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Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you romantic songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, The Isley Brothers sing about the symbolism of fine jewelry in the group’s 1992 release, “Brazilian Wedding Song (Setembro).”



Written by Brazilian composers Ivan Lins and Gilson Peranzzetta, “Brazilian Wedding Song (Setembro)” became a frequent request for wedding day playlists after a sweet rendition by The Isley Brothers appeared on their Tracks of Life album.

The song is essentially a groom’s wedding vow — using jewelry references to describe his solemn pledge of love and devotion.

Lead vocalist Ron Isley sings, “I pledge all my love to you always / Don’t you know this ring / This ring is a symbol of my love / Grant us blessings from above oh, oh / Who cherish all the magic of our days.”

In the next verse, gold chains symbolize the couple’s eternal bond… “Oh Lord, oh Lord, here I stand / Golden chains around our hearts / Vow to death we’ll never part.”

Often cited as the band that has enjoyed one of the “longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of popular music,” The Isley Brothers became the first group to score a Top 50 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 in six consecutive decades.

Originally from Cincinnati, the group was established in 1954 as a gospel trio featuring brothers O’Kelly, Rudolph and Ron Isley. Soon they landed a spot on Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour, where they won the competition and took home the grand prize — a watch. With their new-found fame, they began touring all over the eastern US, performing in a variety of churches.

The brothers moved to the New York City area in the late 1950s. In 1959, the brothers celebrated their first big hit, “Shout,” a song that would become a cultural phenomenon nearly two decades later when it was performed by Otis Day and the Knights in the 1978 fraternity house romp, National Lampoon’s Animal House.

The Isley Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and in 2010, Ron Isley received a “Legend Award” at the Soul Train Music Awards. The Isley Brothers will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025.

Ron Isley, 83, and his brother, Ernie, 72, are still performing as The Isley Brothers. Their 60th Anniversary Tour will take them to Las Vegas, Ledyard, CT; Englewood, NJ; North Charleston, SC; Southaven, MS; Los Angeles and Indianapolis over the next six months.

Please check out the audio track of The Isley Brothers performing “Brazilian Wedding Song (Setembro).” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along…

“Brazilian Wedding Song (Setembro)”
Written by Ivan Guimaraes Lins and Gilson Peranzzetta. Performed by The Isley Brothers.

Today is the day to say I do
Yes, I promise to be true

I pledge all my love to you always
Don’t you know this ring
This ring is a symbol of my love
Grant us blessings from above oh, oh
Who cherish all the magic of our days

Oh Lord, oh Lord, here I stand
Golden chains around our hearts
Vow to death we’ll never part
From this day as one we’ll start our lives

Oh Lord, here I stand
With my heart out in my hand
Rich or poor, I am your man
I’m your lover and friend for life
Ooh

So much love, so much love, girl
So much love, girl, la, la, la, la
Today, today, today is the day to say I do
Yes, I promise to be true

I pledge all my love to you always
Don’t you know this ring
This ring is a symbol of my love
Grant us blessings from above oh, oh
Who cherish all the magic of our days

And I can hear them when they play
Our Brazilian wedding song



Credit: Photo by T-Neck Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

While gemstone inclusions are generally viewed in a negative light because they represent imperfections, in certain cases the presence of "telltale" inclusions will have the opposite effect. Sometimes they turn out to be "perfect imperfections" — the type John Legend sang about in his 2013 hit, "All of Me" — and significantly increase a stone's value.



This is the case with the vivid green demantoid garnet, the rarest and most valuable variety of January’s birthstone.

First discovered in Russia’s Ural Mountains in 1851, the green gem was a favorite of designer Carl Fabergé, who incorporated demantoid into the famous jeweled eggs and other fanciful jewelry he created for the Russian Imperial family.

Demantoid garnet is currently mined in Namibia, Iran, Pakistan, Italy, Madagascar and Canada, but the Russian demantoid garnet continues to set the standard by which all the others are judged.



The good news is that jewelry connoisseurs can easily tell if their demantoid garnet was sourced in Russia due to distinctive byssolite “horsetail” inclusions that seem to spray out from the center of the stone.

A beautiful, well-formed inclusion can increase the value of the gemstone considerably, noted the International Colored Gemstone Association.

The gem in the first image, above, was sourced in Namibia, while the included gem in the second image originated in Russia's Ural Mountains.

Demantoid is derived from the Dutch word for diamond, “demant.” The stone owes its impressive diamond-like brilliance to two main factors: A high refractive index and a high dispersion (its ability to separate light into the spectrum of colors). Demantoid, in fact, boasts the highest dispersion rating of all gemstones, including diamond.

Fine-quality demantoid garnets are rarely found in sizes larger than 2 carats. The Namibian 3-carat gem, above, is part of the Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection and was purchased with funds from the Tiffany & Co. Foundation in 2014.

Ironically, George F. Kunz, who was Tiffany and Co.’s vice president of gemology from 1879 until his death in 1932, was a big fan of demantoid garnets and reportedly purchased all the rough material he could get his hands on.

African-origin demantoid tends to be yellowish-green, olive green or brownish, due to higher concentrations of iron. Russian demantoid, on the other hand, owes its color to chromium and tends to be vivid green.

Other garnet varieties used for jewelry include pyrope, almandine, andradite, grossularite, hessonite, rhodolite, tsavorite, spessartine and uvarovite.

Credits: Photo of Namibian demantoid garnet by Greg Polley/Smithsonian. Photo of Russian demantoid garnet with byssolite inclusions by Dr Anatoly, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

In early December, five-time Grammy-award-winning and multi-platinum artist Drake confirmed that his "The Anita Max Wynn Tour" would be coming to Australia and New Zealand in February 2025. And to commemorate the tour, the Toronto native commissioned Jason of Beverly Hills to create a massive pendant necklace fabricated from 3 kilos (6.6 lbs) of gold and more than 250 carats of colorful, flawless diamonds.



The pendant features the likeness of Drake's cartoon alter ego, Anita Max Wynn, an adorable girl sporting a blonde bob haircut, rosy cheeks and oversized black-rimmed spectacles. Anita's face dangles from a link chain bedazzled with white, blue, green and pink gemstones.

Anita Max Wynn is a clever pun on the gambling phrase "I need a max win" and was introduced into the Drake lexicon in December 2023 during a Kick live stream.

"Ladies with gentle hands," said Drake, who is famously a high-stakes gambler, "this is my alter ego, Anita Max Wynn."

This is not the first time Drake has collaborated with celebrity jewelry designer Jason Arasheben. Back in 2019, the artist commissioned an 18-karat white gold iPhone X case adorned from edge to edge with blue and white diamonds weighing a total of 80 carats. The $400,000 case was punctuated by a white gold, diamond-eyed symbol of Drake’s record label, the OVO owl.

Arasheben revealed the case on his Instagram page under the caption, “Because we can’t do basic!"

More recently, the jeweler was back on Instagram with a video showing the details of the Anita Max Wynn pendant. His caption stated, "Carrying the weight of greatness. Go big or go home! Thank you @champagnepapi for always putting your trust in us."



Arasheben also revealed the pendant's surprise feature: A hidden door in the back that opens to reveal miniature skyline of Toronto, Drake's home town. The door itself features a map of Australia and New Zealand, along with the names of the tour cities, venues and dates.

The 38-year-old's tour Down Under will begin on February 9 in Melbourne, Australia, and will end on March 1 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Credits: Screen captures via Instagram / jasonofbeverlyhills.

The Hope Diamond has been seen by more than 200 million visitors during the gemstone's 60-plus years at the Smithsonian, placing it just behind Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre as the most visited museum object in the world.



This past Friday, a family member and I arrived at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, just as it was opening, and dashed two steps at a time to the second floor where we beat the crowds to the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals.

On many of our previous trips, attempts to get an unencumbered photo op with the most famous diamond in the world were thwarted by the sheer number of people in the exhibit hall, but on this day we were the first visitors to enter the Harry Winston Gallery and found ourselves in an uncommonly empty space — just us and the 45.52-carat deep-blue diamond.



The Hope Diamond is set in a Cartier-designed pendant surrounded by 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. The complimentary necklace chain contains 45 white diamonds. The glass case is viewable from four sides and the column-shaped display on which the jewelry is affixed rotates every few seconds, one-quarter turn at a time.

The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian in 1958 by luxury jeweler Harry Winston. In yesterday’s column, we recounted how and why Winston decided to use the US Postal Service to ship the famous gem from New York to DC.

According to the Smithsonian, Winston envisioned the institution assembling a gem collection to rival the royal treasuries of Europe — “Crown Jewels” that would belong to the American public.

“Other countries have their Crown Jewels,” Winston reportedly said. “We don’t have a Queen and King, but we should have our Crown Jewels, and what better place than here in the nation’s capital at the Smithsonian Institution.”

The Hope Diamond immediately became the museum's premier attraction and has been on continuous display, except for five instances…

In 1962, it was exhibited for a month at the Louvre in Paris as part of an exhibit titled "Ten Centuries of French Jewelry."

In 1965, the Hope Diamond traveled to South Africa, where it was exhibited at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg.

In 1984, Harry Winston Inc. exhibited the stone at its New York headquarters as part of the firm's 50th anniversary celebration.

In 1996, the Hope Diamond returned to Harry Winston Inc. for a cleaning and some minor restoration work.

In March of 2020, the Smithsonian was forced to close the Hope Diamond exhibit due to COVID-19 restrictions. It was finally reopened 461 days later on June 18, 2021, to great fanfare.

Today, the Hope Diamond is estimated to be worth $325 million, making it the single most valuable item at the Smithsonian.

Researchers believe the Hope Diamond was originally mined in India in 1642. It was crudely finished and weighed 115 carats when it was purchased in 1666 by French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier, at which time it became known as the Tavernier Diamond.

French King Louis XIV bought the Tavernier Diamond in February 1669 and ordered it to be recut. The result was a 69-carat heart-shaped stone that would be known as the French Blue.

In 1792, the French Blue was stolen from the royal treasury in Paris. Its whereabouts remained unknown until a very similar large blue diamond appeared in 1839 in the collection of Henry Philip Hope, a London banker and gem collector. Gem historians believe the French Blue had been, once again, recut. The 45.52-carat gem became known as the Hope Diamond.

After going through numerous owners, it was sold in 1911 by French jeweler Pierre Cartier to Washington socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean. In 1949, McLean’s heirs sold the stone to Winston, who exhibited it throughout the US for a number of years. In 1958, he famously gifted it to the Smithsonian.

Credits: Hope Diamond and display photos by The Jeweler Blog.

While the Hope Diamond is the most popular exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, tucked away at the National Postal Museum just a mile away is the post-stamped plain brown mailing wrapper that represents an aspect of the gem's history that's been largely untold and that few people have ever seen.



New York-based luxury jeweler Harry Winston owned the Hope Diamond from 1948 to 1957, and over that time, the gem traveled throughout America as part of Winston's Court of Jewels exhibition. In 1958, Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian and used his surefire way to get it there.



It may seem surprising, but Winston delivered the priceless gem — not by armored vehicle — but by the US Postal Service.

“It’s the safest way to mail gems,” Winston told The Evening Star (Washington, DC) at the time. “I’ve sent gems all over the world that way.”



The registered First-Class postage cost him just $2.44, but he also paid $142.85 for $1 million worth of insurance. The total payment of $145.29 is equivalent to $1,582 today.

This past Friday, we got a chance to see the actual postal wrapper, up close and personal, at the National Postal Museum, which is located across the street from Union Station, just north of the Capitol building.

If you're planning to visit this off-the-path Smithsonian (the Postal Museum attracts just 200,000 visitors a year vs. 4.4 million for the National Museum of Natural History), be sure to ask a Smithsonian staffer to point out where the Harry Winston wrapper is located.



Just inside the gallery, you will see a seven-foot-high case that looks like a travel steamer trunk standing on its end. Built into the side of the trunk are six numbered drawers. If you slide out drawer number 3, you will be a glass pane away from a mailing wrapper plastered with 16 $9.00 postage stamps, one $1.29 stamp, and a "Fragile" marking.



The face of the wrapper includes a Harry Winston Inc. shipping label, and a simple typewritten address (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.) Hand-written, as if it were an afterthought, is the addressee, Dr. Leonard Carmichael.



In Washington, on November 10, 1958, the package was delivered to the Natural History Museum by local letter carrier James G. Todd. Reporters were on hand to witness Todd plucking the valuable package from his mail satchel and presenting it to Smithsonian's Secretary Carmichael and Smithsonian Curator George Switzer.

In a piece that aired in December 2020, Dan Piazza, Curator of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, told Harry Smith of NBC's Today show, “The National History Museum can have the diamond. I want the box it came in. I kind of think we got the better end of the deal.”

Credits: Hope Diamond mail wrapper and display shots by Bruce Carter/The Jeweler Blog.

A California couple who traveled to picturesque Park City, UT, for a snowy post-engagement photoshoot learned a tough lesson about how fingers can shrink in the cold weather.



The couple's photographer started off the shoot by encouraging Kim Saw, 33, to use snow as a prop in a series of fun shots where she is throwing it in the air or blowing it at the camera. But when the photographer was ready to shoot a closeup of Saw's hand on her new fiancé's chest, she noticed the ring was gone.

“Ten minutes into the shoot, we lose the ring,” Phil Mui, 34, told fox13now. “Hearts are sinking, we’re kinda freaking out a little bit.”

The couple frantically looked for the ring, but came up empty. Passersby assisted, and the couple even enlisted the help of the Park City Ski Patrol, which brought along a metal detector. Still no luck.

At one point, a member of the ski patrol half-joked that the couple should resume the search after the spring thaw.

“We thought it would take only a few minutes to find because we were in such a small area and so many people were helping us look for it, but it ended up taking us two hours,” Mui said.

Yes, after two full hours, just when they were about to give up hope, Mui spotted the diamond ring glistening atop a patch of snow-covered grass.

“As soon as Phil was like, ‘I found it!’ I was like jumping up and down, and I just started crying because I was so excited that we found it,” Zaw said.

Mui was in a kneeling position when he found the ring and remained that way when he spontaneously re-proposed to Saw — to the delight of the nearby helpers and the folks on the ski lift that was passing overhead.

Zaw believes she remembers the exact moment the ring flew off her finger.

"We did a pose where we picked up snow and threw it in the air and then we did another pose where we picked up snow and blew it at the camera at our photographer and I think it was that moment where it was so cold that I shook my hands to kind of just warm up and it fell off," she said.

It is very common for fingers to swell in the summer and shrink in the winter. Scientifically, it has to do with expanding or contracting capillaries.

Many a bride has experienced her engagement ring or wedding band feeling a little snug in the hot weather and then spin freely in the cold. These effects can be compounded if the rings are already a bit tight or loose under normal conditions.

This is why it's so important to have your precious jewelry professionally sized. It's also wise to wear gloves to protect your rings when encountering frigid weather.

Credit: Screen capture via fox13now.com.

In its preliminary holiday season report, Mastercard SpendingPulse singled out “jewelry” as the top-performing gift-giving category.



Overall retail sales during the period from November 1 through December 24 saw a 3.8% increase compared to 2023, with the last five days of the holiday season accounting for 10% of all holiday spending. The actual 3.8% growth blew by Mastercard's early-season forecast of 3.2%, as well as last year's growth rate of 3.1%.



Jewelry sales during the holiday season surged 4.0% compared to 2023, while electronics saw an increase of 3.7% and apparel grew 3.6%.

According to the credit card company, empowered consumers sought value at every turn this year, responding to promotions during the November and Black Friday shopping period, and filling their baskets in the run-up to December 24.

"This holiday season, we saw consumers motivated by deals, and retailers responded with promotions to meet the demand,” said Steve Sadove, senior advisor for Mastercard and former CEO and chairman of Saks Incorporated. “The value-minded consumer showed up to shop at brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce platforms, with retailers managing across both to capture attention throughout the season."

Mastercard also reported that consumer demand for experiences, such as dining out, strengthened during the holiday season, with restaurant spending up 6.3% compared to last year.

“Solid spending during this holiday season underscores the strength we observed from the consumer all year, supported by the healthy labor market and household wealth gains," noted Michelle Meyer, chief economist, Mastercard Economics Institute.

Another key takeaway from the Mastercard report is that consumers are increasingly embracing digital-first shopping, with e-commerce, curbside pick-up and delivery being top-of-mind during this year's festive season. Online retail sales grew 6.7% year-over-year, whereas in-store sales increased 2.9%.

Mastercard SpendingPulse™ reports on US retail sales across all payment types. It measures both in-store and online retail sales and is not adjusted for inflation. The findings are based on aggregate sales activity in the Mastercard payments network.

Credits: Photo by BigStockPhoto.com; Graphic courtesy of Business Wire.

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen plays the role of a jilted girlfriend who just won't let go in her 2012 release, "Wedding Ring/Guitar String."



In the song, Jepsen tells her ex that if he agrees to come back to her, she's willing to seal the deal with a makeshift wedding ring.

Jepsen sings, "But if you cut a piece of guitar string / I would wear it like it's a wedding ring / Wrapped around my finger / You know what I mean / You play my heart strings."

Written by Jepsen and two collaborators, "Wedding Ring/Guitar String" appeared as the 11th track of Jepsen's second studio album, Kiss.

Jepsen is best known for "Call Me Maybe," the third track on that same album. That song's worldwide success has been partly attributed to the complimentary words of fellow Canadian Justin Bieber, who tweeted that "'Call Me Maybe' by Carly Rae Jepsen is possibly the catchiest song I've ever heard lol." Jepsen's hit went on to sell 20 million copies while charting in 34 countries. The song also led to major record deals.

While a guitar string wedding ring is unconventional, it's not unheard of. A quick TikTok search will yield many videos of amateur jewelry makers offering tips on how to best weave guitars strings into a ring. Other commercial companies have guitar strings worked into the motif of alternative-metal wedding bands.

Back in September, Jepsen took to Instagram to reveal to her 2.6 million followers the non-traditional ring marking her engagement to Grammy Award-winning music producer Cole M.G.N. The ring featured a smoky-grey-blue gem — possibly a sapphire or spinel — prong set on a simple yellow gold band.

Born in Mission, British Columbia, in 1985, Jepsen developed a passion for musical theatre while in secondary school and was accepted at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, British Columbia.

After graduating, she had a tough time landing a job in theater so she made ends meet as a pastry shop assistant, barista and bartender.

Inspired by Sinead O'Connor's rendition of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," Jepsen pursued a singing career.

She got her big break after placing third during Season 5 of Canadian Idol. The third-place finish earned her a spot on the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour and the rest is history.

Please check out the audio track of Jepsen performing "Wedding Ring/Guitar String." The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along…

"Wedding Ring/Guitar String"
Written by Carly Rae Jepsen, Tavish Crowe and Josh Ramsay. Performed by Carly Rae Jepsen.

You were here
And then you left
Now there's nobody, nobody

Now they're all
Just second best
There's nobody, nobody

So if you want me
I'll be around
You're a bird on the water
I'm a fish on the ground

Just hold me closer
Oh won't you hold me down tonight

But if you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it like it's a wedding ring
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings

If you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it
This is the real thing
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings

When you're near
I feel the best
I'm somebody, somebody

It's in my pulse
It's in my chest
My whole body, whole body

So if you want me
I'll be around
You're a bird on the water
I'm a fish on the ground

Just hold me closer
Oh won't you hold me down tonight

But if you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it like it's a wedding ring
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings

If you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it
This is the real thing
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings

You're in the country
While I'm in the town
You're a bird in the water
I'm a fish on the ground

And I want to be there
For you tonight
And I hope you hear me
Baby hold on tight
Hold on tight, yeah

If you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it like it's a wedding ring
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean

If you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it like it's a wedding ring
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings

If you cut a piece of guitar string
I would wear it
This is the real thing
Wrapped around my finger
You know what I mean
You play my heart strings



Credit: Photo by Andy Witchger, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hailey Bieber turned to her Instagram Stories on Saturday to show off another heartfelt tribute to her four-month-old son, Jack Blues Bieber — a special "toi et moi" ring featuring their two birthstones.



The proud mom added helpful labels to the gems seen nestled in the photo: On the "Jack" side of the ring is an emerald-cut peridot, the birthstone for August. On the "Mama" side is a slightly angled pear-shaped citrine, one of the official birthstones for November.

Traditionally, the “toi et moi” ring symbolizes two souls becoming one and is predominantly used for bridal jewelry. (The French phrase “toi et moi” means “you and me” in English.)

The concept is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who, in 1796, was a 26-year-old officer and still eight years removed from the French throne when he presented a “toi et moi” ring to his beloved Josephine on the occasion of their marriage. Josephine's bypass-style ring featured two pear-shaped gemstones, one diamond and one sapphire, set in opposite directions.

Over time, the emperor's concept has been reinvented in a number of ways. For instance, in one variation, the stones aren't the same shape and in another they're not oriented in opposite directions. In Bieber's interpretation, it represents her special bond with baby Jack.

This is not the first time Bieber has embraced mom-themed jewelry.



In an early September post on Instagram, Bieber revealed to her 54 million followers a dimensional, diamond-embellished “MOM” ring on the index finger of her left hand.



On the ring finger of the same hand was her upgraded 18-carat oval-cut diamond engagement ring that she received in late spring. The ring commemorated the renewal of her and Justin Bieber’s wedding vows after five years of marriage, as well as the exciting news that they were expecting their first child.

Her previous engagement ring — with an oval-cut diamond said to weigh between 6 and 10 carats — can be seen on the pinky of her right hand.

Then, in October, the model and cosmetics entrepreneur was photographed wearing a necklace that featured the bubble letters "JBB"— Jack's initials — as well as a gold bracelet with Jack's name spelled out in black text.

Credits: Images via Instagram / haileybieber; Instagram / justinbieber.>

A teenage beluga whale's very human-like reaction to a marriage proposal taking place just outside her tank at the Georgia Aquarium has the internet buzzing. The TikTok video capturing last Wednesday's special moment has earned 6.9 million views, 2.7 million likes and 5,500 comments.



Qinu, a 16-year-old female beluga, at first seemed spellbound by the young couple posing for pics, but the whale's upturned smile turned into an open-mouthed expression of excitement when Gavin Hulberg went down on one knee and proposed to Olivia Walsh with a diamond engagement ring.



In the background audio, a crowd of aquarium onlookers can be heard cheering and applauding the couple. A few seconds later, a trainer comes into frame, gains Qinu's attention through the glass and directs her out of the scene.



Walsh, who has been interning with the beluga training team for the past three months, wrote in a TikTok comment that the aquarium proposal was the most thoughtful way Hulberg could have proposed.

She captioned the video, "The most perfect proposal I could've asked for" and punctuated the phrase with a Holding Back Tears emoji and a pink heart emoji.

According to people.com, Hulberg had reached out to the beluga whale training team at the aquarium to get "something special figured out" to make the proposal memorable.

Katie Lorenz, associate curator of mammals and birds, told people.com that Qinu's reaction at the tank window what not a taught behavior — it was her own.

TikTok commenters — there are 5,500 and counting — had a lot of fun adding clever quips about Qinu and her seeming affection for the newly engaged couple.

Wrote Keesh: "Beluga literally said 'aww.'"

Added Autumn Zhané : "The Beluga has to be a bridesmaid at this point."

Please check out the 38-second TikTok video here...

Credits: Screen captures via TikTok / withlovebyliv.