Jewellery News

That’s right – wedding ring coffins have made an appearance and it’s a great way to say goodbye to the past. So many people just don’t have a clue what to do with their wedding rings after splitsville and now, here comes a great way to give the past a decent burial. A burial with dignity and with that lid of the coffin closing, hopefully all the anger and bitterness will be buried forever too. So symbolic and so practical.

Like everything else today, these have to be fashionable too so you have coffins with personalized messages that are engraved on it and coffins that are lined in velvet, satin, whatever. Are you supposed to really bury it? You can, if you’re angry enough but in most cases. It might be a good thing to go through the ritual of putting the ring in and then hiding it in a corner of your cupboard or in the attic.

In Minnesota, USA, there’s a woman who loves wedding rings so much that she goes looking for them in pawn shops and she owned five of them. Then one day, one went missing and she had this strange feeling that it had to be someone she knew who pinched it from her home. So she went around looking around the pawn shops in the area to see if she could find it.

Five months after she lost the ring, she found it – in a pawn shop – and the strange thing was, it was the same shop where her husband had bought the ring for her from. She says she wouldn’t mind paying the pawn shop to have it back but the police now have the ring as they are looking through the surveillance tapes to try and find the thief. Whichever way it goes, the woman knows that she has got the ring back now.

It looks like Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox are getting set to get married. There are going to be a lot of men who are going to sigh with disappointment to see who many believe to be the sexiest woman in the world walking down the aisle. They’ve announced their engagement and it looks like they can’t wait to set a date for the wedding.

Some wonder whether it is because Brian’s ex-wife has just got engaged and is flaunting an engagement ring that the two have hurriedly announced their wedding plans in order to steal her thunder. That might seem a bit uncharitable but the whispers are that this is really the reason for this inordinate haste. So we wonder just how soon the wedding will be in order to upstage the ex’s wedding plans.

The cast of the popular TV serial, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is all grown up now and many of them are married and have children. Now it’s time for one more of them to wear a wedding ring – or he will rather soon. James Marsters who played the role of Spike in the series is getting married.

He’s well into his forties and she is a good two decades younger but that doesn’t seem to matter with this couple. They met backstage, exchanged numbers, lost or got the numbers wrong so it was a while before they connected again. And now, they’re set to exchange wedding rings. We wonder if the wedding will be a reunion of sorts for the cast of the series.

Americans who were hiking along the Iraq-Iran border were picked up and imprisoned because they were suspected to be spies by the local authorities. In that bleak scenario of captivity, there’s a ray of sunshine as news of an engagement between two of the prisoners spread.

So how did they get engaged? The man carefully wove an engagement ring out of threads that he had pulled out of his shirt. The couple had been together for three years and now finally he was proposing to her albeit in a prison exercise yard far from home. Meanwhile their families hope that it is only a matter of time before they are set free and they come back home.

Dallas Braden of the Athletics baseball team in the USA was presented with a ring that literally blazed with diamonds. His team gave it to him and it had 51 diamonds in the middle – that was because his number is 51 and it had 37 diamonds circling them – that was for the outs he had this season. Now a diamond ring like that must be everyone’s dream.

Apparently the team also presented his grandmother with a diamond pendant and it was she who started off the game with the first pitch. For someone to have 19 perfect games in a row is never easy – in fact, people might say it was almost impossible but Dallas did it and maybe that’s why the team felt he was well worth the diamond ring!

The Fargo marathon in North Dakota, USA was great in more ways than one. One of the women who participated had a pleasant surprise as she crossed the finish line. There was her boyfriend who was also the director of the marathon waiting for her with an engagement ring. And how did he present it to her? He hung the medal that all those who finished got around her neck and she was amazed to see something attached to it. There it was – a pink string with a diamond ring attached to it.

He went down on one knee, released the ring from the string and proposed. What could she do but accept such a wonderful proposal? As soon as she accepted, the announcement was made over the loudspeaker system. Now this is one proposal that the people there are not going to forget in a long time.

Aussie cricketer Michael Clarke’s ex-fiancé gave back the diamond engagement ring that he had given her even as she struggled to get her life back on track again. The high profile break up had filled all the gossip magazines, especially after Lara Bingle’s nude photo shoot that paid her an exorbitant amount of money.

Lara says that she has sacked her celebrity manager and she is busy getting her life back together and she would like a quiet spell now. She did the right thing and gave the high priced engagement ring back to Michael instead of flushing it down the toilet. All she wants right now, according to her, is to be away from the limelight.

Is the marriage over? Ronan Keating’s wife was seen without her wedding ring in public amid speculation that the couple had split. Yvonne Keating was seen for the first time without her wedding ring on, fuelling speculation that things were over between them. The Boyzone singer however, was not available for comment. The official announcement was made on Thursday and though there was no mention of anyone else involved, there is a lot of gossip doing the rounds about a ballerina in the picture.

Francine Connell was one of the dancers on the Boyzone tour last year and reports have linked the pair since then. The blonde dancer is said to be the cause of the split. She too seems to have gone underground and was no where to be found. Even her Facebook page had been taken down. It’s sad that what was touted as one of the most stable marriages has come to this.

At a late night show interview, Holly Hunter showed off her diamond engagement ring and it looks like she is now engaged to Gordon MacDonald. She admitted to being engaged on the CBS Late Late Night Show when the host of the show, Craig Ferguson drew the viewers’ attention to her ring finger and asked her about the diamond ring. The Oscar winning star who acted in The Piano admitted that she was engaged.
Holly Hunter was married to Janusz Kamiński, the Polish cinematographer but they separated over nine years go. So we wonder when the 52 year old is going to be married.

The times they really are a-changing, what with people getting engaged with tongue rings of all things! Not just ordinary tongue rings but diamond encrusted ones if jewellers’ reports are anything to go by. So are the traditional finger engagement rings becoming a thing of the past? Will we now see the young ones getting engaged with lip rings, belly button rings and nipple rings? It might just be a trend that could catch on.

The thing is, will it mean the end of the traditional engagement ring? We don’t think so. Whatever the trend might be with the young, it’s going to be a long time before the diamond engagement ring as we know it fades away. The way we see it, as the young ones grow older, they will probably replace it with the traditional ring.