Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

The Sugababes were at the Eurovision Song Contest on the final show to sing along with the winner. The winner is Josh Dubovie and he will represent the UK this year. The band had its newest member there too – Jade, who was last year’s winner at this contest and was placed fifth in Moscow at the finals. She was the first UK contestant to be placed this high. This year’s finals will be in Norway.

Heidi and TV presenter Dave Berry got engaged on New Year’s Eve in India where they had gone on holiday. At the show, she showed off her engagement ring and blushed when the host asked her about it. The Sugababes performed their latest hit at this show.

The Russian diamond producer, Alrosa has just signed a deal with diamond cutters in India for a three year contract valued at over £320 million. Alrosa is one of the largest raw diamonds suppliers and they account for a quarter of the world’s supply of diamonds today. They sold a little more than that last year to diamond cutting companies in India.

The two major diamond companies with whom they have signed the deal are Ratilal Becharlal & Sons and Rosy Blue Diamond. Depending on the situation changing globally, there has been provision made in the agreement to adjust the range of diamonds supplied as well as the price. It also includes provision for an increase in the supply.

He wasn’t ready to confess to the public that he really was engaged to the make-up artist on his show, not even when she was seen sporting a huge rock of a ring on her left hand. However, at on the Jay Leno show two days ago, Simon Cowell finally came out and told the world that he was engaged to Mezhgan Hussainy. Even though speculation is rife that he actually proposed on Valentine’s Day, he refused to get drawn into making any confessions of how, where and when.

Of course, a bit of his acerbic wit came to his aid and he said that it would be a shame if what he was wasn’t carried on – so he’s obviously looking forward to little Simons coming along. Famous for his caustic wit and quick comebacks, maybe this was one time that Simon did look a bit embarrassed but it’s obvious he’s very much in love.

There were diamonds dripping and dazzling everywhere – from fingers, ears, wrists, necks – it looked like everyone on the red carpet wanted to show off their diamonds. After all, this is the biggest night in Hollywood and it is watched by people all over the world – viewers who sit glued to their seats watching their heroes and heroines dressed to the hilt in their jewellery and finery.

Diamonds cut across all ages – all that was different was the designs – while the younger ones preferred a more modern style, the older ones opted for a more antique style. There were white, black, brown and champagne diamonds that lit up stunning designer jewellery and all the big names in diamond designers were well and truly represented there. So much dazzle in one night!

Last year, there was a sharp drop in diamond shares because people weren’t buying as many diamond rings or diamond jewellery as before. The common man tightened his belt with the onset of the recession and the first thing to be hit was the luxury items, seeing a drop in diamond stock rates. Now suddenly, all that looks set for change and people are going out and buying diamond rings and jewellery again with the market recovery. So diamond stocks are expected to reflect that and start going up soon too.

Right now might be a good time to invest in diamond stocks as a lot of diamond mining companies are being traded at much less than their actual value – something that won’t happen for too long. With demand of diamonds slated to go up in the months to come, the stocks will too. According to the experts, investing in companies that are already producing diamonds rather than ones in the exploration stage might be a good idea.

It is probably the diamond that has got the highest price and there are those who feel it was sold at a bargain. The diamond was sold in the UK on Friday and Petra CEO says that it is an ‘incredible rarity’. Mined in the famous Cullinan mines in Africa where so many other large diamonds have been found, this one was sold to Chow Tai Food Jewellery Co.

The diamond was mined in September last year but the find was kept under wraps and then it was moved, closely guarded till it was sold. One wonders who will cut the stone and what shape it will be cut in. After all, it is one of the most interesting diamond finds in recent times.

This season’s show The Bachelor, a reality show where for 14 weeks, one man’s heart has to be won by one among 24 young women, came to an end with the bachelor, Jake Pavelka choosing Vienna Girardi as his bride. He dated all of them during this time and finally made up his mind about who he wanted by his side.

The engagement ring he presented her was a Neil Lane one with diamonds weighing 2.7 carats. There were seventy diamonds surrounding a 2 carat centre diamond and it was set in platinum. Neil Lane is very popular with Hollywood stars and there are many of his jewellery designs that can be seen on the red carpet. This one was short listed from six of his designs.

More and more men seem to think that it’s only fair that they get an engagement ring too. And if it’s a diamond ring, all the better. For one thing, men are wearing a lot more jewellery today and for another, why should only the man do the spending, seems to be the sentiment.

For too long perhaps, men have done all the spending, even the very expensive engagement ring. However, with women earning as well, it’s time, men feel, that they, too, start paying and what better way to begin that with an expensive ring. According to famous jeweller H. Samuel, there’s a steadily increasing demand for men’s engagement rings today – also called ‘mengagement rings’. So we’re guessing that more and more women will start proposing to men now.

There are a whole lot of romantic ideas when it comes to proposals and how a man gives the woman of his dreams the engagement ring. Hidden in champagne, in desserts, proposals in the air, under the sea – there’s so much romance and imagination that surrounds a proposal. There’s one however that goes back to WWII. A soldier wanted so much to ask his girl to marry him and he knew it would be some time before he could get back home. So he asked his sister to do the needful. He sent her the money and asked her to buy the engagement ring and give it to the girl he had known and loved from high school in Illinois, USA.

Today, they’ve been happily married for 64 years and both are over 90 years old. Sophia, the lady still has all those romantic letters that Renner, her husband wrote to her when they were young and apart. She keeps them safe in a cedar chest.

A couple got engaged in New York and soon after that, the woman, Rena Hope Friedman, did everything she could to make Roger Adler break off the engagement. First, she kept pushing him to propose and when he did, she kept wanting a BMW, a honeymoon in Australia with first class air tickets and even told him that his old parents couldn’t attend the wedding. When he decided to break off the engagement, she refused to return the ring.

The engagement ring that Roger Adler got her was a 4-carat diamond which was a radiant cut and it had diamonds on the side and was set in platinum. So he is convinced now that this is a kind of business she runs – getting men to propose to her with a huge diamond ring and then breaking off the engagement while keeping the ring. Of course, he won’t let it go and he’s filed a case demanding the return of the ring. The legal stand is clear – the ring goes back to the man if the engagement is broken.

All jewellery made of palladium will have to be hallmarked in the UK and from the 1st of January this year, that rule has come into effect if the jewellery contains anything more than one gram of palladium. Here in the UK, it has been possible to keep the standard of metals high thanks to this compulsory requirement of hallmarking.

For years now, silver, gold and platinum have been hallmarked and now it’s the turn of palladium which is gaining in popularity. It looks a lot like platinum but it is nowhere as expensive so hallmarking it removes the possibility of it being passed off for the more expensive metal. The hallmarking will have three things – the sponsor’s mark, the mark of how pure it is and the town mark.