Wedding Party Guide

The great thing about wedding jewelry is that you can wear it during the wedding and every day after if you want. Of course, you are not going to wear the exact same jewelry every day with exception to your wedding ring. And although your wedding dress and tiara are going into storage, your wedding jewelry can be an integral part of you daily, weekly, or monthly jewelry wardrobe. The important thing to consider when purchasing your wedding jewelry is that you will wear it after the wedding day so you want it to not only match the theme of your wedding, but you also want it to be functional for wearing years after the wedding.

Don’t limit your wedding jewelry to only the big day itself. This is where a really good and reliable jeweler comes into play. If you don’t know a good jeweler already, have a friend or family member refer someone to you. The reason that I bring up the jeweler is because they are very experienced when it comes to the before and after effects of wedding jewelry. An experienced jeweler will understand the jewelry that is necessary for the theme of your wedding, yet also understand how to incorporate the wedding jewelry for the after years.

Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. It is one of the only times that you get to “kill two birds with one stone” and buy jewelry for the wedding and jewelry for after the wedding. But you won’t have to buy more than one piece to accomplish this. Yes, you may purchase multiple pieces of wedding jewelry, but you won’t have to buy extra pieces for after the wedding because it will be all-inclusive.

But even if you decide to buy online and not use a jeweler, just make sure you are thinking not only about the wedding day, but about what you will want to wear after the wedding. This will not only save you money, but it will allow you to wear jewelry that is sentimental because it will remind you of the big day!

Given that you spend an adequate amount of time shopping for your wedding tiara, it is imperative that you find a good place to store it after the wedding day. Given that your wedding tiara is not a large item, the task of finding a storage spot should be relatively easy. However, if you put it off, you will find that your tiara pops up in places you don’t expect because it’s not stored away.

For example, if your wedding tiara is not in a safe place, it might show up in the dresser drawer, the laundry basket, the china cabinet, or even the trunk of your car. These seem like totally unrealistic places to find your wedding tiara but worse things have happened.

Most of us are aware that you can have your wedding dress preserved at your local dry cleaner. After the wedding dress is cleaned, steamed, and/or pressed, it is folded and placed in an acid-free archival chest with or without a display window. If you ask nicely, the dry cleaner will put your tiara in the package as well. Depending on the cleaner, the waiting time for the preservation will take between one and four months.

Some people would argue that the wedding tiara does not belong in the wedding dress preservation box because it cannot be touched or displayed. I would agree with that argument. However, unlike your wedding jewelry that you will wear time and time again, the odds of you wearing your tiara after your wedding day is few and far between. And even if you decide not to put your tiara with your wedding dress in the preservation box, there are plenty of places to put the tiara. For starters, you can start with a shoe box. Simply find an empty shoebox and fill it with bubble wrap and label it. There you go. Done deal.