Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

The Salvation Army kettles get some unusual donations. Quite honestly, the people who open the charity kettles never quite know what is going to show up when they open them. From buttons to rare coins, from jewellery to gold and silver coins – it’s becoming quite fashionable to donate the unusual and the expensive to the Salvation Army.

Recently, a bell ringer at a drugstore in Tucson, Arizona was surprised when an old, well dressed lady approached a kettle and dropped five rings into it. There were three diamond engagement rings and two gold wedding rings and the lady stated that it was a very special donation. The Salvation Army has still to value the rings but they are sure to fetch a tidy sum – all of which go towards their programs of feeding the poor, providing shelters as well as managing disasters.

Are people suddenly getting more charitable or is it more that they have so much that a little bit like a few rings doesn’t really matter that much? Whatever it is, the donations are going up and that in itself is a very positive as well as healthy sign.

Ever dreamed of owning a £4,000 diamond? What a great diamond engagement ring it would make! Well, the Croydon Shop at Whitgift Centre in London could be the answer to someone’s dreams. There are around two thousand balls in the gumball machine and there’s more than just one sparkler. Some of the balls don’t contain anything, some have sweets in them, there’s also a ruby, a sapphire and an emerald besides the famous diamond waiting to be won.

Anyone who spends more than £100 in this shop gets a chance to play, otherwise each turn costs £5. It’s a great pull for people to come and shop at the store during the festive season and anyone would love to have a go at the machine’s lever to see if they get lucky.

Will the diamond ever be won? Will it get made into an engagement ring and grace some lucky girl’s ring finger? We have to wait to find out.

With coloured diamonds become more and more popular, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to bring two wonderful fantasies together – diamonds and chocolate. They’re both any girl’s best friends, after all.

What are chocolate diamonds? They are fine diamonds that have a dark brown colour so they look warm and yet dazzle. The ones who first named these dark brown diamonds chocolate diamonds were Le Vian back in 2000 and it caught the eye of the rich and famous which is why it has become so popular in these last eight years. You’ll see the extent of the popularity if you were to observe the bling that the celebrities wear on red carpet nights – so many of the dazzlers today are chocolate diamonds.

Besides diamond rings, chocolate diamonds lend themselves to all kinds of jewellery. What the Le Vian family is famous for is making these pieces of jewellery look like the settings are invisible. The beauty of the diamonds teamed up with the perfection of the workmanship makes these diamonds coveted by jewellery connoisseurs the world over – from the very, very rich to royalty.

She was the woman behind her man, very often in the background and yet, there all the time with the support he needed to take him through a gruelling campaign right up to an unprecedented win. It was a resounding win that made history not just in the US but all over the world. It showed every single person all over that there was no word as ‘impossible’.

When Michelle Obama gets the £20,000 diamond ring from her husband, it will come to her as a symbol of gratitude for everything she’s been to him. The ring is a Harmony Ring and it is being made of rhodium which is said to be the most expensive of all the metals in the world. This is because so little of it is mined every year. It will be a diamond-encrusted ring and it is being designed by Giovanni Bosco, the famous Italian jewellery designer. He is a very sought after designer by celebrities all over the world.

The diamond ring will be ready for the inauguration ceremony in January and it is expected to be one of the most beautiful as well as expensive Thank You diamond rings.

There’s been a theft in the Heartland area in the US and the sorry fact is that it was from a lady who was ninety years old. She had put her rings in a drawer and it seems to have been burgled from there.

There were three rings and all three of them seem to be missing. In the drawer were her wedding ring, which was a simple gold band, her engagement ring and a third one which had two small diamonds and an empty space where the solitaire diamond in the middle had fallen off. The rings were very old and well-used as they were all at least seventy years old.

The theft was discovered by her daughter when she had come to visit her mother and she has filed a police complaint. However, she could not give an estimate about what the rings together could approximately be worth. The rings are of more sentimental value than anything else for both of them.

According to her publicist, Miranda Kerr is not engaged and not likely to be but that’s not what reports say that she has been saying. Just a few weeks ago, the Australian supermodel kept insisting that there were no wedding plans whatsoever.

Well, all the girls are agog wanting to know if heartthrob Orlando Bloom really is engaged. He and Miranda share an apartment in New York and the rumours are that they got engaged when they went away on a vacation to Venice. Well after that, she seems to be keen on having kids which seems to be what has started the rumour mills going strong. Well, she is said to have followed that up with saying that she would be very happy with a little vegetable garden and live on a farm.

Miranda is a model from Australia and one of the Victoria Secrets models while Orlando Bloom needs no introduction. His memorable roles were in Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings. He is the darling of millions around the world and his female fan following is huge.

Kristy Hinze and Jim Clark, the US billionaire are engaged and to make that fact known to the world is a huge rock of a diamond engagement ring. Supermodel Kristy is 29 and the billionaire who owns Netscape is 64. Maybe being 35 years junior warrants a diamond that’s big enough to flaunt to the world.

They’ve been together for over two and a half years and while speculation has been rife that it is his money that is the main attraction. Kristy says that she finds him incredibly intelligent, warm and funny and loves to be with him. She will be Jim Clark’s Wife Number Four.

The wedding is going to be a very lavish affair spread over three days in Palm Beach, Florida. Right now, she’s taking him to her home in Australia for Christmas and the wedding will be in March in the techie’s estate in Florida. Will his famous yacht Athena be the one to bring him there, one wonders?

It was a double blow. A lady in DC first lost the man she was engaged to in the September 2001 terrorist attacks and then she lost the engagement ring he had given her recently when she took her two year old son to the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Bianca Grimaldi’s fiancé slipped the ring on her finger just before he boarded the ill fated flight that crashed into the Pentagon. After that, she always wore the ring – first on her finger and then as a pendant around her neck. It must have slipped out when she was walking around the zoo with her son. She went back and looked along the paths that she walked along but there was no trace of the ring.

Bianca got married after her fiancé died but she has always worn that ring in his memory. So it was very sad for her to have lost that engagement ring, which was the one memento she had of him which she treasured. Sure, she still has pictures of him and of them together but that ring was special. This is why she is hoping she’ll find it and wishes that whoever has found it will return it to her.

When you have an 18-carat diamond engagement ring, you will be forgiven for not wanting to wear it all the time. So what Beyonce does is have two engagement rings – one of which is a fake. When she appears in public and when she has to be onstage for her performances, she prefers to wear the less expensive ‘fake’ ring.

Apparently, when they got engaged the last year, he got her two rings – one the stunner that everyone knows about and the other that is worth around £3600. So the expensive and famous diamond engagement ring is insured – no doubt for a very high amount but Beyonce still feels a bit hesitant about wearing it all the time, probably because of the sentimental value attached to the stone more than its intrinsic worth.

Jay-Z and Beyonce got married last year in April with close friends and family around for which they threw a lavish party. Jay-Z’s real name is Sean Carter and Beyonce’s is – surprise! – Beyonce!

Well, that’s what it seems like because Johnny Depp has been busy looking at diamonds in a jewellery store in California. Apparently, the store was closed to the public while he was choosing a ring for Vanessa. The rings he looked at were platinum engagement rings with solitaire diamonds which were elegant and understated and yet very much in the high end of the spectrum when it came to prices.

Johnny Depp, the Pirates of the Caribbean star and Vanessa Paradis, a French star have been together for ten years and have two children. They have been heard to repeatedly say that they don’t need a piece of paper to show the world they love and own each other. According to Vanessa, she feels she is married already and marriage in the legal sense is not really necessary.

However, the fact that Johnny Depp is looking at rings has fuelled so many rumours about the status of their relationship and maybe we’ll hear wedding bells soon.

In Long Island in the US, a grandmother went for a sleepover to a museum with her grandchildren and realised the following day that she had lost her diamond. It was a diamond that was worth over £10,000 and she never thought she would see it again.

The thing is, there was a huge group that spent the night there in the Hall of Ocean Life that night. She had gone with her husband and her two grandsons and it was on their return journey home that she noticed that the stone wasn’t in the ring. They went back to search but all in vain.

Then the staff in the museum decided to do all they could to help find the diamond so they went through the four bags of trash very painstakingly till they found the diamond, which was a DeBeers one and a millennium limited edition one at that. For the lady, it seemed like a miracle, especially since she had lost her first diamond ring and this one was gifted to her by her husband to replace it in 2000. Now, she can probably fulfil her wish of passing it down to her granddaughter after her time.