us a completely different experience. The salesman was more patient and was willing to understand our needs and budget.

Then, he only took out those wedding rings that he thought suit our needs. Again, he didn’t just say “buy” but he educated us on how to go about purchasing diamond rings and what to look out for before paying.

I’m really impressed by this salesman and guess who did I buy from eventually.
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Diamond wedding bands are beautiful jewellery that symbolize integrity and love between husband and wife in their lifetime journey together. They also symbolize fidelity and commitment and wedding bands have evolved to one of the must-have items in the wedding shopping list.

For middle income consumers like myself, cost is one of the determining factors for the type of wedding bands I purchase. Reason being, most of our savings has been deployed to paying for the wedding dinner, bridal package and honeymoon.

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During my very first visit to the jewellery shop, I was absolutely clueless of what to look for when choosing and buying wedding bands.

After visiting 5 jewellery shops within 2 hours, I realized the sales person always ask ? what our budget was and if we preferred yellow gold, white gold, platinum or a mixture of either gold with platinum or otherwise. Our answers to these questions would determine the type of wedding bands they showed us.

At present, it seemed that yellow gold has lost its popularity, in its? place, white gold and platinum are the preferred choices in today?s modern world. One of the reasons why platinum is favoured could be that platinum is harder than gold and is scratch-free.

If you shop long and hard enough, you may even come across some shops that offer life-time guarantee and allow for free exchange of bands for another new piece of the same price in the future. Of course, it may not necessarily be of the same design.

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Personally, I feel there are a few factors that we men look out for in wedding bands:

The diamond wedding bands must be within our budget. We do not wish to over blow our budget just because of a moment of impulse.

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Finally, we have just gone to Lee Hwa at Wisma Atria to collect our Wedding Rings…the salesmen who attended us, Shawn and Keegan have exceptionally good customer service. they were patient and we were honored to have 2 staff attending to us thou we are not any big shot spender…

The rings had our names engraved free of charge and we have a free ring pillow (cost price about $50). Lee Hwa Destinee diamonds come with a certificate and we can exchange for another pair of a different design in the future say in 2 to?3 years’ time…but I doubt we will change this pair of rings….so much memory in?a few years’ time.

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Yesterday had been a satisfying day. We ordered both the mattress and the wedding bands.?

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Yesterday, we went to hunt for our wedding bands. My friend offered to use her UOB credit card so that we can get a discount. The email sent to my?friend stated all the discounts such as 20% discount for a minimum purchase of 1000 dollars for many jewellery brands.

?When we went the first jewellery shop in Wisma Atria and showed the manager the printed email, he apologised that they are not informed about this. It really saddening to see why outlets were not informed of the tied-in dscount for using certain credit cards.

? However, the trainee was really patient to explain to us the difference between white-gold and platinum. He said that platinum is resistant to scratch but our rings will have dents after long wearing. Because it is soft for PT1000 meaning 100% pure platinum. For white gold, the top coat will wear off exposing the yellow color underneath. It is a Lee Hwa outlet and we were impressed by the honesty of the salesperson. Maybe he is new la.

?Second, we went to Goldheart. The sales girl was really sincere and warm but she overdid the attaching of love to the rings. What i meant was she kept on saying that price is not a concern but expensive rings can last longer resembling our love for each other. I remembered she said it 5 times. The first time was ok but eventually it became quite irritating and I simply ignored her. But she is very warm and she shared her experience of telling us to take it easy on seeing the rings and not made decision bluntly.

?The third stop was Soo Kee. The salesman was patient and nice. He was very patient with us as we were quite expert after going to 2 shops earlier on. We had our expectation and knew what we wanted. When we scanned the displays, we were disappointed and didnt see what we really wanted. Anyway, since we were inside the shop, we might as well sit longer and look at more rings and maybe we can see something we like.

All shops offered tea and the service was excellent. They are very patient. Altogether I think we have looked at over 30 pairs of rings in 3 shops. Everytime before we left each shop, they will take down the rings’ code number and the discounted price. The salesperson will also give us his or her name cards. Only last 2 shops bother to sketch the designs to aid us just in case we couldn’t remember the designs when we left the shops.