Celebrities Love Secret Engagements

Celebrity engagement rumor:  Tony Romo, football player and ex boyfriend to Jessica Simpson gives his new girlfriend, Candace Crawford, an engagement ring!  Wait…doesn’t this mean that they are, in fact, engaged?  Some say that Romo’s gift to Crawford was just a ring, and not an engagement ring, but if you wear a diamond ring on the third finger of your left hand doesn’t it stand to reason that you are planning to get married?  Why is it that celebrities work so hard to keep their engagements from reaching the press?  Isn’t the act of becoming engaged itself a declaration of your intentions to marry? I would think that if a couple didn’t want the world to know they were going to be wed, they would wait to become engaged until they are ready for the announcement.  What is the point of marriage if not to broadcast the fact that you have chosen this person to spend the rest of your life with?

The web and tabloid stands are full of celebrity engagement gossip. Pop singer Katy Perry’s boyfriend Russell Brand is rumored to be engagement ring shopping at London’s Cartier, but are they going to tie the knot after her evening cozying up to British comedian Robert Pattinson and a group of friends?

Jennifer Lopez wore her amazing eight-carat square cut diamond ring on her middle finger and denied engagement to Marc Anthony.  Their wedding was kept under wraps, and it wasn’t until months later that Lopez and Anthony admitted the union.  I can understand wanting privacy during the ceremony, but again, why keep their marriage a secret after the fact?  Eventually don’t you want the world to know?

For two months actress Rachel Bilson kept her engagement to fellow actor Hayden Christensen a secret.  It wasn’t until a man on an airplane noticed the engagement ring on her finger that she revealed that they were planning to wed.  Again, why the secrecy?  Are stars afraid if the news of their engagements leaks out to the public it will jinx their chances of success?  I think if they want to keep their engagements private then they shouldn’t wear a diamond engagement ring in public.

Secret engagements are not always the standard for stars, however. Some celebrities are not so timid when it comes to love.  When Chelsea Clinton and her now fiancé Marc Mezvinsky became engaged this past November, they weren’t afraid of announcing the big news at all.  In fact, they sent out a mass email to their friends and family!  I don’t know how classy that is, but at least they let the people close to them share in their excitement.

For singer Jennifer Hudson, one proposal was not enough.  Four months after her pro wrestler fiancé David Otunga popped the question on her 27^thbirthday, she surprised him.  Apparently Hudson wanted Otunga to realize how much she was looking forward to their wedding, she secretly had a fabulous man’s five-carat diamond engagement ring custom designed by Neil Lane, and proposed to him!

The stunning Neil Lane Engagement Ring Jennifer Hudson used to Propose to her Fiance

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