Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

On New Year’s Eve, Johnny got married and he now wears a wedding ring. He got married to a lawyer named Victor Voronov and they came together to their press conference as newlyweds for the first time. It was at this press conference that he announced that he was getting back into figure skating on a competitive basis and that he would be very much a part of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The diamond wedding ring sparkled on his finger and he flaunted it. It is a gold ring with a band of gold and on either side, there is a row of sparkling diamonds. What a bit of bling for a wedding ring. He happily posed for pictures and made sure the ring was very visible so the media people could get some really great shots of it.
Johnny Weir is a figure skater from America who has been champion for three years nationally and has won third place in the international competitive figure skating championships four years ago, He has won a number of awards and was junior international champion ten years ago. He began to skate when he was twelve and he has been in most of the major tournaments since then. His fans helped an asteroid to be named after him. He came out of the closet a few years ago and is now married and they will both have the surname Weir-Voronov. He has had a book published and has even recorded a single which has been released.

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.

It was very much like a scene out of Marley – only the woman lost her wedding ring and not a chain. Rachelle usually removed her wedding ring every night and put it on her bedside table. One morning when she woke up and looked for her wedding band to put it back on her finger as she always did, it wasn’t there. She looked all over for it but just could not find it. So the obvious explanation was that a thief had somehow gotten in and stolen it.
However, they realised that it seemed a rather bizarre explanation because nothing else had been stolen and there were no traces of a break in. That’s when they suddenly realised that there was one more person who had been in the bedroom with them and that was their dog, a Basset hound who looked very guilty indeed when they asked her about the gold wedding ring.
So they spent a few days watching to see if she passed it out. Not very pleasant but her husband did it without grumbling because he wanted to find that wedding ring as much as his wife did. Then, finally, they took their dog to the vet who decided to put a tube in and get the ring out. The ring had been a little too big for her digestive tract for it to have passed through. Now the ring is back on Rachelle’s finger and all is well – with her, the ring and of course, the dog.

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.

It’s a gold wedding ring and it was found in the tunnel booth at Liverpool – in the reject tray actually. The wedding band has an inscription in it – it says Until I Die. So how on earth did it get there? One can only surmise how it did because the person who lost it hasn’t come to claim it yet. Wedding rings are so sentimental for the person who wears them – at least, most of the time. So the staff at the toll booth is hoping that the ring and its owner are reunited before Christmas Day dawns.
So how could it have got there? The simplest explanation is that it must have slipped off when the person was paying the toll. In a hurry maybe, if the ring didn’t fit too well because the person had lost weight or something, it could have slipped off and fallen into the reject tray without anyone noticing. It is obviously a man’s gold wedding ring because it also has the name of a woman inscribed in it as well as a date which was obviously the date on which they were married.
The problem is, the toll payment window is on the right side while wedding rings are worn on the left – so was it really an accident or did the man just put the wedding ring into the reject tray? That gives the whole incident a different hue because then it would mean the person was angry and wanted to get rid of it. It’s all still in the area of surmising and till the man who the ring belongs to is found, one will never know what the true story is. The name of the woman inscribed on the ring and the date are not being broadcast because that would make it easy for the police to ensure that the ring is claimed by the right man.

The Salvation Army had left their red kettles out for the Christmas charity collections. In a town in North Carolina, America, the people who were counting the collection at the end of the day got a surprise. In the kettle with all the coins and notes were a gold wedding ring and an engagement ring. Now who on earth would put in two precious possession into a charity kettle? Or was it a mistake?
Apparently, it was put in knowingly because the two rings were wrapped in a one dollar bill and there was an appraiser’s note stating their value. The gold wedding ring was a 14-carat piece and both the rings were put into a kettle that had been kept near a marketplace.
As there was an appraiser’s notice, the Salvation Army staff called the appraiser and was surprised to know that he had retired fifteen years ago. So the appraisal must have been done a long time ago and it looks like the person who donated the rings wants to stay anonymous. The Salvation Army will honour that and they are going to auction the rings and use the proceeds for charity. Whatever the story is behind those two rings will remain a secret.

It looks like loose diamonds will have another hub soon and that is going to be Bahrain. There are some very ambitious plans in the pipeline to make this city a diamond hub and the Chamber of Commerce is talking to the Gemmological Institute in the USA to get them to set up a GIA office there.

There is a GIA office in Dubai but the people in Bahrain feel that the place is better situated in order to cater to the demand in the Gulf region. So loose diamonds would be brought into Bahrain and then sent out to the other places from there. This would be especially convenient for the cities in Saudi Arabia where there is a great demand for diamonds to make diamond rings and diamond jewellery. For this, customs duties for both importing and sending out the diamonds will have to be looked at in order to make the proposition a viable one. Today, there are traders who deal in rough diamonds but there is no official GIA office through which loose diamonds can be brought in and sold.

Bahrain holds the Jewellery Arabia Expo which attracts a lot of people who want to buy gold, diamonds and other precious stones. They get a number of buyers from the Gulf region as well as Yemen, Afghanistan and Sudan. Granted, when there was trouble in Bahrain, it upset the gold trade there but it has put that behind it and come back stronger and more willing to be a strong presence in the gold and diamond markets again.

There have been record sales of diamond rings especially at the New York auction of Christie’s last week. Suddenly, there seems to be a renewed interest in the auction of jewellery and in this one, diamond rings were the ones that seemed to draw the most bids. In fact, two of them were sold for over £60,000. In all, the auction pulled in sales of nearly £7 million.

There were two rings that were the stars of the auction. The first was a diamond ring with an over-46 carat diamond in the centre and with two one-carat diamonds which were pear-shaped on either side. The ring was set in platinum. The second was also a diamond and platinum ring and the diamond in the centre was over 10 carats and this too was flanked by two small pear-shaped diamonds.

The other diamond rings that were sold were a colourless 10 carat diamond ring and a yellow diamond ring where the stone was an emerald cut one, surrounded by two diamonds which were trillion cut. Also sold were a pair of yellow diamond earrings where the stones were square cut and set in platinum and gold. This auction seems to have heralded in a great season for Christie’s.

The price rise seems to have hit all metals and it is not just the price of gold that is flying through the roof. Whatever the precious metal that most people use for engagement rings and wedding rings, the prices are going up, up, up, be it gold, silver, platinum, tungsten or titanium. Which is perhaps why many couples are thinking twice before rushing into an engagement or marriage.

Why is this happening? Economists feel that it’s because the dollar is weakening and people who want to invest and beat inflation are putting their money into these precious metals. Add that to the deficit that a lot of countries, especially in the Western world, are facing and you’ll see why metals are so attractive to anyone who is in the financial business.

So where does that leave couples who wish to get married? Considering there’s a royal wedding on today, more couples will surely want to tie the knot as well in the near future. It’s like engagements and marriages are in the very air we breathe. However, with a tight budget, this might have to be postponed by many because the costs of engagement rings and wedding bands are steadily increasing. With most jewellers having put their prices up, there’s little a couple with a limited spending capacity can do buy wait and hope that the tide turns.

India has not been a potential diamond market though most of the diamonds pass through this country to be cut and polished. However, recent trends have seen a surge in demand for diamond jewellery and the new diamond brands with innovative and young designs are raking it in.

India has for long been a gold market but with the population becoming younger, there seems to be a change in old habits and attitudes, Today’s couples are looking at platinum when it comes to engagement rings and of course, diamonds. Economists feel that in a couple of years, India could well be buying up 10% of the world’s diamonds. Today, the diamond demand in India is pegged at over £12 million and it looks like one can safely predict a lot of growth.

This could be due to more than just the age demographics – it could also be due to the fact that the economy is booming and there is a lot more disposable income when it comes to the younger generation. Urbanisation and the consumer bug have bitten a lot of people, it seems, all over the country and it seems to be reflected in the diamond jewellery sales. Even the rising process of gold and platinum do not seem to be a deterrent in the surge in sales.

The floods in Queensland have had so many stories of loss but this one is really sad. The Kochos – Judy and Greg of Condamine have been married for thirty-seven years and they were evacuated when floods hit their town a week ago. They were flown back a few days ago and their one aim is to find their wedding rings which they are wishing were not washed away in the floods.

They had left their wedding rings locked up in a cupboard which is why there is some hope that they can locate it and get those rings back. For them, the gold of those rings are a symbol of their eternal love and they so want to find them. Their home is a farm that goes back to the 18th century and today all that seems left of it is one big swamp. It is located on the outskirts of Condamine.

Even though there is water all around, the floods seem to be receding. However, any more rain and the water levels could go up. The residents of the town however, are glad to be back home – and home it is to them, even though the whole town is water logged. There’s no electricity and no running water but home is, after all, home. It’s going to be tough and residents have been warned not to venture out too much. Most people have lost everything.