3 Unique Wedding Jewelry Ideas
While some brides and grooms go for a completely traditional look for their weddings, others add little touches or broad strokes of their unique personalities into the mix. Your wedding jewelry can be a great way of expressing your personal style and making a distinct statement that you’ve taken a traditional step on your own terms.
Stunning Statement Necklace
Statement necklaces are a great way to make any look more personal and representative of who you are. Options include heavily embellished necklaces and long gemstone strands knotted in a carelessly chic fashion. Bold statement chokers in a thick, collar-like metal band design can be particularly sleek and daring for a fashionable bride. In some cases, it’s possible to incorporate a collar necklace like this into a custom halter-dress design so the jewelry becomes part of the gown itself.
You might even consider picking out your statement necklace first and either finding a dress to match or having one designed to highlight the necklace. This can actually be a strategy for making sure you get the most out of your wedding day budget. A lot of brides say they’ll repurpose their wedding dresses, but few actually do. When you choose a jewelry piece that captures your style outside of the context of the wedding, you’ll actually be able to wear it over and over again.
Technicolor Gems
White pearls and white diamonds tend to be the most popular choices for wedding jewelry. Some brides may branch out into a pair of sapphire or aquamarine stud earrings for their “something blue,” but few go further than that. This gives you the perfect opportunity to showcase your unique sense of style with some colorful gemstone jewelry that adds a pop (or two, or three) of color to an otherwise fairly traditional bridal ensemble.
This is an especially great idea if you already have an engagement ring featuring one or more colorful stones. You can use those stones as the basis for your wedding look and even add in a few accent colors to enhance the overall color scheme and bring more vibrancy to your wedding outfit styling.
Multiple Metallics
The key to mixing different metal colors is to be consistent and to carry the theme throughout in a relatively even balance. This helps to make the look appear more deliberate and carefully considered, which is the goal of any fashion look, but can be especially important for a look you’ll be photographed in all day. So, instead of simply wearing a pair of gold-set diamond studs, a platinum ring and rose gold bracelet, think instead about two-tone metallic and a stack of bangles that incorporate both white and yellow gold.
If your engagement and wedding ring set are both single-color metallics, use that metal color as your dominant base and weave in small details of one or two other metallic colors. You can even pick out a dress that incorporates the same concept or have one custom made, asking your designer to use beading or thread in silver and gold tones in areas of embellishment.
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