Divorce rings: Depressing jewelry trend

Bouquet ring
Photo by: boticca.com
This 18-carat gold-plated ring is molded in the shape of a bridal bouquet...and then stuffed into the skull of a dead bird. Romantic it’s not. "Mourning is not just about dead people," explains Gisele Ganne, the ring's designer. "It is also about dead relationships and decaying marriages." The $1348 divorce ring, for sale at boticca.com, symbolizes of the end of a relationship, only with more gore.

Brass knuckles
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Divorce rings can be worn in place of the wedding ring, or on any other finger (in break-ups there are no steadfast rules). But for those with particularly hard splits, there's the three-finger divorce ring. Priced at almost $3,000, Ganne's brass knuckle-inspired version suggests you aren't afraid to make your ex pay.

Diamond dagger
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Just because your engagement ring is off, that doesn't mean your diamonds go with it. Alice Kwartler antiques sticks a diamond dagger down the middle of a broken heart so everyone knows you’re not engaged, you’re through. The cost: $3,200 or in divorce terms, about 10 hours worth of legal fees.

Coffin ring
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Before you move on with a divorce ring, you have to lay the past to rest. That's the idea behind the wedding ring coffin, a $40 mini-casket for your something old. You can customize the plaque with the dates or your marriage or you can choose from bittersweet sayings like "six feet isn't deep enough."

Reminder ring
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This $42 sterling silver "reminder ring" is more about improving your future than harping your past.

Say it with a necklace
Photo by: Zazzle.com
For a more direct approach to telling the world you're newly single, there's Zazzle.com's line of divorce necklaces. They're cheap ($30), straightforward and not too sentimental. Just like a good rebound.
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