For hundreds of years, plain gold bands have been recognised because the epitome of quintessential wedding ceremony ring design. A timeless and understated marker of lifelong dedication, many a easy circlet is slipped modestly onto the bridal stack, cautious to not outshine the engagement ring, whose ‘endlessly’ function is to carry sway as the principle attraction.

Nonetheless, in recent times, we’ve noticed the wedding ceremony band gaining some traction of its personal. With a year-by-year improve in requests for bespoke wedding ceremony bands and an 81% improve usually wedding ceremony band spending since 2020, it might seem that this secondary jewel is not thought of the common-or-garden add-on, however an on-finger occasion of equal significance. Inherent on this motion is an elevated curiosity in shapely jacket rings, designed to woo the engagement ring with whom they co-exist.

WHAT IS A JACKET RING?

Also called ‘ring enhancers’, jacket rings are designed to be worn alongside one other ring; sometimes an engagement ring. The aim of the jacket ring is to embrace its neighbour’s contours like a tailor-made get together gown, intensifying and elaborating on its current type. Though lovely jewels in their very own proper, they are often thought of an engagement ring improve, typically creating the impression of concord so excellent it’s troublesome to decipher the place one piece ends and the opposite begins.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A JACKET RING?

At Lebrusan Studio, we’re seeing an rising variety of shoppers inheriting lovely heirloom engagement rings. Although the flexibility to reclaim an emotionally charged piece of jewelry is gorgeous in sentiment, it does considerably restrict inventive freedom relating to engagement ring design. That is the place the jacket ring is available in, as a placing piece of assertion jewelry that provides its wearer the autonomy to personalise their irreplaceable engagement ring in a means that feels true to them.

This chance to take an current jewel to a brand new and elevated stage may additionally enchantment to these whose engagement ring is comparatively easy in design. Maybe your price range was a bit of extra modest again within the question-popping days and also you at the moment are able to crank up your engagement ring’s quantity? Perhaps your type has developed and also you derive extra pleasure now from elaborate design than you probably did beforehand? Including a jacket ring to your stack is the act of providing a quiet engagement ring a louder voice.

SHAPED JACKET RINGS

The formed band is probably the most typical of jacket ring kinds. Crafted to cradle its neighbouring engagement ring from beneath, it boasts limitless potentialities for personalisation. For some, the wedding between two rings is as exact as a jacket ring moulded to each final nook and cranny of the engagement ring’s contour. For others, it’s so simple as an angular wishbone type or the sweeping arc of a half-halo.

Our newly launched Artisan Filigree Assortment is a quartet of formed jacket rings designed to embrace the easy solitaire engagement rings of our Artisan Assortment. Chunky assertion rings with florid filigree detailing, these substantial bands are finest worn as an embellishment of a easy solitaire – equipment of their very personal.

OPEN JACKET RINGS

A preferred technique of boosting the engagement ring’s affect from each potential angle is the open jacket ring, which leaves a spot at its entrance. Generally every damaged ‘finish’ of the band is ready with a stone, generally the complete band is ready with an limitless sparkle of pave diamonds, and generally the band maintains a low profile to permit to the engagement ring’s head to do the speaking. The good thing about the open jacket ring is its inclusivity; with its easy objective of enabling the engagement ring to take a seat comfortably in its centre, it’s a method that may be tailored to go well with any solitaire gemstone form.

Another tackle the open jacket ring is the act of enclosing your engagement ring from each side with two jacket rings which can be complementary of each other, making a fiesta on the finger together with your solitaire on the centre of the hubbub. Quickly after tying the knot, Claire accomplished her bridal stack by including a dedication ring that mirrored her bespoke wedding ceremony band in form and elegance. In the meantime, a few of our favorite Artisan Assortment combos are made up of an Artisan Filigree jacket ring both facet of an engagement ring.

TIME TO GO JACKET SHOPPING!

Similar to purchasing for garments on your physique, the one means to make sure the proper match is making an attempt some jackets on for measurement. Right here at Lebrusan Studio, formed jacket rings are current all through our everlasting collections, from the fragile types of our Crown Assortment to our angular Marquise Diadem ring and our flamboyant Artisan Filigree bands. We’re out there by appointment on the London Diamond Bourse each Wednesday and in Brighton on the occasional Saturday and could be delighted to point out you our various assortment of pattern wedding ceremony bands, out there so that you can attempt on alongside your engagement ring.

Alternatively, for those who’d desire to see your engagement ring wearing clobber like no one else’s, now is likely to be the time to begin getting ready for a bespoke session.

Love, Arabel & Workforce