Diamond Engagement Rings

In North Queensland in Australia, an 84 year old lady was admitted with an infected foot. She was scheduled for surgery and while she was waiting, she lost two diamond rings – including her wedding ring. She feels that they had been removed from her finger.

Here’s what happened. Anne Mainwood was asleep in her ward when she lost her rings. She’s a grandmother and she’s pretty sure that she must have lost them at that time, when they must have been quietly slipped out from her fingers. So a police complaint has been made and they are investigating. Unfortunately, they have no witnesses and the old lady couldn’t tell them too as she was asleep.

This is probably why it is standard practice in most hospitals to ask patients not to come in with any jewellery or valuables and to leave them at home. It just means that temptation is kept out of the way for the staff.

Argentium silver has been patented and trademarked by the UK company, the Argentium Silver Company. Earlier, silver used an alloy when it came to making jewellery and it was made by adding 7.5% copper to 92.5% silver. This new alloy of silver replaces the copper with germanium which is a metalloid. It is the result of many years of research and what it offers are many advantages over the conventional silver alloy that has been used so far.

How does argentium silver make better wedding and engagement rings? It is much more ductile for one thing and is very tarnish-resistant. So it stays looking gleaming and beautiful for years. It is also extremely strong and hard. It eliminates the process of firescaling which means it is better from an environmental point of view, not to mention a lot of time saving.

What this new trend in using this alloy for wedding and engagement rings has done is to open the doors to more research being done in the field of silver alloys so that the metal can be much better for both the jeweller to work on and the customer to wear.

Elk ivory or elk teeth jewellery is becoming more acceptable today. Elk teeth come in colours ranging from pure white to a brown-white and the colour depends a lot on the land that they are used to grazing in. Sometimes, the teeth have swirls of brown on white or the other way around.

Very often, jewellery fashioned out of elk teeth is more of sentimental value. People have been known to make engagement rings as well as wedding rings out of it. These usually serve as reminders of their first hunt or maybe the first time they shot one. Other jewellery made of elk teeth includes bracelets, pendants, necklaces, etc.

The teeth that are used to make the jewellery are the back teeth of the animal and these are the teeth that produce a weird mating call when they pass their breath over them. They are also called their bugling or whistling teeth. Some jewellers specialise in jewellery made of elk teeth.

In New York at the Met, there’s an exhibition of Italian Renaissance Works on from tomorrow and it’s being held with a lot of magnificence surrounding it. The paintings and art objects have all been created around love and marriage. There are marriage portraits, wedding jewellery and gifts given to couples when they got married.

Also among these treasures is a diamond wedding ring – one of the earliest ones that exist. The whole exhibition is in three parts – Betrothal, Wedding and Childbirth. There are majolica wedding gifts that are so intricately decorated. The paintings are incredible works of art and feature Lorenzo Lotto’s Venus and Cupid which is a part of the Met collection.

It looks like it’s going to be a treasure trove of artefacts with exquisite bridal chests, painted cassoni, gilded boxes, birth trays and Renaissance glassware. It’s going to feature some of the best known artists of Italian Renaissance and will probably be a milestone in art in New York.

This is a story of a romantic soldier who bought a beautiful diamond engagement ring for his girl – when he was stationed in Afghanistan. Andy Meacham from the US joined the military soon after he graduated from school but he wanted to get his girlfriend an engagement ring that was truly exquisite. However, he was sent off and his girlfriend anxiously waited for him to return.

It was while he was in Afghanistan that he found the ring of his dreams – just the one he wanted to give his girlfriend. So he bought it – at a bargain he thought – and shipped it off back home in a military container. When he got back, he realised that the ring hadn’t arrived so they decided to get married rather than wait for the ring.

When the ring did arrive in the country, it got locked into a safe and it took four months of running around and getting past the red tape till they finally got the ring – which was placed on his wife’s finger.

It was on the night that Hannah McCarthy had to leave the Make Me A Supermodel show and it turned out to be the happiest day of her life. So what if she didn’t make it in the show – her boyfriend proposed and she accepted.

Well, she got engaged and it was no ordinary ring for her but a special heirloom which had been in James Campbell, her fiancé’s family for a couple of generations. So she gets to wear the diamond engagement ring that his grandmother and mother had worn.

Will they be getting married soon? It doesn’t look like it what with both of their careers at a rather busy stage. James writes and records music and she is busy with her work. However, they know that wherever they go, they will hurry home to each other.

The Governor of Florida, USA is all set to get married to his fiancée on the 12th of December. They got engaged in July and their wedding is going to be one of the most looked forward to events in the state. Charlie Crist, the Governor, gave Carole Rome a fabulous sapphire and diamond engagement ring and their wedding is going to be a traditional one.

The wedding will be held in St. Petersburg at the First United Methodist Church and from all accounts, the bride is going to be wearing a traditional wedding dress. Crist will have his father, who is a physician as his best man while Carole will have her two daughters by her earlier marriage as her little bridesmaids.

She is 39 and he is 52 and she says that she could never have believed that she could be so happy. If everything else is traditional, we can safely presume that the wedding rings are going to be traditional too. All said and done, this wedding will elicit a lot of curiosity because it is so high profile.

That’s what Lindsay Logan and Samantha Ronson plan to do tomorrow. From London, where they are right now, they plan to go to Paris, exchange engagement rings there and come back to London.

Samantha Ronson has a few shows in London which is why they are here but they have decided to take a quick break while in London to pop across to Paris and do it the romantic way. The actress and her DJ partner, who is originally from London want this to be special.

What has got people talking again – and Lindsay Logan is famous for doing this – is the fact that she made an announcement that she isn’t a lesbian but could be bisexual. Was she serious? Or was it just talk? For all one knows, it could be true. So one wonders how long this relationship with Samantha will last.

There are 101 diamonds adding up to 1.6 carats which is normally the approximate weight of a diamond engagement ring and they are used to adorn a key fob. However, this is no ordinary key fob but a Bentley key fob and it’s made by a company that is known for its luxury items. Amosu Luxury makes ordinary products luxurious – whether it is a key fob, a mobile phone or whatever.

It all began when Alexander Amosu made a fortune with his R&B ringtones and then went on to make luxury phones for celebrities. He knew that they would pay the earth to have a phone that was unique, exclusive and very, very pricey.

From there to key fobs for high end cars was a logical step. The Bentley key fob has the diamonds infused into the familiar logo and comes at a whopping price of £5,000. Looking at it, you realise that it is much more than just a key fob – this is a piece of exquisite jewellery.

Are Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud and Tom Crane, DJ about to get married? Well, the Girls Aloud star says an emphatic No. The reason the rumours began is because Sarah was seen sporting a ring at the Monday night Music Trust Awards in London. Obviously this was all it took to start off all that speculation. Well, she couldn’t really have been all that surprised now, could she? What was she thinking when she went out wearing the ring on her wedding ring finger?

Sarah Harding and Tom Crane have been together for almost a year and a half but she is vehement that there are no wedding bells in sight. And what about Tom Crane? What does he have to say about it? Well, he is very clear too that there has been no engagement. What he would like to make clear is that when and if he pops the question, he will make sure that he gets her a huge diamond engagement ring, not a plain silver band like the one that she was supposed to have worn a few days off.