Engagement is a traditional act of promise of marriage. Diamond engagement ring is a cultural imperative, a symbol of eternal love. 1930′s of the last century is established the Western standard of engagement rings with a central stone. Today, under the influence of fashion each ring with diamonds may be an engagement ring. We recommend that an engagement ring to your chosen one to wear for a lifetime is consistent with your common understanding of beauty and to your lifestyle.
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History of diamond engagement rings
The history is recorded that this solemn act, engagement or promise of marriage, for the first time made official with donating an engagement ring in mid-fifteenth century. The Austrian Duke Maximilian in 1477th donated gold engagement ring to Mary, the Burgundy Duchess, as an expression of love and promises of marriage.
It is not known how the engagement ring looked like, but it is known that Maximilian 1508th is declared as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Habsburg dynasty became the most powerful in Europe. Until the nineteenth century gold ring was a symbol of the engagement and marriage also.
Only in the early nineteenth century, those two ceremonies are separated and established tradition of engagement rings as a promise of marriage and tradition of married rings, that is wedding rings as a symbol of the sanctity of marriage.
Diamond engagement ring in Europe and America has become a kind of cultural imperatives 1930′s by the influence of powerful De Beers Group and by then unseen marketing campaign.
Diamond engagement ring has become a symbol not only of love but also and faith that will spend rest of their lives together. The term solitaire was created in goldsmith as a marker for the ring with one elevated diamond, and later spread to the architecture and urban planning. Under the influence of fashion trends, today the diamond engagement ring considered each ring which is adorned with diamonds, that is brilliants, and is not necessary to have central stone of a diamond.
So according to personal affinities the central diamond often replaces with emerald, ruby, sapphire and other precious stones, and with a side or around the central stone diamonds are implanted. In the world only diamond sliced and arranged in a circle, with at least 57 facets called “Round Brilliant”, and every other shape of cutting has its name. For example, the ring with a diamond in a square is called the “Princess cut diamond” and so on…
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