Engagement rings

Best Engagement Rings, by Budget, Style and Hand

There is no single best engagement ring. There is the best ring for a budget, a stone, a hand and a way of life, and that is how the guides below are organized. The roundups name specific rings with the price each seller listed when we checked, and they say what the listing leaves out.

Start with the budget if you have one, because it decides the stone and the metal more than anything else. If a look matters most, the style and stone pages compare what each option costs and how it wears. The hand pages are about fit: small, long and fuller fingers, big knuckles, metal allergies and jobs where a tall setting snags. When you know what you want, the store guides compare what each seller puts in writing about returns, resizing and grading reports.