His rings, which resemble traditional wedding bands except for a gap in the center, sell for $200 to $500. They have a “dual purpose,” according to the company’s Web site, not only as “attractive jewelry,” but also as “a healing tool for broken hearts.” 
 
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 Never married? No worries. The Ah Ring, which stands for “available and happy,” is a $350 band with diamonds that is meant to be worn on the pinky. The ring’s meaning is hard to discern, because it looks like a silver band sprinkled with diamonds. 
 
 And the Web site that sells it, apparently not wanting to ward off any potential customers, says that while the Ah ring was “originally created for confident and joyful single women,” others can wear it because the “Ah” can also stand for “attached and happy.” 
 
 Della Beaver, who lives outside Philadelphia and manages operations for a medical referral service, bought herself an Ah Ring for her 50th birthday last June. She has never been married. 
 
 “Usually men buy you diamonds, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I just buy my own diamond?’ ” Ms. Beaver said. “So the ring was liberating for me, because I don’t need others to tell me that I’m beautiful, I’m sexy, I’m intelligent, I’m fabulous just as I am.” 
 
 Women are not the only buyers in this category. Tim Gould, the president of My Single Ring, said that of the nearly 1,000 rings he has sold since starting the online business last year — at $40 each — about 30 percent have been to men. 
 
 One customer, Brian Chapman, a 31-year-old real estate agent in Chicago, said that his ring has been an “icebreaker” because women strike up conversations about it, and that it has led to as many dates in the four months he has worn it. 
 
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 Mr. Chapman, who wears the ring on his right ring finger, said that some dates followed women approaching him and joking that he had his ring on the wrong finger, suspecting that he’d put his wedding ring on his other hand to disguise being married. 
 
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 Andrea Helms, 36, an operations manager at an insurance company who is from Chicago, said she wears My Single Ring “to say that I’m comfortable being single” but in a way that is more discreet than “a neon sign on my forehead that says ‘single and looking.’ ” 
 
 It did indeed get her a date: Ms. Helms was at a Chicago Cubs game wearing her My Single Ring when she was approached by Scott Gilbert, an owner of the company, who naturally was also wearing the ring. He asked her out, and they dated for a couple months — though not anymore — during which time Mr. Gilbert continued to wear his single ring as a “marketing tool,” Ms. Helms said. 
 
 She said that some of her friends think wearing a ring that telegraphs one’s availability has its downside. If an unwanted suitor won’t leave you alone, it’s hard to play the boyfriend card. 
 
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 In that case, a woman might prefer the Ms. Taken ring, which at $30 is more of a gag gift. Also introduced in 2009 — and scheduled to be featured in Snuggie-like infomercials in June — it is a silver-and-crystal engagement-ring look-alike that can be slipped on as needed to thwart the advances of pushy guys. 
 
 Then there is a more serious emerging category: specialty rings for gay men and lesbians. When Jeffrey Hames, 48, and Kenneth Daniel, 36, who live in Memphis and will be married in September on Cape Cod, decided to wed, “I did not want to go the traditional route, like Zales or other jewelers, where their wedding rings are tailored to being for a straight man and a straight woman,” said Mr. Daniel, a payroll administrator. 
 
 The couple shopped at LoveAndPride.com, which sells wedding and commitment ceremony rings for same-sex couples by the jewelry designer Udi Behr. They selected matching white gold rings, each costing $1,895 and consisting of two interlocking bands bearing the classic male gender symbol (a circle with an arrow pointing up and to the right). Mr. Hames and Mr. Daniel are both wearing one of the bands during their engagement and will exchange the second during their ceremony. 
 
 Meanwhile, the resale market for used engagement and wedding rings is booming, with popular online auction Web sites like IDoNowIDont.com, which Josh Opperman helped found after his fiancée broke off their engagement, and ExBoyfriendJewelry.com (tag line: “You don’t want it. He can’t have it back.”). 
 
 For those who prefer not to part with them, however, the Wedding Ring Coffin is a casket-shaped box for decommissioned rings. According to Jill Testa, the founder of the company that sells them, the personalized engraved messages that customers have ordered for the coffins include, “He broke my heart but I broke the bank” and “The end of an error!” ||||| Image copyright NYPD 
 
 Police in New York have found the couple who got engaged in Times Square on Friday but lost the ring down a grate. 
 
 The NYPD tweeted on Sunday that arrangements were being made to return the ring to the pair, who are from the UK. 
 
 CCTV images showed the couple unsuccessfully trying to retrieve the piece of jewellery. 
 
 But police officers later managed to rescue and clean it. 
 
 The BBC has been in touch with the couple and understands they are from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the UK. 
 
 They have been named by NYPD as John and Daniella, who said they had now returned home. 
 
 The footage was taken just before midnight on Friday and was released by police shortly after. 
 
 It doesn't show the moment the man pops the question but we do see him getting down on one knee in an attempt to find the ring. 
 
 His fiancée, who police confirmed said "Yes", puts her hands to her face when she realises what has happened. 
 
 She crouches down next to him, trying to help but they are unsuccessful. 
 
 The man then lies down on the floor by the grate, trying to reach the piece of jewellery but again they are unable to retrieve it. 
 
 Officers from the New York Police Department clearly have a romantic side and, more importantly, access to the grate, so could get it out quite easily. 
 
 Earlier, they had put out a plea for the man and woman to come forward. 
 
 Later on Sunday they released an image of the cleaned-up ring on their Twitter account with the caption: "Here's a photo of the ring our officers recovered (and cleaned!) Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM @NYPDTips if you know the happy couple so we can return it to them!" 
 
 Well-wishers were quick respond on social media. One wrote: "I hope the couple is grate-ful." 
 
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 Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here. ||||| NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James Allen, the fastest-growing online diamond and bridal jewelry retailer, releases a study in advance of Valentine’s Day that reveals men are surprisingly more likely than women to drop hints about wanting to get married – such as subtly mentioning marriage in conversations or watching films about weddings. 
 
 The new study surveyed married adults about their Valentine’s Day plans and marriage proposals and found that Valentine’s Day is the most popular holiday to get engaged. For millennials in particular, 43% claimed Valentine's Day as their top day to propose or be proposed to. The survey also reveals that, although 85% of women believe they never pressured their partner to get married, 57% of men report feeling pushed into marriage. 
 
 “These survey results and our experience working with hundreds of thousands of happy couples over the past decade have shown us that the most important part of getting engaged, both in regards to the engagement ring and the proposal, is making it your own,” said James Allen Co-Founder and CEO, Oded Edelman. “Younger people in particular prefer unique romantic experiences over what’s traditional or expected. We also see this hold true in their preference to design their own engagement ring.” 
 
 The Valentine’s Day study finds that many couples are valuing quality time above all else this holiday. The most coveted Valentine’s Day gift of 2017 is a shared experience like a romantic dinner or theater tickets, followed by chocolate for men and jewelry for women. The top way to celebrate February 14th this year is going out to dinner (38%) followed by spending a romantic evening at home (33%). 
 
 The survey, which asked couples detailed questions about their personal experiences getting engaged, also found that: 
 
 Couples were more stressed about choosing the perfect ring than about the proposal itself 
 
 Men are about twice as likely to regret not getting a nicer engagement ring than women – with 93% of women claiming they like their ring and 33% of men saying they wished they had bought a nicer ring 
 
 45% percent of respondents would have preferred to shop for a ring with their partner 
 
 One in four respondents were disappointed by their proposal, with the biggest complaint being that their significant other didn’t put in enough effort 
 
 The survey comes at the close of the so-called “proposal season” – between November and February – when 40% of all engagements occur. 
 
 James Allen is the fastest-growing online diamond and bridal jewelry retailer and has tripled its business in the past 24 months. The company is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and recently helped its 150,000th couple design the perfect ring. 
 
 This success has been propelled by James Allen’s commitment to using advanced technology to bring the luxury shopping experience of a high-end jewelry boutique into the home. James Allen offers countless customization options that allow shoppers to choose the perfect setting and gem from the company’s curated selection of 130K+ certified conflict-free diamonds. In addition, James Allen’s proprietary Diamond Display Technology shows what each diamond actually looks like from every angle in HD at up to 40x magnification. 
 
 James Allen’s study polled 1,000 married adults based in the U.S. 
 
 ABOUT JAMES ALLEN 
 
 James Allen, the fastest-growing online diamond and bridal jewelry retailer, allows customers to easily personalize and order engagement rings and other fine jewelry entirely online. Through its advanced technology, including an augmented reality Ring Try-On app and proprietary Diamond Display Technology that shows what each diamond actually looks like from every angle in HD, the company has earned industry-leading customer satisfaction scores. Founded in 2006 by four industry veterans with decades of combined retail and diamond experience, James Allen recently helped its 150,000th customer design the perfect ring. 
 
 Learn more at JamesAllen.com, and follow James Allen on Twitter (@JamesAllenRings), Facebook (James Allen Rings), YouTube (James Allen Rings) and Instagram (@jamesallenrings).
– Not engaged, but just dying for an oh-so-special ring to call your own? Great news: Thanks to today’s brilliant jewelry marketers, there’s a ring for every relationship status you’d like to broadcast to the world, be it “available and happy” or “divorced, available, and happy.” Websites like MySingleRing.com offer you a silver band that promises to deliver the message, “I am an intelligent, empowered individual”…who also just so happens to be single and looking. The trend goes even further, reports the New York Times, with more divorced people starting to turn their wedding bands into “divorce rings” (picture a severed band with a stitched-together gap). If you just can’t bear the sight of your wedding band, no problem: D Jewelry Company will sell you a brand-new divorce ring. Want to go one step further? Consider the Wedding Ring Coffin.