The world is chock full of celebrities who know both how to live well and how to spend unbelievable amounts of money to support their lifestyle. In many cases, everything they own has got to be far better than what the average person has. Needless to say, designers realize that since quality is of paramount importance and price is not an obstacle, the prices for items that celebrities love are often astronomical. In some cases, a person could claim to have a high income, merely from making enough money in a year to buy something such as a celebrity’s engagement ring. After all, diamond engagement rings are well known status symbols to almost everyone. The main difference is in a celebrity’s ability to afford the very best.
Take Reese Witherspoon, for instance. When her beau proposed to her, he presented her with a massive diamond ring that originally cost $250,000 and was custom made. While such an investment would seem ludicrous to most people, for this couple, such a purchase may have actually seemed to be in good, restrained taste. Not to say that the rich are necessarily gaudy by nature, but anyone who can spend six figures on a ring that will most likely herald a marriage of fewer than 10 years (the common length for Hollywood relationships) is living in a different world than most of us.
After all, when Mike Comrie proposed to Hilary Duff, he did not spend a “measly” six figures on his lady. When he dropped to one knee on a balcony in Hawaii, he opened a box containing a one million dollar ring bedecked with a 14 carat diamond. While most people can barely imagine having a million dollars in the first place, the wealthiest can buy such extravagant diamond engagement rings and think very little of it. One does wonder what he will do for their anniversaries, in order to top something like that.