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Archive for January, 2011

Sophie Monk’s Chandelier Engagement Ring

Monday, January 31st, 2011

The Australian model and actress wears a huge chandelier engagement ring but she doesn’t flaunt it. Is it because she is shy? The cameras are finding it really hard to get a good shot of the ring simply because she takes such good care to hide it. At a time when celebrities flaunt their engagement rings to the hilt, especially when they happen to be huge rocks, this seems so different.

Sophie is engaged to Jimmy Esebag who happens to be the Chairman of the Licensing Holding Group in America – and this is the company that holds the rights to the famous Playboy brand. He is in his mid-fifties while she is 31 and she feels he is the soul mate she has always been waiting for. Sophie has been linked romantically with many famous men including American Idol Ryan Seacrest but last year was a time of heartbreak for her when she discovered Jason, her then boyfriend in bed with someone else.

The engagement ring was designed by one of Jimmy’s jeweller friends but Sophie was spotted out looking like the girl next door, not showing it off and in a sweater and jeans. She is in the radio show called Bardot and she finishes her stint this week. So are they planning on wedding rings soon? One doesn’t really know as both are being tight-lipped about it.

Royal Wedding Rings To Be Made By Dorset Jeweller?

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Goldcrest Jewellers in Dorset, run by Donna and Neil Strudwick has been officially short listed to make the wedding rings for Prince William and Kate Middleton. They are ecstatic and can’t wait to find out if they will be the chosen ones. However, just the fact that they are being considered is a big honour for them and Neil says that to have made it thus far is ‘jaw-dropping’!

The husband and wife team received a letter from the office of the Prince to tell them the news. They had applied for being the ones to make the rings but they didn’t really think things would move so quickly in their favour. All the applications had been sifted through and the ones that were short listed had been sent to the Lord Chamberlain’s office.

If they do get it, they feel it will be such an honour and they hope that they will be the fortunate ones to make those wedding rings for that very special wedding in April. In all his twenty years as a goldsmith, Neil says nothing this big has ever come his way. They are so excited, the whole thing has yet to sink in.

How Soon From Engagement Ring To Wedding Ring?

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

The American singer and songwriter Jason Mraz is engaged to vocalist Tristan Prettyman and if sources are to be believed, they will not be exchanging wedding rings soon. The couple feels that they should not get married till there is marriage equality for everyone and that, one feels, is a pretty tall order. Very much like the beauty contestants who always look for world peace.

The ‘I’m Yours’ singer is waiting for a lot of things to happen and get righted in this world – things like gay rights, for example. He feels a step in this direction will be one great leap for civil rights. However, this did not stop him getting his girl a wonderful engagement ring – it has a great brilliant cut diamond surrounded by smaller stones on each side.

Jason believes in the power of numbers so the diamond ring has 23 diamonds in it – that’s both their birth dates added up. He also believes in the luck of the number 11 so there are 11 diamonds on either side of the central stone – they all add up to 23. And it all adds up to 2.3 carats. Now that’s some number superstition there!

Is That An Engagement Ring, Halle Berry?

Friday, January 28th, 2011

The beautiful Halle Berry was seen at her daughter’s school the other day but that’s no big deal because Halle is such a good mother and, like she says, her 2 year old daughter Nahla is the main priority in her life. Her little girl studies at a school in West Hollywood and that is where she was spotted. What caught people’s attention however, mainly the media’s, was the huge ring she had on her finger and naturally everyone wanted to know if the diamond ring was an engagement ring.

Halle has been seeing actor Oliver Martinez since last year. They met when Dark Tide was being shot and she has been dating him since then. There has been news of cosy dinners and bike rides – so are they all set to walk down the aisle? One doesn’t know yet if that ring really is an engagement ring or whether it is just one of Halle’s rings. But then, why should she wear it on that particular finger?

Oliver Martinez dated Kylie Minogue for four years before Halle and Halle herself was in a long relationship with model Gabriel Aubry, Nahla’s father. The French actor was known for his performance in Unfaithful and he has also been called the Brad Pitt of French cinema. From one good looker to another – only someone as gorgeous as Halle Berry could do that.

Baby Spice Tweets About Engagement Ring

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

It looks like a lot of celebs are all a-twitter right now and tweets seem to be the way to go to announce an engagement and even better, show off an engagement ring. Well the latest on the list is Emma Bunton – remember Baby Spice? Well, she’s now expecting her second baby so we guess she doesn’t qualify to be called a baby any more.

Emma has tweeted about her engagement and has posted pictures of her engagement ring. Emma is expecting her second baby and last November, she and her long time boyfriend, Jade Jones, finally announced their engagement. The couple already has a son named Beau who is three years old.

The others who have been trigger happy by tweeting are Kat Von D, who got engaged to Jesse James, Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband. Actually she didn’t put up a picture of her diamond engagement ring, he did. It was a knockout ring but you had to look past the tattoo-covered hand. Lily Allen tweeted about her engagement ring too – or rather, she showed it off on Twitter. So did Monica, the R & B singer who got engaged to Shannon Brown, the Lakers player.

Will Kate Hudson Wear Another Wedding Ring?

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

When Kate Hudson’s marriage fell apart, there were so many who couldn’t believe what they were hearing. It had seemed such a perfect marriage and they both seemed a lot in love. However, it went the way of most Hollywood marriages and they both moved on.

However, now she is expecting a baby with her current boyfriend Matt Bellamy and sources say she is three months pregnant. So the obvious question is, will she marry him? Can we expect to see a wedding ring on her finger any time soon? The 31-year old actress does not seem to be in a rush to do anything of that sort though it looks like she is more than happy to present her son Ryder with a little brother or sister.

Matt Bellamy, the British rocker who is the frontman for Muse was more than ready to oblige to give her the baby she wanted. However, some reports are emerging that say they are already secretly engaged and that it happened at a hotel in London. Sources also say her mother Goldie Hawn is thrilled.

Jennifer Love Hewitt Shortlists Engagement Rings

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

He hasn’t asked her yet but the actress has short listed three potential engagement rings just in case her boyfriend does ask her to marry him. Now that’s some way to go, especially when she confessed to having out three rings on hold for the possibility at Tiffany’s. And it hasn’t even been a year since she has been dating beau Alex Beh.

She came out with it on an Ellen DeGeneres show and even Ellen was quite surprised to say the least. Maybe Ellen wasn’t quite convinced she should be doing this but the Ghost Whisperer star was quite nonchalant about the whole thing. What about the surprise element – would she want that? She was quite categorical and said she would prefer to know what she was getting because men aren’t too good at choosing, especially when it came to engagement rings.

Jennifer has not really had too much luck in the love stakes and it’s been one broken relationship after another but she feels in this case, if women behaved like her, they would really be doing men a favour by not putting them through the hassles of having to choose a ring. Well, that’s one way of looking at things.

Ginnifer Goodwin’s Engagement Ring

Monday, January 24th, 2011

She’s wearing an engagement ring and she’s showing it off to the world. The actress had on a really huge diamond ring as she posed for pictures with her new fiancé Joey Kern. The couple has been together for a couple of years now and the news is that they will be getting married later this year, probably in autumn.

The TV serial in which she acts – Big Love – is going into its fifth season. It is a serial about a family where the man has many wives and she plays one of them. This serial by HBO is quite a hit and it was at the Season Five premiere that the couple announced that they were engaged. The premiere was held in Los Angeles at the Director’s Guild of America.

Ginnifer had on a layered dress that was a shocking pink with pumps and Joey was in a dark suit with a brightly pattered tie. Joey is an actor too and apparently he designed the engagement ring himself. He’s known for his roles in Super Troopers, Grind and Cabin Fever.

Jesse James Will Wear A Wedding Ring Soon

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

He and Sandra Bullock seemed such a perfect couple and then the shocking news erupted of him cheating on her. Guess that’s the way the Hollywood cookie crumbles. So now, we hear that he’s engaged to Kat Von D and she’s wearing a stunning engagement ring. Well, he has a lot to live down because the ‘Miss Congeniality’ star is so popular and he had to live with the fact that he was one of America’s most hated men.

The diamond engagement ring has a diamond that looks like it is 4 carats or more and it is set in platinum. The strange thing is, Jesse has gone to the same jeweller where he got Sandra’s wedding ring. This engagement ring has a diamond in the centre with diamonds that are smaller around it and it has a filigree design with a dome shape and some very good scroll work on it. Not quite a ring for a tattoo artist like Kat, one would think.

Sandra’s ring was also an archival ring from Neil Lane’s collection and it was a Tiffany ring from 1910. It has a design of intertwining diamonds and one can’t but help that it was rather crass of Jesse to do this. Is Neil Lane the only jeweller in Hollywood or was Jesse just trying to make a point?

Expensive Diamond Ring Found In Derby

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

There’s a diamond ring with a unique design and estimated to be worth thousands of pounds that has been found in Derby. The police recovered it and now they are looking for its owner. It’s quite possible that the ring could have been lost but then again, it could have been stolen. So it will mean that they will have to check any reports of stolen diamond rings in which the description matches this unique ring.

The diamond ring is set in white gold and it has five beautifully matched diamonds. The value that they have put on the ring is somewhere in the region of £5000. Anyone who has lost a diamond ring with such a distinctive design as this must have been devastated and there must surely have been police complaints. The thing is, it could just have been lost or stolen anywhere in the country or maybe even outside.

The police are doing everything they can to try and locate the owner and no doubt the owner will have to prove that the ring belongs to her. So one wonders – is it just a diamond ring or could it be an engagement ring? Was it made for some special occasion? If sop, it must have such incredible sentimental value and the owner would no doubt be very thrilled to get it back.

Wedding Rings And Wedding Expenses Contest

Friday, January 21st, 2011

There’s a wedding contest that has been announced in Maine in the US and the winner will get it all – wedding rings, wedding dress and the wedding expenses and the total costs that they will be covering will be a little over £60,000. The wedding will be held in Freeport in Maine at the Harraseeket Inn.

The contest is open to all contestants till the middle of March and the wedding will be sponsored in October. All a couple who wants to enter the contest will have to do is to make a two-minute video about themselves and their love and upload that video to the Real Maine Weddings website online. The online magazine will then look at all the videos and decide which they feel should be the winner.

The contest is being held basically to promote more weddings in Freeport and to sell it as a wedding destination. The wedding rings will be donated by a Freeport jewellery store, Brown Goldsmiths and all the wedding planning and execution will be done by the Freeport company, Sweetest Things Weddings. There’s a group in Freeport that works hard to promote the place to the rest of America and the world as a tourist destination and this whole idea of making it a wedding destination, they feel, could trigger off an interest in the city.