{"id":34501,"date":"2025-08-31T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34501\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:06:31","slug":"the-taylor-swift-effect-how-some-irish-couples-are-spending-up-to-e250000-on-engagement-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34501\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taylor Swift effect: How some Irish couples are spending up to \u20ac250,000 on engagement rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Singer\u2019s bezel-set style is proving popular, but hard to come by\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace Diamonds owner Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Grainne Seoige 008.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Grace Diamonds owner Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Taylor Swift has caused economies to bounce, and now her engagement to Travis Kelce is causing a ripple of excitement among jewellers, with sales of super-sized engagement rings on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dublin\u2019s most famous jewellers, Appleby\u2019s, on Grafton Street, has said the spend on engagement rings can reach up to six figures as high-net-worth shoppers go the extra mile to get their hands on the perfect sparkler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer\u2019s bezel-set style is proving popular, but hard to come by Grace Diamonds owner Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Gerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5364,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-34501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-niamh-horan","13":"tag-taylor-swift"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}