The white gold wedding ring is chosen by 95% of spouses to symbolize their commitment to each
other. Besides purity and other symbolic overtones there is much to like in white gold wedding rings because they are more flattering to diamonds then yellow gold is. You can see how brilliant the princess cut diamonds are in this white gold wedding ring sets like this one to the right. A 14k white gold wedding ring will have the same look as an 18k white gold ring because they will both use the same rhodium plating.
Yellow gold can add an unwelcome yellow tint to diamonds that are not well cut. This does not mean that women or men meaningfully go out and purchase poorly cut diamonds but this fact is noticeable in a lot of sub par diamond jewelry done in yellow gold. White gold is a lot more tolerant of poorly cut diamonds, especially when they are in the near colorless grades of G and H .
Mens white gold wedding rings have followed a similar trend although it is more because men’s choices default to white gold as their metal of choice because it is what their spouse to be as chosen and women usually want their fiance’s ring to match their own.
White Gold diamond wedding ring choices are quite varied and
there is something to suit every one. Check out this mens wedding band from Artcarved on the right. The textures are beautifully done and would be more difficult to do in metals like palladium and platinum.
The most popular types are rings set with diamonds in a pave style or micro pave as it is commonly known because each individual diamond is can be ?down to a half pointer or less in weight.
The whole appeal of micro pave settings is their scintillation factor. The diamonds are set as close to each other as possible using shared prongs. In this way you see less white gold and more diamond.Diamonds this size are quite small so the brighter more visible flashes, from the largest facet on the snow, namely the table.
The contours of the white gold engagement ring or band is what is responsible for the extreme 
scintillation. Because the diamonds are so small they follow the contour of the ring shank in a very granular way so every diamond’s table facet is pointed at a different angle from its neighbor.
This is what creates the dancing light effect where anyone watching a pave setting in motion will see the thousand points of light. Check out the pave white gold diamond wedding ring set to the left.
Diamond pave settings are like nightclub mirror balls. If you have a nightclub mirror ba ll with thousands of tiny mirrors as opposed to just hundreds you will see a lot more light flashes from just tiny shifts in your position because there are so many more mirror angles at play.
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