Leva Bonaparte and her husband, Lamar Bonaparte, put the energy in “energy couple.” The Southern Hospitality boss and her personal husband are the powerhouses behind Republic Backyard & Lounge and lots of different Charleston companies. So, it should not come as a shock that Lamar and Leva have nice style in jewellery, together with engagement and wedding ceremony rings.
Earlier than the Southern Allure forged member tied the knot along with her restauranteur husband in 2013 after three years of relationship, she was touring for work and met Lamar on her twenty ninth birthday. They went from pals to enterprise companions, to precise companions. “We purchased a constructing collectively,” she informed The Every day Dish in an interview in December 2024. “All my pals had been like, you are loopy. We fell in love with what we had been creating. He helped me quite a bit. He taught me quite a bit about actual property, it was enterprise and love and difficult one another.”
However, getting married was a bit spur-of-the-moment. Leva stated, “Finally, someday, he was identical to, let’s simply go get married. And we had been at Costco, and he simply grabbed a hoop.”
“I nonetheless have it, I will by no means give it up. It is like essentially the most particular ring,” she defined.
Particulars on Leva Bonaparte’s spontaneous wedding ceremony to Lamar Bonaparte
Their wedding ceremony ceremony was simply as spontaneous as their engagement ring shopping for. “Two weeks later, we simply went to a park on Tuesday,” she defined. “I wore like a $60 maxi costume and we simply received married.”
Leva and Lamar, who had been opening Republic on the time, saved it a secret from their mother and father, selecting to inform them within the following weeks. “It was too overwhelming to do a giant wedding ceremony,” she stated. “So we simply did what we need to do. Buddies had been mad, household was mad, you realize.”
Particulars on Leva Bonaparte’s upgraded ring from Lamar Bonaparte
Lamar, nonetheless, did reward Leva an upgraded cushion reduce ring from Tiffany & Co. a yr later. “I received the massive, lovely Tiffany diamond,” she defined. “But it surely wasn’t about that. Not that I even wished the massive ring, or I wished any of that stuff, however that simply all got here with time.”
The story behind how she received the ring is tremendous candy. Lamar and Leva took a visit to Charlotte on the time of their anniversary when Lamar informed Leva to enter the shop and pick her personal ring. He “stood exterior” of the shop letting her choose the ring in privateness earlier than paying for it. Leva stated, “The woman [helping us] was like, ‘You guys are so bizarre.’ She was so confused. And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, we’re bizarre.'”
Leva Bonaparte has “sentimental rings” from husband, Lamar Bonaparte
Leva then ended up getting one other upgraded ring Lamar for his or her 10-year wedding ceremony anniversary in 2023, in addition to jewellery for different significant moments of their lives, like once they had been making an attempt to get pregnant with their son, Lamar “Little” Bonaparte Jr. “My Tiffany ring and the ring I’ve now are all lovely little sentiments,” she defined. “He received me a hoop after I was struggling to get pregnant as a result of I struggled to get pregnant for 5 years…Perhaps diamonds have therapeutic powers,” she joked.
“He is an important reward giver,” she continued. “I’ll say that about my husband. He is a improbable gift-giver. It is his love language.”
-reporting by Stephanie Gomulka
