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    The Knot New England Weddings Magazine

    making the cut

    Jun 01, 2015 4 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPH BY TREVOR DIXON

    Whether you’re just starting your engagement ring search or obsessing over your new rock, learn what’s special about each shape, and how to update each style. Bonus: We scoped out hundreds of diamonds to show you some cool, new trends.

    round

    The most common brilliant-cut diamond (its cone shape maximizes light return) has 58 facets, and it’s shaped like—you guessed it—a circle. As a solitaire (a single round diamond with no side stones), it’s clearly the most iconic of all engagement rings.

    When it comes to round-cut stones, there’s one setting that reigns supreme: the prong setting (which secures the diamond like an upside-down tripod on the band). Not only

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