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More than half of millennial and Gen Z couples pick engagement rings with a lab-grown diamond—and it means larger stones aren’t the status symbol they used to be
More than half of couples have reported buying a lab-grown diamond for their engagement rings for the ... In late 2024, De Beers, the world’s biggest producer of natural diamonds, slashed ...
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The miner growing its own diamonds
That's not Ian Fleming's phrase, but a tagline written for De Beers by a copywriter called Mary Frances Gerety. The idea that a man should spend two months' salary on a diamond ring? That social ...
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More couples are choosing lab-grown diamonds over natural stones for engagement rings. Here's why
In 2024, 52% of couples who were surveyed said their engagement ring featured a lab-grown diamond, according to the 2025 Real Weddings Study by The Knot. In the first quarter of 2025, an unbranded ...
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A Rocky Patch for Lab-Grown Diamonds
Even Lightbox, the lab-grown gem subsidiary of the diamond giant De Beers, has faltered ... 45.3 percent of the diamond engagement rings sold in the United States had lab-grown diamonds, and ...