We Can’t Take Our Eyes Off of These Engagement Rings in 2018
2018’s engagement ring trends embrace subtle, unique touches. From distinctive diamond shapes to eye-catching (and money saving) gemstone rings, this year’s trends show that there’s a lot to love on the scene right now. Let’s take a closer look at the best of 2018’s engagement ring trends. Choose a Moissanite Moissanite is a relatively new …
The Top Places To Propose In America
Popping the question in itself is scary, but you’ll want to ensure you do it at a destination that makes the moment that extra bit more special. With 50 different states to choose from, planning the perfect proposal certainly isn’t easy, however, we’re here to help you out. As long as you’ve selected the perfect …
Romantic Winter Proposal Ideas
Can you guess the most popular time of year to propose? No, it’s not Valentine’s Day. Guess again… Yes, it’s Christmas! In fact, according to Goldsmith’s marriage proposal survey, more than 60% of people think winter is the best time to get down on one knee. When you think about this time of year, it …
Shopping for Tacori Engagement Rings at Whiteflash
This post sponsored by Whiteflash.com. Featured in the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and the New York Times, Whiteflash is a standout jeweler located in Houston, Texas. Known for their specialization in ultra-modern diamonds and bridal jewelry, they’ve also been hailed as “Lord of the Online Rings” by Kiplinger’s Magazine and serves clients throughout the …
Apartment Hunting Tips For Newlyweds
Did you recently get married? Acquiring a house together is your next major step. Although purchasing a home is a big commitment that requires careful planning, the fact that you are looking for a place to start your family makes it very exciting. Whether you want to live in a condo or apartment, nothing beats …
5 Things To Think About When Buying Your Perfect Ring
If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’re on the hunt for the perfect engagement ring. And with all the choices online today, it’s hard to learn where to begin. The most important part of choosing a diamond is being educated about its origin, which one is the most adequate for your partner, and which …
Engagement Rings for Men: 18 Great Ideas
Choosing a men’s engagement ring may be tougher than expected. Men tend to be a bit more subtle with their style selections but when it comes to their wedding bands, the task gets trickier. Finding something that checks off all of the musts can be hard. It needs to be unique, timeless and masculine too! …
It Pays to Know These 5 Engagement Ring Cuts
Choosing the perfect diamond ring can be a totally overwhelming experience, especially when we know nothing about jewelry. The 4Cs guideline alone, which stands for carat weight, clarity, color, and cut, seems like a lot of homework to do before finally shopping for that ring. For instance, the cut is one important factor in determining …
5 Hacks That Will Make Your Engagement Ring Look Bigger
It’s totally OK to admit that spending according to your budget is the most practical thing you can do when picking an engagement ring. However, there’s just something about a large stone that just craves for attention, and when you’re set to marry, there’s nothing that you’d want more than to shout it to the world. Don’t worry; …
Cutting the Pre-Marital Tension: Humorous Ways to Uplift Your Wedding Preparations
If you’re currently engaged or about to become engaged, welcome to a wild, wonderful world of stress. Sure, planning a wedding is the happiest sort of stress, but there are better ways to approach your walk down the aisle. Humor is a wonderful tension reliever that can slice premarital tension to ribbons. Learn to Love …
7 Ways to Make Your Proposal Unique
So you’ve decided you want to get married. But have you decided how you’re going to propose? Do you want to be one of those couples who everyone videos and then watches on YouTube with their hand on their heart? Or do you want ask them over breakfast with the same nonchalance as when you …
How to Find Your Fiancee the Perfect Engagement Ring
In order to get you fiances perfect engagement ring, you must completely understand her style. This is an important step because if the ring doesn’t fit the style of her personality, she may be stuck wearing a ring that she dislikes for the rest of her life. For instance, if your fiancee is more simplistic …
A Guide to Picking the Perfect Engagement Ring
When you are planning a proposal, you want to make sure that you have chosen the right engagement ring. However, the world of engagement rings can be a very confusing one. You may have questions about stones, styles and budgets and have absolutely no idea where to start. The good news is, that this simple …
How to Plan the Perfect Proposal
Your proposal is a moment you and your partner will remember forever, no matter how it goes down – which is why it’s a good idea to plan the moment carefully and account for all the small details. The little touches are what will be remembered most more than the grand gestures. With this mind, …
Matching Engagement Ring Sets Roundup
If you’re in search of inspiration to pair your engagement ring with a wedding ring, look no further! Our friends at Ritani.com have rounded up some of their best-selling engagement rings and paired them with wedding bands to create beautiful matching sets. Read on for dazzling wedding day inspiration. Sponsored by Ritani. Three-Stone Diamond Engagement …
A Wedding Expenses Breakdown: Who Pays For What?
In days of yore the parents of the bride paid for the wedding. Those days are long gone, much to the relief of parents with daughters everywhere. So who pays for what these days? It really depends on the couple, their family, and all related bank accounts. Yet etiquette still applies, and with that in …
7 Gorgeous Art Deco Engagement Rings & Where To Buy Them
With vintage flair and delicate details, the symbol of love and commitment will survive all fashion trends mixing up the wedding world. We’re showcasing 7 gorgeous art deco engagement rings and where to buy them. For those that love a bit of old age spirit and intricacy, check them out! Bookmark the page and have a friend …
Everything You Need To Know Before Buying an Antique Style Engagement Ring
If you have never brought antique style jewellery before in your life, you may feel as though you are entering into unchartered waters. However, it is not as complex as you think, and if you know the right stuff, you will be well-equipped to make a successful purchase. When buying an antique engagement ring, it …
How To Spot The Most Exquisite Wedding Ring Store In Melbourne
Melbourne, being both dynamic and cosmopolitan, has become known as Australia’s hub of style and culture. This is why it is such a great destination to find the most stunning wedding rings in the country. Just as with anything however, when there is a lot of choices, it can get tricky to spot the average …
Why Should You Buy A Fairtrade Wedding Ring
Over the last 25 years or so, there has been between 2000 and 2500 Tons of gold mined per a year and over 50% of that gold goes towards making jewellery. The jewellery industry is a massive one and a lot of money changes hand each year in the purchase of both the raw materials …
Heart-Shaped Engagement Rings We’re Swooning Over!
These heart-shaped engagement rings are trending and we’re completely swooning over each one of them! Different styles and tones too, take a peek at how you could be adorning your ring figure in the near future! via Pinterest
Brides Asks 89-Year-Old Grandmother To Be Her Bridesmaid!
When Nana Betty, 89-year old grandmother to bride-to-be Christine Quinn, was asked to be a bridesmaid in her granddaughter’s wedding, she was shocked and even asked several times, “Are you sure?” But when the day for I do’s came, Nana Betty became the life of the party and even told Christine, “You’re only as old …
Should You Choose Your Own Engagement Ring?
So you’ve been dating for a while and you’re in love. You know it, your partner knows it, and likely everyone else, from your grandmother to the cashier at the corner store, knows it as well. And as is usually the case, you’re waiting for your significant other to pop the question. It’s just a …
5 Must-Have Engagement Party Essentials
Calling all recently engagement couples! Who is planning a party to celebrate their upcoming nuptials. Big and glamorous or close and casual, however you’d like to honor this new commitment is up to the two of your, but we’re sharing 5 must-have’s for every festivity. From the ensemble to the overall …
20 Must-Have Kitchen Tools on Your Wedding Registry
Okay, you’re engaged — yay! After setting a date, one of the first things you’ll do is register. And don’t feel like you’re jumping the gun by getting ahead. It’s important to register right away, as people will begin planning showers (which means including your registry information on the invitations), sending engagement gifts, etc. Also, …
5 Classic Engagement Ring Styles
Are you on the search for the perfect engagement ring for your bride-to-be? Or are you a hopeful bride-to-be rummaging through online stores trying to find the design that makes you swoon? Either way, what you should be looking for is a timeless style that will be loved throughout the ages. Let’s take a look …
Choosing Bridesmaids: 5 Questions To Ask Yourself
How To Choose Your Bridesmaids Planning a wedding is all about making choices: the dress, the venue, the cake, the music, the décor…perhaps one of the biggest choices is who to have as your bridesmaids. If feeling a bit overwhelmed in terms of who to pick, check out the following five questions to ask …
Choosing a New or a Vintage Engagement Ring
When you are in the market for an engagement ring, you will soon see by looking at the market that there are a wide variety of choices that are available. No matter what your taste, you will be able to find something that is suitable for you to celebrate your engagement, as well as also …
4 Proposal Ideas We Guarantee Every Girl Would Love
Nearly every girl, anywhere in the world, dreams of the day that her Prince Charming asks for her hand in marriage. Call it cultural conditioning, romantic expectation or an unnecessary tradition; it doesn’t change the fact that the love of your life will most likely want you to ask for her hand in marriage! …
In Pursuit of the Perfect Wedding Ring: 3 Tips for Novice Shoppers
If you have recently proposed to your significant other, you will no doubt find yourself lost in a haze of confusion, excitement and unmitigated terror. This is because marriage remains one of the most important cornerstones of a civilised society, despite the fact that British couples are spending less in pursuit of their ideal …
See Mila Kunis’s Beautiful Engagement Ring!
We might as well call this the week of Mila and Ashton! We’ve all been waiting to get a good look at her rock and while at a Lakers game together, we finally got what we wanted. It is gorgeous. Mila showed us her brilliant new ring. It is a classic, prong-set round-cut diamond. We’d guess it …
The Bachelorette’s Desiree & Chris Celebrate at Engagement Party
Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” have been engaged since last spring, but wanted to celebrate with family. Desiree and Chris had a huge engagement party this past weekend in Washington, and it looks like they had a blast. People shares the details of Hartsock and Siegfried’s big event. “The Bachelorette” engagement party …
7 Things Every Marriage Needs
No two marriages are alike. Yours will be an ever-evolving combination of the unique interests, passions, values, and personality quirks that you and your partner bring to your relationship. However, there are eight things that all successful marriages have in common. Patience is not included in the list, but patience is key as you discover …
Ladies, You Can Pop the Question on Valentine’s Day! The Do’s and Don’ts
Valentine’s Day is for lovers, and if you are a lady looking to take your relationship to the next level V-Day gives you ample opportunity. It might seem a little cliché, but when a gal pops the question it puts a whole new spin on the experience. If you’re the girl asking the question, why …
5 Tips For Communicating Your Way To a Healthy Relationship
Alright, so you fell in love, swapped rings, promised to stand beside your lover for all of your days, laid out on the sand for a week, and now you’re home and you’re starting to think you may have hitched yourself to an alien. Everything about this strange and attractive person is weirder and less …
Celebrities & Yellow Diamond Engagement Rings
Trivia question: What do Heidi Klum, Carrie Underwood, Paris Hilton, Kelly Clarkson, Rebecca Romijn, Adele, and Olivia Palermo all have in common? Answer: No, it’s not that they’re all rich, famous, and beautiful. The correct answer is that they were all the proud recipients of yellow diamond engagement rings. Leibish&co. came to tell us everything …
Pink Diamond Engagement Rings
Everything you need to know about pink diamond engagement rings from our guest writers at Leibish&co. Buoyed by a perpetual presence on the red carpet and the ability to educate oneself on the Internet, natural fancy color diamonds have become the “must have” accessory. And sitting atop the fancy color diamond “heap,” which includes colors …
You’re Engaged: What’s Next?
You’re Engaged: What’s Next? Getting engaged is a very exciting milestone in life. Your love has just asked you to spend the rest of your life with them—or, in some cases, you may be the one who has done the asking!—and the answer was yes. This is huge: making the commitment to share the next …
The 5 C’s of Choosing an Engagement Ring
It’s time to pop the question! You know you’ve found the woman of your dreams and you want her to be your wife. It’s only natural that you would want to get her the perfect engagement ring. She deserves it but how do you choose a ring that will knock her socks off and show …
Choosing The Right Engagement Ring: Stress Free!
Choosing The Right Engagement Ring: Stress Free! Choosing anything for your loved one can strike fear in the hearts of many men. What if I get it wrong? What if she’s disappointed? The engagement ring can provide a real challenge, not least because you want the proposal itself to be completely perfect. If you intend …
4 Fun Ways to Announce Your Engagement
The holiday season provides a chance to get together with family and friends to celebrate. It is also a time for romance. About one-third of couples get engaged between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, reports the The Washington Post. What better opportunity for a fun and creative way to announce your engagement than to make …
Nothing Says Love and Companionship like Diamonds
Nothing Says Love and Companionship like Diamonds Marilyn Monroe once told us that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and this is something which you should keep in mind for when you decide to walk down the aisle. Getting married to your partner is an enormous moment in both of your lives, and therefore you …
Tension Set Engagement Rings
The tension setting may be simple, but it’s sure to turn heads. This unique engagement ring style seems to suspend a gemstone in midair, making it a striking modern pick for popping the question. Although a tension setting may seem like a risky way to hold a precious gem, it’s not nearly as precarious as …
7 Tips for the Perfect Wedding Proposal
Most people will agree that proposing marriage is the biggest question you will ever ask in your life (or ever be asked). As you only get one shot at it, a certain amount of planning is required to make sure it all goes perfectly. The best proposals are obviously romantic ones, but be sure not …
Wedding Planning and Marriage. The Difference Between Men & Women
By Robbin Porter Why his ideas of marriage and ceremonies are so different than yours… Turns out, it’s a cultural thing. As we are raised, we are taught and conditioned to behave in certain ways that are [culturally] acceptable. It’s no surprise that boys and girls are raised very differently and are expected to behave …
A Future Family & Finances: Are You Ready for Marriage?
Money and kids are two major facets of life, especially for couples who plan to marry and share the rest of their lives together. Are you ready? Joint Finances & Disclosure In preparation for marriage, settling finances is paramount. Couples must be open about their financial histories and future monetary goals. Joining bank and credit …
5 of the Most Bizarre Marriage Proposals
It’s fair to say if you’re going to ask for your loved one’s hand in marriage, then it is going to be a memorable day. But for some people, getting engaged alone is not quite enough, it has to be done in its own special way. Some may opt for the personal approach, many keep …
Picking the Perfect Piece: Tips for Valentine’s Day Jewelry Shopping
Do you still need to find that perfect Valentine’s Day gift? Admittedly, your time is short, and chances are that you want to make the most of it. If you’re not sure where to start, a gift of jewelry is always a good option. However, the vast selection that’s available (especially at this time of …
Perfect Valentine Gift For Your Fiancée
Valentines day is a special time to spoil your fiancée. There are many gifts you can buy to show your feelings, but picking something special can be a difficult proposition. There’s little to show the real spirit of Valentines day than a romantic evening at a Valentine’s Spa, it’s a gift that simply says ‘let’s escape …
Four Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do”
By the time you get engaged, it’s easy to assume that you know just about everything about your spouse-to-be. While you probably know each other pretty well, there are a number of topics that don’t always come up if you’re not intentional about discussing them, and many of these subjects are ones that are crucial …
