Taylor Swift’s Giant Engagement Ring and Celebrity Trends on Big Rock

Taylor Swift announced his engagement with partner Travis Kelce and shared a series of images on Instagram, including one of the rings.

The post is captioned: “Your English teacher and your physical education teacher are getting married.”

However, not every English teacher can afford a diamond ring with six or even seven numbers.

Fans and curious onlookers have been sharing their opinions on proposals and eye-catching rings.

Kelce reportedly designed the ring with a jeweler, and its retro style seemed to be as good as Swift’s new announcement album The Oa the Oa the Over Gover.

Ruth Faulkner, executive editor of Retail Jeweler Magazine, said industry experts estimate that the price ranges from £500,000 to £4 million.

Diamonds look like 8-10 carat retro stone, and Ms. Folk is “quite rare” about antique works.

Jewelry journalist Rachael Taylor said the soft spark on the stone might be because it is hand-cut rather than machine-cut antiques.

She added that Swift’s rings present a trend of retro styles with different tailoring and oversized stones, which fits the singer’s “romantic” aesthetic.

Ms. Faulker added: “Whenever a celebrity gets engaged, if their ring is particularly good, it always attracts people’s interest.”

Rhona Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Diamond Expert, told BBC News that general trends have always tended to provide bigger stones for celebrities and the public, but celebrities choose to set it apart.

The rings found on the fingers of different celebrities this year – such as Zendaya’s unusual level diamonds on the chunky golden band and Dua Lipa’s round diamonds – show larger stones in less traditional settings.

Even if celebrities stick to trends (such as large oval diamonds), they tend to do it in a luxury way, which is hard to replicate.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodríguez made headlines earlier this month when she shared the ring she received from football players.

Ms Fitzpatrick said the huge oval rock was worth up to $5 million (£3.7 million).

“This is not the kind of ring you popped up with Tesco,” she added.

After Rodríguez announced the news, some bridal jewelry suppliers began to bring their own rings.

“It’s hard for people every day to afford the same price,” Ms. Fitzpatrick said, adding that some jewelers are opting for cheaper lab-grown diamonds to cater to a wider variety of styles.

Ms. Fitzpatrick said the alternative was growing in popularity, adding that about 52% of engagement rings now feature lab-grown diamonds.

Some clients also choose lab growth for ethical reasons – but Ms. Taylor says the debate is not as simple as it seems.

Because the process uses a lot of energy, lab-grown people are not more sustainable automatically than naturally mined stones.

Ms Taylor said some communities are financially dependent on the industry and rely on it to survive. However, there are concerns about working conditions at the diamond mine.

Ms Taylor said: “As long as you are buying from a reliable source and taking care of the reliable source of the community involved, you have to decide what is more important to you?”

The ethics around antique diamonds like Swift’s are also complicated, she added.

“Retro can be a moral choice, but you don’t necessarily know its origin and story,” Ms. Taylor said.

She added that there is no extra mining for buying antique diamonds, but you also “didn’t know under which circumstances the excavation was done”.

“If we were talking about it more than 100 years ago, that might not be a good situation.”

Ms. Faulkner said shoppers are increasingly turning to repurposing retro pieces to create more custom things.

She said couples often choose to reuse jewelry with “the story behind it,” such as works handed down from relatives.

While not sure if Swift’s ring has a backstory, she is obviously happy with the choice. But if her lyrics are to be broadcast, that’s not the most important thing.

“I love shiny things, but I’ll marry you with paper rings,” her song “Paper Ring” sings.