Monday, December 20, 2010

How to choose a pearl necklace for wedding

Elegant beauty of pearls has fascinated brides for centuries. People believe that wearing pearls on their wedding day happiness to wear their wedding.
Pearls are classic wedding jewelry. How to choose the perfect pearl necklace?
Here are some tips:
There are four types of pearls: Pearls Akoya, Tahitian pearls, Southsea pearls and freshwater pearls. Akoya, Tahitian and South Sea pearls grow in oceans. They are more valuable than freshwater pearls for their rarity and luxury.
Akoya pearls are the most popular. These pearls are valued for their rich color, mirror-smooth finish and appealing roundness.
Like any other precious stones, pearls value is determined by its quality.
Gem quality can be, AA, AA +, AAA, AAA +. The last two, AAA and AAA + pearls, have the best quality, and they are the most valuable. For Pearl the same size, quality "A" value of a pearl necklace, only a small portion of the gems of the quality of AAA.
Quality and value of pearls on six criteria: luster, nacre, surface, color, shape, size and consistency. The educated buyer uses his own preferences to decide which criteria are most important.
Nacre: Most buyers of pearl jewelry very close attention to the thickness of the nacre pearls. Mother of pearl coating pearl oyster to produce a pearl base coat, is the key to last as long pearls. You should look for pearls with nacre thickness of 0.4 mm.
Gloss and surface: shiny amount of light reflected from the surface of the ball. A necklace of pearls with high luster, bright and clean surface is highly desirable and useful.
Color: This is a personal decision. Consider buying a pearl necklace whose color will complement your clothing and skin.
Size: The price of pearls that are larger than 7 mm is changing. People usually buy the largest pearls they can afford.
Shape: Round pearls are most desirable and valuable.
Correspondent: For a pearl necklace or bracelet, matching refers to the possibilities, all the pearls are similar. It's hard to make enough identical pearls pearls are well matched as the command line a higher price.

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