20 January 2011
Engagement rings sparkling during the holidays
The holiday season is also engagement season, and Hollywood last season did not miss on all the love and sparkles. In the past weeks big names like Natalie Portman, Reese Withersppon, and LeAnn Rimes have said “yes!”
After all the high profile engagements displaying all the colored gemstones in the center now comes the return to the more traditional colourless, and large diamonds.
LeAnn Rimes said yes to Eddie Cibrian and is now a 5-carat ring with an oval diamond hugs her ring finger. The Brent Polacheck designed engagement ring is set in platinum with pave diamonds surrounding the big piece of diamond in the center.
Hugh Hefner convinced Playmate Crystal Harris with a 3-carat diamond band set in platinum.
The big buzz though went around when Jim Toth proposed to Reese Withersppon with a William Goldberg 4-carat Ashoka diamond on a platinum band.
Ashokas is a very unique cut of diamond with the stone cut to be more brilliant and visually larger with rounded corners and 62 facets. The name is taken from the 41.57 carat flawless diamond owned by Ashoka Maruya of India. Today only 10% of the mined diamonds has the potential to be done on Ashoka cut.
2011-01-20 :: Eva