Diamonds, Engagement Rings & Diamond Jewelry in popular culture

Why bother having clear skin if Kevin Jonas is no longer available? 

Tweens all over the world have gone into mourning as the eldest of the teeny-bopper sensation Jonas Brothers finally proposed to his girlfriend.  On July 1st, Kevin Jonas shattered the dreams of little girls everywhere when he offered an engagement ring to girlfriend Danielle Deleasa.  The 22-year old told People Magazine that she didn’t see the ring at first because she couldn’t believe her 21-year old boyfriend was asking her to marry him. 

According to Deleasa, she looked at the teen heartthrob kneeling on her doorstep, “like, ‘Are you serious?’  When he pulled out that ring, I was like ‘Oh Gosh’…like ‘Oh my God’, and then I started crying.”  Having failed to find anywhere else to shoehorn the word “like” into her response, she said yes. 

Wedding Photos by Glamour Shots, Catering By Chuck E. Cheese.

The diamond engagement ring, designed by the evidently multi-talented Jonas Brother, was made by Jacob & Co.  It is a 3-carat cushion-cut diamond set in a platinum double-band with 210 round pave diamonds, costing about $75,000.  There is little doubt the bride-to-be from Denville, New Jersey who is described as a “former hairdresser” was thrilled with the sparkler.  It’s a big step from Aqua-Netting bangs part-time to wearing jewelry that costs as much as her parents’ house.

The two met while they were vacationing separately in the Bahamas in 2007, and it was Kevin who pursued Deleasa after he saw her walking on the beach.  She claims to have not even heard of the Jonas Brothers before that, despite the group’s meteoric rise to fame on the Disney Channel, birthplace of all great rock bands.  Isn’t that where the guys from Led Zeppelin met? 

With only two Jonas Brothers left, 16-year old Nick and 19-year old Joe, middle-schoolers are getting nervous.  Reading “Tiger Beat” won’t be the same anymore.  Watching their videos will likely cause uncontrollable wailing and convulsive sobbing.  Should middle Jonas Joe get serious with whoever Camilla Belle is, a seismic shift will occur and these same tweens who worship the Jonas Brothers now will be emotionally driven towards the maudlin Emo genre, trading their  brightly-colored baby-doll tops and denim miniskirts for black leggings, black Chuck Taylors, and oversized Dashboard Confessional t-shirts.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that.