Stunning Stones



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Stunning Stones | Leave run-of-the mill rings behind and opt for bold gems, surprising shapes, and new hues

(from top) Rough-cut diamond surrounded by inset round-cut diamonds (2.26 total ct.) on 18K gold ring from Croghan’s Jewel Box. • Round-cut diamonds in yellow gold swirls inset with yellow diamonds and framed by 14K white gold with white diamonds from Nice Ice. • 14K white gold ring with a 1.5 ct. round-cut diamond flanked by pear-shaped .25 ct. diamonds from Harrison Newsome. • 18K yellow gold with 5.77 ct. oval cabochon moonstone surrounded by diamonds (.30 total ct.) from Croghan’s Jewel Box. • 1940s 14K yellow gold ring with a 7 ct. square-cut yellow topaz flanked by emeralds (.25 total ct.) and diamonds (.11 total ct.) from Joint Venture. • 4.05 ct. lemon quartz flanked by lemon quartzes on 14K white gold band inset with diamonds (.15 total ct.) from Croghan’s Jewel Box. • 1.6 ct. round-cut diamond surrounded by diamonds and set on 18K white gold triple band with pavé diamonds (1.6 total ct.) from the Valina Bridal Collection at Paulo Geiss Jewelers. • 18K yellow gold ring with 5.34 ct. oval citrine with braid details and three round-cut white diamonds (.38 total ct.) on each side from Nice Ice.             

The Wedding Row

April 17 2019
Kyleigh met Nick when she was in Cardiff, Wales, getting her master’s degree. (Her friend had convinced her to give Tinder a shot, and her “first, last, and only Tinder date,” she says, was the born-...

April 16 2019
We don’t know about you, but these past few days of shorts weather have had us daydreaming about summer. Brandy McGhie, owner of local luxury event planning company Classic Planning & Design Co...

April 15 2019
Tricia and Brandon were in the same fourth grade class at Springfield Elementary here in Charleston, but their love story didn’t begin until a college football game 14 years later. The South Carolina...

April 12 2019
Designer Lela Rose has a saying we can all toast to: “Nothing says chic like matching your drink to your dress.” Fashion stylist Lindsey Nowak took that as a challenge, linked arms with Reagan Barnes...

April 11 2019
Taylor and Sam may be from Virginia and live in Waco, Texas, but the Palmetto State holds a special place in their hearts. They met at the University of South Carolina when Sam, a freshman fraternity...

April 10 2019
Thank goodness for Joe Quick—the mutual friend who lived up to his name and set up Avery and Henry when all three were in high school in Atlanta. After his pleas for them to meet went unheeded, he...

April 9 2019
Gillian and Phil met while studying abroad in Ireland. But because they attended different schools stateside (he was at the University of South Carolina, she was at The State University of New York...

April 8 2019
Here’s how Emmy and Josh explain how they became an item: “Josh had been courting Emmy for quite some, and on one evening in June at Dillon’s pub in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, he decided...