How BIG is TOO BIG?

Yes you read right! Although I'm probably sure your twisted minds are probably not on the same page. To begin with, I'm sure we can all agree that most of us love it BIG! However, its a very fine line between tasteful BIG and tacky BIG. Yes tasteful and tacky...what were you thinking?

Everyone seems to be caught up in the wedding fever this year end. With December looming I have 3 wedding invitations and more are already "saving" dates for 2013. While all this is happening, the most important thing before the big day is...the engagement? No...the proposal? Nearly but what says it all is...THE RING! So with many friends already past the proposal stage, I've been part of one too many ring-versations with soon to be brides. While I personally love love LOVE rings as accessories- the BIGGER the better, I'm still waiting for "the ring" (no rush-YET). 

With many brides setting their standards at "at least 1 carat, dear!", I recently had a friend who went to a jewelers to pick out her stone and was told to down size! Unheard of- I would have thought they would be out to squeeze customers for all they got! They suggested that she got a 0.8 ct stone as she had very slim fingers and a 1 ct would look too big. My friend had of course done her research and already had her heart set on that 1 ct by hook or crook! This is when I started to wonder...when does it become TOO BIG? Does an over-sized ring mean it becomes tacky or fake looking? 

Well, Blake Lively seems to be wearing a huge ass ring and totally rocking it! But then, that's Hollywood and this is real life!

2.5ct Center stone

2.97ct Center stone

Pardon the "model" with the fat fingers but I totally love the way the center stone for the 2.5ct is more oval and makes the fat fingers look less fat! It's funny what a difference 0.5ct makes. Hence the reason why I have now settled for nothing less than a 2.5ct center stone. Haha! No I AM NOT EXPENSIVE but i just have fat fingers. So to conclude "TOO BIG" is really a matter of opinion...and as long as the recipient is happy and chirpy, no one else's opinion matters!

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,

A church filled with family and friends.

I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,

He said one that would make me his wife.

~Author Unknown