Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

They had a high profile engagement last year. The American Idol singer shot to fame when she won a Golden Globe award, an NAACP award, a BAFTA award and of course, the ultimate Oscar award for her acting role in Dreamgirls. Her fiancé, David Otunga, who is a law graduate from Harvard, is also a wrestler and they were in the news because she was one of the first women celebrities to give him an engagement ring as well.

The wedding is going to be soon – the couple have a child and apparently they’ve already decided on the date and she’s chosen a beautiful wedding gown. The rings, of course, will doubtless be one of a kind designer jewellery.

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.

Wedding rings symbolizing eternal and unending love, for a lifelong commitment of fidelity, are worn all the time, without ever taking them off. For working women and housewives, it means it must not snag or get in the way of what one does, be it typing or filing, kneading or baking, washing or ironing, cleaning or cooking, sewing or gardening. In addition it must not accidentally scratch or hurt the wearer, husband or child. Since wedding rings are generally worn all the time, it is important that it be maintenance free or with easy, minimal maintenance. A simple wedding ring band without designs is the usual choice for most people. Simple wedding bands in fourteen karat gold, which are strong and quite scratch free has been the usual choice for a long time. Today other precious metals like platinum, titanium, tungsten, palladium and silver alloys are being sought after. Platinum has indeed become quite popular due to its durability and easy care.

Wedding Rings: The Simple Versus The Elaborate

Wedding rings have generally remained simple no matter what the choice of metal and the trend continues today. Since the wedding ring is worn at all time, one needs something that will not scratch or snag or hurt the wearer or others. Fancy and elaborately worked wedding rings can retain grease and dirt in addition to hurt or snag if it has sharp edges or points in the work detail. Simple wedding rings are easy to clean and maintain when compared to the more elaborate wedding rings. Practicality has remained the main reason that after all these years, simple bands continue to be the most popular design for wedding rings.

In Buffalo, in the city of Lockport, the New Year did not usher in too much joy for one unlucky woman. She had a New Year’s Eve party in her home and ended up getting into the New Year with a great sense of loss rather than look forward to the year that had just begun.

The trouble is, Kelly Clines did not even realise that there were four rings missing from her house. She had put them all in a container and they were in the bathroom cabinet. Then one of the guests at her party called and said that she had mistakenly picked up a ring from Kelly’s place. She wanted to know if it was Kelly’s husband’s wedding ring. That’s when Kelly realised that not just their wedding bands but also a diamond and ruby ring as well as her diamond engagement ring were missing.

She’s reported it to the police and even asked to guest who found the one ring about the others but the lady has denied all knowledge of the other three rings. Bringing in 2009 with a party at her place wasn’t such a good idea for the Clines household after all.

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were rather proud of their wedding bands – they showed them off like they were. They went to Cabo and came back with these wedding rings which cost all of forty pesos. The couple feel that it’s the best recession proof idea they’ve had.

Like Brangelina, this couple is being called ‘Speidi’ by linking both their names. Guess you have to join the ranks of the rich and famous to have your name liked to your spouse like that! The question is, will this be followed up with another wedding? After all, they might want their family and friends to share their joy which is why there seems to be so much intense speculation about not just if but when the actual wedding will be.

When it comes to rings, Spencer seems to be running true to type. It doesn’t look like he’s got any plans for a huge big bit of bling to grace Heidi’s finger. The engagement ring was from off the shelves in a mall and it was an amethyst. These wedding rings cost even less so one wonders what future gifts will bring – if there are any at all?

Yes, it really was an owl that brought in the wedding rings when a couple got married last month in Balgonie Castle near Edinburgh in Scotland. The whole wedding had a fairytale quality about it. The castle was 14th century, a place that Rob Roy and Mary Queen of Scots had visited and the whole atmosphere was one of old world elegance and charm.

Celeste, the bride wanted an owl to carry the rings to them because for her the owl was a symbol of wisdom. So Finnbar, the owl was pressed into service and he did a remarkable job even though it was his first time as ring bearer. The wedding bands were tied to his feet with a leather strap and he was trained to carry them in.

It was a wedding to remember and the bride was 56 while the groom was 57. They were glad that the wedding could be held in the castle and that all their children as well as their grandchildren could attend. They even followed the Scottish custom of a horseshoe for luck and had a huge flower horseshoe made and carried down the aisle.

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.

It was the usual exclusive Tiffany’s opening – Breakfast at Tiffany’s with caviar laid out and champagne flowing and everyone who was everyone was there on the morning of July the 24th. It was a red letter day for Perth which didn’t have a Tiffany store till now and it looks like it’s going to be the start of an affair to remember. The early morning event didn’t stop the designer dresses and the bling being paraded.

There was one little difference. Way before all those socialites could arrive, a couple in Perth were let into the store. They took a tour and at the end of it, were given a gift bag. It was only when Shane Lehmann went down on his knees that his girlfriend, Caroline realised that the bag contained a diamond engagement ring. Could she really say anything else but ‘Yes!’? What a truly romantic way to open a store that has for so many years been the destination for couples in love to pick out diamond engagement rings and wedding bands.

The jewellery that was displayed was positively stunning and the store was a welcome addition to King Street in Perth which is a strip of every international luxury retail store imaginable. In this booming mining town, a Tiffany’s just had to have a presence. This is a city that oozes sophistication and positively reeks of the fragrance of wealth. Just the right setting for Tiffany’s, wouldn’t you say, with its dazzling diamond rings and its exclusive jewellery? The Mayor of the city said she was proud that Tiffany’s had opened in Perth finally – after all, the city with its multi-faceted nature and its shining performance, could well and truly be compared to the rarest of stones, the diamond!

The demand is growing for diamonds that are coloured and that’s a huge sweeping change. Time was when the whiter the diamond, the better it was thought to be. The times they are a-changing however as more and more coloured diamonds are entering the diamond fashion scene. Look around and you’re sure to notice some diva wearing a diamond that’s pink or even brown – oh, yes – brown is very ‘in’ when it comes to diamond rings.

Well, there’s this jeweller in Austin, Texas in America who is enamoured by coloured diamonds. Not that he doesn’t like the white ones, he just finds it a lot more exciting to design using the coloured ones. Dean Fredrick’s passion is designing jewellery and it started way back when he was in school. After training at the Gemmological Institute of America in Los Angeles, he worked for a bit and then started his own line of jewellery – and he just can’t get enough of those coloured bits of dazzle!

Not for him the typical coloured diamonds like yellow or pink. He is much more daring when it comes to diamonds, especially diamond rings. So you’ll see him experimenting with brown and black diamonds, even green ones. And it’s not just for diamond engagement rings, but for wedding bands as well. The coloured diamonds are set in 18 carat gold and he likes to use yellow, white or rose and he also loves to work with platinum. He has a special line of stackable coloured diamond rings which have become very popular. What he loves designing most of all though, are custom-made diamond engagement rings. Here’s to a lot more colour in the world of diamonds!