Famous Colored Gemstone Engagement Rings

Did you know Hugh Hefner’s son has a distinctive taste for engagement rings? The future Playboy face has recently proposed his girlfriend Scarlette Byrne with an over the top yellow diamond double halo engagement ring. While we are totally in love with Copper’s selection, we should say colored diamonds are making a strong e-ring trend.

White diamonds have their own charm and beautifully decorate the fingers of many A-List celebrities. However, in recent times we have seen many celebrities choosing some more unique and beautiful options with colored gemstones ranging from emeralds to sapphires to colored diamonds.

Here are few popular celebrities with some of their even more popular engagement and wedding rings:-

Halle Barry
Halle Berry was very quiet about her engagement to Oliver Martinez, but stunning custom made emerald and diamond engagement ring spilled the beans. The ring incorporates a Muzo emerald with some coded signs that only Halle could decode. Oliver even gave a special Alchemy test for the ring.

Penelope Cruz
Javier Bardem proposed to Penelope with a beautiful and classic three-carat sapphire ring. The bright blue sapphire is surrounded by a flower-shaped halo of diamonds, a favorite vintage style of royals.

Anna Kournikova
Enrique Iglesias when popped the question to his girlfriend Anna chose an enormous Argyle pink diamond ring. The beautiful pink pear shaped stone is so huge that it covers her finger to a large extent.

Kournikova has also been seen wearing a huge, vivid yellow radiant cut diamond ring. This girl certainly appreciates color.

Napolean to Josephine

In 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte gave his future wife, Josephine, a lovely gold engagement ring with two pear shaped stones -a diamond and  a blue sapphire. Each weighing approximately 1-carat.  At a recent auction celebrating Josephine’s 250th birthday, this ring sold for $950,000 when it was only expected to fetch about $20,000.

Victoria Beckham
Mrs. Beckham wears a huge blue sapphire on her ring finger. Awesome color, awesome cut, and awesome clarity – her ring is nothing less than pure Posh. It is believed that this is one of the engagement ring upgrades David has given her during their 16 years marriage. She originally had a large pear diamond ring.

Heidi Klum
Supermodel Heidi Klum said yes to her famous singer husband in 2004 when he proposed her with a delicate 10-carat fancy yellow diamond.  The large canary stone is held by four yellow gold prongs and sits on a band of yellow pave set diamonds.  I guess now the color just represents friendship, as the couple separated in 2012.

Blake Lively
Ryan Reynolds popped the question to Blake Lively with a huge pink diamond rose gold ring.
Blake Lively flaunts the stunningly flawless fancy light pink oval diamond set in rose gold with pave set diamonds.  This simple setting does really putts the focus on the center stone.  While its carat weight hasn’t been disclosed, it’s easy to see the large pink diamond nearly reaches her knuckle!

Elizabeth Hurley
It must be hard to find a ring as stunning as the super hot Liz Hurley. But Australian cricketer, Shane Warren, came pretty close by proposing her with an amazing three stone ring with a square cut sapphire and two diamond baguettes.

Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood seems like a girl next-door.
Hockey player Mike Fisher apparently got her a sweet five-plus carat, fancy yellow diamond halo engagement ring estimated to be worth about $150,000.

Jennifer Lopez
Can we ever forget the ‘Bennifer’ era, Jennifer Lopez’s at that point donned a million dollar, super huge much talked about, crazy pink engagement ring. You can blame J.Lo for starting the fancy diamond ring trend.

Adele
The incredible singer dons a huge yellow diamond center stone with two triangular shaped yellow stones at its sides. The luxury white diamond band adds more brilliance to this gorgeous piece.

Kate Middleton or you can say Diana, Princess of Wales
Last but by no means the least is the most famous engagement ring in history.

The cream of the crop and most famous sapphire ring to date is Princess Diana’s 18carat oval blue sapphire ring surrounded with 14 glittering diamonds.  Catherine, the Duchess of Windsor who brightens the whole look and makes the colored gemstone alive and more famous now wears this splendid engagement ring.

Which of these colored gemstone engagement rings is your favorite? Would you choose a colored rock for your engagement ring? We would love to know in the comments below.