There are an ocean of different types of bridal jewelry available, the style and decoration to be chosen depending on your budget. The choice can be made between retail stockists, for mass produced items, and designers that supply handmade and sometimes unique pieces of jewelry that are tailored perfectly to suit your own personal taste.
Choose your dress/wedding outfit and hair accessories before you decide on your jewelry. If you decide to use a designer who supplies handcrafted pieces, you can even have them create jewelry to match your headdress, whether that would be a tiara, crown, fascinator, or any of the other many headdress styles available.
If you are a bride with a generous budget, you can choose a precious metal; gold (white or yellow), platinum, silver; with precious and/or semi-precious stones. For sparkle go for diamonds, always classy and suitable to wear with any dress. Rubies, emeralds and sapphires bring colour and can be used to tie-in with your bridesmaids outfits. If you are superstitious, avoid opals…these are said to represent tears by those who believe in such things (maybe better not to risk it…!). Bear in mind that jewelry of this quality will last you a lifetime, and you will get many happy years of wear in the future, and not just on your very special day.
If your budget is more restricted, you can go for many of the handcrafted ranges that are out there. Handmade wedding jewelry is generally made on sterling silver or silver plated wires, with every conceivable adornment, from silk flowers, beads of every colour, crystals, pearls and even shells – how fabulous for a beach wedding!
Many designers online will provide a bespoke service, so you can have your headdress, jewelry and bridesmaids accessories all made to match, whilst still staying within a relatively modest budget. You may not get jewelry that will last a lifetime this way, but you can certainly ensure that you and your wedding party look spectacular on the day!
Handmade fire-polished crystal necklace
