Wedding Blog

A little while ago, I was reading Darcy Miller’s blog about how the Today Show bride, Jessica, got to borrow jewelry from Tiffany’s!

Jewelers are alway dying to let celebrities to wear their jewelry, and they lend it out to them all the time for big award events. But, how about for us mere mortals? I was curious. I scoured the internet looking for rental jewelry.

Here is what I found.

OldCities.com sells antique and estate jewelry, but also gives customers the option to borrow the jewelry. Customers pay for the full value of the piece, and upon return, OldCities refunds all but $100. The $100 covers the rental cost as well as FedEx insured shipping both ways. Additionally, this system allows you to keep the jewelry if you find it too hard to return (you obviously don’t get refunded if you keep it). At a $100 rental fee, I think it’s only worth it for the more expensive jewelry (but then again, you do have to front the cost initially). Here are some goodies from the site.

Solid 14K Yellow Gold Emerald Bead Necklace

Solid 14K Yellow Gold 16” Three Strand Rubellite Tourmaline Necklace

Solid 14K Yellow Gold 17” Three Strand Pearl Necklace

With each of these necklaces costing about $1K plus, $100 might be well worth it!

Bling Yourself Inc. offers rental jewelry for both men and women, as well as sunglasses, watches and cufflinks. Prices vary depending on the value of the piece, and they’re available for weekly or monthly rental. While jewelry here is available for cheaper prices, I’m not sure I found anything impressive.

I’m Over It was created for people who love to accessorize but get tired of their own jewelry. I’m Over It is a monthly membership to a service costing $29.99 to $49.99/month depending on how many pieces of jewelry you’d like to take out at one time. Essentially, this works just like NetFlix. The lowest costing monthly plan allows members to take out 2 pieces of jewelry out at one time. When you return it, you can get another, and there is no limit to how many you pieces you can take out in one month.

While I, personally, wouldn’t consider any of this wedding jewelry, some of their stuff is quite lovely, and would be worth it for some one who likes to change their jewelry often.

Adorn Brides offers exclusively diamond and pearl jewelry for rental. Rental prices are dependent on the retail value of the jewelry. Prices here are a bit higher than some of the other sites, but the jewelry is a little bit more luxurious as well. Some favorites:

While I’ve put in quite a bit of time looking for all this, I’m not sure how I feel about rental jewelry. On one hand, I don’t want to spend that much on my wedding jewelry. On the other hand, there’s that stigma that is tied to rental… well, rental anything, actually. I think I’ll keep looking around for special jewelry that I can keep, however, I think I’ll still keep this rental idea in mind.

So, what do you think? Would you consider renting jewelry for your wedding?

*all pictures taken from respective websites