Summer Wedding Inspiration: Jewelry And Colour Choices

Choosing the right color and theme that match your personality is key to having your dream wedding. When planning your big day, you have many choices to make about what to wear, how to decorate, who to invite, and which songs to add or to cut from your playlist. But before you choose these things, you need to get the mood right. Here are seven inspiring mood boards, complete with jewelry suggestions for yourself and your entourage.

Browse Timeless Pearl for perfect handcrafted pearl jewelry for your perfect day.

Retro Queen

Create a modern retro ambiance with a luxe color palette and an unusual venue with lots of character, like a downtown rooftop, botanical garden, historical site, or an old converted warehouse. Keep the decorations minimalistic, but blow life into the party with light strings and a live jazz band.

Our Color Suggestions:

White, black, hot pink, and silver.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Bow Tie Pearl Brooch  

Golden Crown Edison Pearl Earrings

Blooming Rose Diamond Pearl Brooch/Necklace  

Rustic Charm

Elegant but charming, a barn wedding speaks of nostalgia and romance. Earthy colors, violin music, good wine, and a homely menu will create the right ambiance. If you can’t find a barn venue, a wine cellar will make a great alternative.

Our Color Suggestions:

Copper, brown, white, and a touch of green and pink.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Empress Pearl Necklace

Golden Signature Southsea Pearl Earrings  

Golden Leaf Bronze Pearl Bracelet

Cotton-Candy Glamour

Who thought that the words fun and elegance could be used in the same sentence? This palette’s cool hues are youthful but sophisticated – the perfect combination for a summer celebration. Avoid stuffy decorations and rather opt for DIY cupcakes and simple bouquets. A beach or garden will make the perfect wedding venue for this theme.

Our Color Suggestions:

Turquoise, lavender, light teal, and old gold.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Dancing Girl Pearl Brooch/Pendant

Mystery Queen Purple Pearl Ring  

Edison Pearl Purple Hairpin

Bohemian Forest

A forest venue adds new meaning to the phrase ‘fairy-tale wedding’. If you’re lucky enough to celebrate your big day close to nature, make sure you take advantage of the beautiful landscape – keep your palette neutral and your decorations effortless to blend into the surroundings, but add bits of color with flowers. Strings of lights and candles add to the romance. Who knows, you might spot a fairy in the background while dancing in the arms of your beloved!

Our Color Suggestions:

Forest green, mint green, and cherry red.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Golden Baroque Pearl Necklace & Bracelet Set

Snowflake Queen Golden Pearl Earrings  

White Cherry Blossom Pearl Pin

Playful Spirit

Bright colors against a fresh, white background are perfect if you don’t take yourself too seriously. Have fun with decorations and wedding favors creating a festive feel. Think out of the box when choosing a venue, like a carnival, circus, or drive-in.

Our Color Suggestions:

Bright blue, flamingo pink, fresh green, and white.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Butterflies In Love Pearl Necklace

Purple Wave Pearl Ring

Magic Purple Pearl Pin

Fresh Elegance

Light up an elegant blue-and-white palette with bits of bright green. Minimalist decorations, glass, and silverware keep the theme elegant and classy. This choice is perfect for evening weddings.

Our Color Suggestions:

White, indigo blue, powder blue, with pops of lime green.

OUR JEWELRY SUGGESTIONS:

Simple Elegance Pearl Necklace & Earrings Set

Magic Drops Pearls Earrings

Sacred Love Pearl Bracelet

Vibrant Color

Nothing brightens up a hot summer’s day like bold and bright colors. Draw inspiration from your local summer flowers when creating your wedding palette. Vibrant, multicolored bouquets, colored jewelry, shoes, wedding favors and delicacies will imbue happiness, joy, and bliss.  

Our Color Suggestions:

Sunbeam yellow, light teal, scarlet red, and lavender.

Our Jewelry Suggestions:

Four-Leaf Clover Pearl Jewelry Set

Blue Lady Pearl Earrings

Three Strands Pearl Bracelet

Have you created your own palette and theme to suit your personality and ideal venue? We have many more designs that you’ll love. There are much more where this comes from. 

Reference Link: https://www.timelesspearl.com/summer-wedding-inspiration-jewelry-color-choices/

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MUCH LIKE SNOWFLAKES, EVERY PEARL IS UNIQUE

Marilyn Monroe memorably claimed that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but that was clearly because nobody ever bought her pearls – or, whisper it quietly, they attempted to trick her with counterfeit products. Fake pearls are barely even a casual acquaintance.

Fortunately, there are a number of telltale signs that will prevent you handing over your hard earned money for imitation adornments, becoming the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons in the process. In the meantime, tells take a look at just why pearls are the perfect gift for any special woman in your life.

Pearls are formed when sand irritates an oyster, which in turn releases a fluid that hardens until you possess the precious gem in your hand. As a result, every genuin Hand crafted pearl jewelry in the world has its own bespoke design forged by the winds and sands that may have blown over the gem while it was being forged, as well as each every pearl being a different shape and size. If you have access to a magnifying glass or microscope, take a good look at your pearls and marvel at the smooth but weathered appearance of these beautiful precious stones – pearls are described as Nature’s Miracle for a reason

This is also a useful way of spotting counterfeit pearls that may be peddled by an unscrupulous jeweler. If your pearls are all identical in appearance – especially if they are perfectly round and have a generic, eggshell texture – you are more than likely looking at a forgery.

Pearls are Healthy

If your pearls are genuine, you can even rub them together. Real pearls, being gems, will create a very fine powder that does no permanent damage to the surface of the stone. In turn, genuine pearls can work wonders for the skin. Taking this fine powder generated by grinding pearls together and mixing with a little rose water makes for an effective facemask, or brush the dust across your cheeks as a face powder. As pearls are filled with natural antioxidants and amino acids, this powder will improve the production of collagen beneath your skin – leading to a smoother, clearer complexion – and if consumed, the minerals contained within boost the immune system. 

The Gift of Pearls Represents a Love Bond

Pearls are borne of love; the oyster that houses these precious gems shields and protects the pearl from the harshest of elements until a beautiful stone is ready to plucked. These bonds also apply to act of gift giving, and passing pearls to a love one is an act of suggesting that very same bond. What’s more, you will find that regularly worn pearls will eventually lose some of their sheen and luster, fading from a pure white to something more akin to an off yellow. This is because the pearls have given their best minerals to whoever is wearing them. Pearls represent an eternal loop of giving and sacrifice to those we love most.

Pearls are Inspirational

Much like us, pearls start from nothing and grow into something truly special and beloved. Starting as merely sand and nurtured until they are ready to reach their potential, the gift from pearls from a parent to a child offers a metaphor for the same experience. Much like pearls, we are shielded and protected until we are ready to face the world alone, and the more hardship and challenges we experience, the greater we become.

Pearls Stem from Water

Environment-friendly and generated in water, the most essential natural resource in the world, pearls are gifts of nature. This water-centric birth gives pearls a unique character, softer and a little less apparent than diamonds but bestowing a virtue of modesty upon those wearing them. Pearls fit all styles and give a touch of elegance, especially through a vibrant, opalescent and almost two-tone shine. Genuine pearls could come in a variety of shades of white, black, pink, lavender or gold, and you will never struggle to find an accompanying outfit.

Warning Signs of Counterfeit Pearls

As we have established, pearls are some of the most wonderful gifts bestowed upon us by Mother Nature. In order to ensure you are purchasing genuine gems, keep an eye open for any of these warning signs that make suggest a forgery.

Immaculately spherical pearls are often fakes, as these gems should be ever so slightly off round. Imperfection is your friend in the hunt for genuine pearls, as minor flaws tend to equal authenticity.

If you do not trust your own eyes, a little handling will make things clearer. Genuine pearls should feel heavy and cool to the touch, warming up with in the palm of your hand. A pearl that feels indistinguishable from room temperature from the moment you identify it is a surefire warning sign of man-made counterfeit materials such as plastic or glass.

An authentic string of pearls will allow the gems to touch, and will not require knotting between gems. If you are looking at a necklace that does not permit the pearls to touch one another, the chances are this is because the manufacturer fears that the damage caused by such interaction will reveal their deception. Large drill holes with chipped surfaces are also a giveaway here – a genuine pearl necklace will enjoy tiny, immaculate threading, usually on silk.

Alternatively, you could rub one of the gems against your teeth. It may sound odd, but this is widely regarded as the most surefire manner of identifying genuine pearls. If dealing with the real thing, you will find the sensation to be coarse and gritty against your enamel, as opposed to the smooth surface that you would associate with counterfeit materials. The texture of a real pearl is so distinctive and unique that it’s impossible to replicate on a production line.

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MARKING THE MILESTONE OF GRADUATION WITH A GIFT OF PEARL JEWELRY

Graduation is a celebration of the first major life milestone reached by your teenage child; the completion of high school. As with other milestones, like turning 21, traditions exist to mark this rite of passage.

In Japan, graduates wear their usual school uniform and perform choreographed marching routines whilst singing. In Sweden, sailor hats are graduation headwear. These high-school leavers receive special gifts from their parents, which hang from ribbons around their necks. In the Philippines, each graduate wears a flower lei, a sign of affection and congratulation.

Pearls are the only gems created by a living animal and they take time to form. Over time layers of nacre, the iridescent substance from which handcrafted pearl jewellery are formed, are built up and the longer a pearl stays in the mollusk shell, the larger it will be.

Education is, like pearls, layered. Every year of school adds to your child’s growth and knowledge until they graduate from high school equipped with the skills to create their own work, seek employment or to enrol in tertiary studies.

Pearls are a meaningful gift, like the education you have given your daughter that she will have for the rest of her life. She will wear her pearls at college, at work, dinners, and special occasions and even as she walks down the aisle on her wedding day.

Jewellery is a reflection of personality so choosing an appropriate design is your biggest challenge. While you can never go wrong with an elegant single row of pearls, your range of choice includes different design styles, number of strands, length of rows, sizes and shapes of pearls, and colours.

Make your selection for your daughter of pearl earrings, necklace, ring, bracelet or brooch by considering her personality and style preferences – conservative or bold, simple or ornate. The shape of the pearl contributes to the design and reflection of your daughter’s personality. As for the colour of the pearls, white is not your only option. Peach, purple, pink, gold, black, silver, green, plum and every subtle shade in between are available.

Most of all, be guided by a buying a versatile design that she will be able to wear at graduation and in the years that follow. She will forever remember this day every time she wears her pearls.

PEARLS FOR GRADUATION

We have put together a selection of our Edison pearl jewellery graduation favourites to inspire your choice.

EMPRESS PEARL BRACELET

This single string of white, pink and purple pearls is a modern update on a classic pearl bracelet. The Empress Pearl Bracelet will be as appropriate to wear on graduation day as it will on many special occasions in the years to come.

RAINDROP PEARL EARRINGS

Straying only slightly from the classic tradition of a single pearl stud, this natural-color, button-shaped pearls seem to rest on the tip of their sterling silver earring hooks like a raindrop on a petal. These Raindrop Pearl Earrings will add a bit of glamour to your daughter’s graduation outfit.

SIMPLE ELEGANCE PEARL NECKLACE & EARRINGS SET

The Simple Elegance Pearl Necklace and Earrings Set is timeless classic that will continue to go with every outfit long after graduation day. Oval-shaped pearls add interest to this simple and elegant design. Instead of white, opt for the subtle hues of silver-grey or pink-purple collared pearls available in this set.

TIMELESS FIVE PEARL NECKLACES

This multicoloured strand of pearls features white for gratitude, purple for wisdom, and pink for passion. This Timeless Five Pearl Necklace carries a thoughtful message of treasured wishes for your daughter in her life post-graduation.

MANDALA PEARL BROOCH

Mandalay is geometric shapes that form from a circular base. Symbolizing the universe, unity and harmony, the Mandala Pearl Brooch will look beautiful pinned to your daughter’s dress on graduation day.

For more options, visit our shop to find the perfect graduation jewellery piece for your daughter.

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PEARLS AND BLUE JEANS: A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

Denim is a versatile material that looks good on any person, and in almost any style a designer can create. Pearls are just as versatile, which makes denim and pearls a perfect combination. If you’ve ever wondered how to pair your favorite pair of jeans with pearl jewelry, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve put together a few mood boards, with different fashion styles, to get your fashion senses tingling.

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PEARL DENIM LOOK #1: BEACH PERFECT

Going to the beach? Put on playful denim shorts with a crop top, slip into your flip-flops, add a sun hat into the mix, and feel the salty breeze on your skin and the sand between your toes. Keep your accessories neutral with the Endless Biwa Pearl Necklace and the Golden Circles Pearl Bracelet.

PEARL DENIM LOOK #2: SODA-POP DIVA

No-one can keep up with your bold style and cool demeanor. When you walk down the street, the soundtrack of Grease starts to play. What you need are divalicious accessories to pair with your denim outfit. Choose the Rhombus Pearl Ring, the Leopard Pearl Bracelet, and the Golden Star Pearl Earrings.

PEARL DENIM LOOK #3: WEEKEND CASUAL

Whether you’re spending your weekend on the couch with a riveting book and a glass of wine, or on a picnic blanket in the park with friends, you deserve a relaxing weekend. Put on your boyfriend jeans and sandals and pair them with a tailored cotton tee. Use your jewelry to add a bit of glamor.  Our Pearl & Floral Shell Ring, the Elegant Colorful Pearl Bracelet, or the Spring Water Drop Pearl Necklace are dreamy designs. Keep it simple and relaxed.

PEARL DENIM LOOK #4: CASUAL FRIDAY @ THE OFFICE

We love Casual Fridays when we trade in our office wear for something less corporate to get into the weekend mood. Dress your jeans up for the office with eye-catching heels and elegant jewelry, like our Simple Elegance Pearl Necklace & Earrings Set, the Shining Butterfly Double Pearls Adjustable Necklace, or the Best Wishes Pearl Brooch/Pendant. You can take this look from the office to after-work cocktails with the girls.

PEARL DENIM LOOK #5: ROCK CHIC

Are you with the band, or are you THE band? Get your rock on with worn denim, a fun tee, and studded leather boots. Pair with unexpected pearl jewelry designs, like the Silver Gray Endless Pearl Necklace, the Black Tahitian Pearl Ring, and the Dragon Pearl Ring.

PEARL DENIM LOOK #6: TRENDY DISTRESSED JEANS

A sheer, bold top with ballet flats pair well with distressed jeans. Add some pizazz to the girl-next-door look with simple but bold accessories, like our Fancy Blue Pearl Necklace, the Golden Leaf Bronze Pearl Bracelet, the Silver Circle Double Pearls Ring, or the Silvery Flower Pearl Brooch.

Get in touch if you need any advice on pairing pearl jewelry with your outfit and have a look at our shop for more pearl jewelry designs.

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WHICH COLOR PEARLS WILL SUIT MY SKIN TONE

This is a question that first-time pearl buyers often struggle with. Though an important consideration, it is not as crucial as you might think. Pearls have the ability to flatter almost every wearer, no matter the color of the pearl. It’s more important to take your personal preferences and style in mind when choosing pearl jewelry. Pearls also absorb the colors in their surroundings due to their reflectiveness.

That said, there are a few considerations you may want to keep in mind:

Generally, lighter pearls – white, rose, peach, cream – work well with fairer skin tones.

Darker complexions go well with gold and cream-colored pearls.

Olive skin tones and white pearls with silver overtones are a good match.

Black or white pearls, on the other hand, suit just about everybody.

SOME SPECIFIC GUIDELINES

If you buy real pearl jewelry from Timeless Pearl as a present and you don’t know what that person’s color preferences are; white is a safe bet as it suits all skin tones. Although peach flatters every complexion, not all wearers are too fond of this color so unless you know for sure that peach is on someone’s wish list, rather steer clear of this color.

Here are some specific guidelines to follow. For more detail

BROWN SKIN TONE | BLACK OR BROWN HAIR | BROWN EYES

Pearl colors that work well with this complexion are black and those with silver, gold, bronze, and copper overtones.

OLIVE/TANNED SKIN TONE | BLACK OR BROWN HAIR | BROWN EYES

Silvery overtones look good with this complexion, while purple and bronze can bring out the best in your look.

FAIR SKIN | BLONDE HAIR | BLUE EYES

Purple tones and gold/bronze overtones suit this complexion well, while peacock-colored pearls accentuate the eye color.

FAIR SKIN | DARK BLONDE HAIR | BROWN EYES

Bronze and copper pearls compliment the brown tones of this complexion, but both purple and peacock colors can also do wonders.

FAIR SKIN | BROWN HAIR | GREEN EYES

Some of the best pearl colors for this skin/hair/eye combination are bronze, gold, peacock, and dark gray. The latter two are great at focusing attention on the green eyes.

FAIR SKIN | ASH BLONDE HAIR | BROWN EYES

Purple, silver and gray, and peacock-colored pearl jewelry look magnificent with this complexion.

FAIR SKIN | AUBURN HAIR | BLUE OR GREY EYES

Pearl jewelry with silver overtones highlights the eyes, while bronze-purple and copper pearls compliment the skin tone and hair color.

FAIR SKIN | RED HAIR | GREEN EYES

Peacock pearls are a perfect match with the green eyes, while gold and copper-colored pearls complement the fiery hair.

For a more comprehensive guide on which colors to choose when buying pearl jewelry for yourself or as a present for someone else, consult the chart below. The chart includes most skin tone, hair color, and eye color combinations. Even if you don’t fit one description perfectly there should be a near-enough combination that will help to guide your choice. If not, get in touch with Timeless Pearl for guidance.

CONCLUSION

When choosing pearl jewelry, what matters most is your gut feel. No matter the color, pearls are always flattering. An exquisite design that you’re in love with will do more for your self-confidence than the perfect shade.  

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