Lab grown diamond was much cheaper for the size; looks just as great; I have no emotional attachment to dirt grown or lab grown. I think diamonds are kind of ri

Lab grown diamond was much cheaper for the size; looks just as great; I have no emotional attachment to dirt grown or lab grown. I think diamonds are kind of ridiculous since they were a PR campaign by De Beers, but they are quite beautiful, and lab diamonds are high quality for cheap. Social judgement is a real thing and it is nice to just sidestep it with a "good enough diamond" (I think social judgment of diamonds is completely ridiculous, that is the one reason why I considered just not getting a diamond at all so I wasn't in that game). But it is nice to never even have to think about it and people tend to just say "oh that's a nice diamond" (I went for an average "nice" size for my area, not gaudy) and move on, and if it was lost or stolen, I could actually afford to buy another one...