Diamond & Jewelry News, Advice and Prices for Consumers
Diamond & Jewelry News, Advice and Prices for Consumers
August 28, 2010
I've been looking for wedding rings with my fiance and we're a bit alternative when it comes to style. If I'm going to wear something forever that reminds me of my relationship with my husband to be, I want it to be unique, interesting, and eye-catching. Got any exciting wedding ring ideas?
September 17, 2010
August 28, 2010
The best thing about wedding rings is that they can be easily personalized. While there are various cultural and religious traditions regarding style and make of wedding rings, these are only conventions. It's becoming more and more popular for couples to get individualized non-matching wedding rings, or unconventional wedding rings. I've seen a number of interesting wedding ring designs in my days. One of the strangest designs was a wedding band set that featured tiny collapsible cups on the head of each ring. Yeah, cups. There are also some couples that choose to make their wedding rings out of old coins or foreign coins. I've also seen wedding rings that are made out of the wearer's bone tissue! That's pretty weaird, huh? The jewelry designers take a sample of your bone tissue, say from an old tooth like a pulled wisdom tooth, they then grow bone in the shape of a ring that is actually made out of your own DNA. This is by far one of the most unique wedding band designs I've ever come across. Mokume Gane rings are also a beautiful alternative option for wedding ring design if you ask me. The metal is made with a beautiful ancient Japanese metal fusing technique that makes the metal look almost tie-dyed. I've also seen wedding rings that allow for your finger print to be "engraved" on the inside of the ring. These rings look pretty plain on the outside, but the inside features your finger print (or you can mix it up and wear your partners finger print and give you partner the ring with your finger print). I've also come across a number of abnormally shaped wedding ring such as square-shaped rings or triangular-shaped rings and there are a number of rings that you can get custom made to fit together with your partners ring that create a hole between them that looks like a heart. I think the ring that most caught my eye for its practicality and sweetness was a ring that had pictures of the couple embedded into it. The centerpiece was a clear glass circle which, if held to the light, projected light through the tiny picture of the couple on the other side of the ring. It was a beautiful design, cute, unique and almost practical.
