Wedding Hair Styles and AccessoriesA place to find Wedding Hair accessories and work through your Wedding Checklist

The true beauty of handmade wedding accessories and jewelry is not just in their visual appeal. You can be sure that, whatever your budget, you can have wedding accessories handmade to order that will complement your wedding dress or outfit on your very special day.

The secret is in the adornments. You can cleverly control the cost of your accessories by choosing the decoration according to your finances. If your budget is fairly modest, go for fire-polished glass beads. The effect is every bit as stunning as precious stones, but with a greater choice of colours. This will enable you to match your headdress and accessories with the colours that you have chosen for your bridesmaids, if you so wish. Silk flowers are also comparatively cheap and very realistic nowadays – use the expertise of your designer to create wonderful hair accessories that match your bridal bouquet!

If you have slightly more money to play with, look at pearls and crystals for a very traditional result. Swarovski crystals are extremely popular, with the sparkle of diamonds and the multi-coloured hues that the crystals create when they reflect back the light. Semi-precious gems such as topaz, azure and amethyst can provide a deeper colour if so required.

For those with a large budget the world is your oyster! Handmade tiaras, crowns, combs and caplets can be made with sterling silver wire, adorned opulently with diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds, to name just a few of the precious stones available. Have your wedding jewelry made to match and have a permanent reminder of your wedding day that you will enjoy for all the years to come.

Handmade hair accessory with garnets and pearls

Save your feet and shop online! Out there on the World Wide Web are a myriad of designers and retailers with a whole world of choice for all your handmade bridal accessory and jewelry requirements.

You can use the internet search engines in a couple of ways to help you find what you are looking for. Firstly, you can search directly for designers and retailers of handmade wedding jewelry, and check out their ranges on their own websites. If you live in a large town or city, for example, you can use the net to narrow down the choice to just a couple of local jewelers or designers who supply ranges that you like, before taking the time for a personal visit.

If you would prefer to choose someone who comes with a recommendation, then search for forums, blogs and information websites, where people like you have commented on the choice and service already provided to them when they previously purchased their own bridal jewelry or wedding accessories.

You’ll find that handcrafted bridal accessories and jewelry do not have to be expensive, yet they can enjoy the glittering opulence you seek. Since all the pieces are individually handmade, you are guaranteed truly unique works of art to ensure you look breathtaking on your wedding day.

Handcrafted freshwater pearl bridal necklace

There are an ocean of different types of bridal jewelry available, the style and decoration to be chosen depending on your budget. The choice can be made between retail stockists, for mass produced items, and designers that supply handmade and sometimes unique pieces of jewelry that are tailored perfectly to suit your own personal taste.

Choose your dress/wedding outfit and hair accessories before you decide on your jewelry. If you decide to use a designer who supplies handcrafted pieces, you can even have them create jewelry to match your headdress, whether that would be a tiara, crown, fascinator, or any of the other many headdress styles available.

If you are a bride with a generous budget, you can choose a precious metal; gold (white or yellow), platinum, silver; with precious and/or semi-precious stones. For sparkle go for diamonds, always classy and suitable to wear with any dress. Rubies, emeralds and sapphires bring colour and can be used to tie-in with your bridesmaids outfits. If you are superstitious, avoid opals…these are said to represent tears by those who believe in such things (maybe better not to risk it…!). Bear in mind that jewelry of this quality will last you a lifetime, and you will get many happy years of wear in the future, and not just on your very special day.

If your budget is more restricted, you can go for many of the handcrafted ranges that are out there.  Handmade wedding jewelry is generally made on sterling silver or silver plated wires, with every conceivable adornment, from silk flowers, beads of every colour, crystals, pearls and even shells – how fabulous for a beach wedding!

Many designers online will provide a bespoke service, so you can have your headdress, jewelry and bridesmaids accessories all made to match, whilst still staying within a relatively modest budget. You may not get jewelry that will last a lifetime this way, but you can certainly ensure that you and your wedding party look spectacular on the day!

Handmade fire-polished crystal necklace