Showing posts with label Rings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rings. Show all posts

Thursday 21 October 2010

Cute Ring Box

One of my favourite traditions involves 'warming the rings'. As you start the wedding service, the wedding bands are passed around the congregation, so each person can murmur a wish or a prayer to the happy couple. We'll definitely be introducing that into our own ceremony, but my only concern is if the rings get dropped or go missing on their way round. Here's one gorgeous way of keeping them safe. Put them in a cute apple ring box. The super-stylish author of The Cherry Blossom Girl found this box, but you can pick them up herehere and here, where they also come in ladybird, star and even penguin shapes! {Photo credit: Marianne Taylor}

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Wednesday 20 October 2010

Slim Wedding Rings

I have a wedding ring problem. My engagement ring diamond is set quite deep into the band, so a normal wedding ring isn't going to fit underneath it neatly. Now I'm not keen on the bendy rings that curve around engagement rings, because on some days when I'm married I'll want to wear just the wedding band. So what can I do? Well one option is to get a super-slim wedding ring, and the good news is that there are lots of gorgeous examples out there. Check out my discoveries below - many of them found via Cup of Jo.

Product Credits {clockwise from top left} - 1. Satomika Wakita, 2. Fay Andrada, 3. Favor Jewelry, 4. Elaphantine, 5. Cat Bird NYC

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Thursday 10 June 2010

The Cat that got the Cream

I'm all about simple, elegant jewellery, and when I stumbled across NYC boutique Cat Bird, I got an excited feeling that I haven't had since Christmas Eve 1984 {when I was five}. The shop is actually in Williamsburg in Brooklyn, which happens to be the coolest neighbourhood in the world right now, but don't despair, because you can buy online. The best thing about them is that they don't just do jewellery, they unearth new and exciting items from all over the globe, including terrariums, candlesticks, tooth fairy boxes and compasses. Check out their site here, but first, give your credit cards to your boss, and tell them not to give them back till after payday. Don't say I didn't warn you!



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Sunday 6 June 2010

Touching Love

Do you ever fiddle with your rings? I do, all the time. Wouldn't it be wonderful if, as your fingers traced the band, the dots read Love in braille? For me that falls in to the seriously romantic category, up there with turrets and princely frogs and magic forests. Made by Maap Studio in their Cambridgeshire workshop, these gorgeous rings are handmade from white porcelain clay, and then hand-painted. You can choose the colour of your dots, and as Maap also take bespoke orders, you could also change the message to something more personal. Take a look at their online shop here.



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Tuesday 18 May 2010

Cherry Blossom

Blossom is a gorgeous motif for a wedding day. It symbolises the flowering of something new, the start of a hopeful future, and more to the point, it's really pretty!  Along those lines, I've recently fallen hard for Shaun Leane's new collection, inspired by one of Japan’s oldest tales. According to legend, cherry blossoms are believed to bloom from seeds sprinkled by a goddess from the clouds of Fuji Mountain - how romantic! Shaun's collection includes a combination of beautiful silver branches, soft enamel flowers and precious stones, and you can find it in stores throughout the UK. Click here for more information and his website.

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Monday 10 May 2010

Blossoming Jewellery

Jewellery modelled on the natural world makes me happy, and these gorgeous little hydrangea blossoms have brightened my day. The detailing is exquisite, and I love the rusticity of the silver ring band. Buy one for yourself, and pick up the earrings as perfect presents for your bridesmaids, particularly if you're having a garden wedding. Designed by Patrick Irla, and handmade in his Michigan studio, you can buy them online right here.

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Saturday 24 April 2010

Do You Like Butter?

Sometimes something, or someone catches your eye, and you lose all rationale, and have to have it. That's exactly how I feel about this little buttercup ring. I want it, I have to have it, and I'm going to race you all to Kathi Roussel's online shop to buy it. Ready, steady.....go!

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