Handcrafted or Ready-Made? What’s the Right Choice for Your Engagement Ring?

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Tuesday, 01 August 2023

Written by Tess DiNapoli

Handcrafted or Ready-Made? What’s the Right Choice for Your Engagement Ring?

Handcrafted or ready-made? When it comes to engagement ring shopping, it’s a highly personal and deeply spiritual question.

You may be an old-fashioned, hopeless romantic hoping to create an heirloom piece. Or you may be the practical type, choosing a ready-made solution. Maybe you’re a blend of both, wanting a design that’s ready-made with unique personalizations that speak to the future.

Decisions are best made through a reflective and interpretative process. And this decision is a big one. You’re honoring your beloved with a symbol of eternity but the engagement ring should speak to both the wearer and the bearer.

Let’s take some time to reflect on the relative virtues of handcrafted engagement rings and their ready-made counterparts. Which is your spiritual fit? Is it, perhaps, a compromise between the two? Informed decisions are good decisions, so let’s find out more!

What Do You Want?

In the excitement about spending eternity with your beloved, have you reflected on the relationship between the two of you with intention? To truly understand what you want from the ring that will officially signal your intention to marry, engaged spiritual intention is vital. Because jewelry is a purchase, it’s easy to forget that intention must guide such a dreadfully important action. But when you apply intention, you get what you really want.

Spend some time pondering what you want from an engagement ring. Balance it against your perceptions of what your beloved wants. Intentionally addressing your synthesized wish lists will help you understand what you’re looking for. But you probably won’t be able to verbalize what that is until you see it. Intention manifests exactly like that!

Let your reflection guide you toward a proficient jeweler who’s able to act on your eventual decision no matter what that is. You need the help of someone who understands jewelry intimately. With this expert guide, your intention will manifest spontaneously, creating a material synergy that results in your dream ring - whatever that turns out to be. What you want will tell you precisely what it is, when you seek it with intention.

Intimacy: Handcrafted Engagement Rings

The intimacy of creating a handcrafted ring to commemorate your eternal love is challenging. This action is one of self-revelation. You’re revealing yourself to your beloved in new ways and your beloved to you. The scary part is in revealing yourself to your chosen jeweler.

Spiritual revelation is a breaking of the heart, inviting you to the work of genuine healing. In unleashing your love upon the world, you impart healing and in so doing, heal your own wounds. What better insurance could there be for a love that lasts forever? Whether you choose your original expert jewelry guide or not for the mission of a handcrafted, heirloom ring depends on your comfort level. So as you explore stay aware of the energies in play.

Soul seekers love the idea of a handcrafted wedding ring for the romance, the intimacy, and the heirloom status of such a piece. But are you ready for the price tag? While handcrafted rings can sometimes be less expensive than ready-made, that reduction in price usually comes at the expense of materials or intricate details.

Our grand designs can get us in over our heads, so before you make your heart-based decision, engage in some head-based budgeting to make sure your bank account’s on board. And if that’s the case, enjoy the spiritual growth you’ll discover in revelation to your beloved and to your eventual artisan jeweler.

Practical Tradition: Ready-Made Engagement Rings

Keepers of tradition know who they are. They may fly afar in search of inner elevation but their feet are as rooted to the earth as the trees of ancient forests. What was good for mom and dad is even better for these traditional souls because it’s a tradition.

But ready-made ring tradition comes with a massive helping of romantic billing and cooing and all the delight young couples relish in this season of their relationship. Engagement ring shopping is part of the tradition of the ready-made engagement ring, with shades of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

The ready-made engagement ring is a reliable, dependable piece of traditional jewelry that’s immediately recognizable as what it is. There is no ambiguity. More affordable than the handcrafted version discussed above (in most cases), the only drawback of this type of engagement ring is its ubiquity. But don’t let that stop you if the ring you’re looking at manifests your intention.

Not one-of-a-kind, the ready-made engagement ring is still an heirloom, especially when an eternity band with the birthstones of children is added later on. Your ready-made engagement ring is subject to changes that eventually and organically personalize it, creating a family treasure in which future generations may discover something of your spirit.

The Hybrid Engagement Ring

The compromise between a handcrafted and a ready-made engagement ring is, of course, the hybrid. Compromise is a dance of priorities, each making way for the other in the dance by taking turns leading. And often, you’ll discover in compromise the manifestation of your intention.

The hybrid takes the form of a ready-made ring, with the possibility of adding and subtracting elements to better reflect your intention. Imagine adding spiritually supportive gemstones and crystals to your symbol of betrothal.

The hybrid engagement ring continues the tradition of ring shopping with both of you seeking the ring that hasn’t manifested as either a handmade or ready-made item. This is a ring you can create together as a loving project with the help of a trusted artisan jeweler. In the fruit of your intention and in the power of your union, a true masterpiece of enmeshed spirits can be born.

With the journey of seeking the right engagement ring before you, put intention at the center of your search. Work with the energies available to seek the way forward toward the engagement ring that speaks to you both and to the power of your love.

Author Bio: Tess DiNapoli is an artist, lifestyle writer, and content strategist who loves exploring new places. She has a passion for yoga and often writes about health and wellness, but also enjoys covering the fashion industry and the world of fitness.

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