Sparkly wedding accessories are one of my favourite things! There’s a little sweetness is seeing a bride turn her head and catching glimpse of something really special.
Belcanto Designs creates unique jewelery and accessories perfectly styled for your wedding day from antique jewellery. Principal designer Mari loves to hunt down vintage jewelery and re-work it into something brides can wear on their wedding day – creating a new generation of antique lovers and new pieces to pass down for generations to come.
Belcanto Designs are giving away one of their stunning headbands valued at US$300. The Belcanto Designs starburst headband features two strands of fresh water pearls topped off with a large vintage inspired ”starburst” brooch featuring pearls and rhinestones.
To win a the Belcanto Designs “Starburst” headband simply leave a comment on this post telling us about your favourite piece of jewelery and why you love it!
The winner will be chosen by Belcanto Designs and will be informed by Polka Dot Bride by email and announced on the Polka Dot Bride site. This prize is not redeemable for cash and must be redeemed 18 months from the date of the winner announcement. Competition is open worldwide. Entrants must be aged 18 or older. This competition is a game of skill; no chance enters into deciding the winner. No late entries will be considered. This Competition closes on 23rd December 2010 at 5.00 pm (Australian time).
This ‘Starburst’ headband is stunning! 🙂
Mmmmm…. My favourite piece of jewelery?
I love my white gold necklace my gorgeous Mr. gave me for our Anna-versary. It has a very fine twist in it and when the light catches, it looks like a 1000 tiny diamonds sparkling on my neck. The pendant dangles delicately, and houses a stunning diamond. My first diamond ever! 🙂 Every time I feel the necklace around my neck, I think of my lovely partner.
My favourite piece of jewellery is my engagement ring. The fact that I waited 10 years for the opportunity to go treasure hunting for this ring with a man that is the love of my life, is not the only reason for its special place in my heart. My ring has come to me with character, history and its own secret story. It is a hand cut French art deco dress ring circa 1920’s. I love to daydream about my rings story, the people it has been worn by and the things that it has seen. I am adding to this story every day. I never take it off (losing it terrifies me). Even during my work as a midwife it remains there on my hand as new life enters the room. My rings past, its present and its future (with whomever is lucky enough to wear it after me) is what makes this piece of jewellery my absolute favourite!
My favourite piece of jewelery is my engagement ring, I know this sounds corny but it really is. I have never really worn much jewelry and I have always kept things pretty simple. I never have been able to wear rings, I have often found them iritating and uncomfortable which is why my HTB proposed with a single diamond so that I could decide how I would wear it. But when the time came I just knew my engagement ring would be different and we designed the ring together. It’s a brilliant cut, solitaire diamond in a 4 claw cathedral setting; you can see the entire diamond. This ring represents 10 years of love,friendship and so much more, I wear it proudly and with great honor and hope that one day it will become a family heirloom. To me it is just the most beautiful piece of jewelery and the wedding band will now have a lot to live up to! 🙂
My favourite piece of jewellery is a small wooden ring with flowers painted on it that my fiance gave me whilst on our first trip (to Queensland).
My great-grandma’s brooch which I will wear on my wedding day. As her young husband left the Kalgoorlie train station to head off to war, my GG’s brooch unknowingly became caught on her husbands uniform. He took that brooch over to Europe where he fought for 4 years. He wore it every day as his good luck charm – a reminder to stay safe and get back to the ones who loved and missed him. It symbolises the generations of love within my family.
Of course I love my engagement ring, its fabulous. But the one piece I absolutely adore to wear are a simple string of pearls my great-aunt gave me as a little girl. I wear them whenever I can and I feel so grown up, so sophisticated with them on. I am always drawn back to when I first started wearing them – a child playing dress ups. They are such a part of me that I am known by them, my 5 year old niece calls me ‘Aunty Pearl”!
My favourite piece of jewelery has to be my engagement ring. This is the only jewelery that I would NEVER take off. No only because it’s beautiful with its cute 13 little diamonds but also because it represent a moment of my life that I will never forget. My lovely fiancee proposed while we were on vacation in Vanuatu and took me by surprise. It was a magical moment and every time I look at it, it remind me how special that day was and how luck we are to have found each other.
My favourite piece of jewelery is my grandmother’s necklace. It’s simple and classic, with a drop diamond. She gave it to my mother to wear on her wedding day and I will also wear it when I get married next year.
I love it because it’s classic and vintage – a theme perfect for my wedding. It’s also “something old” which is great too.
My grandmother died a few years ago and it’s sad that she won’t be at my wedding. But when I wear the necklace on my wedding day, it will feel like she’s part of the wedding and didn’t miss out.
my most precious piece of jewelery is a strand of art-deco glass beads left to my by my grandmother. They represent a woman who was the matriarch of our family. She would sit, holding court, in her lounge room while we, her ever faithful subjects gathered around – the bright red of her beads adding a dramatic touch to her slight figure. There are many memories of my Grandmother attached to this piece of history. They are the beads I clung to as a babe. They are the beads I would use to complete my game of dress up as a child, the ones I would borrow for a special occasion as a teenager, and now, as an adult, the beads that I treasure as a favourite memory of days gone by when my favourite person was part of my everyday world.
My favourite piece of jewellery is my Georg Jensen ring. It was given to me by my father when my fiance asked for my hand in marriage. It’s the most beautiful sterling silver ring and it is the only ring in australia that has a small bell in the ring so I can shake the ring and hold it up to my ear I hear the soft jingling!
So beautiful and such a loving reminder of my mother, who passed 2 years ago, as my dad would often give her beautiful jewellery with small quirks like bells and inscriptions.
That headband is stunning!
I am all about ear rings so my fave piece of jewellery has to be a pair of ear rings. They are not fancy or expensive but I love my zipper ear rings! They are my “go to” ones for nearly all occassions. I have them in 3 different colours now too!
My fav peice of jewelery is a braclet my mum gave me, passed onto her by her mother. I feel as if generations have tresured this bracelet and the hands that have worn it are the gaurdians of me when i am wearing it.
My engagement ring is from Charles Rose . My fiance took me ring shopping and it was the first ring i tried on, i wanted a ring that looked like it could be one that had been passed on down through the generations. It’s a beautiful cushion cut diamond surrounded by sixteen smaller diamonds on a diamond band. But my favourite piece of jewellery is the plain diamond band he gave me when he proposed to me. It’s simple and inexpensive, but it holds all the promises he gave to me that day. I plan on using it as my wedding band.
My favourite piece of jewellery is my beautiful wedding ring (to be!). It is a white gold band, encrusted with diamonds and rubies.
I am sentimental about it as my late grandmother left it to me in her will.
Although it is very different to jewellery I would ordinarily choose, it is particularly special to me as it is something that she personally selected out of her jewellery collection (and thought that I would cherish).
She had a long happy marriage to my grandfather and I hope that I also experience that same everlasting love with my fiancé.
The string of pearls given to me by my fiancé’s Grandfather. We flew to England so I could meet his family earlier this year. We drove 3 hours into Wales to have lunch with his Grandfather and I was exhausted with Dengue fever that I didn’t realise I got when on stopover in KL. At lunch I was handed the beautiful pearls in a wooden box. I was overcome with emotion and truly touched at this generous gesture.
I adore my gold bracelet and it’s the only bracelet I wear! It has three small diamonds along the front a small clasp for my small wist. My mother bought it for me on a trip to Istanbul 10 years ago and I wear it every day! It has much sentimental value. My right arms feels ‘naked’ when I don’t have it on!
My favorite piece of jewelry is my engagement ring, my fiance did a FABULOUS job picking it out.
As much as i love my engagement ring (and the already puchased matching wedding ring) my favourite piece of jewellry would be my Pandora bracelet that i got for my 21st birthday. Of the 15 charms, i have only purchased 1, with the others all from family and close friends. I love it because its a way for me to have a piece of my friends and family close to my heart with me no matter where i go. I have not taken it off since i got it 2 years ago, and dont even plan to remove it for my wedding day, even if it doesnt match, its a part of me, and i feel lost without it on. Its my good luck charm.
My favourite would be a pair of hand made earings my fiance gave me. I knew he was the one when he gave them to me. After dating only 6 months back in highschool he gave me them- he told mee had made them in metal work in year 7 and decided he would give them to the girl he was going to marry… and i was that person. There is nothing to special about them, 2 metal love hearts but the meaning behind them changed us.
How do you choose a favourite piece of jewellery? Especially when I then see things I’m lusting over like the gorgeous thinks on the Belcanto website! Yum!
When I was travelling the world, I bought a piece of jewellery from the places I loved. Each one is so uniquely special because they remind me of the place, and the feeling I got from it. I can look at those things and be taken right back.
But now that I’m engaged, if I HAVE to choose, I would say the same as most of the other comments here. My beautiful engagement ring. My lovely man and I designed it together and it’s so unusual. Strangers have stopped me to comment on it, and when they do, I swell with pride!
My favorite piece of jewelry is a necklace given to me that used to belong to my Great Grandma Louise. It’s a very simple, relatively common necklace from the 1930s or 40s, but something about it is just so special. It has two strands of gold colored metal beads that have the prettiest geometric swirl pattern on each one. And, even though I have a ton of jewelry, this necklace that belonged to my namesake (who died the year I was born) is easily my most worn and favorite piece….tied with my engagement ring of course!
As the days, months and years go on in our relationship, I dearly cherish my charm bracelet. My fiance surprised me with it during our first year of dating and that was almost 6 years ago. Hands down and without a doubt it is my absolute favorite piece that I own.
It may not be the most expensive item in the world or be worth much to others, but to me it means the world. The time and thought that went into each and every charm can not be replaced. Each one holds a special moment in time and represents a great milestone in our lives.
Every time I stop and admire it, instantly the memories and emotions come back 🙂
My favourite piece of jewellery is a sterling silver necklace piece with an oval amethyst stone, with three wavy silver lines falling from the bottom of the stone. It was bought for me by good friends that couldn’t resist it as it reminded them of a jellyfish and they know I love sea creatures. I’ve worn it for the majority of the past 12 years!
Vintage Sapphire and Feather Hair Clip…..something old (as its vintage), something new (as I am gonna buy it) and something blue (its got a blue stone)…..all set!!! 🙂
When I was a girl I used to slip my mother’s large dark purple amethyst silver crown set cocktail ring onto my finger. It seemed to say grown up and mysterious all at the same time. When I gave birth to my first son my mother gave it to me with all her love and then in a moment that still stops my breathe I lost it in a blur of post natal haze. It was the same day I found an avocado in the freezer and my keys in the cutlery drawer : ) Luckily I had a photo and an amazing jeweller recreated its magic to such an extent that I feel so blessed to still have it and know how truly precious it is…
My favourite piece jewellery is my engagement ring. There was so much love and time put into it. My fiance organised it all himself. He found an old school jeweller who handcrafts jewellery. He chose the diamond himself and had it set in a solid platinum band so it would last forever. I am so lucky!
That headband is stunning!
My favourite piece of jewellery has to be a heart shaped brooch that belonged to my grandmother. Its champagne in colour, has fine swirly detailing and three small pearls in the middle- gorgeous!
Because the detail is so reminiscent of lace, I’ll be putting it in my bouquet to tie in with my lacey wedding dress and to have my grandmother close to me on our special day!
A bracelet that my fiancé made me,
is my favourite piece of jewellery.
He made it for me when dating was at the start.
It is a silver fork bent into a heart,
I wear it every day with pride,
Knowing he’ll always be by my side! xx
Oh how difficult, I have to say that my grandmother gave me this beautiful silver locket with small bitty pictures of her grandparents on either side, she passed it onto me and always reminds me how fast life goes, that we are here one minute and the next we are distant memory. I love this locket as I loved my grandmother so much and I just wished she was apart of my special day next year. I always have so many comments on it, as it an usual piece.
My favourite piece is a beautiful opal ring that I got in Coober Pedy….I was backpacking around Australia with my now fiancee and I treasure it now as I treasured it then, as a reminder of a beautiful country and a beautiful time…
My most treasured piece of jewellry would have to be my gold earrings my mother gave me before she died. She went through the Japanese war and the earrings travelled with her. When the invasion commenced, she sewed them in the hem of her jacket so as not to get caught.
I intend to pass them on to my daughter some day as there is such a story behind those earrings…the struggle through war and fighting for freedom. It symbolizes hope and love. I will be eternally grateful to my mother for fighting and giving her children and future generations freedom.
My favorite piece of jewelry is the charm bracelet my mother wore. It’s covered with charms that commemorate every special event in her life. From the Sweet 16 charm given to her on her 16th birthday to the replica wedding set my father gave her. It truly is magical and I am blessed to own it.
I am a minimalist when it comes to jewelry, and very selective about the pieces I invest in. My most treasured piece (2nd only to my classic solitaire in a little blue box!) is a miraculous medal charm of the Virgin Mary from ‘Virgins, Angels, & Saints.” Originally a relic from the Vatican, it reminds me of faith, love, and grace.
My favorite is a hair comb that belonged to my great great grandma. It will be part of my special day for sure.
My favourite piece of jewellery is a diamond earring set and pendant my parents bought for me when I graduated. It meant a lot to me after many years of efforts and hard study.
My most precious piece of jewellery is a very beautiful Cartier watch my former boss gave to me to thank me for a deal I managed to close with a major client. I could have never aford it myself.
What a fabulous giveaway!
My favorite piece of jewelry is my vintage style Cherry necklace! I found it on etsy and I love it!
My favorite piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. We customized my ring together using a diamond that my grandfather once gave the love of his life – my grandmother. She passed before I was born, but I feel like I know her through the stories grandpa told me throughout my childhood. The diamond has even more meaning now since grandpa passed away last year. I love that my fiance and I have combined a piece of the past, with our own creation. It means so much to me!
My favourite piece of jewelery is my mother’s engagement ring that my fiancée secretly took from my father and customized prior to our engagement. My mother passed away when I was 6 months old, and in a box of her possessions glimmered this ring. I frequently paraded my mothers ring as a child, without ever realising the meaning and love it symbolised. I now proudly wear this ring everyday as a token of my love to both my mother and my fiancée. I hope that one day I can pass this ring on to my own daughter.
My favourite piece of jewellery isn’t fully made yet. I am hoping to mount the 2 topaz stones my father found and cut for me into a pair of earrings that I will wear on my wedding day.
My three string pearl choker, that has a giant sapphire at the front, that is surrounded by diamonds. My great-great grandmother left it to me when she passed away, and not only is it more beautiful that I can explain in words, it means the world to me too.
My Grandmother’s wedding ring that I haven’t taken off since she gave it to me on her deathbed. It symbolizes eternal, ever-lasting love, the kind of love that lasted a lifetime. My Grandpa won the wedding-ring in a poker game during the war, so he could marry his 16 year old sweetheart. He was only 21 himself, but knew what he wanted, went for it and never looked back. I only hope my fiance and I too, live happily ever after as well.
My short, plain gold neck chain, with a tiny yet simple gold ‘D’ that sits nicely at the bottom of my neck. I’ve had it forever and a day, and it’s become my ‘signature’ thing. I feel lost without it, so never take it off.
My grandmothers eternity ring that she gave to me a few days before she passed. It is a simple gold band with a few diamonds embedded into it. She passed away too young from a brain tumor and I will miss her every day for the rest of my life. When I wear it, I feel like I always have a part of her.
I have the most amazingly gorgeous pair of glow mesh and pearl earrings that my great grandmother left to me in her will. She wore them on her wedding day and I plan to wear them on mine, that way she’ll be with me as I walk down the aisle. They hold all the memories of the beautiful times we had together.
Green is not a colour you would normally expect to see in an engagement ring, but years of surreptitious listening over our nine years together had taught my partner that a typical Tiffany diamond solitaire was not for me. I have always loved the classic and antique look of Princess Di’s engagement ring (now Kate’s!), but I have never been sure how I would feel about having the signature deep blue of a sapphire permanently attached to my finger. When we moved to Australia, my partner discovered that the Northern Territory is one of only two places in the world which produces green sapphires. He planned for months in secret with a jeweller to design a ring featuring a light-green Australian sapphire in the centre, which represents our life here, flanked by Canadian diamonds on either side, to represent where we met…a memory of our journey through life together.
My favorite piece of jewelery is a pair of pearl earrings my fiance gave me. I was absolutely sure I was getting an engagement ring for my birthday last April–I’d spent weeks daydreaming and gushing about it with my roommates. I love surprises, but I always guess them ahead of time, which I was positive I had done this time.
About a week before my birthday, my fiance took me on a picnic for lunch. We wandered around the park, and ended up at our favorite spot. When he said he had a surprise for me, my heart started racing–I just knew this was the moment he was going to propose! He reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out… earrings. Pearl stud earrings. He tells me now my shock and disappointment were pretty obvious. I thanked him, totally heartbroken, and the next thing I knew he was down on one knee. “I knew you probably wouldn’t like those,” he said, and opened a ring box! 😀
Now, though I may have been disappointed at first, those earrings are my favorite piece of jewelry. Like my engagement ring, they remind me of the day we got engaged and of how much my fiance loves me, but no other piece of jewelry conveys his creativity, thoughtfulness and level of understanding like those earrings do.
I’m sure a lot of the comments are going to say this, but my favourite piece of jewelery is my engagement ring. I just love it.
My favorite piece of jewelry is a necklace with a pink gemstone in it. It is so sparkly, and I feel like I am wearing my love’s heart around my neck. I will always treasure it, just as I will always treasure his heart.
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