25 Most Expensive Engagement Rings Of All Time!!!

When we say engagement, it is all about expensive pieces of jewelry and anticipation of a huge wedding.

And when we say expensive, here are the world’s most expensive engagement rings of all time.

Quick Overview

Celebrity Engagement Ring Cost 
25. Christine Quinn $1 million
24. Gabriel Union $1 million
23. Catherine Zeta-Jones $1 million
22. Hilary Duff $1 million
21. Angelina Jolie $1 million
20. Jennifer Aniston $1 million
19. Kate Upton $1.5 million
18. Katie Holmes $1.5 million
17. Serena Williams  $2 million
16. Ciara  $2.5 million
15. Blake Lively $2.5 million
14. Anna Kournikova $2.5 million
13. Jacqueline Kennedy  $2.6 million
12. Alexa Dell $3 million
11. Melania Trump $3.5 million
10. Jerry Hall $4 million
9. Vanessa Bryant $4 million. 
8. Kim Kardashian $4 million. 
7. Zoe Kravitz  $5 million
6. Paris Hilton  $5 million
5. Jennifer Lopez  $5 million
4. Beyoncé   $5 million
3. Elizabeth Taylor  $8.8 million
2. Mariah Carey $10 million
1. Grace Kelly  $38.8 million

Expensive Engagement Rings

The information are gathered from trusted sites such as Wikipedia and diamondhedge.

25. Christine Quinn

American Actress Christine Quinn, married Christian Richard in 2019.

Christine Quinn
Christine Quinn
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Christine’s engagement ring features a 20-carat diamond, a 9.52-carat band, and is 0.58 carat pave coated with a Platinum setting.

It is worth about $1 million.

24. Gabriel Union

American actress Gabriel Union is married to Dwayne Wade and has been together for 13 years.

Gabriel Union
Gabriel Union (Source: flickr.com)

Similarly, Wade’s engagement ring features with 8.5-carat cushion-cut diamond in a platinum setting.

The ring was designed by Jason Arasheben and is worth $1 million.

23. Catherine Zeta

Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta married Micheal Douglas in 2000.

Zeta’s ring is a 10 carat oval-shaped diamond in the center. It is beautifully surrounded by additional 28 shining diamonds, making it one of the fabulous engagement rings.
Catherine Zeta
Catherine Zeta (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

The cost of the ring is $1 Million. It’s a Fred Leighton design.

22. Hilary Duff

American Actress  Hilary Duff is famous for the Disney Channel series Lizzy McGuire.

She was initially married to Mike Comrie and currently to Matthew Koma.

Hilary Duff’s 14-carat engagement ring from engagement with Mike featured a radiant-cut center diamond flanked by two side stones.

Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

The ring was worth $1 million back in 2010.

Similarly, Duff has another engagement ring featuring cushion cut diamond in a white gold setting with four carats of diamonds worth $80,000.

21. Angelina Jolie

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie was engaged with  Brad Pitt in 2012.

Angelina Jolie cropped
Angelina Jolie (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

Jolie’s engagement ring featured a 6 carets emerald-cut center diamond framed with tapered baguette diamond throughout the ring.

Similarly, The ring was worth $1 million.

20. Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston was married to superstar Brad Pitt in 2000. However, after their separation in 2005, she began dating Justin Theroux in 2011 and got married in 2015.

Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston (Source: flickr.com)

Though she is single currently her engagement ring was something to talk about.

Justin proposed to her with a 10-carat diamond ring with a square cut with rounded corners.

The ring was worth $1 million back then.

19. Kate Upton

American Model Kate Upton is married to Justin Verlander.

Kate Upton
Kate Upton(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

Justin proposed to Kate with an 8-carat round-cut sparkler ring featuring a diamond pavé of white gold band setting ring.

The ring is worth about $1.5 million.

18. Katie Holmes

American Actress Katie Holmes is the ex-wife of actor Tom Cruise.

Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes
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Tom Cruise’s ring to Holmes was a 5-carat Edwardian-cut oval-shaped diamond featuring another six diamond carats in rose gold and platinum band.

Similarly, The ring was worth $1.5 million back in 2006.

17. Serena Williams

Tennis player Serena Williams has 23 Grand Slam Singles titles and is married to Co-founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian.

Serena Williams Wimbledon 2008 2
Serena Williams (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

Additionally, Alexis proposed Serena with a 12-carat oval-cut diamond, which is three stone platinum band, and each side of the ring decorated with 1 carat of side stone.

Similarly, The ring is worth $2 million.

16. Ciara Wilson

An American singer Ciara Wilson was married to Russell Wilson in 2016.

Ciara Wilson
Ciara Wilson (Source: flickr.com)

Ciara Wilson’s engagement ring was a 16-carat diamond bound by four stones with pear-shaped diamonds on each of the four sides.

The engagement ring to Ciara by Wilson was worth between $2 to $2.5 Million.

15. Blake Lively

American actress Blake Lively married Ryan Reynolds in 2012 and is one of the wealthiest couples in Hollyhood.

Likewise, Blake Lively’s engagement ring was 12-carat oval-shaped pink diamond.

Blake Lively
Blake Lively (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

The enormous diamond ring was designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Renolds splashed about $2.5 million for the ring.

14. Anna Kournikova

Russian base American Model Anna Kournikova married Spanish Singer Enrique Iglesias in 2001.

The wedding ring by Enrique Iglesias to Anna Kournikova was worth $2.5 Million back in 2001.

Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, practices her backhand for a match at the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament on Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina, where hundreds of Charleston Air Force Base (AFB) personnel volunteer to provide security.
Anna Kournikova (Source: nara.getarchive.net)

According to the jewelry specialist, Kournikova’s ring is a 3-carat yellow cushion-cut diamond which is in a white gold and platinum setting band.

The 3-carat diamond yellow cushion-cut diamond was brought from Argyle mines, Western Australia.

13. Jacqueline Kennedy

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married John F. Kennedy in 1953.

Similarly, Jacqueline Kennedy’s engagement ring was a big 2.88-carat diamond paired with a 2.84-carat emerald surrounded by a barrage of baguette diamonds.

Likewise, the iconic ring was worth $1 million.

In the same way, Jacqueline Kennedy also had another engagement ring from Aristotle Onassis, which featured a 40.42-carat marquise-cut diamond worth about $2.6 million.

12. Alexa Dell

The daughter of  Micheal S. Dell, the CEO of Dell technology, Alexa Dell, is engaged to Harrison Reform, who met on the set of a blind date.

Similarly, Alexa Dell’s 12-carat Emerald Cut diamond engagement ring is shaped in a Prong Setting of  Platinum Band which is worth about $3 million.

11. Melania Trump

Slovene-American model and businesswoman Melania Trump served as the first lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Similarly, Melania Trump married Donald Trump in 2005.

Donald Trump presented Melania with a  15-carat flawless emerald cut diamond worth about $3.5 Million.

10. Jerry Hall

American Actress Jerry Hall married Rupert Murdoch in 2016 at the Church of England St Bride’s, at Fleet Street.

Similarly, Jerry Hall’s engagement ring is a 20-carat diamond design in Marquise cut rock shape on a platinum band worth $4 million.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Jerry Hall (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

Interestingly, King Louis XV was the first person to use a marquise rock shape to present to his queen in 1745.

9. Vanessa Bryant

Model Vanessa Bryant is the wife of late NBA superstar Kobe Bean Bryant.

Kobe presented Vanessa with 8-carat purple diamond ring worth $4 million as an apology when he was officially charged with a rape case.

Likewise, Kobe Bryant was engaged to model Vanessa Bryant in 2005.

8. Kim Kardashian

American model, businesswoman, and actress Kim Kardashian is a self-made billionaire who has been married three times.

Kim was married to Kanye West before parting their ways in 2020. However, what remains is a memory of how Kanye proposed Kim in a stadium full of fans in October 2013.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Kim Kardashian (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

Kanye gave her a 15-carat sparkler ring which was stolen among other jewelry during Kim’s infamous Paris robbery in 2016.

Kanye West had purchased the ring for $4 million.

7. Zoe Kravitz

American actress, Zoe Kravitz’s engagement ring is an antique Georgian engagement ring from the 18th century.

Similarly, The ring features a row of collet-set rose-cut diamonds in a closed back setting in silver-topped gold.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Zoe Kravitz (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

In the same way, Zoe Kravitz’s engagement ring was designed by the Diamond retail company,  The One I Love, which is a modern jewelry store in New York City.

Likewise, Zoe Kravitz’s engagement ring is worth $5 million.

6. Paris Hilton

American Model Paris Hilton is one of the wealthiest models with a net worth of $300 million and has been engaged four times to date.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Paris Hilton (Source: .flickr.com)

Hilton’s engagement ring was a massive 24-carat canary diamond that cost $5 million.

Now the real questing is did she give it back?

The Massive ring was designed by  Jean Dousset, the great-great-grandson of Louis-Francois Cartier.

5. Jennifer Lopez

American Singer and Actress Jennifer Lopez is the first actress to bring a colored diamond ring into fashion.

Lopez was married to singer Marc Anthony initially but they called it quits in 2014.

However, 10 years back Anthony had proposed Lopez with a rare blue 8.5-carat diamond ring, worth $4 million. The same ring would now be worth about $5.5 million.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Jennifer Lopez (Source: flickr.com)

Similarly, Jennifer Lopez married Alex Rodriguez in 2019, who gave her a 20-carat emerald-cut attractive engagement ring that costs $5 million.

4. Beyoncé

American singer Beyonce is married to Jay-Z.

Similarly, Beyonce’s engagement ring is a huge 24-carat emerald-cut diamond ring in a split shank setting designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Beyoncé (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

The ring is worth $5 million.

According to jewelry retailers, Beyonce’s engagement ring is 28 times more expensive than Meghan Markle‘s engagement ring.

3. Elizabeth Taylor

Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor is known for her multi-marriage.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Elizabeth Taylor 
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Moreover, Taylor’s third husband, Mike Todd, presented her with a 29.4-carat emerald-cut diamond ring costing $1.1 million.

Furthermore, Taylor’s ring was sold to  Daniel Pang, a South Korean businessman, for $8.8 million.

2. Mariah Carey

American singer Mariah Carey married James Packer back in 2011.

Packer gave her a 35-caret emerald-cut platinum diamond ring designed by Carey’s long-time friend and designer Wilfredo Rosado.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Mariah Carey (Source: commons.wikimedia.org)

In the same way,  Mariah Carey’s engagement ring is heavier than Beyoncé’s and Kim Kardashian’s rings combined.

The ring is worth $10 Million.

1. Grace Kelly

Hollywood actress Grace Kelly married Prince of Monaco Rainier III in April 1956.

Most Expensive Engagement Rings
Grace Kelly (Source: pixabay.com)

Similarly, Grace Kelly’s beautiful engagement ring was a 10.5-carat emerald cut diamond surrounded by two baguettes rings and is one of the most remarkable masterpieces in history.

The ring was worth about $4.06 mill back then. However, if we were to adjust inflation the same ring worths about $38.8 million today.

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