JewelOcean.com Announces New Additions to its Cheap Engagement Rings Collection

Engagement rings can be extremely expensive, especially if they are embedded with diamonds. Couples face ridiculously high costs with regard to engagement rings, even causing some lovers to delay their wedding. This season, JewelOcean makes it easier for couples to get an engagement ring, as they provide customers with the cheapest prices around. Gold wedding bands, diamond engagement rings, and affordable wedding rings are JewelOcean’s specialties. That is why the company has launched a new collection of cheap engagement rings this season. The collection features a lot of engagement rings under $500, including lots of new diamond promise rings.

JewelOcean’s large array of inexpensive engagement rings provides individuals with unlimited options when it comes to buying a gorgeous, cheap wedding ring for their partner. The new design of JewelOcean.com is accompanied with never-before-seen cheap engagement rings, available in many breathtaking designs. Customers can choose from rose gold, yellow gold, white gold or silver bands, with diamond, sapphire or other beautiful centre stones. Not only does JewelOcean offer cheap wedding rings, but couples can choose the diamond cut, ring size, gold type, and can even get the ring personalized.

The collection of affordable engagement rings offers 10k, 14k or 18k white gold, yellow gold or rose gold. These beautiful designs will please any woman, especially with the various centre stones available. Ranging from diamonds to sapphires, the centre stones are available in several different cuts, including the princess cut and round cut. Other unique features include oval shaped diamonds and pear shaped diamonds. Sizes of the cheap engagement rings also vary from 4.5 to 9, increasing in half size increments. If an engagement ring is desired in a size other than the ones specified, customer support will gladly discuss the request.

Inexpensiv e engagement rings and cheap wedding rings are always available for l ow prices on JewelOcean.com, but now the retailer has constant closeout sales for those customers who have a very tight budget. However, if cost is still an issue, there is a layaway option for the majority of cheap engagement rings available on JewelOcean.com. Even engagement rings that are on sale can be put on layaway. Visit the payment layaway policy page for more information on the topic. JewelOcean always offers the lowest price guarantee, as well as diamond engagement rings for the manufacturer’s price.

Made with only real and natural diamonds, JewelOcean’s assortment of inexpensive engagement rings has been satisfying customers throughout the United States and Canada for over 10 years. With infinite positive ratings, JewelOcean continues providing excellent customer service, with a 30 day refund policy and 24/7 customer support line.

JewelOcean.com specializes in diamond engagement rings and wedding bands, providing them for discount prices. The le ading online jewelry retailer focuses on affordable prices, while still providing couples with beautiful diamond engagement rings that they can cherish forever. With thousands of positive customer reviews and ratings, learn what makes JewelOcean so special. To find out more information about the cheap engagement rings collection and to view the stunning wedding rings, visit JewelOcean.com.

 

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'Uncle Bobby's Wedding' to stay on Brentwood shelves

Brentwood, MO (KSDK) - A controversial children's book is back in circulation after it was pulled from library shelves in Brentwood.

"Uncle Bobby's Wedding" tells the story of two male guinea pigs that get married. It was pulled after a parent complained saying the book influences young children to accept a harmful lifestyle.

The library removed the book, a standard procedure, while the board of directors assessed the situation.

On Thursday NewsChannel 5 learned directors voted unanimously to put it back on the shelves.

"The book came out in 2008. So it's been on our shelves for four years now and it's been checked out 10 times," says Library Director Vicki Woods. "So it's not new. It's been challenged at other libraries, and when it came out in 2008 I think it was the 9th most challenged book in 2008. So it's not unknown for controversy to follow the book."

Woods tells us she heard from the author, who is pleased the library is keeping it in the collection.


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Wedding Planner at James Bond Hotel Says Couple Isn't Good Enough to Get Married There

Anyone who thinks it's always the bride who goes 'zilla and exhibits totally outrageous, cringe-worthy behavior while planning the Big Day has never witnessed just how wacko wedding vendors can get. As a bride-to-be and the friend of a couple of fellow 2013 brides-to-be, I've experienced and heard of some crazy episodes with people in the over-the-top wedding biz -- but nothing nearly as upsetting as what a U.K. couple recently had to endure ...
Twenty-seven-year-old bride-to-be Pauline Bailey and her 51-year-old fiance Paul Carty wanted to get hitched at the five-star Stoke Park Hotel, which has previously featured in Bridget Jones' Diary and James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies and Goldfinger. After having met the couple, hotel wedding planner Michele Connelly decided Pauline and Paul weren't the right "kind of people" to be wed at the venue. She then wrote the following email to her boss ...

I need your advice. I know this probably doesn't sound very nice, but I am trying to put this wedding off as I don't think they are the type of people that we would want to have at Stoke Park. I spoke to the bride yesterday and have put her off for now by telling her the dates that she wants are not available. Help!!!

Ouch!!! But wait, there's SO MUCH MORE. When Michele went to hit "send," it turned out she had mistakenly cc'ed Pauline! Whoooops, huh?
Of course Pauline was in tears initially. She told The Daily Mail:

I was horrified. Effectively, Michele was asking her boss how she could get rid of us. The suggestion was that we were undesirables, which we definitely are not. We're a hard-working, well-educated couple, who both speak well. ... It's clear to me that this hotel operates a policy of discrimination, which is terribly wrong, unfair and deeply, deeply hurtful. Paul and I can hold our own anywhere and in anyone’s company. We are thoroughly decent people and didn’t deserve this humiliation.

No kidding! No one deserves to be turned away by a venue in this way. Sadly, it probably happens behind couples' backs more often than we realize ...
In this case, Pauline believes the discrimination was related to the fact that her fiancé is 24 years her senior and has a pierced eyebrow and two earrings. So ridiculous. Thankfully, they were bold enough to take the hotel to task for this disgraceful incident ...
They've considered legal action and have refused a meeting with the hotel's sales manager who apologized and requested a meeting to discuss their wedding plans. As Pauline explained, "After such a disgusting snub we wouldn't hold our wedding there, even if the hotel offered it for free." Good for them!

From:http://thestir.cafemom.com/

Paris Fashion Week: day two

Paris Fashion Week: day two

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Blame all the recent elections, which pit man against man (or woman, in some cases), or simple boredom with the talk about austerity measures and bad job figures and so on and so forth, and the corresponding desire to drum up some drama, but either way this Paris Fashion Week is being framed, broadly, as a face-off between Raf Simons at Dior and Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent. The two designers will show their debut ready-to-wear collections for their respective historic houses this season: Simons on Friday and Slimane on Monday.

Indeed, though the men themselves have been doing their best to distance their brands from what they insist is a made-up media moment, to read the fashion (and even the mainstream) press, you’d think nothing else was going on.

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hich is too bad; because the opening days of the Paris collections were actually very good. Didier Grumbach, president of the Chambre Syndicale, suggested the level of anticipation for the Simons/Slimane showdown might cause other designers to raise their game and, thus far at least, he has been proved right. Mostly.

Admittedly, this wasn’t the case for Rochas, where designer Marco Zanini seems to be retreating ever further into some idealised past world of perfumery. Cropped shirts were worn over hoop or hobble skirts; wide, ankle-length trousers came with midriff-baring tops; and a ballgown was reimagined as an enveloping taffeta shirtdress that looked like a couture schmatta and made no contemporary sense at all.

At least at Thierry Mugler creative director and ex-Gaga collaborator Nicola Formichetti and his womenswear designer Sébastien Peigné are inching their way past latex and showmanship and into more realistic territory via nipped-in mini-hourglass silhouettes and slick trousers, albeit with a Star Wars-in-Japan vibe. But it was at Gareth Pugh that the eponymous designer, often seen as a goth Mini-Me version of mentor Rick Owens, took an enormous step forward, adding dimensions and a soft romance to his repertoire.

So signature leather leggings were paired with sharp jackets that nipped in at the waist and soared up at the neck to swaddle the shoulders and frame the face; sleeves – and the lower legs of slick trousers – were trumpet flared and exaggerated; sleeveless handkerchief tunics in airy wool with fringed hemlines sported draped necks to the back; and dresses in strips of silk that drooped into balloon shades on the skirt skimmed the hips in a dancing silhouette.

It was as if Mr Pugh had finally realised elegance didn’t have to be worn as a challenge to the world; it could simply be assumed. This is a sartorial truth Ann Demeulemeester has always understood, and this season expressed to regal effect. Tailored jackets with flowing chiffon sleeves that created a train unto themselves, glinting trouser suits in amethyst and silver shantung, and billowing sleeveless silk dresses in cloudy sky shades, sometimes caught by a spidery leather harness – all were a potent reminder of the risk of overlooking the familiar in anticipation of the unknown.

In case you missed it, however, this was reinforced at Balenciaga, where with each piece designer Nicolas Ghesquière had a new point to make.

Dries van Noten Gives Grunge a High Fashion Makeover for Spring 2013

Dries van Noten Gives Grunge a High Fashion Makeover for Spring 2013

The Clothes: Grunge gone high fashion. We’ve seen a lot of ’90s rehash from designers this season but this was the best interpretation of the decade I’ve seen so far. Dries Van Noten took Seattle’s plaid flannel button down and made it sheer and sexy. Plaid then made its way onto loose pajama pants, dresses and long skirts and all of it was worn together: Plaid on plaid on plaid. Yet somehow, it worked. And when it wasn’t plaid, Van Noten, who is known for his prints, sprinkled in some florals–on sheer dusters and maxi dresses worn over plaid looks. Van Noten also turned out some of the best examples of pajama dress we’ve seen: A silk bathrobe was tucked into a busy skirt covered in gold fringe–perfect for the girl who partied too hard the night before and woke up 10 minutes before she had to run off to the next party. The vibe was relaxed, cozy and sexy all at the same time.

The Hair & Makeup: According to a tweet from Style.com, dark roots were painted on so stylist Paul Hanlon could achieve the “Courtney Love in Hole” look he was going for. Lips were a dark, matte red and many of the models wore white-framed sunglasses (because they were so chillax-ed OK?)

The Soundtrack: Since I have to use a Blackberry in Paris because Verizon and my iPhone 4 won’t cooperate, I couldn’t Shazam it. So I’ll have to rely on the Wall Street Journal‘s Meenal Mistry who informs that it was: Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’ covered by The Cribs, the Breeders and Sonic Youth’s ‘Superstar.’ “Dries Van Noten had best soundtrack so far,” she tweeted. We’d have to agree.

The Vibe: For the past few seasons Dries van Noten has shown at the Hotel de Ville–the grandest most gilded most Baroque venue you could imagine in Paris. So it was fitting for this high fashion take on grunge that he switched it up and showed in a stark industrial space that felt like a parking garage. Also a thing about a Dries show: Everyone fangirls-out and wears Dries. So everyone looks awesome.

Oh what a life: Frankie Valli reflects on ‘Jersey Boys’

Oh what a life: Frankie Valli reflects on ‘Jersey Boys’

 That’s what Frankie Valli found himself considering the first time he watched a run-through of “Jersey Boys,” the mega-hit Broadway musical that depicts Valli’s rise to fame in the 1960s with the band that would become famous as the Four Seasons.
“How would the word ‘strange’ sound to you?” Valli said the other day. “It’s like a reflection of yourself. You look in the mirror and all of a sudden the reflection you see in the mirror is doing you. And you’re just standing there watching.”
To call Valli an iconic figure in pop music might be an understatement. He and the Four Seasons scored 40 Top 40 hits, including eight singles that went to No. 1. Most of the songs were written by the group’s co-founder Bob Gaudio. Today many of them - “Walk Like a Man,” “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” - remain instantly recognizable. What makes them so, aside from Gaudio’s expert craftsmanship, are Valli’s utterly unique falsetto vocals.
But Valli said he didn’t realize he was doing anything special.
“The magic that may seem to be there was something that was normal and natural,” he said from a tour stop in Denver. “I never studied singing with anybody. And I never thought that what I was doing was so incredibly unique. I thought anybody singing could do it. It took me awhile to understand that. I had this wonderful gift, and I loved using it.
“I learned to sing by doing impressions, singing songs that I liked that the radio was playing. You liked the song and you wanted to sound like the person doing it. . If you could imitate four or five people, if you really worked on it you could probably do 15 or 20. But as I said, I never gave it a second thought. I thought all singers could do that.”
“Jersey Boys,” with which Valli and Gaudio were directly involved, is an international hit, and Valli said there are plans to adapt it as a film, which could begin shooting as early as January. In terms of the story, which depicts the group’s early struggles, the conflicts among bandmates, brushes with organized crime and eventual success as recording artists, Valli said the show is “95 percent accurate.”
For this concert tour, Valli is bringing a band that includes two guitars, a bass, drums, keyboards, a sax player, four singers and a small horn section. The audience, he said, will hear plenty of hits.

Amy Poehler Divorce Imminent? Star Steps Out Sans Wedding Ring

Amy Poehler Divorce Imminent? Star Steps Out Sans Wedding Ring

As far as post-split appearances go, Amy Poehler absolutely nailed it on the red carpet at the Emmys on Sunday evening. The "Parks and Recreation" star wore a sparkly black Stella McCartney gown with a plunging neckline and rocked a surprising piece of jewelry on her ring finger -- but it's not what you think.

"Oh, this is a $2 adjustable ring from my child's toy box," she told Ryan Seacrest. "He told me I should wear it, so I listen to him."

The Emmy's marked Poehler's first red-carpet appearance since announcing her separation from Will Arnett, her husband of nine years, earlier this month. The former couple has two children together -- sons Archie, 3, and Abel, 2.

Poehler was nominated for two awards -- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for her work on "Parks and Recreation." Arnett also received an Emmy nod for his guest role on "30 Rock."

Poehler is not the first celebrity to make a sexy red-carpet debut after a split. Click through the slides below to see six other stars who showed their exes exactly what they were missing post-divorce.