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In development over the last six months, the mobile version cleanly organizes the site’s information for uncomplicated viewing and research. It also incorporates new touch screen search features that allows guests to peruse the over five-thousand wedding bands and anniversary rings with ease.

The mobile search uses simple touch buttons to choose ring categories and metals, as well as a slide bar to select price points. Categories include plain wedding bands, classic wedding bands, contemporary wedding bands, anniversary bands, diamonds diamond wedding bands, handcrafted wedding rings and eternity rings. Wedding bands matching the results update seamlessly for the user, making browsing the large selection of wedding rings with one hand.

WeddingBands.com hope the new mobile site will allow them to keep up with the growing trend of searching and buying on the go. The site’s mobile users, which has grown to 25 percent of total traffic over the last year, now have the ability to research wedding bands in a more user friendly manner.

WeddingBands.com has been in business as brick and mortar since 1985 and online since 2001 selling wedding and anniversary rings. The site offers timeless, unique designer jewelry. They design and manufacture an exquisite selection of platinum, gold, titanium and/or palladium diamond wedding rings and wedding bands.

Burnsville, MN based WeddingBands.com announces the launch of a new diamond anniversary and eternity band collection.  The new collection is made up of larger more expensive pieces due to rising demand of jewelry with a larger total carat diamond weight.

The new ring line start at 2.50-carat total weight and increases from there. It incorporates diamonds that are a minimum of Very Slightly Included in clarity and near colorless at G/H in color grade.

The largest eternity band in the line starts at $16,950 USD and is 5.10-carat total weight (pictured here).

“Our customer base in Australia and the United Kingdom’s want for larger pieces increased over the last year. We hope that this new line satisfies that demand”, stated Operations Manager, Edessa Kerkinni.

The new line is the start of a company wide initiative to build on their reputation as an online wedding band retailer and start catering to tastes for larger diamond jewelry.  WeddingBands.com’s team of designers and artisans is in current works to create a ring by the end of summer 2012 that will start at $100K.

The new higher priced anniversary rings are already online and selling, giving WeddingBands.com a range of rings starting from $90 to $16,950 USD.

WeddingBands.com has been in business as brick and mortar since 1985 and online since 2001 selling wedding and anniversary rings. They offer timeless, unique designer jewelry and manufacture a large selection of wedding bands.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 29, 2012 — A new line of wedding bands artfully crafted to the finest quality with precious metal or a combination of metals is being introduced by WeddingBands.com. These wedding bands are made with 14K, 18K white, yellow or rose gold, palladium, platinum or combinations of these metals. They truly designed with the 16th century Verona and Italian art in mind.
WeddingBands.com displays thousands of unique artfully crafted women’s and men’s wedding bands, eternity rings and anniversary rings. These beautiful wedding bands are the dramatic result of imagination, design and fabrication using CNC machine and latest technology.
The diamonds used in our diamond wedding bands are VS in clarity G-H in color and are cut to the maximum reflection of light and brilliance.

About WeddingBands.com
Originally founded as Princess Jewelry in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1985, the company branched out to form an internet business in 1996 as WeddingBands.com. More than 20 years of retailing experience in wedding bands, anniversary rings and diamond eternity rings goes into making WeddingBands.com’s timeless offering of unique designer bridal jewelry.
To see the complete selection, please visit WeddingBands.com.

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A diamond found in Arkansas Park was appraised at $21,000 and one of the most valuable diamonds discovered in the park the past 3 years. Last March, Melissa and Kenny Oliver uncovered a diamond weighing about 2.44 carats in Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. The couple, like many others, went to the state park to look for diamonds.

Photo Courtesy of Crater Of Diamonds State Park from JCKonline.com

Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas is the only park in the world that allows the public to look for diamonds. Oliver got lucky and discovered a 2.44 carat diamond, named the “Silver Moon”. The diamond was cut down to a 1.067 carat diamond, with a clarity of VVS2 and F color. The jeweler who appraised the diamond for them was Bill Underwood from Underwood Jewelry in Arkansas.

Well to the couple, they are very lucky and I hope they set that beautiful diamond into a nice ring or pendant.

      Jewelry making is one of the oldest crafts in the world and forms of decorative art. There are more than 7000 years worth of jewelry history spanning from great empires, royal families, and jewelry found from all over the world. I’ve decided it would be fun to post snippets about jewelry pieces from the past. First stop, the Kingdom of Asante.

       Between the 1700s-1900s in West Africa, the Kingdom of Asante raised as one of the most successful imperial powers in West Africa. This kingdom was found on the large amounts of gold resources found in that region. The sole currency used in this kingdom was gold dust. Everything encompassing the Asante kingdom was in relation to the gold found. The king and major chiefs, plus certain senior officials wore gold jewels and gold decorative insignia. It was a way of distinguishing the different rankings among people. 

Asante Finger Ring

      Since the sole currency was gold dust, the king was the only official that could give permission to turn the gold dust into regalia or jewelry. As a goldsmith in the kingdom, you were required to be inventive and produce a continuous flow of unique and new styles for the wearer. The method of making the jewelry was lost-wax casting. Lost-wax casting makes an impression of a metal jewelry model in a rubber mold. The rubber mold is repeatedly injected with molten wax which hardens into exact copies of a jewelry item. Molten metals are injected into the cavities and allowed to cool. This type of method can make one of a kind pieces or multiple pieces. Today, many hand crafted wedding rings are created with lost-wax casting

      Some of the jewelry designs were taken from Europeans, but most designs were verbal representations. For example, the finger rings and toe rings were usually designed to illustrate proverbs and adages. The pictured finger ring is a sample of the jewelry made in the Asante Kingdom. There are three cannons on the top of the ring. On the side of the ring, there are hand carved leaf-like designs.