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Straight answers

Most jewellery websites answer a question by asking you to come in. Everything here is the version we would tell you across the bench — including the parts that cost us money to say.

What will it actually cost?

Real numbers, not a range and a button.

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Lab-grown or mined?

The same crystal, very different economics. The honest comparison, including the resale question everyone avoids.

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Getting the size right

How to find a size without ruining the surprise, and what happens if it is wrong.

Ring sizesHow to find a ring size without ruining the surprise, how to measure a ring you already have, an…

Which shape, and how big it really is

The same carat measures differently in every cut, and the shape costs you nothing extra here. Real millimetres, from our own stone catalogue.

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Settings and bands we can make

The builder prices the stone, the metal and the band. Everything else is drawn by hand, and we make virtually any design — a bezel, a twisted band, a hidden halo, or the ring in the photo you saved.

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Keeping it right

By a jeweller, at the bench in St. George — not sent away.

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Where we work

Cedar CityCustom engagement rings for Cedar City and Iron County. Free drawings, an exact all-in price in …UtahLab-grown diamond engagement rings designed with you in Southern Utah and shipped anywhere in th… Build your ring and see the price

Free to ask. You get a drawing and an exact price before you commit to anything.