Wedding Guid
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.

This is a good opportunity for a party.

Santa Barbara Wedding Guide
Some people like to use special stamps to mail the wedding invitations and youll need to purchase them when you get the rest of your supplies. Usually growing out of a cauldron, which represents the earth mother and all things nurturing, this is a wonderful symbol to use as a way to remind you and your husband as to the growth and change that will come with your life together. The lighting of the unity candle symbolically reflects their new family and the union from two separate families. One wedding gift that is both eye-catching and practical is the gift basket.

Both the wine glass and the picture frame are great, practical souvenirs from the wedding that do not have to bleed the wedding supplies budget.
Not only will it help you make sure the dress fits, but it gives you an opportunity to practice the construction techniques you will use to make your wedding dress. Another great idea is to allow guests to leave the wedding with personalized wineglasses. You may choose for both rings to be so elaborated, just yours, or neither.