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Snooki's Monster Engagement Ring Crafted By Wayne Jeweler

Same big rock as on the ring of diminutive star for sale at Jewelry Exchange.

Crave a copy of the 5-carat ring wrapped around the finger of "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi?

Just head for Wayne. And be able to fork over $55,000.

designed Polizzi's 5-carat engagement ring with her fiancé, Jionni LaValle. Polizzi confirmed this week that she is pregnant and engaged to LaValle, who grew up in East Hanover and runs his own ATM business.

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Diamonds pinned between two bands run the circumference of the ring, and a princess cut diamond of about 3-carats sits atop the bands.

“She wanted something timeless,” Bekdas, of B&B Jewelry, said Thursday in his display area at the .

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Bekdas said he has designed jewelry for Teresa Guidice of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” talk-show host Wendy Williams, and several professional football and basketball players. The business has been at for 24 years.

Bekdas described both Polizzi and LaValle as “very classy, well-spoken people.”


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