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At Diamondport Jewellers we pride ourselves on engagement rings, crafted with the highest quality materials and unique designs to create each clients’ dream engagement ring. Sometimes the reasons a design is one of a kind may not be obvious, but still ultimately immensely meaningful to the couple.
A custom engagement ring is more than jewellery—it’s your story. There are countless ways to include personal symbols, creating a meaningful piece to treasure forever.
Yellow gold symbolises friendship, fidelity and loyalty. Love is based foremost on friendship, with passion and loyalty to follow. Yellow gold is the more traditional colour for an engagement ring and its warm tones suit many stones.
White gold symbolises purity in its colour and meaning. Friendship, passion and commitment that is pure. White gold has only been commercially available since the 1910s, so it also represents a modern relationship.
Platinum is a strong and durable metal that truly lasts for generations, adding to the idea that love is enduring and everlasting.
Rose gold has a subtle colour that comes from copper and gold mixed together. It symbolises sweet romance and tender love.
Diamonds in engagement rings align their meaning with the fact that diamonds are the hardest mineral on earth, made from only carbon atoms. Strength, purity, longevity, and the rarity of diamonds symbolise a long lasting love.
Yellow diamonds are warm, and like the colour represent optimism, joy and happiness for the couple.
Champagne diamonds, ranging from a chocolate brown to a yellowish brown encompass stability, a love of nature and clarity in life.
Pink diamonds are feminine and with pink associated with love and romance, this is reflected in the meaning of this colour diamond.
Black diamonds are a bold choice and represent an inner strength and confidence.
Lab grown diamond engagement rings represent the modern couple that value innovation, while still aligning with many meanings of a natural earth-mined diamond.
Having a sapphire in your engagement ring symbolises loyalty, wisdom and sincerity. Many royals have had sapphires in their engagement rings, which also ties the meaning into royalty, especially blue stones. They are also believed to give good luck to the wearer. A green sapphire engagement ring represents renewal and harmony, as well as the above.
Ruby is a sapphire of red colouring, but has a different meaning to a sapphire. A ruby engagement ring symbolises intense love and passion as well as strength.
A solitaire or single stone engagement ring represents unity and strength that comes from a singular bond between two people.
A three stone, or trilogy engagement ring symbolises the shared journey a couple goes through. The stones honour the past, present and future.
A halo contains one larger stone surrounded by smaller stones. The unbroken frame of smaller stones around the centre stone represents a continuous, everlasting bond as well as how love protects those closest to us.
Many cultures have worn some form of engagement or wedding ring for millennia and therefore have had time to weave other symbols into these special pieces.
Ancient Egypt is thought to have had the first engagement rings; a circular ring on the finger made from hemp or other grasses represented a circle, which symbolised eternity.
The Celtic Knot stems from Irish folklore; it symbolises eternal love and loyalty and of our connection to another person in the web of life with no beginning or end.
Ouroboros is a snake from ancient Egypt and ancient Greece that is eating its own tail. It brings to light that everything is connected, and represents the eternal, never ending nature of our universe; life, death and rebirth.
Fede rings feature two clasped hands that represent friendship, love or marriage.
The Chinese dragon and phoenix motifs have their own meanings and are often included in engagement and wedding rings. The dragon represents strength, prosperity and good fortune, whereas the phoenix symbolises femininity, martial harmony, happiness and rebirth.
The use of tribal patterns can also play a role in encompassing cultural and spiritual connotations.
Engraving inside the band is a simple but meaningful way to make your engagement ring unique to you. It could be your anniversary, coordinates of the place you met, a nickname, or an inside joke. Remember that it can’t be too long and the band width often determines the size of the characters.
Setting a gemstone inside your band is also a great way to hide a special addition to your ring. Many couples will choose to put both their birthstones next to each other.
Similarly, setting a gemstone underneath the main setting means it remains hidden during wear.
Some couples use significant numbers in their life to determine the amount or weight of stones in the engagement ring. E.g.: using seven stones total to represent that their anniversary is on the 7th.
Wedding and eternity rings are also prime candidates to incorporate some of these meanings into. Often couples will engrave hidden messages to each other inside their wedding rings, only to be revealed to each other as they say their vows on their wedding day.
Other partners choose to set birthstones of themselves or loved ones inside eternity bands to represent the life they have built together.
Again stone totals can be used – 5 years together so choosing to gift an eternity ring with 5 stones.
Birthstone rings or pendants representing the family are also a popular way to celebrate the full picture that the couple contributes to. Often these are designed in a way so stones can be added as the family grows with time.
Are you wanting to incorporate some of these ideas into your custom engagement ring? Join us for a meeting in our Brisbane store with our expert jewellers to discover our curated collection of gemstones, diamonds and custom rings, and be involved in the design process, ultimately ending up with a thoughtfully designed engagement ring that is your dream piece.
