Prospective groom drops ring from hot air balloon

A young Ohio pastor didn't lose his nerve about asking his girlfriend to marry him — even after he accidentally dropped the diamond engagement ring overboard during their hot-air balloon ride.

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Child finds Ark. woman's missing diamond ring

A 6-year-old girl who found what she thought was a fake diamond ring in a Wal-Mart parking lot has helped reunite a Benton newlywed with her missing $9,000 engagement ring.

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Woman Dumps Still-Married Man, Keeps Ring

A woman who found out that the man who proposed to her was married can keep the $40,000 engagement ring he gave her, even though she was the one who broke off the relationship, a judge has ruled.

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He's lucky she said yes -- and he's also lucky the diamond engagement ring he dropped on the Brooklyn Bridge didn't end up in the river.

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Married BEYONCE KNOWLES has two engagement rings, and switches to a less expensive "fake" when she's onstage and out in public.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A 32-year-old man says he was allowed to use a Starbucks coffee house in New York as the surprise location for his engagement proposal to his girlfriend.

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Paul Campanale, his wife and two children were visiting Disney's Wilderness Lodge when he dumped a cardboard bowl into the garbage. Campanale was not aware that the container held his wife Karen's engagement, wedding and anniversary rings.

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When Violet Booth lost her engagement ring in a field almost 70 years ago, she never dreamed she ever had a chance of getting it back.

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... There's no money-back guarantee in love ... She returned an engagement ring in April 2005 and called off their wedding. Hess went to court to recover the money he spent on a vasectomy, a cruise to Alaska, a trip to France and other gifts.

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It may seem curious that feminism has made inroads on many retrograde customs—name-changing, for example—but not on the practice of giving engagement rings.

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It is ingrained in society that everyone from the stockbroker to the janitor has to shell out thousands to the diamond industry if he wants to marry his woman. After all. It's "how you can make two months' salary last forever," right?

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Survey says that most men who propose usually get it right. They research about diamonds and rings before purchasing. They find the perfect sentimental place to propose and really know how to make the occasion memorable.

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A young man's plan to propose to his girlfriend on a small chartered plane almost ended in disaster when the plane crashed and the engagement ring was lost in the wreckage.

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