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The Most Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Engagement Rings

The Most Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Engagement Rings

From emerald to square to round-cut, these stunning star sparklers had us Pinning furiously to our dream ring boards

By Alex Apatoff and Colleen Kratofil

Updated February 20, 2020 10:24 AM

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Jenna Dewan & Steve Kazee

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The parents-to-be are also newlyweds-to-be! The actor surprised the Flirty Dancing host at her baby shower with a ring "as beautiful as she is," designed with help from pal Nikki Reed (who has jewelry line Bayou by Love).

“The solitaire is representative of our oneness in the universe surrounded by stars,” Kazee said of the oval-shaped diamond. "The diamonds laid into the band are representative of the pleiades constellation which holds special meaning for Jenna and I."

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Anna Faris & Michael Barrett

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The Mom star kept her ring under wraps for quite a while, but finally confirmed her engagement to the cinematographer while on the Late Late Show with James Corden, after Corden complimented her "unbelievable" ring - which appears to be a yellow diamond set in a split-shank pavé band.

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Eliza Limehouse & Struthers McBride

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The Southern Charm star was surprised by her beau while she was doing a photoshoot for her jewelry line at her family's plantation.

The photographer on hand for the shoot snapped away as McBride presented Limehouse with a marquise-cut diamond surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, set on a rose gold band with one hidden diamond embedded inside.

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Nikki Bella & Artem Chigvintsev

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With a sparkler this showstopping, we can't believe the former WWE star was able to keep her engagement quiet for two months. (And that's not the only happy news Bella has been waiting to share: She and her dancer fiancé are expecting a baby!)

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Jourdan Dunn

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The supermodel revealed her incredible ring - without revealing the identity of the man who gave it to her! She recently posted a photo of her "life partner" to Instagram but blurred his face and hasn't shared his full name.

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Danielle Brooks

Another star who hasn't publicly confirmed the identity of her groom-to-be, Danielle and her fiancé (reported to be Dennis Gelin) welcomed a baby in 2019 and rang in 2020 with, appropriately, a ring.

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Michelle Williams & Thomas Kail

The actress had a great way to "ring" in the New Year, when a source confirmed she was engaged ato marry - and expecting a baby with - her Fosse/Verdon director Thomas Kail.

The two attended the Golden Globes together several days after the reveal, where fans got a clear view of her engagement ring, a large pearl solitaire set between two sparkling baguettes on a slim band.

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Emma Stone & Dave McCary

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It's no joke! Emma's SNL writer love proposed with an elegant pearl ring set with a halo of diamonds designed by Yoshinobu Kataoka, from N.Y.C. boutique Catbird.

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Hoda Kotb & Joel Schiffman

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The Today Show star surprised her cohosts by debuting her ring during her broadcast - though the sapphire-and-diamond sparkler was so big, she had to hide it in her bra before slipping it on to show it off.

Kotb says she was "blown away" by the "beautiful" ring, which Schiffman helped design with jeweler Jennifer Miller, but admits she's not the expert when it comes to jewelry: "It looks like a stop sign! ... He knows I don’t care [about jewelry]. He really does know that. But he said it was important for him to choose. And he did.”

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Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix

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The actor recently said his actress fiancée is "the only girl I ever looked up on the internet," and perhaps he's referring to her "dream ring" Pinterest board too - this unique hexagon-shaped stone seems perfect for her.

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Susan Kelechi Watson & Jaime Lincoln Smith

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The This Is Us actress was thrilled to show off her new sapphire sparkler from her actor beau on the Emmys red carpet, even joking she nicknamed it "Marina" after Marina Del Ray, Calif., where he proposed.

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Sarah Hyland & Wells Adams

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The Modern Family star has been positively giddy about the Lorraine Schwartz-designed oval diamond she received from her Bachelorette alumnus fiancé - and can you blame her?

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Elizabeth Olsen & Robbie Arnett

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A taste for uniquely elegant engagement rings must run in the family: Elizabeth received an emerald set in a starburst of diamonds from her musician fiancé, while her older sister Mary-Kate sports a vintage sapphire-and-diamond style.

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Bindi Irwin & Chandler Powell

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For the environmentalist daughter of the late Steve Irwin, everything about the proposal was one-of-a-kind, from the custom-designed ring with recycled rose gold and a 2-carat lab-grown diamond, to the distinctive way she displayed it (with help from a snake!).

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Cynthia Bailey & Mike Hill

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta star had more to celebrate than just the opening of her business, The Bailey Wine Cellar, when her sportscaster boyfriend presented her with a 5-carat princess cut diamond flanked by baguettes on the band from Simon G. Jewelry. "

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Lauren Bushnell & Chris Lane

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The most dramatic proposal ever? Not quite! The former Bachelor winner (that relationship ended in 2017) enjoyed a low-key backyard proposal from her country star love - though the ring still packs plenty of drama thanks to its 5 carat, emerald-cut diamond.

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Erin Foster & Simon Tikhman

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The actress and influencer was seriously surprised by the oval-shaped Martin Katz diamond from her businessman beau - not least of which because she thought she was attending someone else's vow renewal when he staged the proposal.

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JoJo Fletcher & Jordan Rodgers

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She said yes - again! The Bachelorette winner proposed with a Neil Lane diamond on his season finale, but three years later he popped the same question with a 5-carat oval ring with hidden halo on a gold band from Ring Concierge, saying he wanted to ask her to marry him again now that they've known each other for years instead of weeks.

"I think the size of the diamond he selected was a huge surprise to her. I don’t think she was expecting him to buy her something so large, which I think she’s loving,” designer Nicole Wegman told PEOPLE.

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Lindsey Vonn & P.K. Subban

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The Olympic skier and her hockey star beau both know something about ice. No wonder her emerald engagement ring is such a stunner.

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Sadie Robertson & Christian Huff

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"Oh, it shines like a diamond!" the Duck Dynasty star told PEOPLE about her ring, which her fiancé loaded up with special details including a replica of her tattoo engraved into the band.

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Stassi Schroeder & Beau Clark

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The Vanderpump Rules star now sports a Clark family heirloom from the 1900s featuring a 3.5-carat diamond surrounded by 24 smaller stones, all set in platinum. "I feel like it’s like Cinderella’s glass slipper or something in a ring," she told PEOPLE. "It’s like, straight out of Downton Abbey."

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Julia Garner & Mark Foster

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The Ozark star sports a delicate solitaire diamond mounted on a pavé band as a sign of her engagement to the Foster the People frontman.

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Ashlyn Harris & Ali Krieger

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The two soccer stars, who both play for the Orlando Pride and the World Cup-winning U.S. Women's National Team, are set to wed. Krieger sports a round-cut diamond on an engraved band presented to her by Harris on a vaction to Florida.

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Jackie Aina & Denis Asamoah

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The YouTube beauty guru received this massive halo-set marquise diamond from her fiancé while the two vacationed in Santorini, Greece.

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Hilary Duff & Matthew Koma

The actress celebrated Mother's Day a few days early, receiving what appears to be a striking, sizable cushion-cut diamond on a gold band from her singer/songwriter love (and father of 6-month-old Banks Violet).

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Savannah Chrisley & Nic Kerdiles

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The Chrisley Knows Best star says her hockey player beau's surprise Christmas Eve proposal was "such a cool moment" - made even cooler by her dream ring, a 5-carat radiant brilliant-cut diamond from Nashville jeweler Dror Flantzman set on a ring with 18 round brilliant-cut smaller diamonds.

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Jennifer Lopez & Alex Rodriguez

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For a love this big, you need a big ring, and that's exactly what J.Lo got when A-Rod surprised her with a proposal in the Bahamas. (Now we're just waiting for the ultimate Instagram Husband to share photos of the rock that she's got from every angle.)

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Jennifer Lawrence & Cooke Maroney

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One of the benefits of marrying an art dealer? You know he's got exquisite taste - as the actress's fiancé demonstrated with the elegant emerald-cut diamond on a slim band she showed off at the Dior show.

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Brittany Snow & Tyler Stanaland

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"I said 'yes' about a million times to the man of my wildest & most beautiful dreams," the Pitch Perfect star wrote of her proposal from her real estate agent love, who popped the question with this super-classic round-cut diamond on a pavé band.

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Melissa Benoist & Chris Wood

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Supergirl is super-taken! The actress' costar on the CW series proved the superpower of love when he asked her to marry him with this oval, halo-set ring designed by Jennifer Meyer.

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Katherine Schwarzenegger & Chris Pratt

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Everything is awesome! The Lego Movie star proposed to his bride-to-be with this massive oval-cut stone on a super-thin band after seven months of dating - and of course, after getting the green light from her father, Arnold Schwarzengger.

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ANTHONY RAMOS & JASMINE CEPHAS JONES

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Sparks flew between the Hamilton co-stars (which the show's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda takes full credit for), and by the time he hit the SAG Awards in support of his film A Star Is Born, she was sporting his ring: An emerald-cut stunner with emerald-cut baguettes on either side, which he gave her in Paris.

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TIM TEBOW & DEMI-LEIGH NEL-PETERS

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There's one thing the former NFL player knew when deciding on the ring to give his soon-to-be fiancé. It has to be "internally flawless." He purchased the diamond sparkler a month before proposing, from a broker who flew into Jacksonville with several different gems for him to choose from, and ultimately selected a jaw-dropping 7.25-carat solitaire stone.

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HEIDI KLUM & TOM KAULITZ

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The supermodel and her musician love have been in a "state of bliss" since his holiday proposal, and they kept the celebration going by debuting her halo-set alexandrite stone between two baguettes at the Golden Globes. “Tom drew the dream ring for Heidi and then went in search of the right stones,” a friend said. "He didn’t just go to the store."

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The Most Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Engagement Rings

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Jenna Dewan & Steve Kazee

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Anna Faris & Michael Barrett

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Eliza Limehouse & Struthers McBride

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Nikki Bella & Artem Chigvintsev

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Jourdan Dunn

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Danielle Brooks

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Michelle Williams & Thomas Kail

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Emma Stone & Dave McCary

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Hoda Kotb & Joel Schiffman

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Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix

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Susan Kelechi Watson & Jaime Lincoln Smith

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Sarah Hyland & Wells Adams

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Elizabeth Olsen & Robbie Arnett

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Bindi Irwin & Chandler Powell

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Cynthia Bailey & Mike Hill

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Lauren Bushnell & Chris Lane

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Erin Foster & Simon Tikhman

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JoJo Fletcher & Jordan Rodgers

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Lindsey Vonn & P.K. Subban

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Sadie Robertson & Christian Huff

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Stassi Schroeder & Beau Clark

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Julia Garner & Mark Foster

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Ashlyn Harris & Ali Krieger

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Jackie Aina & Denis Asamoah

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Hilary Duff & Matthew Koma

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Savannah Chrisley & Nic Kerdiles