Engagement Rings Advice : Wedding, Marriage, Anniversary

Cultured pearls are the ideal modern gift for your spouse’s twelfth or thirtieth wedding anniversary. While selection may seem simple enough there is a wide variety of pearl types, colors, and pearl necklace lengths to choose from.

There are 4 general types of strands Freshwater, Akoya, South Sea, or Tahitian’s and all come in a variety of colors and overtones. Most common are white, golden, pink, and black. White and pink are primarily Akoya pearls, golden usually being South Sea pearls, Black usually Tahitian pearls, while Freshwater pearls tend to be available in near every shade imaginable.

Freshwater pearls are significantly less expensive than other pearls due to 4 main reasons, first; these pearls come from mussels which often produce many more Cultured pearls for jewelry from a single mussel. As such, the ability to create matched strands is far easier. Secondly, mussels can withstand harsher environmental conditions thus less processing loss, which means more pearl producing hosts. Third, China is by far the largest Freshwater pearl producer and pearl jewelry manufacturer in the world and with significantly less labor costs. The last reason is a much shorter harvesting time. Freshwater pearls can be harvested faster than sea water pearls and without losing pearl quality.

Each of these 4 factors allows the customer to receive far greater value comparable pearl jewelry product.

Pearl Necklace Lengths
Pearl necklaces also come in different lengths and should be considered with her probable pattern of wearing her new pearls, occasions and wardrobe. Some possibilities are:

• Collar (12-13″) Normally wore with V-neck or off-shoulder tops and dresses.
• Choker (14-16″) Similar to a collar yet more versatile and wore more loosely on the neck.
• Princess (17-19″) Almost anything and any neckline, from cocktail dresses, business suits to knit sweaters, crew neck tops, a T-shirt and jeans, high necklines and as well as low ones. Likely your best choice.
• Matinee (20-24″) Business suit or a dress. Suited for semi-formal occasions.
• Opera (28-34″) Best suited for formal engagements in evening dresses.
• Rope (+45″) A bit of all of the above - the length can be shorten by double or triple wrap around.

A strand of pearls will always delight a loved one however the presentation of the gift can be far more appealing if you use a bit of innovation.

Dining out at a restaurant that serves oysters and arranging with the manager in advance to conceal her pearl necklace gift on the dinner plate (contained within an oyster) can render her speechless.

So where can you buy these wonderful pearls. Pearl Luster is a trusted seller of cultured pearls and ships worldwide in as little as two days. By being located directly in China where the pearls are harvested allows you to purchase most strands below competitive pricing.

Memories can invoke very strong emotions. At a young age our memories take hold and later in life these can be sparked by sights, sounds, touch, tastes, and smells. Special occasions tend to hold the deepest memories, ones birthdays’, Christmas, first date, graduation, and matrimony, to a couple’s first born and then the cycle begins again in another’s memories.

The memory of ones wedding celebration marks a special passage of time. Ones own memories that were once exclusive to only you are now shared with another and the two become one in thought, emotion and in this way all future memories change and are never remembered again as exclusively your own. No longer is it “my” memories but “our” memories.

The yearly anniversary which now marks that sharing of time has such special meaning, over the years much thought has gone into the giving of gifts for a couple’s wedding anniversary.

Historically, Emily Post is considered to be the first person to publish an etiquette guide which contained tips on wedding anniversary special meanings towards the passage of time and gift giving to honor that passage.

Emily Post (nee Price) met her husband-to-be, Edwin Post, at a formal ball in New York City. Engagement, wedding, and honeymoon were followed by the birth and raising of her two sons but when old enough to attend boarding school, she turned her attention to writing. Emily Post’s romantic stories were quite successful, and she became a “traveling correspondent” crossing the continents.

In 1922, her book, “Etiquette”, topped the nonfiction bestseller list, and the phrase “according to Emily Post” soon entered our language as the final and only word on social subjects of conduct. Mrs. Emily Post penned in this publication traditional gift guide for wedding anniversaries that were fact based on heritage, but also included more modern gifts to suite the times, and creative ideas for thoughtful and memorable gift giving.

Mrs. Emily Post’s initial anniversary gift giving guide included the first, fifth, tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth and fiftieth years of marriage.

Gifts in the early years of marriage were small remembrances, or tokens, such as 1st (paper), 5th (wood), and 10th (tin). In later years of matrimony, gifts gained value (which tends to correspond with society status and professional security), including 15th (crystal), 20th (china), 25th (silver), and 50th (gold).

By the time her publication was reprinted in 1957, the growing importance of wedding anniversary celebrations in America required more guidance and the traditional gift list had been expanded to include all of the first 15 years, and multiples of five thereafter. Additionally, as 35 years had passed since the original publication modern alternatives were again added and updated to include more socially acceptable gift options.

The traditional and modern anniversary gift guides have changed very little during the past half-century where traditional gifts are deeply rooted in heritage yet modern gifts greatly assist to offset cultural differences. The giving of a gift to your partner on the memorable occasion of shared thought is so symbolic that this guide has been developed to assist making the occasion truly one worth marking the passage of time from here.

This guide offers suggestions for gift giving for both men and women and insight into traditional and modern gifts and offers purchasing opportunities from trusted merchants that assisted in producing this guide.