RingSpotters

Celebrity Engagement Ring: Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum sports a gorgeous yellow diamond, also called a Canary diamond, which is the most popular of the fancy colored diamonds (yes, fancy is a word commonly associated with colored diamonds). With white diamonds, we tend to focus on cut and clarity as a measure of the stone's brilliance, but Fancy or Colored diamonds are all about the hue!

About the ring: Fancy yellow oval cushion cut 10 carat diamond set in a thin band of small yellow pave diamonds. Estimated to be worth over $150,000.

 

Cushion Cut Engagement Ring

Today's beauty belongs to a Santa Barbara native who will be celebrating her wedding in June of 2011. She fell in love with the setting at a jewelry store in Santa Barbara (same place her mom's ring is from - so cool!) and her fiance picked out the fabulous cushion cut center diamond.  "I loved the ring because it was very different from any other ring I had seen.  We had been looking for awhile."

Ringspotters loves this ring too.  Let us count the ways...  
1) The cushion cut center diamond just draws your eyes in and we can't seem to stop looking at it.  
2)  The double halo of paves are simply stunning  (we can't help but belt out a little Beyonce when we look at it)
3) The triple band just brings it all together and creates such a unique look  
4)  There are 126 diamonds in the setting. 

We have never seen anything quite like it! 

Cut: Cushion

Setting: 126 diamonds

An Engagement Story: "It was a beautiful night in SF in April, we had champagne on our roof deck, and then headed to our favorite neighborhood restaurant.  When we arrived, the entire staff knew what was about to happen and were standing in a line greeting us as we came in.  It was really cute, but I was still clueless.  We sat in the private room with our favorite server.  We went ate dinner, paid, and I got up to use the restroom.  When I came back, I thought we were leaving, so I put on my jacket, but Andrew asked me to sit down and take off my jacket.  Then he got down on one knee and proposed!  He had planned for all of our friends to meet us out to celebrate!  It was the best night!!"

Tiffany's Novo Engagement Ring

This gorgeous solitaire belongs to a bride who will be celebrating her wedding this November in Dubai. The Novo setting boasts a fabulous cushion cut set on a band of very small round brilliant diamonds in a shared setting (the tiny prongs give it that very unique delicate look).   Its classic, its timeless, its Tiffany's. 

Cut: Cushion

Carat: 1.93

Setting: Tiffany's Novo

Jeweler: Tiffany & Co.

 

Cushion Cut Solitaire Engagement Ring with Bezel Setting + Eternity Wedding Band

Today we're excited to feature the rings of a San Francisco bride of 2 years whose platinum cushion cut with bezel setting combined with the princess cut eternity band is definitely a show stopper.  We love that the bands are thick and almost chunky - makes for a unique and eye popping set!

Cut:  Cushion 

Carat: 3.41

Setting: Platinum bezel

Wedding band: 18 princess cut diamonds in a platinum channel setting.  Total weight is 7.77 carats.

 

Cushion Cut Engagement Ring with Halo Setting

Today's ring comes from a DC bride of one year who was very involved in the ring selection process.  The micro paves around the halo and the band bring such an elegant and delicate look to the ring.  We love the manicure too!

  

Cut: Cushion

Carat: 1.75 (center stone) 

Setting: Platinum with micropave diamonds around center stone, basket and band 

Jeweler: Golda Jewelry, New York 

About this ring: "Much as I'd like to give my husband full credit for picking out my ring, we actually went through much of the ring shopping process together, working with a family jeweler to select the stone and Golda Jewelry in New York for the setting. I sought and obsessed over rings with micropave diamonds around a center cushion cut and after an afternoon of window shopping in the diamond district in New York, I pointed to a ring in a window and got very dreamy-eyed over what is now my setting. The biggest surprise was timing - when he finally popped the question with my dream ring, he got me hook, line and sinker."

Cushion Cut Engagement Ring with Sapphires + Double Wedding Bands

Today's ring is not only unique, but absolutely elegant. It is worn by a Chicago bride of five years who has always loved sapphires and not so subtly requested that her engagement ring include them. Her cushion cut diamond is flanked by four sapphires and round brilliants, and when paired with her double wedding bands, is just stunning!

Cut: Cushion

Carat: center diamond 2.15

Setting: Cushion cut center diamond flanked by alternating sapphires and round brilliants set in platinum.

Cushion Cut Engagement Ring with Halo Setting + Double Wedding Bands

Our first ring, naturally, is one of our own - a lovely cushion cut diamond surrounded by tiny pave stones. My husband worked with the jeweler on this design knowing only that I liked Katie Holmes' engagement ring and I couldn't have been happier with the outcome.

Cut: Cushion

Carat: 1.5

Setting: Platinum with pave diamonds surrounding the center stone, knife-edge band with beveling

Jeweler: Finer Jewelry, Chicago IL

Wedding Band:  I opted for two wedding bands to achieve a balanced look, so my jeweler created two platinum bands with the same knifed edges of the engagement rings, with very tiny pave diamonds surrounding 2/3 of the band.