When considering your wedding outfit, consider being a bride that your family and friends will never forget. Add some mystery and uniqueness to your wedding look, and feature some fabulous gemstones in your wedding jewlery. With your beautiful cream gown, add tourquoise for a summer wedding, and rubies, emeralds or sapphires for a sophistocated regal look. Everyone has been to endless weddings where the bride wears only white, and doesn't show anything new and interesting. Be different than every other dull bride and add something unique that will show that you have an interesting personality and a sense of style. We have sifted through different sites to find the very best jewlery that will kick it up a knotch at your own wedding. (Read More.....)
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Cassandra Lynne Jewelry is by far one of the nicest ebay stores that feature hand crafted bridal jewelry and wedding tiaras and crowns. Their jewelry features beautiful settings and higher end tiaras which are often not found in the common bridal salon. Their store features a wide variety of exceptional wedding tiaras and wedding jewelry that could be saved as a heirloom. 
If you are drawn to dragonflies or butterflies, why not wear it in your hair? Some of the most beautiful jewels are the vintage brooches of the 40's and 50's. You can find just about any bug, animal, or flower which has been set with diamonds and rhinestones or precious gems that can be worn as a tiara in your hair. You may ask.....Just how are you to wear a brooch in your hair? It may be easier than you think. With an inexpensive metal comb and some craft wire, and a pair of small pliers you can attach the comb to the pin at the back of the brooch. Be sure to cut off the sharp end of the pin with some metal pliers cutters after you have secured the comb to the brooch. (Be very careful when cutting off the end of the pin, as it could go flying almost anywhere) Brooch hairpieces can be a very unique way of giving your bridesmaids a different look by having different hairpieces but matching the gemstones that work within your wedding colors. Brooches worn in the hair is one of the newest hot trends and will remain a classic look for many years to come. 
Your wedding day is one day that you can go over the top and you can get away with it, so don't feel like you have to follow any set of rules. I think back to my wedding now, and I would have loved to do a French Marie Antoinette look with large hair paired with a colored embroidered gown. Being a bridal consultant for many years, I rarely came across a bride with enough courage to go for something unique and different, ........rather most brides went after safe "bridal looks", I myself included. Simply by adding some color, or combining something uniquely different is one way of standing out. The best advice I can pass on to a bride after witnessing so many brides make their decisions is to shop alone at first. So many brides make the mistake of bringing with them their whole bridal party, whom all have opinions of their own. I have seen it over and over again, a bride knowing her specific style only to have her friends or mother interject a seed of doubt into her personal style. (I know my girlfriends and I differ on specific design styles) After shopping alone, you will learn by experimenting with different styles what works and what does not without people swaying you in the wrong direction. Most brides are sensitive to style, because who wears formal gowns through out their lives? Most often a bridal consultant stays neutral and quiet for the most part because there are so many options that they are trying to figure out what you like and what just doesn't appeal to you. The most successful brides in my opinion are those who shop for their gowns by themselves and then bring in a close friend or their mother(s)to see their top three gowns. Ultimately they decide what they want, and get to incorporte the special moment with those that are close to them. 
Ancient Egyptians have always been extremely talented in their art of goldsmithing. The Ancient Egyptians were among the first to consitute jewelry-making as a profession. Through archaeological finds we know they first began making their jewelry using natural materials such as beads, shells and bones, but their art took a new turn when metals and natural gemstones such as gold, gold, turquoise, agate were readily available with regular mission trips to the Eastern Desert and Nubia. Napoleon Bonaparte's conquest over Egypt in 1798 through 1801 sparked an interest in all things Egyptian as he brought back ancient artifacts which revived the Egyptian style in architecture, furniture design and jewelry. Egyptian and Grecian styles have been making their appearances on celebrities in Hollywood as ancient styles become modern again breath new life into fashion. Angelina Jolie made a striking appearance at the 2009 Oscars wearing a 65-carat Colombian emerald ring and 15-carat emerald drop earrings by Lorraine Schwartz. The earliest history of emeralds were in fact found found in Egypt, by the Red sea. The Egyptians mined emeralds on the hillside of Djebel Sikeit and Djebel Zabarah. Classic Egyptian jewels are often appear very modern with straight lines and feature striking gemstones with exquisite laborious settings. Emeralds and Rubies worn with a white wedding gown are the perfect contrast of colors. Consider a high impact with color such as an emerald than the basic white diamond look every bride chooses. Cleopatra’s favorite gem was the emerald. Be Unique and Unforgettable. 
Some of the most beautiful tiaras were made by jewelers such as Cartier, Fabergé, Boucheron, and Garrards as they eagerly designed prestigous tiaras for wealthy clients. Famous Fred Leighton jewlery has been the most popular jeweler for the stars lending out his antique jewlery for red carpet events which in trade has made him well known around the world for his excusite jewlery. Murray Mondschein, the man behind the name bought a Mexican artifacts store in New York in 1959 which sold sold arts and crafts. He wasn't initially in the jewelry business, until a victorian jewelry dealer gave him some items to sell, and it was then when he realized antique jewlery fetched quite a bit of moeny. Mondschein began traveling abroad buying up all the jewels that belonged to European aristocrats and in 1974, he moved his business uptown, and began selling his vintage jewels to wealthy women. Today Fred Leighton is a widely recongized name. 
Melania Knauss, Slovenian super-model choose a Galliano wedding gown for her wedding that weighed nearly 50 pounds. It was the first time that a bride was the cover model for Vogue. Melania's Galliano designed gown made headlines as it required over 28 seamstresses, and 1000 hours of work, including 550 hours of embroidery. The gown had 98 yards of beautiful white satin and was encrusted with more than 1500 crystal rhinestones, a 13-foot train, and a 16-foot veil. The gown was estimated to be over $2,00,000 but it is reported that the bride paid $100,000 because of all the favorable publicity that the gown caused. Melania required 4 fitting sessions one of which lasted for four hours. The most stunning features of her wedding look was the gathering fabric of her gown and the stunning ornate Edwardian necklace that Fred Leighton jewelers borrowed to her. At the reception she changed at her reception to a Vera Wang dress with a flower headpiece. 
SK Exports Diamond Jewellery is one of the nicest stores on ebay for antique Victorian jewelry. Victorian jewelry has always been the most popular choice of jewelry with celebrities and royalty that it makes it a perfect choice for your wedding as the style is a classic that doesn't date with time. With the popularity of colored embroidery in wedding gowns, a bride doesn't need to choose clear diamond colored jewelry, but can incorporate colored gemstones into her bridal look. With a simple white gown, go bold and add a sapphire set of earrings, or a gorgeous emerald necklace. Sk Exports carries a variety of gemstones set in Victorian jewelry that will give you a variety of great choices for something unique for your wedding day.