A skinny solitaire ring on a woman’s ring finger is something that begs for company. Although it would be easier to simply upgrade your solitaire engagement ring, often the little ring is of immense sentimental value.
It could have been handed down from ancestors or could have been a gift from someone who recently passed on. Whatever the reason, it might be better to simply select a diamond ring enhancer that will bring out the beauty of the engagement ring.
Diamond Enhancer Rings
Though enhancers are not as fashionable as they once were, many women think of them as lifesavers in the event that their solitaire is a keepsake that they cannot simply cannot put away. It has permanently claimed that piece of real estate on their left hand ring finger and there is no getting around it.
The enhancer to the right is the typical type of insert enhancer that many women like to get for their engagement rings. It is wide enough to allow most widths of ring shanks to fit in while allowing for more room at the head to accommodate a flush mounted head that is bigger then the shank it is attached to.
Enhancers for Style and Protection
Diamond ring enhancers apart from adding to the beauty of a solitaire also protects the sometimes delicate shank and diamond setting from being damaged from daily wear.
Like diamond engagement ring enhancers that you see in jewelry stores that are already paired with an engagement ring and are sold together because they are made to go with each other.
Similarly diamond solitaire ring enhancers created as a separate piece are meant to match a solitaire ring so that that when they are put together it looks like you are wearing one piece instead of two.
Take a look at the Claddagh enhancer on the right. It has a fair amount of metal in it and is devoid of any diamonds. This will do a good job protecting an engagement ring while adding a thematic element of style and history. Claddagh wedding rings are quite popular among women of all cultures and this is a simple way of adding that sybolism to your own bridal ring.
Solitaire Enhancers For All Reasons
Solitaire diamond ring enhancers come in various types to accommodate different gauges of a solitaire shank and type of solitaire diamond settings.
Engagement rings come with many different types of diamond settings from the classic four prong and 6 prong Tiffany settings that keep the diamond high up off the band. They were the defacto head setting 20 years ago but now there are many variations on this as well as others.
Diamond wedding ring enhancers of today have to take this variation into account when being designed.
Tiffany mounting are great in that most wraps will accommodate them because they are slender at the bottom and so give ample room for the wrap to wrap around. The flush mount on the other hand is the opposite of the regular Tiffany.
As you can see the blue topaz enhancer on the right has quite a bit of room for decent sized setting cups that are flush mounted on solitaires. Frequently getting a colored stone enhancer rather than a diamond ring enhancer will work because the gaps can be much bigger.
Inserts for Flush Mounted Solitaires
A flush mounted diamond setting has the base of its cup soldered to either side of the shank so that the diamond sits closer to the finger. This is both a stylistic and functional variation because many women do not like a diamond sitting so high off the finger as it does with a regular Tiffany head that gets soldered onto the top of a closed shank.
This type of solitaire will have a larger diamond setting profile at the point where an enhancer is
supposed to “wrap” around it. So you may have a hard time finding a wrap that fits properly without going through some trial and error.
Inserts are better for this purpose because a jeweler can make an insert wider to accommodate your diamond solitaire ring. All he has to do is add to the length of the bars that connect the two shanks at the bottom of the insert. Your engagement ring can then be dropped into the insert and will fit even if it has side stones like a three stone engagement ring might have.
Check out the emerald diamond insert above. It is a fairly common style as colored stone inserts go but can be customized to fit your ring.
Diamond ring enhancers or diamond wraps as they are sometimes called are a huge help to women who have a solitaire ring in need of embellishment or simply some protection. Sometimes young couples just settle for the bare basics when it comes to a diamond engagement ring in the hopes that as their financial situation gets better they will be able to get a matching band.
Other times a young bride gets a ring handed down from her great grandmother that is a vintage or antique solitaire ring with an old miners cut center stone and there is nothing in terms of a wedding band that she can find in jewelry stores that will match it. This vintage diamond enhancer to the right would be a solid choice for an antique solitaire. 
It has all that fine millgrain work that will go with many antique styles with the slot for the solitaire head mounting. Of course the only way to know if it will fit is to get the measurements of both rings or physically try it when you are in the store.
In both these cases described above it might be a good idea to start looking at some diamond solitaire ring enhancers. They can also be referred to as diamond engagement ring enhancers, diamond wraps, diamond guards, diamond wedding ring enhancers and ring inserts.
There are many different styles for this type of addition to a solitaire ring but typically it will be a single or double ring with some sort of a gap where you can insert your solitaire. Of course this depends on the size of diamond solitaire ring that you have because you would want as close to an exact fit as you can get.
Check out this simple diamond ring enhancer to the left. In terms of simplicity this type of wrap fulfills the basic task of adding embellishment to a plain solitaire. All it does is put two side stones 
beside the engagement ring diamond for a three stone look to your wedding ring assuming of course your center stone is a diamond.
Many women opt for this type of enhancer, commonly called three stone diamond ring enhancers. You could also add a bit more pizazz to your solitaire by turning your engagement ring into a two tone wedding ring and changing the look altogether with some princess diamonds like this enhancer to the right below would do.
The square diamonds offer a nice contrast to the round center stone that would go in the middle. Princess accent diamonds add a different geometry and outline to your engagement ring. Princess cut diamond ring enhancers are a popular way to spice up a plain solitaire.
Some common types of solitaire diamond ring enhancers include the insert style wrap which is two rings connected together on the underside of the shank by gold bars leaving a gap at the top for your solitaire to fit in.
What’s nice about this style is that if you have side stones or have a cathedral type of mounting where there is gold coming up the shoulder of the ring above the base of the diamond head then your ring can be accommodated by the insert style as opposed to the wrap style.
The wrap style can only accommodate a strict solitaire diamond ring that is a simple setting and a shank soldered together.
Its is always a good idea to make sure that your center diamond will match the diamonds in the insert in terms of color and clarity so that the ring does not end up looking odd with a bright white center stone that is G in color and contrasting champagne tinged diamonds in the J range of color in the insert.
The diamond insert to the left is a simple double row of straight mounted prong diamonds running across the top. This is what many women like and is all they really need to spruce up their engagement ring.
As long as the shank of your ring has a width less than the width of the gap between the two rings of the insert, then you are good to go. Of course you don’t want your solitaire ring bouncing between the two rings of an insert because the gap is much wider than you really need so you have to try different inserts to see what gives a close fit. 
Diamond enhancer rings like the insert to the right is a fairly popular style . It has a nice North South orientation a decent amount of gap to accommodate a variety of shanks and heads. You have extended room in the every top of this insert where the two channel set shanks point outward.
This is useful if you want to change the head in your solitaire at a future date and want to have a pear or marquis center stone instead of a round. As you can see the points on an appropriately sized marquis or pear shape could be accommodated by the increased gap in the head of this insert
The idea of the insert type of diamond solitaire ring enhancers is to encase the entire circumference of the solitaire so that instead of wearing two rings it looks as though you are wearing a single ring.
