Playing Dress-up with Engagement Rings: The Celebrity Edition

Playing Dress-up with Engagement Rings: The Celebrity Edition

Like clockwork, wedding rumors pop up regarding certain celebrity couples, regardless of age, longevity, or depth of their relationships, ranging from the most reliable to ridiculous.  However, no matter how implausible the rumors, they circulate for the simple fact that they are fun to speculate upon.  So in the same fashion that top fashion designers…

Okay to be Square: Square Cut Diamonds for Engagement Rings

Okay to be Square: Square Cut Diamonds for Engagement Rings

Round cuts are an all-time classic when it comes to engagement rings, and Emerald cuts are fast becoming a new classic with celebrities like Eva Longoria and Heidi Klum, but there are still some people out there who think it is okay to be a square. There are a variety of cuts that can retain…

Engagement Ring Trends in 2010

Engagement Ring Trends in 2010

There were a slew of celebrity weddings in 2010, as well as a number of prominent engagement announcements.  With the year shortly drawing to a close, here is a list of some of the more popular diamond engagement ring trends from this past year. Non-Diamond Rings In 1947 DeBeers created the slogan, a diamond is…

Nicole Richie’s Engagement Ring: Sealed with a Halo

Nicole Richie’s Engagement Ring: Sealed with a Halo

When recent bride Nicole Richie became engaged to Rocker boyfriend Joel Madden, of Good Charlotte, he gave her free reign on the engagement ring.  The fashion minded mom teamed up with her jewelry designer, in February of 2010, to create an over four carat Round cut center diamond set into an octagonal halo, with pave’…

What Exactly is a Tracer Band?

What Exactly is a Tracer Band?

That is question I asked myself when an associate at Verragio mentioned them to me.  Often referred to as ‘Shadow band’ or ‘Contoured band,’ a tracer is a type of wedding band that is made especially to fit flush against your engagement ring. There are many women who like the look of two separate rings…

Vintage Inspired Engagement Rings: Romance Personified

Vintage Inspired Engagement Rings: Romance Personified

More often than not we celebrity engagement rings that are, while impossible stunning, imposingly large. The styles worn by celebrities like Beyoncé, Eva Longoria, and Khloe Kardashian may vary in detail; however the style remains the same: beautiful, large, square cut, and solitaire. And while that combination of elements never fails to produce a clean and…

Revolutionizing a Classic: The Solitaire Engagement Ring

Revolutionizing a Classic: The Solitaire Engagement Ring

In 1886 Tiffany’s introduced the six-prong solitaire ring design. In 1947 the diamond company DeBeers took it one step further, pairing engagement rings with their “a diamond is forever” campaign. Today, the combination of the two, the single diamond solitaire design, is one of the most popular styles for engagement rings today. Although the traditional…

The Couture Collection: High Fashion for the Real World

The Couture Collection: High Fashion for the Real World

The word couture is a French term that refers to the creation of high fashion, made to order designs, and has always been closely associated to fashion capitals like Paris, Milan, and London. However, in today’s modern world the term ‘couture’ is synonymous with high end, custom-made, hand-executed fashion. Often times, people also associate the…