Wedding Details: My Jewelry

I think my favorite thing that I wore on my wedding day were my earrings. I LOVE them. Aaron and I went to so many stores looking for the perfect earrings. We looked in Hood River. We looked in Portland. We looked in Corvallis. I scoured Etsy. Every pair that I thought could be the one was $400 or more. Or the stones were too small. Or too something. I was drawn to Oregon sunstone, but it was out of our price range. It was starting to get close to our wedding date and I decided to check Ebay. After searching for a few days I found the stones that I wanted. I ordered a pair of 38.6 carat (about 20 carats each) drilled briolette lemon quartz stones from this seller in Thailand. I paid $11.49 + $10 shipping. Aaron made a practice pair of earrings, so I felt confident that he could make them for me. I decided to go without a necklace and let the earrings shine.
They turned out fantastic.

Photo by Honeysuckle Photography

Enter next problem. Three days before the wedding I was trying on my dress with my mom and my sister and realized I really needed to wear a necklace to break up all the chest/neck space with a strapless dress. Yellow crystals are really hard to match with. I tried on some of my mom's pearl jewelry and it did look nice with my dress, but I just couldn't give up the earrings. Two days before the wedding, Aaron and I were in Corvallis. We wanted to make a necklace, but there was just too much going on, weird huh? So we had a nice girl at Day Dreamers bead shop whip one up for us with some Swarovski yellow crystals from Creative Craft and Frame. We spent about $40 for the earrings - the stones plus sterling ear wires and sterling wire to wrap the stones, and I think the necklace was around $20. Not bad for custom jewelry!

Photo by Honeysuckle Photography

Good news! We got our professional wedding photos last night! I'll be posting more soon.