Cape Town is a romantic honeymoon destination for all kinds of couples. Whether you’re looking for sea, culture or city life, Cape Town is your one-stop-shop. If you’re planning a honeymoon in the Mother City, you’ll definitely want to lay your head at one of these beautiful local hotels.
The Silo Hotel
This 5-star hotel sets a new standard for luxury Cape Town accommodation. Built in the grain elevator portion of the historic grain silo complex occupying six floors above Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) which houses Africa’s largest collection of contemporary African art, the Silo Hotel is an architectural masterpiece to be marvelled at.
The hotel has 28 rooms featuring colourful and eclectic pieces to juxtapose the modern, industrial architecture. Each room also comes with a private balcony with amazing views of the Cape Town harbour or mountain.
12 Apostles
Romantically nestled between the breathtaking Twelve Apostles Mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean, the 12 Apostles Hotel & Spa is heaven on earth. Their facilities include fine dining spot Azure Restaurant, cocktail joint The Leopard Bar, and a holistic spa.
Choose between their luxury and deluxe honeymoon packages that include personalized embroidered towels, a bottle of bubbly, and spa services.
Cape View Clifton
This luxurious Cape Town beach house boasts seven elegant, expansive suites that open out onto uninterrupted views of Cape Town’s iconic Clifton and Camps Bay coast line. Take a short walk down to the famous beaches, work out in the fitness centre or consult your personal concierge on how to spend your day.
Belmond Mount Nelson
This stunning baby pink building offers more than just unique photo opportunities. Their rooms offer exquisitely restored interiors with quirky modern touches.
Whether you’re celebrating a honeymoon, marriage vow renewal or simply escaping for a weekend à deux, romance is in the air at this serene getaway. Three-night minimum packages include daily buffet breakfast, three-course dinner and couples massages.
Ellerman House:
Situated in the picturesque Bantry Bay, Ellerman House is a Cape Edwardian mansion sure to blow you away. This exclusive residence boasts a stunning collection of South African art that spans original works from the turn of the last century to current contemporary art.
The hotel offers 13 individually-styled rooms, as well as two modern, minimalist private villas. Included in your stay is a continental breakfast, daily wine tastings, and art tours presented by their very own in-house art guide.
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Once you receive your precious engagement ring, it’s understandable that you’d never want to take it off. The ring shows your partners love, affection, and commitment to you, which makes it extremely special. For this reason, it needs to be protected!
The best way to protect your engagement ring is to know when you shouldn’t wear it. This way you won’t lose or damage it.
Here’s when to remove the bling:
– When you’re doing housework
While you’re cleaning you may knock the ring. This is more common an occurrence than you’d expect. To ensure that your ring remains unscratched and unharmed, remove it before you start cleaning.
Additionally, cleaning products like bleach and ammonia damages both the metal and the stone of your ring.
– In the shower
The scrubbing and soaking you do in the shower will take a toll on your band. It may even end up scratched.
– Working out
First off, the ring may fall off and you’ll lose it. That’s the last thing you’d want. Second, the ring could get damaged by weights you use – the pressure on the ring could bend the band and result in the stone falling out of its setting.
– During your beauty routine
Soaps, creams, perfumes and other such products all result in damage to your ring. If you keep your ring on every time you apply these products, it will build up and collect. This will result in a build up of grease and over time will result in deterioration. If the products get under the stone, it way loosen it from its setting too.
– Travelling
Travelling is tiring and keeps you busy, you could get lost in the activities and end up losing your ring.
– Cooking
This is a recipe for disaster. The oils, fats, and flours will result in long term damage to your engagement ring. In fact, cooking is one of the biggest reasons people’s rings get ruined! So ensure that you take it off when preparing that romantic meal.
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As we all know, Hollywood relationships have a reputation of being rocky. While some may be true stories of everlasting love, many have proven to be quite the opposite.
From Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries to Jennifer Lopez and Chris Judd, here are some of the shortest celebrity marriages.
Britney Spears and Jason Alexander
In 2004, the songstress wed her childhood friend after a wild night out in Las Vegas. As they say, ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’, because the pair had their nuptials annulled only 55 hours later.
Cher and Greg Allman
In 1975, Cher married the rock star, Allman. The two made it official in Las Vegas only a few days after Cher finalised her divorce from previous husband, Sonny Bono. After spending 9 days as a married couple, Cher and Allman called it quits. Apparently, Cher is the one who filed for divorce; during the nine days she discovered some of Allman’s drug and drinking issues which she decided were too much for her to handle.
Mario Lopez and Ali Landry
This marriage lasted only two weeks, and the bachelor party was the cause of the split. After they wed on April 24, 2004, Landry found some compromising photos of Lopez at his bachelor party. On making this discovery, she immediately filed for an annulment. Lopez admitted that he was unfaithful only a few days before the wedding at his bachelor party in Mexico. The pair split on May 8, 2004.
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
This is one of the most infamous short-lived marriages of all time. The popular reality TV star married Humphries, a basketball player, in 2011. The wedding was an extravagant affair, costing the couple over ten million dollars; they even aired a two-day reality TV special titled “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding”. Unfortunately, the couple called it quits only 72 days later.
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock
While the two may seem like a great fit, unfortunately their marriage didn’t last. Anderson and Kid Rock got married in July 2006. Their wedding was exactly what you’d expect from the pair – on a yacht wearing swimsuits. In November 2006, the couple filed for divorce. The marriage lasted only 122 days.
Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd
The Latina superstar married dancer, Cris Judd, in September 2001. They met after J-Lo hired him to appear in her “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” video. Just as quickly as they wedded, they called it off getting divorced in June 2002. This marriage lasted 218 days.
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Red is often considered the colour of love, so what’s more romantic than a ruby? This red-hued stone has been a favourite of royalty for centuries, earning the moniker ‘king of gems’.
Rubies make up one of the four main precious gemstones, joining emerald, sapphire and diamond. The word comes from the Latin “rubens”, meaning red. The stone is made up of corundum, a crystalline form of aluminium oxide containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium and chromium. Technically, rubies and sapphires are the same stone as they are made up of the same chemical properties. However, a stone of this makeup in any colour besides red is considered a sapphire. The mineral chromium is what gives the stone its characteristic red tinge, differentiating it into a ruby.
Given its deep red colouring, rubies are often associated with love and desire. The stone can range in shades from pink to oxblood. The most desirable shade is called ‘pigeon-blood’, a deep red with a hint of blue.
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Rubies are found all over the world, from Myanmar (previously Burma), Africa, Australia to the USA. This precious gemstone has long been highly revered by Asian cultures. The first ruby was discovered in Myanmar back in 600AD and were worn as talismans by Burmese soldiers in battle as a form of protection. In Sankrit, rubies are called ratnaraj, or “king of precious stones”.
Popularity soon spread to Europe and rubies became one of the most sought-after gems for European royalty and the upper class after it was selected as the stone of choice for British coronation rings back in the 13th century. The stone was said to guarantee health, wealth, wisdom and success in love.
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As with other gemstones, rubies are graded on the four C’s: colour, cut, clarity and carat weight. The world’s most valuable ruby is the Sunrise Ruby, a 25.59-carat (5.1 g) “pigeon blood” ruby discovered in Myanmar. The stone was mounted by Cartier and set between heptagonal diamonds weighing 2.47 carats (0.49 g) and 2.70 carats. It sold for a record $30.42 million on May 12, 2015 at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva, Switzerland to an anonymous buyer.
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