 Are you serious? So? I don't even know what to say. Oh my god. Will you marry me? Yes. What is giving my album squad? Welcome back to our channel. Oh my gosh. Every time I watch that video of me on one knee, it brings back so many memories of just like Hawaii, the beach, the water, the waves that were like huge. It's crazy that that was in January. It's already about to be summer. It feels like I'm watching someone else though. I feel like I grew up like you know how people watch other people get married, engaged and all that. You see those videos on YouTube. We literally have one. And we lived it. It's crazy that we actually are finally engaged after six years like it's crazy. Today we are going to be going into depth about my ring. I feel like you guys have asked me a million questions on Instagram, YouTube. You guys are so curious on what all went into this ring and everything. Trust me like everything behind the scenes that you didn't see. Everything was like six months of planning. I had no idea. I wanted it to be where she did not know what the ring looked like. She did not know if I even had a ring and obviously she didn't even know that I was going to propose. We got our engagement ring from James Allen and it's crazy because they actually reached out to partner with us. We didn't even have a partnership with James Allen before we were even engaged. They've seen all of our videos and saw how much we loved the ring. We thought it would be an awesome idea to team up and share more. So we're going to be going over some of the most common questions that you have about our ring. I want to answer since this is about our ring, where did we get our ring from? First of all, I didn't even know where to start. When I was trying to look for this ring I was looking up just on Google like good ring places to shop at. I did not know where to go. I want to shout out James Allen for being my savior in our engagement. I actually found James Allen months prior. We did like a mock-up ring. Do you remember that? That was when the ring was spinning. I was realizing that a year later, two years later maybe, I was going to be buying a ring from this exact place. If you don't know what James Allen is, it's an online store that has engagement rings, fine diamonds, and all sorts of loose jewelry around there. Question number two, is the exact ring description? How long did it take? How many carrots? A lot of you guys are asking is this the ring that I wanted? Yes. First thing, I didn't even see the ring when he first did that. I was more just in the moment and then when he put the ring on I finally looked at it and I was like I'm like what the heck? I've always wanted a radiant cut. I really like the emerald, but I also really like the full radiant diamond. I just, I love the way it looked. That's why looking for rings is like super confusing because you honestly don't know what you want. If I were to go back and do it again, I would do it the exact same way only because I have only good things to say. Doing it online is so much easier because you don't have to like go into a store first of all, not know what you're looking for, have anyone persuading your opinion. So for me when I was online, I was strictly looking at whatever I wanted. So the specifications of this diamond on her finger right now is a lab grown diamond. It says cut cornered rectangular modified. That's the shape and cut style. The carat weight is 3.22 carats which is basically like the weight of the diamond itself. The color grade is an E. Now I think the scale is like E and an F. So mine is like one, what one? So yours is one behind the best color. That's the color grade. From my ring to an F is you won't see a difference really. Like unless you put it up to a microscope. Yeah, the lower down you go, the more yellowy the diamond gets. And then the more you go up on the scale, the more whiter the diamond gets, which you want a more white diamond if you're into that. But I wanted like the most clear, whitest looking diamond there is. It just looks better for like when the light shines in. That was the main thing. Remember when the sun shines in your ring and it like glistens? I need to actually get mine cleaned but I am so obsessed with that word every day. And then the clarity. So you have to look for two things. Color and clarity when you're picking out a diamond. My clarity is VVS2. The better the clarity, the less imperfections there are in the diamond. So the top of the scale is flawless, which means there's absolutely no imperities in the whole diamond. You can look under it with a microscope. You won't even see anything. Then there's IF, VVS1 and VVS2. I have VVS2 and that means like there's tiny, tiny little imperfections in the diamond but you can only see them with a microscope. So like the naked eye, you're literally not even going to be able to tell. The polish is excellent. The symmetry is excellent. And that's about it for the diamond. So I know that could seem like a lot and it is, trust me, but that's why James Allen makes it so easy online because they have hundreds of different settings that you can pick from and over 200,000 conflict-free diamonds that you could choose from and it will give you the most up-to-date diamonds that they have available. And if you're unsure about what you want, you can honestly just go into any jeweler, try on different shapes and sizes and then when you're ready, you kind of know what you want. You can then go online which honestly, I kind of like that you're able to customize it yourself. Buying online has huge benefits behind it as well instead of like going into a store. The rings could be up to 50% cheaper. You have access to a tremendous amount of inventory when like stores only have a certain amount of certain things and having a huge inventory also lets you have it totally customizable to whatever you would like. To me it's just like the new modern thing, you know, order online, have it shipped right to your door, which it did. Also a lot of people in my questions have been asking me how much is your ring, how much did it cost? I don't think we've ever said the actual ring price. Like we said in the other videos, like price doesn't matter. So I'm just going to give a range. It was between 10,000 and 30,000. So somewhere in between that range was the ring price, but price doesn't matter. Honestly, it was all to me about just finding the right ring. Any bigger, I feel like it would have taken over. No it would have taken over, it's perfect size. So it's just like, it's already, it's already, yeah. So it's one thing talking about how I made the ring but I want to actually show you and get more into depth about how I did it. So I'm on the James Allen website right now. I'm going to go over to engagement rings. This is exactly what it looked like, exactly what I did. Start with the setting. They have a bunch of different settings that you can choose from. So don't look at the diamonds here. Look at the settings and the setting is basically the thing behind the ring, everything that's holding the ring up. I think this is actually yours. Yeah, you have one exactly like that. There's a bunch of different settings and you can actually, if you have a style in mind, go up here. Look at these are all different styles. Now Mariah liked the pave. So I'm going to go ahead and pick this one up top. This 14K white gold petite pave. So it's pave, engagement band. This is what I love about the website. Look at how you can see a 360 view of the settings. So crazy. And it looks like a legit, like it has the diamond flares. Yeah. Of the light. Oh my gosh, that looks so sick. All right. So now that we chose a setting, we're going to select it. You can pick all different types if you want. White gold if you want. Yellow gold. They have a ton of different types on there. I'm going to go with white gold because I love that the best. I love white gold. That's like my favorite. Now you're going to add a diamond. See how easy this is? Right up top. Earth created, lab created. I'm going to go with Earth created right now. You can do all of these and I would definitely recommend picking out one that you would like. If you don't know, just look through them all, but we like radiant. And also a lot of websites didn't have radiant diamonds. Surprisingly they didn't. You can pick from 50,000 radiant different diamonds. That is crazy. Let's do two carats to about 3.5 carats. Okay. So there's 7,000. Yeah. This is where it gets good. It narrows it down from those 50K to 7. Then you can pick the color grade. Yours is an E. So D is the best. You can do G. Let's just do GFED. Okay. Now clarity. I did a VVS too. So I went here. Boom. We're down to 1,000 diamonds. Price is a big factor. Right. I am not going to be paying five mil for these. So we're going to scale this down. Let's just do 19 grand. Right. I love it. It captures the 30 best diamonds. Now all these are going to be different types of radiant. Does it stress you out? It is, but at the same time it's not because this is the last step of the process. It's like so like perfect. So see? Okay. Something like this. All right. So first looking at this, look at the rotation. This is exactly why I fell in love with James Allen because you can see everything. The color, the way it looks. This is the diamond. This is the exact diamond you're looking at right here. This is not a computer generated diamond. It's a video of the actual diamond. Not a my diamond. It's just a random diamond that they have on there. Yeah. So this is a two carat radiant diamond. It's a G color. So a good color. And a VVS1. Mariah's is a VVS2. So this is a little better clarity. So every diamond that they have is certified. They actually send you the certification of the diamond. The diamond report exactly what it is. So maybe I don't know about you, but I absolutely love this diamond. I say we add this to the cart. Boom. Select it. It will pair it. So this is not the exact diamond that's going to be in it. It's going to be the one that you have right here. And that's a high profile. Oh, that's another good question. Is mine a high profile or a low profile? So my ring is actually a low profile. So it sits low. This one. That's actually a good example of showing what a high profile looks like. This setting is a high profile setting. So you see how the four prongs of the diamond are actually sitting on top of the band. Yeah. Instead of on the side. Mariah's is sitting on the side. So it actually sits the diamond a little lower on your finger. Like the diamond always sticking out. Some people like a little lower. Yeah. Personal preference. But it's kind of cool. I think that's amazing that they do that. This is exactly how it looked for me. It makes you feel good knowing you're buying it online when you can actually see what it will look like on the hand. I think that's so nice that they do that. For this diamond, it says that I can do three interest free payments. And for a diamond that you're not even buying, I actually did this once up with a diamond that I was looking at. You can do a real time engagement ring inspection. If I click this button right now, a real life person will come on here and you can chat with them and they can answer any questions that you have about the diamond that you're looking at. So it's awesome before you actually buy the diamond. You don't even have to commit to buying the diamond to get help. They also do free engraving. So if you want to get your initials, you can get literally any initial you want in the actual band. Like I could have done M plus B or something like that. Yeah, I could have put an engraving right here inside the ring. So if you take it off and you can see that. Yeah, you could do your wedding date. So cool. I love that that they give that option. James Allen's rings has a lifetime warranty. Free ring resizing up to 60 days after purchase, which is awesome because sometimes they come in and you're like, oh my gosh, my wedding is in like six months and it doesn't fit. And hassle free returns 100% up to 30 days after purchase with shipping in the US. We hope you guys enjoyed us giving you guys the rundown on how our experience was with James Allen and how my ring was created. I'm just saying thank you James Allen for saving our engagement, making it so easy the whole process. I literally went through it. Went through the whole process myself. And seeing you go just go do it right now and just show me how really easy it is. That is just like such an exciting feeling. You've got so many options. You're not stuck with only a few you see in the store. You have so many and I love that. When you think about it as a whole, it's super stressful, especially for something that you're going to have the rest of your life. So the fact that I just did this on their website in like five minutes or less just shows how James Allen takes the stress away from buying a ring. It really did make my dream ring come to life and I love it so much. I hope you guys enjoy today's video. Thank you James Allen for my baby's engagement ring. She loves it. It's beautiful, literally the most precious ring I've ever seen and I'm just so thankful and blessed for it and I love you too. I love you too. And we're getting married in nine months, eight months. We're getting married soon so. But I hope this answered all of your questions or most of them about our ring. I know we really haven't went this much in depth about it but yeah, we'll see you guys in our next video. Until then. Peace, love you guys.