Diamond Engagement Rings

Well, actually, not all wedding rings. The plain gold band is still allowed but the ones with any kind of design, bevelled edges or engravings have been banned. The married nurses at Bradford Royal Infirmary are mad. The management has banned them from wearing these wedding rings to control the risk of infection being spread.

The nurses say that there is no evidence that there is any kind of disease being spread because of the kind of rings they wear. They take the usual stringent precautions and wear latex gloves most of the time. However, the hospital follows a national infection control of being ‘bare below the elbow’ and while they are willing to let plain gold bands stay, they will be very strict about any wedding bands with any kind of design on them. In a recent audit, it was found that there were a number of nurses wearing wedding rings with designs that could be a breeding ground for bacteria.

The nurses say that with all the precautions taken, this kind of fear is totally unjustified. The hospital however, is standing firm. One wonders how this impasse over wedding rings will end.

Americans are very particular about their wedding rings when it comes to politicians. So it seems a bit surprising when Delaware Senator is seen around town without his wedding ring. Especially as he has been named the prospective vice-president for the Democratic Party. Somehow, most politicians have been very conservative when it comes to wedding bands – why, even Bill Clinton always had his on.

The question being asked now is, did he ever wear a wedding ring? Considering that he has just recently been pitch forked into the limelight after Barack Obama named him running mate, suddenly everything he does, says, wears and doesn’t wear seem to have become very much in focus. Never mind that he refers to his wife as ‘drop dead gorgeous’. One wonders if this will affect his campaign and whether America will accept a vice president who is different and doesn’t toe the line of political etiquette. Maybe he just feels uncomfortable wearing a ring. Whatever the reason, right now, it is a very talked about topic.

Ashley Cole’s wife, Cheryl was spotted with her wedding ring back on her finger and the last time she was seen to have it on was at least eight months ago. Cheryl Cole, who is acts in the X Factor, was said to be devastated to have caught Ashley and her hairdresser together. Now that was way back in January.

The Chelsea football player didn’t probably deserve to be forgiven by his lovely wife but things look like they have been sorted out. She was spotted with her wedding ring on again and with a smile on her face at the London Fashion Show as well as on the Jonathan Ross chatshow.

Cheryl admits to wanting to put that ring back in his head but she seems calmer and more accepting now. She also realises just how much under public scrutiny the lives of celebrities are. Every move is pounced upon and reported – whether rightly or as a matter of conjecture. She wishes that the public would stop expecting so much from their idols but would accept them as regular human beings.

From ancient times, Wales has seen gold mining. The early Welsh nobility are said to have worn jewellery made with the gold from their land. However, there hasn’t been enough gold to keep it going as a thriving gold industry. The earliest Welsh gold mine in fact has become a tourist attraction though there seems to have been mining done there as early as 1000 years ago. There are two areas where the gold mining operation was concentrated. In the north, it was the region that lies between Snowdonia and Barmouth and in the south, which is where the Roman mining took place, it is situated at Dolaucothi in Carmarthenshire and this is the earliest known gold mine.

There is gold in the Welsh hills but the sad fact is that it costs three times as much to mine gold in Wales as it does in Australia or South Africa and that makes the whole operation not viable. It has a great degree of purity though - add the historical aspect to that and you’ll see why the British royal family has their wedding rings fashioned from this gold. For generations, this has been a tradition and though the mines might just become a fact of history, the gold lives on – in the best of company.

That’s what the market forecast is for the US alone. It is estimated that even though there is a recession on, the spending on diamond engagement rings has not gone down as some had forecast they would. Instead there seems to be a surge in spending on both engagement rings as well as wedding rings. This is over and above the rise in prices of diamonds and precious metals.

So can we infer that more people are getting engaged or married? Or are more people getting engaged and married more often? Or are they just spending a lot more on their diamond engagement rings, wedding rings and other jewellery as well?

This study was done by The Wedding Report in the US and it states that the expected rise is going to be over 13% in the next five years. It has also predicted that most of the wedding as well as the engagement rings will be set with diamonds and the metal used will be white gold. And some trivia from this study: they found that the most popular month for engagements was December and the most popular day when a man actually popped the question was Saturday.

In Porstmouth, Lisa was entering a building, fiddling with a stack of papers when she heard a sound on the pavement. Dismissing it as probably nothing, she went through her workday. It was only at night when she was getting ready to go to bed that she realised that both her diamond engagement ring and the wedding ring had fallen out of her necklace.Lisa had put on a bit of weight since having her children and she wore her rings around her neck. She had been meaning to get them resized but had just never got round to doing so. It really shook her up and she and her husband spent hours looking around on the street as well as in the office but there have been no sign of those two rings. Her wedding band was a band of white gold with princess cut baguettes in it. The engagement ring was a round ½ carat diamond in a 6-prong white gold setting.After so many stories this year of engagement rings being lost and then miraculously found again, we do hope Lisa finds hers too. She’s sentimental about those rings and she is hoping the person who found it is nice enough to return it.

You don’t want it lying around reminding you of how he ditched you, do you? Once the guy has flown, it’s time to get practical. At least that’s what most of the Agony Aunts would tell you. And there’s a great way of doing just that right now.

The site’s called exboyfriendjewelry.com. You can go, sign up for free and hawk your diamond engagement ring there. Or even any other jewellery that he might have given you while he was still in love with you.

There’s just one condition though. When you post a picture of the engagement ring or bit of jewellery together with a description of the item you want to sell, you have to post a story of how things went bad. Get to that site and you’ll find many a story up there – it’s a great place to vent and get rid of your anger and frustration. It’s a great place to read about others’ stories too – some sad, some angry, some funny. And of course, it’s a great place to get rid of any memories of the one who hurt you.

While Travis was singing ‘Flowers in the Window’ on August 17th at the V Festival at Chelmsford, Fran Healy, its front man, lost his wedding ring. Very much, he said, like Lord of the Rings, dropping his ring and losing it like that. Well, he stopped singing to look for the ring. And he was only a little bit into the song. But when it happened to be his wedding ring, he just had to stop the singing and start on the seeking.

The ring was found very quickly, much to the audience’s delight and the band went back to the show which included some of their hot favourites like “Sing’, ‘Closer’ and ‘Waiting to Reach You’. The show ended with a great rendition of ‘Why does it always rain on me?’

The show was packed and while the crowd just loved all the old numbers, Travis also introduced three new tracks from their new albums which were received well too. They really did rock that JJB Arena, in spite of that little break to find that wedding ring.

Yes, that’s what Nicole Kidman is going to be getting from her husband Keith Urban and it could be any time, very soon. And it looks like she doesn’t know. The excited father-to-be has bought the $73,000 Cartier ring as a gift that will be given to Nicole in the delivery room. Now isn’t that sweet!

The diamond ring is a special trinity ring and it is very like the ones that Katie Holmes and Cameron Diaz own. This diamond ring is actually made up if three rings – one of yellow gold, one of rose gold and one of white gold. All three symbolise something. Yellow gold stands for friendship, rose gold stands for love and white gold symbolises fidelity. Put together, they are the three progressive stages in a relationship. It’s a wonderful all-in-one ring to show off just how a relationship like theirs has grown and blossomed.

In this case, at this point of time, the diamond trinity ring also stands for the new family of three. From being a couple and just the two of them, it’s going to be a threesome. From being Keith and Nicole, from now on, it’s going to be Keith and Nicole and the baby. Now that wonderful feeling is reason enough for such an expensive diamond ring from Cartier, wouldn’t you say? Well, some people say it with flowers, some say it with jewellery and some say it with jewellery that’s got ‘rich and famous’ written all over it!

It was a thrilling rescue adventure in Maine, U.S. on the 21st of June as firemen rescued an engagement ring – yes, you read right, an engagement ring. Gloria Woodman’s engagement ring slipped off her finger as she was walking along the street and rolled into a storm drain. She was so upset that she called 911 and in ten minutes flat, they were at her apartment.

The drain grate came off first, then they realized that with so much water, it was impossible to try and get the ring by fishing it out with a bucket like they were doing. The Public Works truck that also came in started to vacuum out the water and then they decided that the best way to go about it was to send someone down. So fire-fighter Mark Roy was sent down and he searched manually. It took two hours but find it they did and the happy engaged couple was absolutely ecstatic.

The diamond engagement ring had a 1/3 carat stone set in white gold and there was not a scratch or mark on it when they got it back. Those fire-fighters are going to be guests of honour at the wedding. It really goes to show that there still are people who will go beyond the call of duty in more ways than one.