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Ivanka Trump’s Bridal Bar
The NBC Apprentice co-host, brilliant real estate baroness, and billionaire heiress, Ivanka Trump loves diamonds so much that she bought an entire jewelry company. Her exquisite jewelry line flaunts Ivanka’s signature step-cut oval diamond and oval diamond side stones. The line has a hint of classical style with a daring dash of edginess. Wedding rings and engagement rings are part of the “Bridal Bar Collection” that features three sided pave diamond wedding. Breathtaking engagement rings in bold setting shapes set this bridal jewelry line apart of some of the best. The Madison Avenue boutique in New York City bears a resemblance to a lavish boudoir complete with comfy couches, dramatic drapes and cute vanity mirrors.
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Bush Family Designs Engagement Ring
Jenna Bush’s twin sister Barbara, Mrs. Laura Bush, and her fiancée’s mother helped design Jenna’s ring. The ring was reset from a ring from her fiancées great grandmother. A round cut diamond nestled between two deep sea blue round sapphire side stones is set atop a diamond and white gold band.
Carat Concierge
The American Express Platinum Card concierges go to great lengths to organize their client’s proposals. Concierges are on call 24 hours a day so nothing is off limits. They arrange for the question to be popped in exotic locales, private serenades by pop stars, instant family- and friend-filled parties and help with customizing engagement rings. Men are even requesting cameramen and photographers to capture the best part of the proposal process…the reaction. Click here for more information.
Computer Love
Did you and your beau fall in love over the internet? If you did, an engagement ring set is in the works that will keep you cyber connected forever. The USB Flash Drive Swarovski Crystal engagement rings are in development. The rings can store pictures of your wedding day, and connecting the two rings can transfer the data instantly, or you can connect to a computer.
Cherry Wood Wedding Rings
Nature lovers and tree huggers can now have a tree hug them with wooden wedding rings. The colors available are from Black African wood made from the remnant wood of clarinets. Color can even be inserted by using crushed blue-green Lapis
lazuli stone. Touch Wood rings say wear the warmth of wood (www.touchwoodrings.com). If wood is not enough, wood-rings.com fuse silver and wood together, while simplywoodrings.com is one of the only sites to make diamond speckled wooden engagement rings.
Gold, Palladium or Platinum?
Novell Design Studio, one of America’s top wedding ring manufacturers has a new guide on “Choosing the Right Metal for Your Bridal Jewelry.” The handy guide clearly defines benefits of yellow gold, white gold, palladium, and platinum. Platinum can be polished and resized to fit any finger. Click here for more information.
Unique Diamond Settings
Touted as “the ultimate reverse setting,” this ring is for those who want to remain a bit sharp. The diamond is simply set upside down giving it a funky spike look. It’s only for those dangerously in love. Tobias Wong also hides the diamond in his “only you know who much he/she cares” set. Perfectly polished diamond band with the diamond on the inside. People who hate bragging and love to keep their treasures a secret are drawn to this ring. Click here for more information.
Don’t Let Your Ring Float Away
Insurance on your engagement ring should be bought immediately after leaving the jewelry store. A man in Great Britain put his engagement ring into a helium balloon hoping that he would literally get to “pop the question” only to let it fly away. If he had insurance and could replace the ring immediately maybe he would have a fiancé instead of an irate girlfriend.
