Antique Style Wedding Ring, Platinum Engagement Ring ?
Q.My fiancee (soon-to-be) and I are planning on using the diamond from his mother's wedding ring (she passed away when he was six years old) in my engagement ring. I'm really touched by what we're doing--the ring will become an important heirloom. We live in DC now, but will be getting married in, and moving to, Chicago. Does anyone know anything about buying a setting, or getting a setting made for a ring? I really would like platinum . . . We're just not sure how to go about getting this done, and we've no idea what it will cost.
A.We also used an heirloom diamond. It was Robert's great-grandmother's, passed on to Robert's mother and it meant a lot to me that she suggested we use it since she knows how I love antique jewelry. I, too, wanted it to be set in plantinum and specifically an antique style setting. I started by looking in the phonebook under regular jewelers who listed that they sold "estate" and "antique" jewelry. We looked at many of these places who had some nice settings. Most however were not platinum, but white gold. One jeweler we tried sold some estate pieces but also dealt with a company called "Whitehouse" who makes platinum (and gold) settings from the same casts that they were using 100+ years ago. The jeweler had a catalog from Whitehouse. We chose my setting from them. It's from the Edwardian period, around 1910. It's very beautiful! The jeweler will be making the wedding band to go with it. If you are interested, I'm in Baltimore and can strongly recommend the jeweler we dealt with. Just send me an email message and I'll give you his name and phone number. DC isn't that far away and this guy was VERY nice. My husband gave me his mother's engagment diamond also and we had the same thing done. We went to a few "big" jewlery stores (you know, the one's in the malls) and they were outrageously expensive and didn't do specialty work. We finally went to a smaller jeweler that carried only made-to-order rings and creations of their own. It was must less expensive and they worked with our budget and what we wanted the rings to look like. Of course, I second and triple guessed myself dozens of times, but I wouldn't have changed a thing! Platnium is very expensive so we had white gold, if you can afford it more power to you. :) Good luck and just ask around and take your time.
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