Homemade Wedding Favors
Wedding Jewelry Your Choice


Its Your Day

Before you start planning your wedding, you are anticipating your wedding jewelry, which, at the time, may seem to be one of your largest concerns. Your engagement ring is your first piece of wedding jewelry. Many couples select their wedding bands at the same time as the engagement ring, which is ideal, especially if your engagement ring and wedding band are meant to nest into each other.

Where to Start

There is no right way or wrong way or place to select your jewelry. For the best customer service and pricing, it is often preferable to visit the diamond districts of Boston, New York, or other major cities. For those who dont have access, any jewelry store and some major wholesale and retail establishments offer rings for affordable prices.

Two Months Salary

In the 1970s and 1980s, jewelers advertised by stressing to prospective customers that an engagement ring should cost the equivalent of two months salary. Since then, two months salary may be entirely too much money to spend on wedding jewelry. These are costly times, and a down payment on a home or gas for your automobile far outranks the priority of spending an exorbitant amount on wedding jewelry.

Bands

If you are planning a double-ring ceremony, it is not necessary that the bands be identical. Of course, tradition would suggest both rings be the same; it is your prerogative to remain tradition or to stray from the norm. If you find a matched set of bands, you can sometimes purchase them as a wedding jewelry set. Otherwise, youll have to purchase them individually.

The engraving on the inside is a more of a tribute than the ring itself. If you disagree with your fiancs choice of bands, it doesnt necessarily matteryou dont have to wear it. Of course, if the hesitation revolves around the price, compromise to find bands you can comfortably afford.

Neckwear

Many brides wear a piece of jewelry that has been handed down, or at the very least, borrowed from a currently (or previously) married relative. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue applies to your wedding jewelry. Of course, old or new can relate to your wedding jewelry, although new really relates to your ring. If you can borrow a sapphire necklace from an older niece or grandmother, youll have something old, something borrowed, and something blue taken care of.

A necklace should only be worn if it can comfortably sit on your chest above your cleavage. You dont want anything hanging down between your breasts, or hanging on the dress over the top of a high-collared gown.

Different ideas include embossing the image of two wedding bells on the invitations or using wedding bell stamps on the return envelope.

Wholesale Wedding Favors
The main problem with a wedding theme is that it can take over the whole ceremony, turning the ceremony into a tacky or gimmicky evening. If you are not interested in making a huge fuss over your Las Vegas wedding, then consider going to a historic chapel along the strip. What about feeding each other chocolate-dipped strawberries? If you want blue and white silk roses with decorative ribbon in your silk wedding bouquet, ask your florist for samples of the ribbon and other bows or lace, and take them to the arts and crafts store. The wedding dress is the key part of a perfect wedding for many women.

The clich of the hideous bridesmaid dress, complete with oversized bows and ruffles, unfortunately turns out to be true, as witnessed at many of the weddings Ive attended.
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