yellow...anyone reset?

[Margarw]

I''m interested in knowing how many people have reset their erings / bands from yellow gold to platinum. My e ring is a three stone (1.5 ctr, .6 each side) w/ a platinum trellis head, and yellow gold shank. My band is a channel set 1 ct tw (10, 10 pointers) yellow gold. At the time, I was wearing mainly yellow, and thought the plat head on the yellow band would allow me to wear either yellow or white.

Over the last couple of years, I''ve gotten a couple of significant new pieces that I enjoy wearing, all which are platinum. (2 ct rb micro-pave halo as well as a 3.5 ct cluster heirloom piece, and a couple other baubles). Anyhoo, I find that I am enjoying the yellow alot less, and have decided to have the ering re-shanked to platinum, as well as the 1/2 eternity reset in platinum.

I''m hoping that 5 years from now I don''t change my mind, and wish I had kept the yellow shank w/ plat. head, but it seems to me that platinum is timeless and will always be a good choice. For some reason, I yellow seems "casual" to me, while plat or white seems more elegant. Any thoughts? Has anyone else found themselves a "convert" and if so, were / are you happy with your choice? Thanks!

 

[neatfreak]

Well, I think that platinum is much more in vogue now for bridal jewelry, so many people are resetting or choosing platinum from the beginning.

I have always loved silver metals, so we got platinum. I''m biased, as I strongly prefer silver metals for most jewelry (costume/going out jewelry excepted)

If you want to switch, I say go for it!!! There seem to be many women on these boards that reset their old erings into platinum after having gold.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Back when I got married, yellow gold was "in", so I had plently of yg jewelry. Over time, I started liking the white metals better, so I have reset my rings and have begun collecting other pieces in wg or platinum. I also hope I don''t ever need to change back to yg again!

 

[richipat]

Personally, I think it depends on your skin tone. Some people can really carry the starkness of platinum and white gold, some can not and look better with the warmth of yellow gold. If you look back over the years, styles and trends have changed and returned. My mother has white gold, my grandmother had yellow gold. When I was younger women all wore yellow gold because white gold was considered "old fashioned." Now the white metals have had a resurgence and yellow gold looks dated to some.

My ring -- the white head and side stone settings with a yellow gold shank. I find it very compatible with other white metal jewelry or yellow metal jewelry. I do remember my home ec teacher telling us that jewelry should match in color with the exception of your wedding ring and watch. (That was back when most woman had one watch that was either yellow or white.)

To be safe, save your old setting. I just recently had my sweet sixteen diamond put back into its orignal white gold finding. I had had it removed and put in (gasp!) a free form yellow gold pendant worthy of the ugly jewelry category. Strange -- after 35 years, it looks very contemporary.

Would love to hear opinions.

 

[Maisie]

I have a yellow gold wedding and engagement ring. My new ring will be platinum as I really love silver metal more then yellow. Where I live there is much more yellow than white though which is why we chose that.

I will keep my yellow gold wedding ring for sentimental reasons but at some point will have my original E-ring set in white gold too.

 

[Margarw]

Richipat - thanks for the advice - I will definitely hang onto the old setting - just in case!

I always thought yellow looked better w/ my skin tone, but now my preferences are changing, and it seems so dated to me. Funny, if you look at any of the PS vendors, everything is white / plat., you have to search for yellow!

Anyhoo, I am with your home-ec teacher on matching. It has always been a peeve of mine, which is ultimately why I decided to reset. I have several other beatutiful rings (rhr) that I hardly ever wear, because they are white or plat. and I felt funny wearing them w/ my yellow ering set.

My everday watch is a two tone Tag, so at least I''m good there!

I wonder what DH will say when I tell him I need a new set of solitaire earrings, in white

Maybe I''ll commit a minor transgression, and wear my yellow solitaire erings despite the "anti matching" factor. I''ll be living on the edge and throwing caution to the wind! Actually, on a serious note, I did kind of think of the earring factor already, and it seems to me that I can get away with keeping my yellow setting for my dia. solitaire earrings which I wear every day. Thougts on this?

Thanks!

 

[richipat]

LOL. I mentioned to my DH that I wanted white gold earrings to go with my "new 35 yr old" necklace and he pulled back my hair, studied my ear and said, "Anyone looking that close at your earrings, shouldn''t be there to begin with."

Anyway, his agruement is that all you see is the diamond and not the setting.
~~Sigh~~

But I do wear mine yellow diamond studs even when Ii am wearing other white metal. I don''t think they are that noticiable. Perhaps because my hair covers them? Perhaps because they are teeny weeny?

 

[ML2014]

All of my jewelry was in yellow gold too. I made the transition to platinum and white gold about 5 years ago and I''ve never regretted it. Both are beautiful, and I still have some yellow gold pieces (to me, some jewlery just looks better in yellow gold and others in white gold). Platinum and diamonds are a timeless and classic combination though. You can''t go wrong with that!

 

[asscherisme]

Hi,
My original engagement ring was a .80ct solitaire set in yellow with a platinum head. I never liked the yellow gold but my husband insisted and he won me over with the platinum is more expensive argument. So we ended up with yellow gold bands to which I never liked.

Around 5 years, I convinced him to let me reset the stone into a platinum setting with baguettes. Then I ended up getting a platinum band to match. I then got HIM a platinum band so he would match me. I never regretted it. I love platinum SO much more. He loved his platinum band. We have been married 12 years so he had the gold ring ofr 5 years and has had the plaitnum one now for 7 and admits he was wrong and prefers the platinum

I recently got a 3 stone ring with a 1.2ct center and .52 sides round stones and its set in platinum. It looks great with my 3mm band. I''m now itching for a channel set round band (similar to what you have but in platinum).

So, long winded way of saying, I never regretted platinum and even though it was tough to convince my husband ,he loves it too. So if your husband is on board, go for it!

 

[Ty Cobb]

My only issue with this question is to examine why you are changing. Is it because you truly deep down love platinum over gold and made a mistake, or couldn''t afford platinum at the time. Or is it because fashion trends have changed and you no longer feel your e-ring is fashionable.

Not to say one is wrong over the other. Because in the end it is YOUR decision and I wish you well with it.

However, if it were me, the e-ring my wife has has far more sentimental value to it then fashion value, and therefore I would heavily be against changing it to Yellow from Platinum just because 20 years from now, YG is again in Fashion.

But then again, that is the same stance I have on upgrading e-rings. An e-ring is the one you were proposed to with, if you want a bigger ring, then get one for another finger. But that is just the traditional, neo fanatical, old fashioned, romantic in me.

I don''t like contemporary church services either and sneer at people who change dogs because a breed has become fashionable

In the end though, I restate, go with what makes YOU happiest. Not the fashionistas and certainly not windbags such as myself.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

I am so blessed to have a husband who is happy for me to have more than one set of rings! He wants me to be happy and all he cared about was that the original rings be saved, and I certainly agreed with that. We''ve managed to stay married for 30 years, and I think a lot of it is because we don''t force our opionions regarding insignificant things on the other. But he happens to be quite proud of the new rings he gave me for our anniversary!

 

[Maisie]

My husband isn''t so sentimental about the ring he gave me, more the reason behind why he gave them to me. He doesn''t mind what I wear on my wedding finger as long I wear something there to show that I am married!

 

[Sparkles22]

You should get what you like! I have always loved the silver metals, when I was young I always would pick sterling silver over yellow gold (didn't know there was white gold until a little later). I eventually got a few YG pieces because my mom really liked yellow gold. I decided to go with platinum for my wedding set. For a couple reasons the first being I always have loved silver metals and the second is that since it is platinum (not WG) I think I could wear it with either (WG or YG), since it really doesn't match either LOL.

BTW: My mom has since decided she likes WG more, but since she has a lot of YG she will wear both. She makes sure to wear YG on one hand and WG on the other LOL. She has some two tone stuff in there to tie it all together.

But go with what you like and think you will be happy with. Some people are more sentimential than others, but I say if you and your hubby are okay with it, then why not? I would definatley keep some sort of reminder of it though, like the old setting for example! Oh and take before and after shots!!!

 

[richipat]

Mararw
Apparently we missed a quite lively stream about yellow vs. white gold. Check it out: https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/is-yellow-gold-popularity-coming-back.56645/