Jewellery News

Fifty years ago, Llewellyn and Sadie got married at the Union Baptist Church at Druid Hill in Baltimore, USA. A few days ago, they celebrated their fifty years of marriage by re-exchanging wedding rings and retaking their wedding vows. It was a typical wedding, with the bride in a white dress, the groom dressed in black except that she is 73 and he is 80.

What was different of course was that their children were there as well, all grown up. A jazz singer sang ‘True Love’ during the ceremony and she had sung the same song for them fifty years ago. According to her, the couple looked just as happy as when they got married way back in 1960.

What’s more, one of their daughters who planned the whole thing even got anniversary wishes for them from the President and his wife. The couple and their family have been very involved in church activities and this church is known for its involvement in the civil rights movement. The church was established in the middle of the nineteenth century.

A widow in Derbyshire is devastated that after the death of her husband, a jewellery store in Birmingham cheated her. She gave them his wedding ring and signet rings as well as some other old jewellery to have lockets made for their two daughters and thought nothing of it when they were given the lockets. These lockets were meant to be Christmas presents for the girls so they could each have a piece of something their father owned.

Her husband passed away two years ago and she thought it would be a great idea to do this for her daughters and she trusted the jewellers so she asked them to melt down the gold and make it into lockets. All was well till months later when one of the girls spotted an identical locket in another shop and realised that the jewellery store had cheated them and just replaced the gold with standard and not hand-made lockets like they were asked to do.

The city council is investigating and one hopes that they can trace the original gold so the widow and her girls can have the satisfaction of wearing a part of their father’s ring. To date, the store hasn’t commented.

Out on a date with Peter Crouch, Abbey Clancy, the lingerie model was seen wearing her diamond engagement ring. Does this mean that all is right between them? They were seen out together for the first time since the news about Peter Crouch hit the public gaze. However, they were seen to be enjoying each other’s company and were at L’Atelier, the posh Soho restaurant.

The diamond dazzler was off her finger for quite a while soon after Peter Crouch was reported to have paid a teenage hooker. She wasn’t seen around with him either and sources said she was devastated. They seem to have gotten over it now though and it looks like they have patched up things and cleared misunderstandings between them.

The restaurant is a double Michelin-starred one and is known for its caviar, foie gras and quail. It is one of London’s hot spots and famous for its romantic dinners. If that’s the case, it augurs well for the couple.

When Marie Nordmann got to 40 and felt that she wasn’t going to get married, she decided that she didn’t need anyone to give her a wedding ring – she could do so herself. The Internet technology specialist began wearing one and then, recently, which is five years later, she decided that she would like a really great diamond ring to wear on her right hand and so the search began because she didn’t want just any old ring.

It’s taken her two years to design the exact ring that she wanted. The diamond, she says, came from a friend who was selling it when she got a divorce. She got the diamond set in gold with bezels of platinum. The large diamond is ¾ carat while the two smaller diamonds she used are ½ a carat. There was a lot of thought that went into this ring which she wanted to make very special.

Marie works as a liaison resource between developers of software and other businesses and helps them fine tune programmes. She also writes a blog and is active on Facebook. This diamond ring that she has designed for herself has become her favourite jewellery piece.

Girlfriend or fiancée, that is the question. Kiefer Sutherland and his girlfriend Siobhan are holidaying in Italy and it looks like she’s wearing a diamond ring on her ring finger. They were spotted having dinner out and the diamond ring flashed on her finger for the world to see.

If he is going to get married, this will be Kiefer Sutherland’s third marriage. He was also once engaged to Julia Roberts who walked out on him a few days before the wedding. We hope the 43 year old actor will find happiness this time around.

Siobhan works with Allure magazine and she is their style director. She’s been with Kiefer Sutherland for two years now and they were seen window shopping at a jeweller’s. Were they looking for wedding rings, perhaps? He’s taking a break after completing the TV series 24 and is now shooting for the film Melancholia opposite Kirsten Dunst.

The star of HBO’s show, True Blood was seen with a wedding ring on and it was a very expensive diamond ring from all accounts. She got married recently to her co-star in the show, Stephen Moyer. Stephen plays the character of a vampire in the show. According to her friends, the wedding was beautiful and they both made a lovely couple.

True Blood has just two episodes to come to the end of Season Three and the story is getting really exciting. Anna’s character is called Sookie and it looks like she is going to be become a panther in the series. Now that’s quite a bit to deal with for the other characters.

Anna was seen casually dressed and shopping with her mother and friend and co-star in Santa Monica, California and the wonderful wedding ring was very much in evidence. Everyone is happy for the couple who they say is very much in love with each other. Right now, she seems to be spending quality time with her friend and her mother.

Can it really be possible? After all, they do say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, not money in the bank. But Australian women seem to want a financially secure future before they begin to think about engagement rings and diamond jewellery. And here we were thinking that women will do anything to get a diamond ring – the bigger the diamond, the better!

It is not as though Australian women don’t like diamond rings or expensive jewellery. It’s just that they seem to have their priorities right. They would rather get a wonderful diamond ring from someone they know they can trust to look after them well financially than from someone whose finances aren’t so strong.

This trait seemed to be evident thanks to a poll where over 70% of women said that a finally secure man was what they wanted first before they could begin to think of accepting a diamond engagement ring from him. They also said that they wouldn’t mind a ring that wasn’t very expensive, preferring to use the rest towards a house or a honeymoon. So men who can’t afford that bank balance are going to find it tough to find someone on whose finger they can put a diamond engagement ring.

The first time around, Michael Hnilicka of Howard, USA lost his wedding ring lost his wedding ring in a garbage bin. It was a bin of sawdust at the place where he worked and he never thought he would find the wedding ring. However, it was found.

So when he lost it again when he was scuba diving in Lake Michigan, he didn’t think he could be so lucky as to find it again, considering the place he lost it was at least ten feet deep. But another diver found it and all it said inside was the date of the wedding and his wife’s name. The person who found it was persistent and with the help of the county clerk’s office, they managed to trace Michael.

Michaels and his wife have been married for 24 years and what a relief it must have been to get that wedding ring back again. Now that’s what we call real good luck and we’re hoping he won’t have to find out of he will be third time lucky too!

It looks like Kate Moss and her fiancé Jamie Hince have got married – well, it must have been a very secret affair considering no one’s got a whiff of it yet, except for the fact that both of them seem to be wearing wedding bands – and matching ones, too. Not just that, they were seen to be wearing matching tattoos as well on their wrists and they were tattoos of anchors.

Both Kate and Jamie were wearing silver rings and she was wearing it over her engagement ring – a beautiful diamond ring. The couple has been holidaying in Italy for two weeks. Sources say that they have bought a place on Stromboli Island in Italy because they just love the volcanic island.

The couple has been together for three years now and it has been noticed that Jamie has a good and stabilizing effect on Kate. They were introduced to each other by Sadie Frost and they have been together since then even though rumours of rows abound. Kate’s daughter by an earlier relationship and Jamie are also said to get on very well together. They got engaged on her birthday when Jamie flew to the Caribbean to propose to her.

Matt Katz of Australia didn’t just want any diamond engagement ring. He wanted to put a lot of himself into this token of love so he decided to make his own engagement ring for his girlfriend. It was a painstaking process and not many men can do it – but he had set his heart on doing just that so he learned all about it and went through the different processes to come up with a stunning solitaire diamond ring.

First, he had to bend the band of gold – you need to choose the right tools for this and you need to decide what metal you need – eco-friendly recycled metal is always a great choice. Then you need to decide what stone to use – a diamond is always best, but even here, the choice is huge when it comes to shape, cut and weight. The setting for the diamond is vital and needs to be strong so the diamond won’t easily slip out of it. The setting and the ring have to be soldered well together so it seems seamless. Then, it’s time to set the stone. Once that is done, you need to polish the engagement ring so it looks its dazzling best.

Well, most men as we said, prefer to take the easy way and go look at a reputed diamond store to choose the engagement ring. The choice is huge, the finish perfect and you know you can go back to them if there is a problem. However, full marks to the DIY man for wanting this to be a personal gift from the heart.

In Los Angeles, there was a strange crime reported. Apparently a man from Shreveport stole a credit card from his girlfriend and bought an engagement ring – for her! That was the reason for his theft – so he could afford to buy her an engagement ring. The strange thing is, why did he steal the credit card from her?

Maybe because it just happened that he had access to her purse and the credit card was right there. Maybe it was an impulsive thing and when he saw that credit card, he just couldn’t help himself but decided to use it to buy the ring. The credit card belonged to her boss and it was in her purse and he just used it to go out and buy what he wanted.

The man is now in a correction centre and a bond – a rather large one has been set. It’s just not on stealing your fiancée’s boss’s card from her purse to buy her an engagement ring!