Custom Wedding Pendant

Custom Wedding Pendant in 14K diamonds, pearls and emeralds

Custom Wedding Pendant in 14K diamonds, pearls and emeralds This is an example of one of the special and meaningful pieces we’ve had the honor of making for our customers.

Suzan and I have made some very unique wedding rings as well as pieces to help celebrate anniversaries and other occasions. We have also made pieces to commemorate the loss of loved ones.

I just finished this wedding pendant for a long time customer who has wanted  one like the one she borrowed for her wedding 55 years ago. I looked at an old photo from their wedding to get an idea of what the original looked like and then set about to make her one in the same style using a collection of diamonds taken from old family jewelry that she had me break up. Her stones were much larger than those of the original and they were also not all the same in size and cut but I made the best of it, and this is how her beautiful pendant turned out. I created a suspension basket setting of my own design to make the central emerald look as if it was floating in the pendant’s center.

My customer had been waiting for many years to have the pendant made and I got to give it to her at the Seaside Highland games in Ventura CA a few years ago. There were happy tears.

Making the pendant was a challenge since the style is not one that I usually work in, but I believe that getting away from familiar paths to explore new ones is necessary for an artist. It was good for the artist and craftsman within me, plus making people happy is a blast!