Archive for the ‘Diamonds’ Category
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Ever since business tycoon Nick Candy proposed to Holly Valance in the Maldives over the Christmas/New Year break, all eyes have been on her ring finger as she sashays forth between dos and events in London. However, she seems to be rather shy of flaunting it and even when Nick was with her, there were occasions when her ring was not on her finger.
She was seen at the Radio Times Cover Party and at the Faberge Big Egg Hunt party which was held at Quintessentially. The party kicked off the egg hunt all over London and these proceeds will go towards a charity for children and there are many celebrities who have been involved in this project. Her huge diamond engagement ring, however, seems to be off her finger for most of the time since they have got back after their holiday. So the only explanation seems to be that it has gone to be resized. With such a huge diamond, they wouldn’t want to take the chance of the ring slipping off just because it is a tad loose.
The engagement ring was very much on again at the Radio Times party and she was all dressed up too – in gold with shiny shoes with her ring flashing as she walked into Claridge’s for the party. The two of them met in 2009 and they moved in together the following year and she was really happy – if you go by her excited tweets when he proposed to her in the Maldives just before Christmas. The billionaire tycoon and she seem to be made for each other and are so happy in each other’s company.
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
The ring went missing a little before Christmas Day last year and the couple from Florida who it belonged to wanted to solve the mystery of the missing ring. The ring had been on the dresser, in a cup and it had disappeared. So the couple hired a private detective who had been a policeman to help them get the ring back. They also announced a huge reward.
The policeman began by giving all the people who could have been in the house a polygraph test. Simultaneously, he also scoured all the pawn shops in the neighbourhood and then went further afield, even to New York. After all, anyone would remember an emerald cut 11-carat diamond engagement ring that had been put up for sale. The cleaning lady in the house failed the test and he realised that she was a suspect. However, she avoided him and the police had to be called in to take her for questioning.
She had taken the diamond ring and sold it to buy food and Christmas presents for her children and as well as pay off some bills. She had taken it to a jeweller and told him that she had inherited from an aunt who died. She has been arrested and charged. The jeweller got the reward money and the couple are happy that they hired a private detective to help them find the ring which is not just valuable but also of great sentimental value to them.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The X Factor star has apparently been wearing a diamond ring on her finger for over a month now. It looks like the 18-year old singer and her boyfriend Craig Monk are engaged. He is 21 and he is a hairdresser and they had both gone together in November to Los Angeles in America. That was when people noticed the small diamond ring on her left hand ring finger.
They have been together for about nine months now and she has a small heart tattooed on that finger. Now she wears the diamond engagement ring over the tattoo. Even though she denied the news in the beginning, she is now very open about the fact that they are engaged and she tells everyone that it is Craig who helps her to stay sane. Sources say that she is madly in love with him and he is very supportive of her.
Cher Lloyd is from Worcestershire and her net worth is a lot considering just how her fame has spread thanks to the X Factor. Simon Cowell signed her up with his company after the finals and when Swagger Jagger, her first album was released it climbed to the top in the UK charts. She’s had a great deal of success and she’s still so young. Too young to get engaged? Well, some think so but for her, Craig is everything that is sweet, supportive and secure right now and that is what she wants on her life right now.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
That’s some obsession – that a fan can buy an engagement ring and travel all the way from America to the UK to present it to the object of his affections. Especially when she doesn’t even know of his existence. So why would he spend a lot of money and travel across the Atlantic just to hear her say No? Well that’s what a lot of fan feeling is all about – obsession that goes beyond the realm of reason.
He bought the ring from Tiffany’s and he paid over £3200 for it. It was a gold sapphire and diamond engagement ring and he was determined to go propose to the singer who is known to be a recluse. He also seems to be very enterprising and he got the exact location of her house through Google maps and then proceeded to get there. When he got there, he realised that she was not at home but broke in anyway and decided to wait for her.
Maybe as he waited, it suddenly dawned on him that what he was doing was insane so he ran away in panic and it was while he was running that someone reported him and the police arrested him. He even had his suitcase with him which he was dragging along as he ran. His explanation was that he somehow felt very connected to the singer and he wanted to love and protect her. He has been deported now, back to America and hopefully Kate Bush can heave a sigh of relief.
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Will Kopelman has proposed and Drew Barrymore is looking very happy these days with a smile perpetually plastered on her face. It’s official because her representative has released a picture of her smiling and wearing an engagement ring. It’s been a while now since she has stated that she wants to get married and to have children even while she was going through the whole controversy about her bisexuality. She has been very open about her life and she does not feel she has anything to hide or be ashamed of.
She and Will, an art consultant, have been together for a while now and they were spotted together last February when they walked down the red carpet together. He is the son of the person who heads Channel USA. The couple went off for a romantic break during the Christmas holidays to Idaho and it was at Sun Valley that he proposed with a giant diamond engagement ring. According to sources, he is madly in love with her and he knows that she is just the right one for him.
Drew Barrymore started acting when she was less than a year old in a TV commercial. Her first major movie was in ET and that is perhaps what she is most remembered for as a child star. She’s had a rough childhood with fame too early and problems of alcohol and drug abuse but she’s come through and is in a happy space now. She has been married twice before and this will be her third. She started her own production company a few years ago and one of its best successes was Charlie’s Angels.
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Setting himself a target, a groom-to-be decided to go to the Highlands and pan for gold to make an engagement ring. 46-year old John Greenwood decided he would pan for the gold himself, thus making it a very special ring. He went every weekend to the rivers around Perthshire where he lived. During the week, he worked as an explosives technician and during the weekends, he spent time panning for that gold.
In three months, he managed to pan 34 g of gold and that was enough not just for an engagement ring but for two wedding bands and maybe more. It must have given him such joy to be able to do this himself. He took the gold he had panned to a jeweller and had some of it set as a diamond engagement ring. Then, on Christmas Day, he asked his girlfriend Morag to marry him. What could she do but accept when he had poured so much love into it?
John Greenwood took up panning a year and a half ago and very often, he had to stand in freezing water while he looked for the gold. He says he just got lucky because very often, it takes people a lot longer to get this much gold. Maybe his love and willpower to do it himself helped him get what he wanted and more in three months. All he used was a rake, a shovel, a trowel and a gold pan. Most gold nuggets are miniscule so it takes a lot of waiting and of course, luck to get enough to make it worthwhile. An official in the panning department said that for some, it could well take thirty years to get what John had managed and all he actually needed was four grams of gold which is what he used to make the engagement ring.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
It looks like the holidays make a man romantic going by the way the sales of both wedding rings and engagement rings shoot up during that time. Maybe at other times, a man is too preoccupied with work and when it’s holiday time, he can relax and turn his mind to other things – things like popping the question or deciding on a wedding date.
Jewellers all over the world see a surge of rings during the holiday season and even if, like an engagement, a wedding is usually planned in advance, a wedding date will, very often, be chosen during the holidays so it makes it easier for everyone to plan and attend. When it comes to an engagement ring, a man will probably walk into a store during a holiday and pop the question during a holiday too. And he will very often ask the store people for advice about the ring and the usual choice is the classic solitaire or vintage style diamond engagement rings. That goes for wedding rings as well. Even if a wedding is planned in advance, the couple will walk in for their wedding ring sets during the holidays. A store in the US has 40% of its sales of wedding ring sets during the holidays.
There have been a number of celebrity engagements and weddings during the Christmas and New Year break and it’s happened all over the world. Guess that just goes to show that the holiday spirit affects the rich and famous too. There was Marvin Humes and Rochelle Wiseman, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, Britney Spears and Jason Trawick, Aretha Franklin and Willie Wilkerson, Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto, Steven Tyler and Erin Brady and John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
They were on vacation when he proposed and it must have lit up the Caribbean vacation for her. He’s 26 and she is 22 and as soon as it was done, the world knew about it – through Twitter of course. They both tweeted the great news and he thanked everyone for the many congratulatory messages that flowed in. They met in 2010 and after they had been together for four months, she moved in with him.
The ring was to die for – it was a stunning heart-shaped diamond engagement ring and he bought it at Boodles, the London jewellers for £45.000. It is an exclusive ring and the fabulous heart-shaped diamond is surrounded by small diamonds. He obviously went all out to make sure that she said Yes. How could she say anything else when the proposal came with a ring like this?
Marvin Humes is a member of JLS the British boy band and he is also an actor, having been in a TV show when he was only fourteen. His mother is Scottish and his father is Jamaican. Rochelle sings and acts and is also a TV presenter. She has been singing with the group the Saturdays for a while now. The group has had seven hit songs in the top ten and their albums have all been successes.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
They’re not saying anything but word is out that the lead singer from Aerosmith, Steven Tyler and Erin Brady, his girlfriend of many years are engaged. Well, so sources say because Erin is wearing a huge diamond ring on her finger and it looks like it’s happened and it is an engagement ring! And it is on her left hand ring finger – so it’s the right hand and all. They were seen together in Maui so it looks like they might have got engaged when they were on holiday.
The two met and started dating five years ago and if they do get married, it will be Steven’s third marriage. He tends to be very private about his personal life but it looks like this 38-year old will soon be his bride. They met at a rehab centre – Steven Tyler has been in and out of them. She does not seem to be very popular with his family but he feels she is the one for him.
He has been in the news lately as one of the judges of American Idol, the popular music talent show. Together with Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez, the show has gone back to star ratings, something that did not seem possible when Simon Cowell left the show. Steven is a great musician and he can play many instruments including the piano, harmonica and percussion but he is known for his singing and his incredible range as well as his high pitched screams.
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
It wasn’t the engagement proposal Jason from Pelton, County Durham was expecting. He had planned it all so well. He wanted to propose to his girlfriend, Nicola on New Year’s Eve so he went out and bought a beautiful diamond engagement ring and waited for the big day to arrive. But the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
They went off to visit the family over Christmas and returned home the next day to find that their home had been broken into. The gold and diamond engagement ring had been stolen, even though Jason had hidden it. The receipt for the sale however, had been overlooked by the thieves and it was still there. The whole house had been ransacked and even personal things like Jason’s diary in memory of his brother had been pulled out.
So as they were sitting in the back of a police van, Jason had to tell the policemen just what had been stolen and he had to confess about the engagement ring and ruin the surprise he had so carefully planned. Now that Nicola knew, he proposed to her right there in the van and she got very emotional and accepted. So there was no engagement ring but one happy couple. Jason definitely did not want to propose inside a police van but there was nothing else he could do when the secret of the engagement ring was out. The ring still hasn’t been recovered but there have been a couple of arrests of possible suspects that have been made and the police are hoping for a breakthrough in the case.
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Monday, December 26th, 2011
Mike Brewer from the USA got married and then, one week later, he was sent to Afghanistan. Not such a good thing, when it was still honeymoon days but like a good soldier, he went to fight for his country. There, unfortunately, his vehicle got hit by an exploding bomb. He was lucky however and didn’t lose his life but he was hurt and he was sent back home for one surgery after another on his hands. He also won the Purple Heart award for bravery.
That was when he decided to write about it all and he did. He wrote in for a contest called ‘My Perfect Union’ and it was being held by a jewellery company. Mike’s story was simple. Whoever deserved any award and accolades was the wife back home who kept things going, both the home and the children, without complaining. He wrote that for him, it was his wife who deserved all the praise because she had been there for him through everything.
He won the prize – and it was a diamond engagement ring. Though they were already married, this was a great gift he could give his wife and he is so happy to be able to show how much she means to him with this gift. He also got a cheque as part of the prize. The chief of the jewellery company was touched and inspired when he read Mike’s story.
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