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Newport Jewelers Designs OC Housewife's Engagement Rings

Gretchen Rossi, star of the Real Housewives of Orange County, visited Newport Jewelers to design her four-carat yellow diamond engagement ring and to create one for her fiancé Slade Smiley.

Real Housewives of Orange County's Gretchen Rossi is newly engaged, and she designed her rocks, yes two rings, right here in Newport Beach.

Rossi said on last season's show she wanted to wait to get engaged until her longtime boyfriend, Slade Smiley, was financially stable. Things must be going well for the couple of four years, because Rossi proposed to Smiley on April 14 while the two were out in Los  Angeles with a ring from Newport Jewelers, according to a report in Life & Style magazine.

According to Daniel Arik, of Newport Jewelers, Rossi has been a longtime client and friend.

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"Newport Jewelers is very excited for Gretchen and Slade and couldn't be more pleased to have designed this everlasting symbol of their love," Arik told Patch.

Smiley’s ring is made of black gold encased with black diamonds, according to Arik, and has the letter “G” inscribed four times, which stands for God, his two sons and Gretchen.

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After she popped the question, Rossi and Smiley went back to Newport Jewelers a few days later where they collaboratively designed her "four carat round fancy yellow diamond center stone set in 18k white gold." Rossi's center stone is surrounded by an additional five carats of "round brilliant diamonds and a trillion diamond on either side."

Her engagement ring also includes inscribed letters, “S” and “G” on either side representing the couple's first names, Arik said. 

Arik said he has been designing jewelry for Rossi and her family for several years. The reality star refers to Newport Jewelers as her "go to jeweler."

Newport Jewelers is located at 2633 W. Coast Highway in Newport Beach. Visit the store at newport-jewelers.com or call 949-515-5858.


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