Considering hopping onto the "engagement season" train just as it pulls out of the station? A jeweler says they'll throw in a free XBox One with the purchase of every engagement ring, as long as it's got at least a 3/4 carat diamond.
Apparently ladies are now opening up their pocket books to ensure they receive the rock that their hand both needs (?) and deserves (?). Hey, maybe the sandwich lady will buy her own in the shape of a miniature foot-long sub? Romance!
Warning: Be very careful while watching this cooking segment, lest ye be blinded by a diamond the size of Wisconsin. Apparently the end product of this recipe is 70% brie, which I don't have a problem with, and it seems as though Blake Lively has a cool technique when it comes to egg cracking, but who can concentrate…
Congratulations! You've found the person of your dreams and think that you want to get married. Either that or you're like, "Screw rules, screw society, I'm gonna buy myself a ring and a dress and marry myself because it's 2013 and I can do what I want!" Sure you can; you're an independent woman/crazy person and no…
Call it the trickle-down-effect for engagement ring trends — whenever a celebrity gets engaged and starts sporting a shiny new bauble, jewelers everywhere rush to craft similar rings and capitalize on the popular urge to sport the same jewelry as America's pagan cult of entertainers or the U.K.'s pagan cult of inbred…
Another sign that these are tough economic times: Many men are only spending three weeks' salary, rather than the recommended three months' salary on engagement rings. A study by the British home insurance firm LV found that nearly two thirds of grooms buy rings that cost less than a month's paycheck. People losing…
It's fairly obvious that the Tiffany & Co. Engagement Ring Finder was invented for women. After all, the goal of all unmarried ladies is to have a hunk of diamond on that special finger — and quick! But it's strange:
Writer Conor Friedersdorf is attempting to start a boycott of diamond engagement rings:
Turns out, a diamond isn't forever - at least, not when it's small. According to a recent trend piece, many wives, unsatisfied with their original engagement rings, are trading them in for something even shinier.
A reader sent us the link to the art of Lee Gainer, whose "Two Months Salary" series shows what kind of rings an A-list actor can buy, as compared to, say, a fast food cook.
What does a diamond engagement ring mean to you? Love? Money? "Forever?" Over on Nerve, Ken Mondschein posits that diamond engagement rings are "profoundly anti-feminist." The idea that "only a diamond will do" is a relatively recent innovation, he explains. See, diamonds used to be so rare that only the very very…
The Tennessee Court Of Appeals has ruled that if the wedding is canceled, the person who gave the engagement ring is entitled to get it back, reports blog Say Anything. In the ruling, Judge Charles D. Susano wrote, "We hold that an engagement ring is given in contemplation of marriage, and as such, is impliedly a…
