Los-Angeles based jewelry Jennifer Meyer, too, is seeing more and more brides veer towards experimental jewelry. While diamond tennis studs and bracelets are still her top sellers among brides, several customers have gone with the dangling gold four prong diamond earrings, which Meyer describes as a “fun, bold look.” Meyer, a bride-to-be-herself, says that she’s hoping to wear sapphires on her wedding day.
When Calderone designed her own jewelry collection for John Hardy, she looked back at her own vow renewal choices as a reference choice—taking cues from the clean, rigid lines found in Art Deco jewelry, and giving them a modern twist. “I hung rock crystal, embedded with a thin strip of diamonds, from a long and linear bar chain,” she says. “The silhouette of a drop earring beautifully elongates the neck and certainly evokes a bygone era.”
Then there’s the wedding designers themselves: during the most recent bridal fashion week, Vivienne Westwood showed a number of bridal looks with body-length silver necklaces. It-bride designer Danielle Frankel, meanwhile, offers a line of painted clay flower earrings alongside her avant-garde dresses.
It’s important to note that the rise of vintage-inspired bridal jewelry and colored gems comes at a time when interest in minimalist fashion is also at an all-time high: the world is still embracing stealth-wealth brands like The Row and Toteme, while Emilia Wickstead’s impeccably-tailored wedding collection launched in 2024 to critical acclaim. Pared back wedding fashion often allows brides to embrace more accessories. And the nice thing about both vintage-inspired jewelry and colored gems? They’ll make a statement in any era.
