Modern Wedding Rings

Customized, modern wedding rings are today's trend. Couples can choose from many different and nontraditional metals, stone colors and jewel cuts.

If you are considering a modern wedding ring, a professional jeweler may have innovative ideas beyond what is shown in their display case. For your first consultation, bring your ideas, preferences and an open mind in order to select the best modern wedding rings.

 Choosing the Right Metal

Yellow gold for wedding rings was the traditional choice. Today's trends for modern wedding rings generally center around the silver colors, with white gold, platinum or even titanium. Titanium is particularly a popular selection for men's rings with its deep gray color that can be shiny or matted similar to a nickel finish. Modern wedding rings often use mixtures of metals or inlays of different metal colors with custom designs. Some more unique metal selections include tungsten carbide and stainless steel. These specialty metals typically have smaller in-store selections readily available but are great options for customized rings.

Gemstone Colors

Diamonds have traditionally been for the bride, but are showing up in men's modern wedding rings. Brides selecting from trendier rings are also leaning towards colored diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and other colored gemstones rather than the traditional diamond. One benefit of using different gemstones over the traditional diamond for modern wedding rings is the cost. Gemstones can be far cheaper than traditional diamonds.

Modern wedding rings are typically unique with clean lines and high quality gemstones. There are many gemstone selections that may not be familiar to a couple. Instead of the traditional peridot or emerald greens, choosing tourmaline, a rare but beautiful green stone could be an option. Sapphires can provide a beautiful deep blue, but tanzanite comes in sparkling shades of blue and purple. By consulting with a jeweler and starting with colors you may like, your jeweler should have some ideas for stones that you may not have been aware of, such as pink diamonds or white topaz.

The Right Stone Shape

Modern wedding rings frequently use square, princess cut diamonds as solitaires for engagement rings. Small diamonds encrusted across the wedding band in a tasteful setting is also common. Using slivers of baguette diamonds on both men's and women's modern wedding rings are an understated and modern way to add a little sparkle to your ring sets. For wedding bands that are wraparounds of an engagement ring, using the same shape of stone typically depicts the clean, streamlined style of modern wedding rings.

Customized Modern Wedding Rings

Modern wedding rings are all about being a statement of your personality and being unique. Keeping your price range in mind will help to focus your design choices. Prices for customized modern wedding rings can truly be as high or low as you need. Especially if there is a design you like but a price you can't afford, it may be possible to use an alternate metal type or different stone type to bring your ideal ring into your price range.

Before making a final purchase decision you may want to take some time to consider the options for many modern wedding rings. A professional jeweler or gemstone expert may help you to broaden your idea of wedding rings to create a memorable, symbolic piece of jewelry that will be treasured throughout your marriage.  Karen Lincoln

Silver Rings With Pearls

It's almost impossible to come across a woman who does not have a penchant for jewelry. In fact, it's right to say that you will find it difficult to come across a person who does not love jewelry.

Nowadays, men wearing jewelry has nothing to do with them exhibiting their feminine side. Men look as good in jewelry as woman do.

With the popularity of jewelry among both the genders, it has been seen that silver jewelry has benefited the most. Both men and women love their silver. And the most popular piece of silver jewelry is silver rings with pearls. Silver and pearls combine really well to create rings that are always in vogue. The best thing about silver rings with pearls is that they express their beauty with a lot of subtlety. They are elegant and understated and if your ring has white pearls you can wear it with almost all kinds of outfits. Moreover, silver rings with pearls will give you value for money. You can wear it daily with your office casuals and if your take good care of the ring, you can wear it for years without having anything to worry about. Almost every woman wants to have a silver ring with pearls in their jewelry casket.

Here are some great silver rings with pearls that you can choose from. For starters, there is the freshwater pearl ring with sterling mounting. This ring is sleek with two small pearls on it. You have three options in terms of color. There is pink pearl, black pearl and a mix of white and black pearl. It is very attractive and will cost around $7.61 depending were you purchase the product. You can also buy a similar sleek ring with one pearl instead which are cheaper.

You can also go in for the pearl rings with silver mounting and zircon beads. These kind of rings are really simple and come with a zircon bead making them very elegant. The pearls come in the colors of white, black and pink and are very beautiful. 

 Silver rings with pearls in the colors of green and red will definitely make you stand out in the crowd. These are the cheapest found on the market. Freshwater pearl sterling silver rings with CZ is also a very popular choice.

If you are looking for the perfect ring for the woman in your life, you can go for the pearl silver heart-shaped zircon inlaying rings. This ring has a heart shaped zirconia with an inlaid pearl. This will cost not much but it will bring your girlfriend a smiling face which is priceless.  Billy Horner 

Engagement Rings

Engagement Rings Once the finger ring was only an engagement ring and used by the betrothed person during the period from betrothal to marriage.

 

At present about all over the world the ring made of different metals is used by some persons regularly. The purposes of this usage are different. Some people consider a particular metal suitable for them if it is used by any way and common using way is as finger ring. Some people use the ring for adornment. Out of rings used by the people an engagement ring is a very special.

It has been noticed by the history that in 1215 the Pope Innocent III announced that between the betrothal and marriage a gap must be there. As per this announcement the duration was not limited to any particular time. The number of the days could be varied. The people regarded the advice of the Pope and, practice started and up till now prevailed very much. This practice has become so popular with the passage of time. Some marriages also take place immediately after the betrothal but due to the popularity and commonness of the interval between both the occasions, such marriage is not liked by the people. Such marriage is known as an emergent marriage due to some unavoidable circumstances.

It was also thought that during this period a betrothed person should have a symbol for that and it was the reason that the usage of a ring was suggested and adopted by the people. Initially the engagement ring was given from a man to woman and a woman wearing this ring was considered willing for marry to that particular person and passing he betrothal period. Later on the give and take of the ring from both the parties came into practice and became so popular that now all over the world this practice is prevailing. In the start of usage of engagement ring, after marriage it was necessarily removed by the person but later on its usage even after marriage was not considered a strange.

Like other things of the world the changes about the engagement ring were also there. Initially gold was not considered essential for the engagement ring. Some other metals like silver and bronze were also used for this purpose but now the gold is regarded essential. Some engagement rings are completely golden and some are designed and decorated with different beautiful and shining stones. The rings made of gold and highest priced diamonds are also used as engagement rings.

At the time when the engagement ring came into use, no hand (left or right) and no finger was specified for its usage. In different areas of the world it was used in different fingers. But slow and steady all over the world the finger between the little and middle finger was specified for wearing an engagement and other rings. This practice became so popular that this finger was named as ring finger. As per the structure of human body as compared to other fingers the ring finger is closest to the artery going to the heart, therefore, the engagement ring is supposed to wear on this finger necessarily.  A Celina

Diamond Engagement Rings - Past Present and Future

In most of the Western World - Europe, the Anglophone countries and increasingly Westernized Asian countries such as Japan and Korea - diamond engagement rings are a traditional part of the courtship and marriage process. Although plain gold bands for the actual wedding are also traditional, diamond jewelry in the form of a diamond wedding ring set has become much more common. Interestingly, the custom of rings for marriage predates the concept of diamond engagement rings by several centuries.

Diamonds Haven't Been Forever

Diamonds have been worn as adornment as far back as the days of the Roman Empire, but weren't used in diamond wedding rings until Archduke Maximilian I of Hapsburg presented one to Marie of Burgundy on the occasion of their wedding in 1477. The concept of engagement rings had started about 250 years earlier as a result of a papal decree; Pope Innocent III decided that couples should go through a longer betrothal period prior to taking vows. Upon announcing their wedding plans, it was customary for the man and woman to exchange plain metal bands - gold for royalty, silver for nobility, bronze for the upper and middle (merchant) class, and iron for peasants.

The Market for Diamond Engagment Rings is Created

The practice of presenting diamond engagement rings is shockingly recent - and in fact, goes back less than sixty years. In fact, it was the result of a corporate marketing strategy designed to convince people of the existence of a "historical tradition" that in fact had never existed!

It was the DeBeers company - a corporate entity based in South Africa that today controls over half the world's diamond supply - that came up with the most successful "catch phrase" of all time - "A diamond is forever." This campaign, which began around 1950, resulted in the creation of the new "tradition" of diamond engagement rings.

A similar attempt was made in U.S., again in an attempt to convince the public that it had long been "traditional" for men to receive engagement rings. American men didn't fall for it, but eventually, a similar marketing campaign resulted in today's extensive market for "his and hers" diamond wedding ring sets.

Diamond Jewelry and Weddings Today

Regardless of what advertising executives say, it is important that those who have a wedding in their future do what is economically comfortable and meaningful for them. After all, millions of dollars have been spend for diamond wedding ring sets to celebrate weddings that lasted only a few years or months. On the other hand, there are couples wearing plain, simple gold bands who have gone on to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversaries.

For those who are curious however, the "rule of thumb" - established by the diamond industry - is that men should plan on spending about six months' salary when considering the purchase of diamond engagement rings.  Jonathan Blocker