Pretend Engagement Rings

Have you ever worn an engagement style ring before you were engaged on your left hand?

I have heard stories of women wearing a fake engagement ring to fend off guys, but more recently, I have heard of women wearing fake engagement rings to get more attention. What are your thoughts on this? Do you have a CZ stowed away for part-time use?

Eclipse Review: Bella's Engagement Ring

I am a little slow, or maybe I have just been too busy this summer, but today I finally got around to seeing the third movie in the Twilight Series. In this movie, Edward proposes to Bella with his grandmother's ring.

The ring, as reported by InStyle, was designed by Stephanie Meyer.

Last we saw Edward and Bella at the end of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, our favorite brooding vampire had just popped the question to his mortal lady love. But the antique engagement ring that writer Stephenie Meyerdescribes as a delicate piece with an oval face “set with slanting rows of glittering round stones” doesn’t appear untilThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse, so we talked to the prop team to get all the details. To bring Meyer’s vision to life, prop master Grant Swain started by researching engagement rings from the Victorian era, called in several samples and enlisted four different jewelers to create prototypes of the bauble. But Meyer wasn’t satisfied with any of the options, so she drew a rough sketch herself and Swain sent it to Portland-based jeweler Rick Thurber, who’d created the Cullen family crest jewelry worn by Edward and his clan. Thurber mocked up a computerized 3-D drawing of his vision and sent it to Swain and Meyer for approval. Once he’d been given the go-ahead, Thurber used the illustration to laser cut a wax model, cast the band and setting and set the face with delicate pave diamonds (cubic zirconians were preferred but there wasn’t enough time to order them!). The ring was then rushed from Portland to the Vancouver set of Eclipse, arriving just hours before filming began on the pivotal scene. Talk about a ring with history!

A jewelry company in Utah has tried to imitate the ring. I don't think it comes anywhere near as beautiful as Bella's ring. Judge for yourself.

Tiffany & Co. Engagement Ring Finder

Have an iPhone? You are in for a very small free treat. Tiffany & Co. has created an application called the Engagement Ring Finder.

Key Features:

Ring Sizer - Allows you to place a ring on your phone and use a scale bar to help determine the owner's ring size.

Collection of Tiffany's Rings - What appears to be all of Tiffany's engagement rings are available for browsing. The size of the diamond set in each ring can be altered incrementally to give you an idea of what different size stones would look like, although there is no promise that the ring pictures are to scale!

Download that app to your iPhone here!