If there may be one piece of recommendation to pocket from Brooke Garber Neidich, the singularly fashionable proprietor of Sidney Garber, it could be this: “You’re not marrying the ring, you’re marrying the particular person. That ought to free your thoughts to consider the ring as one thing you possibly can love now with out worrying about whether or not your style would possibly change. As a result of everybody’s style adjustments, because it ought to.”
And when these tastes do change (concerning the ring, not the connection, although we’ve ideas on that), that’s what resetting is for. Garber Neidich has some expertise on this space: in 43 years of marriage, these very first rings that marked the start of her love story with husband Daniel Neidich have gone via a number of transformations. And he or she is brimming with concepts for what you are able to do with yours when you occur to be at this stage in your life. However we’re getting forward of ourselves.
First, you want an engagement ring. She is right here for that, too: Sidney Garber now has a devoted marriage ceremony capsule assortment. And although the model is sort of 80 years previous (it was based by Garber Neidich’s father in Chicago in 1946), conventional diamond rings these should not.
There are kite-shaped diamonds set in black ceramic, sapphires cushioned into yellow gold, solitaires framed by a patinaed halo, oval rocks set horizontally, and five-band marriage ceremony rings alternating pavé and black ceramic. “So most of the previous guidelines have flown out the window and that’s so liberating,” Garber Neidich says. “And I discover the 4 c’s—reduce, shade, readability, carat—to be so old style. I suppose they matter when you’re taking a strictly basic strategy, however why not ease up a bit?”
Sidney Garber
Black ceramic & diamond ring
Sidney Garber
Three-stone Chevalier ring
Sidney Garber
Sidney Garber
Pavé black vintage end ring
An idiosyncratic and unapologetically genuine strategy to accessorizing is what has made Garber Neidich a jewellery icon so it’s not stunning her distinctive POV extends to the weddings class, too. Her personal expertise additionally informs this strategy. “I at all times thought an engagement ring needed to have a diamond smack-dab within the middle as a result of I grew up in my father’s retailer, and that’s what he bought. However I solely had a diamond after I was engaged the primary time,” she says. “With each different engagement—and there have been, ahem, three—I selected otherwise.” For marriage ceremony #3 (the one which caught), she opted for a stack of three bands: diamond and sapphire, diamond and ruby, diamond and emerald.
She remains to be drawn to the bizarre: rose-cut diamonds, classic stones, and eccentric shapes, whether or not it’s an elongated marquise diamond set east-to-west, or a pair of pear-shaped rocks pointing in reverse instructions, or the toi et moi motif made well-known by Empress Joséphine.
“I don’t imagine an engagement ring needs to be a diamond. Something you discover lovely—an ideal single pearl, so stylish—is correct,” Garber Neidich says. “The right engagement ring is one that you simply love. And whilst you’re at it, embrace the enjoyment.”
Leena Kim is City & Nation’s Editor, masking the journey, jewellery, fashion, arts and tradition, schooling, and weddings beats. She has no priors—she has been on the journal for 11 years, having began her profession at T&C because the assistant to the editor in chief.
