Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

The pop star has been seen around her Cheshire home minus her wedding ring. It’s been a hard time for Kerry recently, with the split from her husband, Mark Croft. He said she was cheating on him and she threw him out of her mansion. They’ve been married three years and they have two children.

However, Kerry is looking much trimmer after the split – she has lost three stone. Like the true reality star she is, she seems to have tied up with the media to track events in her life - so the cameras started rolling ever since she left the UK after her split with Mark. She had headed off to Tenerife for a bit but she’s back now.

Before he got married, he says he cheated on his wife, Emma and he’s really sorry. The Take That singer has said that he had ten affairs before he slipped on that wedding ring. The couple have two children and the star says that the turning point was his wedding day in November 2009 – he’s never cheated since.So why now, one might ask? Apparently he had been living with the guilt and he wanted to come out with it so that’s why he’s spilled the stories of his many affairs and many women. In the same breath, he has asked the media to be sensitive where his wife and children are concerned. Looks like the public outpouring was supposed to be an apology for actions that no one knew about till now.

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.

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.

Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue are trying for the figure skating medals at this winter Olympics in Canada. She had retired from the sport but he persuaded her to come back and try for it for the fourth time. She said she would but only if they got married. So it was the wedding rings first before starting to practise for the Olympics. Thus far, they have competed in three Olympic events and have walked away with bronze medals twice.

They are in very good form but they are among the oldest of the participants so this could well be their last attempt and both of them know that. Which is why it was so important to compete this one last time.

They were engaged sixty years ago and then they lost touch and though both loved each other, fate kept them apart. They both married others but never forgot each other. Till one day, 60 years later, they got in touch with each other over the Internet, reconnected and got married.

Then tragedy struck this romantic old couple in America. When she came back to her hometown to pack and move in with him in Los Angeles, he disappeared without a trace. Till now, his body has not been found. While she suspects foul play because he was well off, his children say that maybe he just went away because he felt shocked by what he had done on an impulse. For her, it’s a double tragedy as she sits waiting for news of him – wearing her new white gold wedding ring and her 60 year old platinum diamond engagement ring which has never left her possession.

It looked like Alex Reid might be stuck with a cheap wedding ring. When Katie Price went to the store to pick out a wedding ring for him, according to sources there, she asked to look at the cheap rings and she really was serious. So she was shown the bottom of the line rings.

Apparently Alex asked what she thought of the rings but she insisted that as he was the one who was to be wearing it, it was up to him to choose. And choose he did, finally – a steel and diamond ring by Yunis that cost considerably more than the ones she was looking at. The store people felt that there seemed to be nothing romantic about the whole thing and it seemed more businesslike than loving.

It was such a tragedy when the young, twenty-eight year old pilot from Utah went down with his jet in a remote area at night and lost his life. His young widow, Josie was devastated and she wanted something of her husband’s to keep with her. She hoped that his wedding ring could have been salvaged. That was what she asked for when they told her about what happened.

Pilots are not allowed to wear their rings when they are flying so like most other pilots, George, too, used to keep his wedding band in the pocket of his flight suit. It seemed highly unlikely that it could be found but it looked like a miracle when it was. Since that was all she had asked for, a team of volunteers was pressed into the job and they recovered the ring. Today, Josie wears it on a chain around her neck.

Though wedding rings were used by couples to proclaim that they were married even centuries ago in many civilisations, it has grown to become a very Western concept. This concept has grown even stronger because the wedding ring is part of the Western religious ceremony. So seeing a ring on the fourth finger of the left hand of a Western woman meant she was married. The same did not apply to a woman from the East because she could wear a ring on that ring finger and still not be married. However, in the recent years, there has been a sea change where this is concerned.

Wedding Rings: Beyond Boundaries

Today, many people from all over the world, especially the young, have incorporated the western wedding ring into their own ceremonies. So besides their own symbol of marriage, they also wear a wedding ring and this could apply to both the husband and the wife. The engagement ring of course had gone global before the wedding ring, but the wedding ring has followed in its footsteps around the world soon enough.Why is this happening? With more and more people travelling, there was bound to be a synergistic coming together of different cultures. Since the movies from the West first made their entry to other countries, viewers, especially the young audience has followed a lot of what they saw on the screen when it came to dress and mannerisms. Now, it is the turn of the symbol of marriage – the wedding ring.

At Semaphore Beach in Australia, a family was having fun on the beach when the man suddenly realised that his gold wedding ring was missing. They looked all over for it but couldn’t find it – which upset the couple because the rings had been blessed in the church when they were married. The man went back to look for it the next day but to no avail.

Then his wife had a brainwave and she put an ad in the paper. A couple of days later, they got a call from a treasure hunter who asked for the place where the ring was lost and went along there with his metal detector to try and find it. What a wonderful feeling it was to hear the equipment beep and to find the wedding ring after a week.