Celebrities are getting creative with their quarantine engagements

Ben Higgins still found a way to propose to girlfriend Jessica Clarke last month, despite the coronavirus pandemic throwing a wrench in his plans.

“I went back to a pond behind her house, and we had set it up with sunflowers near a bench,” the 31-year-old “Bachelor” alum — who popped the question with an oval-cut diamond ring flanked by two side stones — told Entertainment Tonight of the Franklin, Tennessee, engagement.

“It’s right in their backyard, but a little hidden. I proposed and her family and mine were watching from a distance, and then we all celebrated together.”

Though Higgins initially planned a New York proposal, Clarke said the engagement was “exactly how I would have wanted it to be.”

Plenty of other stars have gotten engaged in quarantine, including Jeannie Mai and Jeezy — the latter of whom popped the question with a unique marquise-cut diamond after the couple’s trip to Vietnam was canceled — along with Al Roker’s daughter Courtney and Glossier founder Emily Weiss.

And while grandiose gestures might be on hold amid the current health crisis, couples are still celebrating the next chapter of their relationships in more intimate ways.

“I know a lot of people plan for this giant Instagram moment and they may have a destination proposal, or they have friends and family hiding and waiting, and all of that has shifted,” Ring Concierge founder Nicole Wegman recently told Page Six Style.

“I think it’s kind of circling back to being more about the actual moment and the reason you’re getting engaged in the first place and less about that Instagram picture.”

Wegman, whose clients have shared snippets from their recent engagements, added that one aspect of the proposal hasn’t changed: the desire for the perfect diamond ring. And as it happens, the one Higgins chose for Clarke is right in line with what’s trending at the moment.

“We’re seeing a huge demand for ovals right now. We’ve been seeing this for over a year, but it’s showing no signs of slowing,” Wegman said, noting ovals “look larger than other shapes and they’re really flattering on the finger.”

Wegman noted celebrity influence as a contributing factor, referencing JoJo Fletcher‘s re-engagement to Jordan Rodgers, who presented the former “Bachelorette” with an oval-shaped sparkler last August.

Wegman said that a bezel ring, dubbed “The Mercer,” will also be included in Ring Concierge’s forthcoming line Vow, which will feature engagement styles under $10,000 with center stones ranging from 0.75-1.6 carats.

“We really didn’t have many people asking for it a few years ago, and this year we started to see more and more in terms of [it] being requested,” Wegman said.

But when it comes to trends in engagement ring styles, she noted, trends can take time to form.

“The things with engagement rings is the trends are not like they are for fashion. They’re slow,” Wegman said. “It takes a couple of years for things to really shift.”

Vow, which will encompass about 15 different settings, will launch later this spring.

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