21309: Celebrity Engagement and Wedding Rings
The dazzle of a diamond is always captivating, especially if the carats top the ring of a Tinseltown star. Following are a few engagement and wedding rings that have sparkled on the left hands of celebrity brides and brides-to-be:
Like the graceful reality star who has waltzed into the hearts of television viewers, rays of light dance on the facets of Karina Smirnoff's (Dancing with the Stars) 3-carat Harry Winston platinum and diamond engagement ring. Making the stunner that much more special, the symbol of love was presented to the bride-to-be in a Louis Vuitton bag.
Since winning America's Next Top Model, Eva Marcille (formerly known as Eva Pigford) has not only ruled runways around the world, but has also strolled on to the set of The Young and the Restless. Now she is planning on her walk down the aisle with actor Lance Gross after receiving a 3.36-carat diamond 1895 Pave Cartier engagement ring on Christmas Eve 2008.
Rules of Engagement star Bianca Kajlich received a 2-carat ring made to fit her finger by 23rd Street Jewelers, a store which played a pivotal role in an episode of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
From the acting roles she has chosen to the music she performs, Majandra Delfino has always gone against the grain. Instead of a standard sparkler, a garnet ring graced the former Roswell star's finger. Purchased at the Beverly Hills Watch Co., a gold wedding band from the same jeweler was added in October 2007 by former My So-Called Life star Devon Gummersall.
Valentine's Day will always hold a special meaning for Black Eyed Peas member Taboo, who chose the holiday to present a 3-carat cushion cut design from Neil Lane to his love, Jaymie Dizon.
Actor Mekhi Phifer, who checked the heart rate of his patients during his stint on ER, no doubt caused Oni Souratha's heart to skip a beat when he presented her with a 2.65-carat diamond solitaire set on a micro pave band from Jason of Beverly Hills.
"Happy today. Happy together. Happy forever. From Mr. to Mrs." Written on a card accompanying former American Idol finalist LaKisha Jones' 4.5-carat diamond ring from Zales, the warm sentiment made the singer's engagement priceless.
Kristy Lee Cook may have been eliminated during season seven of American Idol, but she has won the heart of Andrew Dobner, who slipped an engagement ring from King Jewelers in Grant's Pass, Oregon on her finger.
Labels: Celebrity Engagement Rings, Celebrity engagements
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2 Comments:
It seems that ct weight and what is deemed to be too large of an engagement ring is all so relative!
Since1910: I know exactly what you mean. When my 2nd husband and I got engaged, I quite literally refused to allow him to buy me an engagement ring. It was difficult for me to allow myself to love again & even more difficult to allow myself to let down my guard enough to trust another man again after what I endured in the years before.
My 1st DH stomped on an already shattered heart torn apart by a childhood of violence at the hands of an alcoholic physically abusive father along w/ a mother who did not have the courage to protect her children by taking us away from this vile man forever so my little brother & I endured sheer hell only my hell did not end when I left home. It continued when my 1st husband walked out on me & our 10-month-old daughter so he could run back to his parents' home to run around freely vs hiding & sneaking around w/ his teenage jailbait mistress leaving me w/ all the bills, no child support, & practically no education. It actually cost me more to take him to court for the unpaid support than I rec'd b/c this was in the days before the creation of the child support enforcement agency. I worked 2 & 3 jobs to support us & my little brother who had come to live w/ me after dropping out of high school but only on condition he return either to high school or the local college's adult high school program. He graduated a year after coming to live w/us. I refused to let him work. He had to get his education first.
Upon "finally" accepting a date w/ the man that would change my life, I began to think of my own education goals. I returned to college but only at night btw working a full-time job in the day, going to college on a full-time schedule at night, & then working nights as a barmaid to cover the bills until finally I had enough college credits & experience working in telecommunications that I got a great job in an office but with the benefit of working in the field as well.
The Christmas before our 10th wedding anniversary, my 2nd husband bought this beautiful three-stone anniversary band; it has a yellow gold band with three diamonds that are almost totally flawless - exquisitely cut - pristine set in a platinum setting. The diamonds weigh a full carat total but the ring itself has almost doubled from the initial appraisal, which was high when he purchased it. On Christmas Eve he gave the ring in front of his family. I sobbed like a child when I opened the box. That ring meant more to me after nearly 10 yrs of marriage than any actor or model's ring would ever mean to me. It was perfect.
The following two years, he purchased matching bands with inset diamonds made to go with the three-stone in a three-piece set w/ one of the bands representing/replacing the plain gold wedding band he placed on my hand when we married.
It's been some 20 years now & the love is still there. We've had our ups & downs, heartaches, pain, sickness, health, richer, & poorer. We've even come close to death but somehow we survive.
Somehow, I wish I could share what I feel in my heart w/these women of fame so they could realize that engagement rings w/ lofty price tags & designer jewelers is not the important part of a relationship & certainly has no bearing on the quality of a marriage. The decision to spend one's life w/another is a big step to take; you better be darn ready to take the good w/ the bad, work through the rough spots, compromise if you must, choose your battles wisely, & most important of all... take time to get to know each other, I mean really know that other person before taking those vows if you truly ever want to be happy. If you have honest to goodness found true love, it will keep. It will deepen with time as you take things slow enough to have that special person become more than a companion or sex partner. He or she must become your best friend, confidante, the one you go to when you are hurt, scared, confused, or need to feel their arms around you just to know that you are loved even if your day has gone well. Marriage is not a word or a ceremony to take lightly or jump in and out of on a whim. It's a lifelong commitment & I am not talking about a commitment to some supposed benevolent being in the sky. It is a commitment you make to another person that you will be true to them no matter how bad things become. You will do everything within your power to work through the rough times, enjoy the good times, and be thankful for the times when everything is going great. It is a relationship that you should wake up each and every day with a feeling of being truly blessed. That's where the true shine exists - not in some materialistic ring placed on your hand before you've had the chance to experience life making two people into a working team that sometimes blurs into a single unit called a soul mate.
That's just my opinion... Perhaps their mileage varies. All I know is that we are taken things one day at a time & sometimes we step back to an hour at a time; however, it doesn't matter in the end because we have a lifetime to get this one relationship, this one marriage right as long as we remain as committed as we have been through all these years w/ hopes of many more to come before our lives end.
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