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My Fiancée and I Wanted an Alternate Choice Besides Diamond as Our Center Stone; do You Have Any Ideas?

There are many colored gemstones that have historical associations to love. Red stones symbolize the heart, and thus, passion and a zest for life. With red, one instantly thinks of ruby, but the same symbolism can be conveyed also with red garnet, red tourmaline, or red spinel. All natural gemstones, and all beautiful.

We can find similar choices for green, which symbolizes faithfulness and continuity, where choices include not only emerald, but green garnet or green tourmaline; for blue, which symbolizes spirituality and purity, in addition to sapphire we have blue spinel, iolite, and blue tourmaline. You might also combine whatever stone you choose with a diamond on each side, thereby completing the ring with the symbolism of diamond, which, because of its unrivaled hardness is believed to be indestructible, just like the love you share.

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