Archive for July, 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009
In a daring robbery, a couple walked into a store in Derby City centre and walked out with a diamond ring. They walked in and the woman asked to see a selection of rings and tried them all on. Then she just kept on one and walked out the store door. When the security staff tried to stop her, she just pushed her way past them and walked out.
The jewellers are located on Victoria Street and the descriptions of the couple have been circulated. Wearing one of the rings on sale and walking out with supreme confidence was daring at its worst – and all this in broad daylight too!
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
In the USA, there’s a company that is offering custom-designed engagement rings that can be ordered off their website. What it means for couples who are about to get engaged is that they now have the opportunity to have engagement rings that are special and different from the others. This family-run jewellery store in Minneapolis called Knox Jewellers has been in the business of making custom-made jewellery for years. Today you get these copyrighted and one-of-a-kind pieces of jewellery like diamond engagement rings at their store or from their web site.
What their artisans do is to make a three-dimensional image of the ring and you can then make any changes right then and there if you like. It is only after you have approved it that the ring gets made. Now that’s one neat way of making every couple that gets engaged with their ring feel extra-special.
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Two youngsters have found a diamond ring – and an expensive one at that. They were jogging near the Manoa Park in Honolulu when they found this ring and they weren’t very sure whether it was real or not. So they took it to a jeweler who told them it was very real indeed and valued it at £33,000!
The centre diamond was around four carats and there were smaller diamonds around it. Considering how few rings have a diamond this big, they wondered how it was lost and no one was looking for it. The boys are busy trying to find out who the ring belongs to because they are quite sure that it must hold a lot of sentimental value for the person who lost it.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
After years of being in a relationship, Robert Redford and his partner, Sibylle Szaggars, an artist, have got married. It happened in a church in Hamburg with a pastor et al. The 71-year old actor and his German girlfriend who is twenty years younger have been together for thirteen years now, after she moved to the US.
Robert Redford was a big screen hero for so long – he still acts in a few movies, Star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, his all-American blond, good looks saw him in a number of box office hits after that.
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Imagine losing your wedding rings and the money that had to be paid to the pastor two days before your wedding. That’s what happened to Adrian Wadey and Jane Walker of Huntingdon when they were out shopping and they realized that they had lost a bag which contained these precious items. So they almost called off the wedding but the pastor said they could get married without the rings and by deferring the payment for wedding expenses at the church.
They put out desperate pleas online and through the radio. They thought they just had to go through the ceremony without the rings when on the day of the wedding, they had a huge surprise. The post brought the wedding rings. It was a lucky wedding day to be sure!
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
The co-stars of the movie Step Up, Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum got married in Malibu in what is being talked about as a fairytale wedding. They even had little flower girls with wings because both apparently are enamoured with fairies! They exchanged their Neil Lane wedding rings out in the open under pepper trees in a private home overlooking the sea.
Neil Lane is supposed to have called them a really cool couple who complement each other. They obviously worked closely with him over the wedding rings. Their first dance after they were married was to ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ and what better place than Malibu to do it!
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
The proposal might be a surprise but the engagement ring seems to be a joint decision in most cases today. This is a result of a study conducted by the Knot Market Intelligence in the US. They surveyed around nine thousand couples who had got married recently and nearly 70% of the women had been very involved in the selection process of the wedding ring. However, there could be a downside to this as very often, what was spent on the ring was more than budgeted. And the couple also looked around for around three months and at around thirty rings before they finally made a choice.
The most popular choice of rings is still the round shape but also gaining in popularity are the princess cuts and the centre stone was around one carat in most cases. Though matching wedding ring sets were looked at, only 15% actually bought rings that matched and men hardly ever had diamonds in their rings. What mattered more to men was comfort.
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
They’re both 83 and they are all set to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary but there’s one cloud on their horizon. A couple of weeks ago, she lost her diamond engagement ring as well as two more rings and a watch that was a wedding present on Woodford Green. Since then, they have been searching high and low all around there to see if they can find it. The lady, Joyce Hall got into a car there and that was when these probably fell out of her pocket.So they approached The Guardian so they could spread the word that there would be a reward if the rings were returned. After so many years, those pieces of jewellery especially the diamond engagement ring is of such sentimental value. We do hope they get it back in time for their wedding anniversary – it would be a great gift of they did!
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
She flashed a ring that looked like a Claddagh ring on her wedding ring finger and obviously the gossipmongers are at their best – wondering whether she is engaged to her current boyfriend, Jason Trawick. The rumour also is that Britney Spears wants to convert to Judaism as Jason is Jewish. She even wears a Star of David pendant on her neck. She has tried out many religions so this isn’t new. So one wonders if Britney is all right and fit to be engaged.
There was such a big circus when she and Kevin Federline were married and one hopes that won’t happen again. The fight for the custody of their two young children was bitter with both sides blaming each other and Kevin finally being awarded sole custody.
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
The popular singing sensation show that has produced so many singing stars has a celebration just gone by. One of the judges of the American Idol show, Kara DioGuardi got married a few days ago to her contractor boyfriend, Mike McCuddy. It was a quiet church wedding where they exchanged wedding rings with just thirty people present. They only wanted the ones they were very close to them on this momentous occasion.
The show has shot into the popularity charts and the whole world seems to be watching with the nastiest judge being the most popular – Simon Cowell is known for his acerbic wit. Kara brings a warm, feminine touch to the show, encouraging whenever she can, wide smile usually out there.
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
That’s what so many people have been doing of late, following in many a celebrity’s footsteps. In the UK, Rent Your Rocks lends out diamond jewellery by the day or by the week and it makes it so simple now to flaunt the diamonds that you don’t possess. Imagine having a wonderful diamond tiara as well as other diamond jewellery on your wedding day or a beautiful diamond set when you have a special event that has come up.
No more will you have to feel that expensive diamond jewellery is out of your reach. You can wear it, touch it, feel it against your skin and even though it may just be yours for a few hours or days, it’s still a wonderful feeling!
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