Question Asked: 20/10/2017
Wedding Date: 9/08/2018
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Short answer:
Unfortunately no, they look very similar, but the marketing "even you're jeweller won't be able to tell", is factually false.
Long answer: However, do not expect a jeweller or a retailer to be a gemmologist or a diamond grader, or a diamond technologist. These courses are the ones you must do before being able to tell what stone is which. To equate the marketing of jewellers not being ablt to tell, is to say the following, even your mechanic can't paint your car. They are different professions, jewellers make jewellery with precious metals, a gemmologist or diamond grader/technologist is a specialist in stones. We don't ask a bricklayer to fix the plumbing in a house do we? Also, Moissanite has a very easy & obvious "tell" much like Zircon, and Peridot, so when looking at the stone with any real intent, you should be able to tell with the naked eye.
If you want to save money, bargain hard on Moissanite, it is not an expensive stone, it's man made in a laboratory, and as such, should be cheap, CZ (Cubic Zirconia) is extremely cheap today, but when introduced in the early 1980s it cost a huge amount, because it was new.