WeddingBands.com Blog

Burnsville, MN based WeddingBands.com announces the launch of a new diamond anniversary and eternity band collection.  The new collection is made up of larger more expensive pieces due to rising demand of jewelry with a larger total carat diamond weight.

The new ring line start at 2.50-carat total weight and increases from there. It incorporates diamonds that are a minimum of Very Slightly Included in clarity and near colorless at G/H in color grade.

The largest eternity band in the line starts at $16,950 USD and is 5.10-carat total weight (pictured here).

“Our customer base in Australia and the United Kingdom’s want for larger pieces increased over the last year. We hope that this new line satisfies that demand”, stated Operations Manager, Edessa Kerkinni.

The new line is the start of a company wide initiative to build on their reputation as an online wedding band retailer and start catering to tastes for larger diamond jewelry.  WeddingBands.com’s team of designers and artisans is in current works to create a ring by the end of summer 2012 that will start at $100K.

The new higher priced anniversary rings are already online and selling, giving WeddingBands.com a range of rings starting from $90 to $16,950 USD.

WeddingBands.com has been in business as brick and mortar since 1985 and online since 2001 selling wedding and anniversary rings. They offer timeless, unique designer jewelry and manufacture a large selection of wedding bands.

      Jewelry making is one of the oldest crafts in the world and forms of decorative art. There are more than 7000 years worth of jewelry history spanning from great empires, royal families, and jewelry found from all over the world. I’ve decided it would be fun to post snippets about jewelry pieces from the past. First stop, the Kingdom of Asante.

       Between the 1700s-1900s in West Africa, the Kingdom of Asante raised as one of the most successful imperial powers in West Africa. This kingdom was found on the large amounts of gold resources found in that region. The sole currency used in this kingdom was gold dust. Everything encompassing the Asante kingdom was in relation to the gold found. The king and major chiefs, plus certain senior officials wore gold jewels and gold decorative insignia. It was a way of distinguishing the different rankings among people. 

Asante Finger Ring

      Since the sole currency was gold dust, the king was the only official that could give permission to turn the gold dust into regalia or jewelry. As a goldsmith in the kingdom, you were required to be inventive and produce a continuous flow of unique and new styles for the wearer. The method of making the jewelry was lost-wax casting. Lost-wax casting makes an impression of a metal jewelry model in a rubber mold. The rubber mold is repeatedly injected with molten wax which hardens into exact copies of a jewelry item. Molten metals are injected into the cavities and allowed to cool. This type of method can make one of a kind pieces or multiple pieces. Today, many hand crafted wedding rings are created with lost-wax casting

      Some of the jewelry designs were taken from Europeans, but most designs were verbal representations. For example, the finger rings and toe rings were usually designed to illustrate proverbs and adages. The pictured finger ring is a sample of the jewelry made in the Asante Kingdom. There are three cannons on the top of the ring. On the side of the ring, there are hand carved leaf-like designs.

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz took the world by surprise last month, pulling off a James Bond-esque scheme, and marrying in a secret wedding ceremony.  The pair had a quiet, intimate wedding ceremony attended by only a few special guests. Now, Rachel has debuted her Wedding Band while on the set of NBC’s the Today Show.

Rachel selected a simple, plain gold wedding band. No word on her husbands band yet.

Courtesy of www.InStyle.com

The newlyweds bring their off-screen romance to the big screen, playing a married couple in the upcoming film, Dream House.

What do you think of their choice? Do you like the simplicity or would you have liked to see more opulence?

If you have missed the constant speculation and reporting on the royal wedding back in April, you are in luck. The Duchess of Cambridge has decided to put a few items from her wedding look on display in Buckingham palace.

In the display, you will find her stunning Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen gown, the complimentary veil and diamond tiara, as well as her shoes. Her intricate and beautiful diamond earrings are also on display. Missing from the collection, of course, is her stunning sapphire and diamond engagement ring, and the Welsh gold wedding band.

Courtesy of www.People.com

Kate toured the display hall on Friday with the Queen.

What do you think of the display? Would you like to see her wedding look in person?

Congratulations are in order for Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo. The pair wed Friday, July 15^th, in a private island ceremony.

The pair became engaged in November. Lachey proposed with a Bader & Garrin platinum, 4 carat asscher cut diamond, flanked by trapezoidal diamonds.

The newlyweds invited their guests by sending them a plane ticket, with no other details, except that the attire was island chic. The nuptials will be televised on TLC at the end of July.  

No details yet on their wedding bands, but we can’t wait to see what they choose.

What do you think their wedding bands should look like? Do you agree with them playing their wedding on TLC?