Timeless Styles Wedding How-To's

Your special occasion deserves extra-special jewelry. Save money and ensure you find exactly what your heart desires by creating your own designer wedding jewelry for a fraction of what you'd spend in bridal shops or department stores.

From classic styling to designing outside the traditional jewelry box, you'll find inspiration from the latest, newest, real-wedding accessorizing how-to's.

Accessorize for Fall/Winter Weddings

Wedding jewelry has become the focal point of the wedding costume as designers lean toward simpler dresses and statement jewelry pieces.

With the bold colors of a fall wedding also come the bold pieces of jewelry. Pair a large cuff bracelet with long, dangling earrings. Elaborate collar-style necklace pieces enhance strapless dresses and will balance your headpiece. Tiaras are still very much in style as are beaded ribbon headbands and vine hair accessories that intertwine with your tresses.

Antique timepieces, cameos and locket necklaces make an unforgettable "something borrowed," and Swarovski® crystal sapphires are a dazzling "something blue." For backless dresses, extend your necklace chain several inches beyond the clasp. Add a cultured freshwater pearl teardrop or cubic zirconia briolette to the end so it elegantly drapes down your spine. Long, Y-shaped necklaces accentuate plunging necklines. Use delicate chain in the precious metal that best shows off your wedding colors (gold-filled for warm tones and sterling silver for cool tones) and hang large Swarovski baroque and briolette crystals from the tail.

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Wedding Spring / Summer

Accessorize for Spring/Summer Weddings

Contemporary bridal jewelry is exploding in new directions. Colorful gemstones such as tourmaline, amethyst and peridot combined with gold-filled beads or sterling silver chain in multi-strand designs are a delightful accent to the wedding bouquet. Black onyx, especially for evening weddings, is a sleek contrast to a traditional dress. A decorative clasp or flowery focal piece transforms ordinary necklaces into extraordinary designs.

Create jewelry that will complement your wedding colors and accentuate your theme. Cultured freshwater pearls and gemstone beads come in a variety of colors and finishes. Many brides prefer to wear white or off-white cultured freshwater pearls or clear Swarovski® crystal beads, while their bridesmaids and bridal party wear pearls, crystal beads or gemstone beads that match their dress and wedding colors. Beaded brooches are eye-catching alternatives to corsages.

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