Avril Lavigne's Engagement Ring Details

Capture the Essence! of Avril Lavigne's Engagement Ring with this Pear-Cut Diamond Engagement Ring in Etched Platinum. Photo ©2014 EraGem Jewelry. Avril Lavigne's engagement ring from Nickelback's lead singer Chad Kroeger features a gorgeous pear-cut diamond with two half-moon accent diamonds. The platinum band is encrusted with diamonds. The ring was designed by Caryn Alpert of XIV Karats in Beverly Hills. Ms. Alpert confirmed that the central diamond in Avril Lavigne's engagement ring is a 14-carat pear-shaped diamond. In photos, the pear appears to have a slight swoop at the tip, lending it the individuality we would expect for the one-of-a-kind rock star. With a hard-act woman like Avril Lavigne, one would expect an over-the-top engagement story, perhaps with a setting of the Indy 500 or a military copter flying over Los Angeles, or something crazy and out of the box. But nope, that's not the way it happened for Ms. Lavigne. Summer of 2012, Avril and Chad worked closely in the studio writing songs together. "When it was over and I had to go work with other people, it sucked. So I called him and asked him to come back to L.A. to do some more writing with me...," Ms. Lavigne told People. To commemorate their time in the studio, Avril created a Polaroid scrapbook. She told Katie Couric that Chad took a photo of himself with the open ring box and placed it in the scrapbook while she wasn't around. "I walked into the Live room, and he flipped the page, and he had put the stickers in that said Will you marry me?" She went on, "I was so shocked, I had no idea. I started laughing, and I couldn't stop laughing. And he was like 'Will you? Come on, I'm really nervous right now.'" Having never seen a ring like that in her life, she of course said, "Yes!" She, somewhat shyly, confirmed that the entire ensemble features over 17-1/2 carats in diamonds. Wow! What do you think? Would you wear 17-1/2 carats of diamonds out in public?