Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

American ski champion Billy Demong got lucky because on the same day that he won the Nordic combined Olympic medal for skiing, he also got engaged. He and three others won the gold medal and it was a first for the US. This event is a combination of cross country skiing and ski jumping. So they all wore big smiles when they won. Billy’s was even wider because he decided to get engaged too on the same day.

He got third time lucky. With these two happy events visiting him on the same day, he got a third wonderful surprise – he got picked to be Team USA’s flag bearer. It’s one great fortunate spell for him, never mind that he’s out there competing in that cold weather with sleet and rain.

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.

One of the older American Idol winners, Carrie Underwood got engaged to her hockey boyfriend, Mike Fisher, in December and the size of the ring has been creating ripples of excitement all over. Estimated to be anything in the region of £0.5 million or maybe even more, what does she do but go top that with a Grammy award! Talk about striking it lucky!

The Grammy was awarded for her song ‘I told you so’ in which she collaborated with Randy Davis. Her tour starts in March and we wonder when the wedding date is going to be with her hectic schedules.

A platinum and diamond ring was stolen from a jeweller in Crowthorne and it was valued at over £3,000. The staff at the store said that two men walked in to look at jewellery, created some amount of confusion which distracted the staff and made off with the ring. One said he wanted to look at bracelets for a present for Valentine’s Day while the second said he wanted something to give his girlfriend as her birthday was coming up. Then he corrected himself and said he was thinking of getting engaged.

The staff was so confused that they didn’t realise when the two of them walked out without buying anything that they had taken the ring. They only realised it when they saw the empty ring pad where the platinum trilogy ring had been. Quite a change from burglars entering stores and robbing at gunpoint.

She and Alex Reid were married in a hurry in Las Vegas and she came home last Friday, trying hard to stay away from the inquisitive eyes of the press. However, the press got what it wanted – they got a glimpse of her brand new wedding ring – it was a diamond encrusted band. Apparently, they want to celebrate with a wedding reception now that they are back.

Katie Price is hoping to bring out yet another autobiography and she seems to have sold the rights to the forthcoming wedding ceremony for a huge amount. What we also heard was that Peter Andre was very upset because he heard that Katie had gone and got their daughter’s hair straightened. Maybe she did it because she’s also managed to entice ITV into covering the ceremony?

Maybe it’s because more people are aware today about how gold and diamonds are extracted and how much hardship and misery they very often bring to the countries that are rich in them, as well as the environmental hazards that mining for these cause. Could it be that information dissemination is so much quicker today that a lot more people are exposed to what really happens? Whatever the case may be, the trend towards ethical and eco-friendly jewellery has shown a marked increase.

There are couples today who are consciously choosing their engagement and wedding rings so they comply with environmental, ethical and human rights guidelines. So what is an environment friendly or ‘green’ ring? Instead of buying a wedding ring that means anything up to 20 tonnes of ore which goes to make it, the ring could be made of recycled gold or it could be antique gold or even a second hand ring. This would mean saving that much of mining. If the engagement ring has a diamond, you could make sure that it is an ethical diamond and not a blood diamond, which means it isn’t from a country where diamonds are used to start revolutions and massacre millions. Your jeweller will guide you in the right direction.

You could be a lucky winner in a competition run by the House of McCue and if you are, you could win a dream package at the Ashbourne Hotel which right now, is being renovated extensively. All you do is to get a form, fill it out with your details and write why you think you should win – in 200 words. Who knows – you might just get lucky and be the winner.

Let’s take a look at what the winner gets. At the Ashbourne Hotel – after its facelift, it’s going to look magnificent – you can have a civil ceremony followed by a reception and an evening party. And of course, you get the two gold wedding rings, choosing from over one hundred designs. The competition has the support of the Grimsby Telegraph.

Daniel Craig was spotted with a gold ring on his wedding ring finger and so was his long time girlfriend, film producer Satsuki Mitchell. With both of them wearing rings that obviously looked like wedding bands, can the public be blamed for thinking they had got secretly married? Especially when sources close to them brushed it off saying that it was a private matter.

They both put in an appearance for the Artists for Peace and Justice gathering and apparently the rings were also on display during the Help Haiti appeal. They are both private people so we are guessing it will be a while before they tell, even if they are married.

Ashley Cole was woken up at night with sounds of a disturbance. Apparently thieves were trying to force their way into the couple’s mansion through a window. So speculation is on as to what they hoped to make away with and the conclusion seems to be the diamond rings that Ashley gave Cheryl. The rings that she is supposed to have left behind when she went off on Los Angeles.

The rings are supposed to be valued at £310,000. She has two high-priced diamond rings – one is her engagement ring valued at £150,000 and the second diamond ring that is valued at £160,000 which Ashley gave her when the press started writing about his extra-marital affair. However, when rumours of more affairs started doing the rounds, Cheryl took the rings off and hasn’t been wearing them since.

It looks like it’s becoming a trend – this wearing a diamond ring on the engagement finger and then innocently denying being engaged, It could be two things that are happening. Either there are many who don’t care about the engagement ring finger being exclusively used for the engagement ring and the wedding ring. Or, it’s done with the express purpose of getting the media talking. When it comes to celebrities, the last could well be true because they just love being in the public eye at all times!

Take Hillary Duff, for instance. You know, the young singer and actress who was seen wearing a diamond ring on the left hand ring finger. When you see someone young and famous like her in Hawaii with a ring the obvious conclusion one draws is that she is engaged. However, apparently she isn’t. After the big to-do she made thinking she had lost her dog when all the time it was at home, pulling another trick like this is rather funny.