Increases in cost of wedding rings and jewellery

The soaring price of precious metals has led to an inevitable increase in the cost of wedding rings and other jewellery, particulary in Platinium and Gold.

Concerns over the supply of Platinium from South Africa coupled with the global fears regarding financial stabillity, have led to a high levell of investment in Platinium and other precious metals. These factors have combined to push Platinium prices to an all time high, with other precious metals following suit.

The impact of these huge price increases has most keenly felt in the wedding ring market with prices changing on a daily basis.Although jewellers are trying to maintain a reasonable pricing structure, some are thinking ahead and introducing new alternative materials to their collections.

The beauty of alternative jewellery materials

pebbles leads the field in this respect by strongly featuring rings in Titanium, Palladium, Zirconium and Steel alongside their collections in Platinium and Gold, thus giving customers the opportunity to be among the first to appreciate the beauty, strength and value of these alternatives to the more traditional metals.

Freedom of choice in mens wedding rings

When buying wedding Rings the womans choice is often dictated by the metal of her engagement ring, but the man has the freedom to experiment with the wide variety of new metal designs. The affordabillity of these rings has the added bonus of leaving more of the budget available for the Bride to select her ring!

Expanding range of wedding ring metals

However, if you are forward thinking enough, there is now a range of palladium diamond solitaire rings available along with other contemporary diamond set designs on Titanium, Zirconium and Steel.