Wedding rings are decorations that are a symbol of love and strengthen the family ties of spouses. Today, white gold wedding rings are in vogue, but in order to select original jewelry, one must proceed from several criteria.
It is worth thinking about their choice in advance and come to this responsibly, because these jewelry items will be with you all your life. Today, both paired options for future spouses and individual requirements are made.
Features of the choice of white gold rings
Recently, the popularity of gaining white gold. The explanation for this is quite simple: this metal looks quite elegant and expensive, and in combination with diamonds or other precious stones, it is found and unique.
Moreover, such decorations are chosen by both young people and couples at the age: some appreciated the originality of this decision, others - restrained refinement and beauty. Any wedding ring white gold will make light, bright and elegant, as opposed to yellow.
Before choosing wedding rings, try to determine for yourself what metal it should be made from, whether it will be inlaid with stones and in what style it is made. Today, the jewelry industry has improved production. It is believed that the wedding rings of the bride and groom should be the same. Well, if you have the same tastes and similar forms of hands. But in reality it happens very rarely.
Most men choose classic smooth wedding rings or rings markedly "masculine" style. The main thing, according to many men, is that it is comfortable and does not interfere with work.
Women tend to choose a little differently. For them, it is not just a tribute to tradition, but also an ornament. Therefore, ladies pay much more attention to design, the presence of stones and decorative elements.
Exclusive wedding rings, as a rule, of complex shape, made of two or more colors of gold or platinum, decorated with precious stones.
Classic smooth products
They differ in width and profile - the shape of the decoration in cross section. The most popular today options are "European", they are also "American", characterized by an absolutely flat profile from the inside as well as from the outside. The barrel profile implies a rounded rim on both sides. Wedding rings "classic" are made of white, pink and yellow gold 585 or 750 samples.
Wedding with stones
Models with precious inserts have a special charm. Products with cubic zirconias are spectacular and affordable. More expensive - products with diamonds. If you prefer non-standard jewelry, choose wedding rings with sapphire, ruby, emerald or other bright colored stones.
Textured
The surface may be wavy, covered with a "diamond face" or frosted. It is interesting to look fashionable models with shallow or through slots along the entire length of the rim.
It is fashionable, for example, to engrave wedding rings with the date of the wedding or the names of the spouses. Texts not in Russian, but in Latin, have a wide distribution today as an engraving. On sale you can also find jewelry with an already prepared inscription.
Jewelers are advised to do diamond engraving, after which the inscription acquires a unique brilliance sparkling with golden light.
Men's and women's jewelry
Men's hoops are heavier, laconic and restrained, without flashy decorative details and stones. Charming models for brides attract with their elegance and delicate aesthetics.
Many jewelry manufacturers offer paired wedding rings, designed in the same style. In this case, men's products are larger in size and width of the rim, they lack precious inserts, while women's products are often decorated with whole tracks of diamonds.
Most popular designs:
- traditional smooth is a classic;
- notched rings;
- Celtic style wedding;
- with one gem;
- with several gems (usually with one big stone and several small pebbles around it);
- with a diamond walkway;
- containing 2-3 metals, which can be combined with gold and silver.
As the original version of the wedding rings can be their ethnic style. Such products will symbolize the traditions of this nation and culture, they will become an original accessory at a wedding celebration. But then the wedding is best done with an orientation to the folk style.
The main thing - do not forget that the ring will decorate your hand every day. When choosing a ring, besides the aesthetic side, consider how comfortable it is with such a ring in everyday life.
And may conjugal love, like precious metal, become more valuable over time!
Choice of size and shape
Most women do not remove the wedding ring neither in winter nor in summer, nor during sports, nor during pregnancy or in other situations. Meanwhile, fingers swell and shrink from heat, cold, as a result of weight gain and retention of water in the body, so the ring should sit perfectly on the finger. It should be slightly free, but also not to slip from a finger. If the decoration is large, you will easily lose it. Too close a product can adversely affect your health.
Russian sizes are designed very simply - based on the diameter of their inside. Ring 14 size will have an internal diameter of 14 millimeters, ring size 20 - 20.
In Europe, the length of the inner circle of the ring is measured. A European engagement ring marked 60 will be the same as our 19.31 ring.
Decoration should emphasize the beauty of your hands, and not vice versa. Owners of thin long fingers were the most fortunate. They are suitable for rings of almost any design. On long thin fingers, either narrow ornaments 2.5-3.5 mm wide or 8-10 mm wide look good. For short narrow and thick fingers, there is only one rule - narrow rings 2.5-3.5 mm wide.
The inner shape may be flat, convex or concave. Flat rings should be carefully selected under the fingers, as they sit worse, and the bulging hold better. The inner side should have smooth rounded lines along the edges. Having such soft lines will give you the feeling that the ring sits more comfortably on your finger.
Important and thickness (height). The average thickness of European rings is 1.8-2.1 mm, which is the most comfortable when worn indicator, in which the ring, unlike the Russian equivalent of 1.2 mm, will not break and will not lose shape when stretched.
Extravagant white gold
A wedding ring is an ornament that becomes a reminder of one of the happiest days in your life and a symbol of love. Therefore, when choosing, it is better to abandon all sorts of stereotypes and prejudices, because the product should be as bright and unique as your love story.
Recently, extravagant versions made of white gold or with the use of several metals have become very popular. Their form depends only on the customer's imagination.
Great look wedding items with inlaid diamond. The ability to emphasize the crystal purity of this stone is one of the reasons for framing it with white gold. Moreover, diamond jewelery does not simply demonstrate the status and success of people; they emphasize in a favorable light the purity and innocence of the bride.
White gold perfectly complements the diamond, especially if the stone does not have perfect chromaticity, but there is some kind of hue or blotch in the form of clouds. This ring will look great during the wedding ceremony and subsequently in the photo.
Agree that a wedding ring is a complicated ornament, concealing a kind of secret energy, the warmth of a family hearth. Therefore, it is very important that the model was to the liking of both newlyweds.
Copyright wedding rings can have a variety of designs, decorated with stones or engraved - the names, initials of lovers, symbolic images, which is associated with the history of their relationship. They can be provocatively bold, exquisite or even fancy. These include rings in the form of crowns, tires, nuts.
Cardiograms of the bride and groom or their fingerprints can be applied to the gold surface. Unusual wedding products are chosen by couples in love who want to show their individuality and are ready for experiments.
Differences of white gold
Jewelry made with white gold can vary greatly in hues and purity of color. White gold is a yellow gold alloy with many other valuable metals. If silver and copper are added to give the usual color to gold products, then platinum, palladium, nickel are used to make white gold, or, in extreme cases, the silver content increases.
Matte color peculiar to products derived from alloys with a high silver content. White gold made with palladium content is considered less noble. This metal will have a not very noticeable yellowish tint. Another option for making white gold is to add nickel.
However, this material very often causes allergies, so its use is limited. The last option and the most noble is an alloy with platinum. Wedding rings made from it, more durable and not so much subject to damage, but have a higher cost.
The rules for choosing jewelry with diamonds
Currently, the assortment is very diverse, but most often diamonds symbolizing eternity and considered kings of precious stones are used to decorate wedding rings. The weight of a diamond is measured in carats (1 carat - 0.2 grams). Its value is determined not so much by the quantity as by the combination of characteristics: carat, transparency of the stone, purity and color, cut. However, it should be remembered that it is customary to decorate with diamonds only a wedding ring of the bride.
Diamonds are favorites in the frame of wedding rings, because they are not only the most beautiful and most expensive among all the precious stones, but also the most durable. Rubies and sapphires are a little inferior to diamonds in strength.
A three-diamond engagement jewelry is a “classic of the genre,” it is also called the trilogy rings (“trilogy”) or “ring that marks the past-present-future”. Here are usually used round diamonds of the same size, which symbolically reflect the past, present and future of your relationship.
A diamond engagement ring trimmed with other gemstones: such rings are also very common. Usually diamonds prevail on them, and the remaining stones: rubies, sapphires, emeralds, topazes - are used to emphasize them.
Choosing wedding products, it is worth remembering that they will be with you throughout your entire life together, and will also have to fit all your clothes and best fit the style.
