LATER IN LIFE
An anniversary, a milestone, or a ring bought when budgets were smaller. The ways to upgrade an engagement ring, and how to keep what matters about the original.
Many couples bought their first ring when they had less to spend, or when they were still working out their taste. An anniversary, the birth of a child or simply a moment of more freedom is often when people decide to revisit it. There is nothing unromantic about it: it is a new chapter of the same story.
An upgrade can be as small or as large as you want:
The first ring often carries more meaning than anything that replaces it. If you upgrade the centre stone, consider giving the original a new life: set into a pendant, a pair of earrings, or a ring for a child one day. If you reset the original stone, the story stays on the hand.
Whether the original stone can be safely removed and reset. Whether the existing metal can be reused or remade. How long the work will take. And whether the new design will still sit well beside the wedding band, or whether that needs to change too.
Often at a significant anniversary or milestone, or when the first ring was bought on a smaller budget.
Yes. It can be reset into a new design, or set into another piece such as a pendant, so its meaning is kept.
Often, depending on the design and the stone. A jeweller can assess the ring and advise.
It depends on the new design. Plan the two together, and a shaped band can be made if needed.
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