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Our latest contest features gorgeous jewelry from {BonitaJ}! Since your wedding day should reflect your style and preferences, we love that you can fully customize any BonitaJ jewelry set with the metal type, necklace and bracelet lengths, clasp style, and pearl and crystal colors. Each of thier unique pieces is made by hand to ensure the most customized option for thier customers, and BonitaJ works hard to create pieces that coordinate with bridal gowns. Whether you're looking for hairpins, tiaras, or coordinated jewelry sets, there are so many color combinations available that allow you to create your own style and add even more sparkle to your special day!
Win: One lucky winner will receive BonitaJ’s most popular collection: a customized Bridal Pearl & Crystal Illusion Jewelry Set (similar to the set pictured above on the right)!
To Enter: Leave a comment on this post telling us about the piece of jewelry that holds the most sentimental value for you. Grandmother's pearls, anyone?
Contest ends Tuesday, April 14th at midnight. Good luck to everyone!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 02:00PM
Reader Comments (55)
My most favorite piece of Jewelry are some pearl earrings my mom gave me. I wear them just about everyday. I remember when she wore them while I was growing up and I'd look at them and just think that she was so beautiful in them. I find that whenever I need a little luck or some courage during my day I can put them on in the morning and handle whatever comes my way just as my mom would, with class and elegance! Just like her pearls!
I have an onyx ring that my mom gave me for my high school graduation with my graduation date engraved on the back of it. It was given to her as her high school graduation gift and has her graduation date engraved inside the band. It was given to my grandmother when she graduated from high school and was originally a necklace - my grandmother had it made to a ring for my mom's graduation. It's a very special piece of jewelry and I hope to pass it on to a daughter some day!
Aside from my engagement ring (which is pretty high up there on the list of sentimental jewelry!), I have a little sapphire ring that means a lot to me. It was one of the first pieces of jewelry my late father gave my mom when they were young. Their wedding was in September, so sapphires are pretty special to my mom. When I wear it, I'm reminded of their commitment to each other and their love for each other, although death parted them much too soon. I'm planning to wear it on my wedding day as my "something blue."
My most sentimental piece of jewelry would have to be a watch that I took from my grandmother's jewelry box after she died. The watch was a cheap freebie she received from Avon, and although the battery has died and the wristband has worn off in the fifteen years I've had it, I still have the watch's face hidden in my jewelry box as a lasting memory.
My favorite piece of jewelry is a ring that my great grandmother had made from diamonds that she brought over from her family in Poland. When she arrived in Detroit she had them made into a ring. Later it was passed down to my grandma, mom and now me. Everytime I wear it it reminds me of the strong women in my family.
my engagement ring of course! it's a modern style designed by my fiance, using his grandmother's diamond.
A pearl necklace from my grandparents. They gave me a chain with a few inches of pearls when I was 13, then every year added an inch of pearls. On my 18th birthday, they completed the necklace.
Most sentimental jewelry, my mother gave me her jewelries she used during her wedding. I that's the most special gift I received on my wedding day.
For college graduation my parents gave me a necklace with my mothers engagement diamond in the pendant. Its especially sentimental becuase a few years before that the same diamond had fallen out of my mothers ring into the garden and she couldnt find it! A few weeks later at a cocktail party, my moms friend was looking at the flowers and spotted the diamond in the dirt! Now that my grandmother passed, my mom wears her rings, and wanted to turn her lucky diamond into something special for me! I havent taken it off in 5 years!
The most sentimental piece of jewelry I own, actually came from an ex-boyfriends mother. He and I dated in college for two and a half years and were actually engaged. A few months before we broke up his mother gave me a small gold ring with a tiny diamond set in a gold flower. She said her sons father (her ex-husband) gave it to her when they were in high school. I jokingly asked her if she was trying to curse me, but she said she wanted me to have it because he was her first love, just like her son was my first love. He and I ended up breaking up and when I tried to return the ring to her she told me to keep it so that it would remind me of my first love. I am now engaged to an incredible guy and will be getting married this summer. I may not wear that ring often, but I keep it to remind me that no matter where my love life takes me and no matter who has my heart, there is always someone out there who loved me for the person I was and am.
I think in addition to my engagement ring, my most special jewelry item came from my parents -- tiny diamond earrings that they gave me when I graduated from high school. The earrings are very, very small by most standards, but they were given in so much love, and it was an extravagant gift coming from my parents. The earrings may not be worth much in dollars, but I wear them every day, and they (and my parents!) are priceless to me.
My parents gave me a strand of fresh water pearls for high school graduation (nearly ten years ago). I plan on wearing them as my only neck adornment in my upcoming wedding.
My piece is actually a clutch. My grandmama was handing out her purses to her grandaughters.. I was given a small clutch completely covered in crystals, made in West Germany in the 1950s. Her brother had brought the the clutch to her. It's small and retangular, with a sterling silver clasp. It is classic and beautiful and a wonderful memory of my grandmama.
For me, it would be my Mum's 1st Engagement Ring. It cost my father about 50 British Pounds back in 1956. I now have it and treasure it....
The engraving on the inside reads "From A to M with love...23/4/56." My father noted, that would be the only time in the entire century, that the inscription could read that way :)
I'm pleased to report, that my parent's are still together, and are still, a "Match Made in Heaven"...
My most sentimental piece of jewelry our my pearl earrings from my fiance. It is the first piece of jewelry a guy has given me and I wear them everyday. Engagement ring is right there too!
For my wedding I'll wear a necklace that my grandparents gave my mother to wear on her wedding day. Close runners up are the engagement ring (of course!) and the necklace and earrings my grandparents gave me as my first "grown up" jewelry. I had the earrings on the night my fiance proposed :)
My most sentimental piece of jewelry is a cameo pin that I found after my grandmother passed away. I'm clipping it to my bouquet as my something old!
My most sentimental piece of jewelry is my diamond and sapphire that my mom gave me as a class ring in high school. I still wear it everyday since it wasn't a traditional class ring.
My most sentimental piece of jewelry is a small pair of cream earrings carved from giraffe bone that I found at a roadside shop while on a trip to South Africa. The trip changed my life in so many ways. Not only was it eye opening and spiritually challenging; it was during this trip that I met my fiance. The day I bought the earrings was the first day I spent with my future hubby. We spent the afternoon wandering through a small market getting know each other. Every time I see those earrings I go back to that day and am flooded with all the emotions of the beginning of our relationship.
My most sentimental piece of jewelry is one that is much too small for my wrist. It's a baby's gold bracelet with my name in beautiful cursive. When my mother immigrated to America. she had nothing. However, she worked hard and sacrificed so much in order to give me all my needs (and wants). Since I was her firstborn, it symbolized a new life and hope for her. She gave me the exquisite gold bracelet as a way to show she cherished me. I keep the bracelet in a jewelry box. It is a symbol of hope and love to me!
My most sentimental is my mother's aquamarine ring. Its her brithstone and I remember she always gave it to me during church services to entertain me
Definitely it would have to be the necklace my fiance Matt gave me is most important and sentimental to me. We were both young and it was his first gift to me. We were both in college and didn't have much money - still don't - but we had each other and that is what it is all about!
My 'bad luck dragon' necklace. My mother gave it to me when I was in middle school and I'd always bump into things when wearing it. Now I just think it's adorable.
My parents gave me a diamond and pearl ring my freshman year away from college. I was so homesick - and it was a gift to remind me to think of them! I wore it on my left ring finger every day... until the day I received my engagement ring!
My most sentimental piece of jewelry is a mother-of-pearl brooch that was given to me when my grandmother passed. The pin was given to her by my mom and I used it as my "something old" at my wedding. Hopefully I can pass it down one day to my daughter as well.