I just read through all this and your ring is amazing!! I'm so happy to see you finally got your dream ring. I just signed up for an oec moissy. Those comments are so out of line and truely if someone says they would never wear your ring, take it as a compliment! do you know how many people I know with the exact same ring from zales and kays? a friend of mine just got a huge honker from zales as an anniversary present and showed us all on facebook well another friend took the wind right out of her sails and said she had the same one...kinda crappy. it kind of makes it not even that special if someone you know personally and see all the time has the exact same ring. There is nothing really unique about it anymore.
I have an edwardian repro ring and have been wondering for a long while that a oec would look so much better in it. Every time I have been asked about my ring, it is questioned if it was a family heirloom and ya know, now I'm just gonna say yes! haha and with the old antique diamond feel with the oec.
when I showed my mom chriscz's oec she gasped and asked about the hole in it and I'm like oh it's just a cut in the bottom to make in extra special. and I must admit when I first saw a OEC a few years ago I'm like ugh wth? but it's true like flash said, the more I see them, the more I love their uniqueness and how different they are from what is mostly on the market today. I'm glad though that none of my friends know what an antique is or how to get them because I like having something that is just my taste that no one else has.
I do think that having a oec or omc cut is easier to pull of being a diamond because who would question it if they've never seen one? there is nothing to compair it to like a brilliant cut diamond.

this is long! again congrats! I love the emerald too!!