5 Engagement Rings with Australian Gemstones

Australia is home to some incredible gemstones. Many are strong, durable varieties. perfect for creating a unique engagement ring featuring locally sourced gem. Here are 5 custom engagement ring designs from our Canberra jewellery studio that include Australian gems, to inspire your very own design.

1. Australian Champagne Diamond Engagement Ring

A diamond solitaire engagement ring has been a classic design choice for many decades. Choosing a natural Australian champagne diamond brings a touch of local flair to a classic design. With the same strength as a classic white diamond, and a neutral tone that complements any style, this piece is one to delight in every day.

2. Freeform Australian Sapphire Engagement Ring with Diamonds

For those who love creativity, freeform shapes offer endless design possibilities that defy traditional design. This incredible multi tone Australian Sapphire showcases flashes of green and blue as it catches the light, within a uniquely faceted gem. Variations in colours and shape within every freeform gem makes each ring made with this style entirely one of a kind.

3. Australian Blue Sapphire Engagement Ring

Coloured gemstones with exceptional colour make a statement in minimalist designs. This solitaire ring features an Australian blue sapphire surrounded by flowing shapes, creating a piece that is both unique and practical to wear.

4. Australian Pink Diamond Engagement Ring with Double Halo

Australia is renowned for its pink diamonds from the Arygle region of Western Australia. This radiant cut Australian pink diamond is complemented by a sparkling double halo of pink and white diamonds, creating a remarkable design to celebrate an engagement. With the Argyle mine now closed, gems like these are also a snapshot of Australian jewellery history.

5. Australian Green Sapphire Engagement Ring

While sapphires are commonly associated with the colour blue, they come in a wide range of colours both in Australia and throughout the world. The green sapphires found in Australia often display elegant forest green tones, making them an exceptional choice for a timeless engagement ring design. This one combines an elegant shape with brilliant cut faceting to showcase the wonderful natural colour.

Australian gemstones make for engagement ring designs that are both unique and beautiful. Home to gems in a wide range of colours and styles, designing a piece that’s perfectly yours is a true delight. To begin exploring Australian gemstones for your design, book an appointment to find your unique inspiration.

6 Vintage Inspired Engagement Ring Designs

Lovers of vintage style jewellery have a treasure trove of inspiration for their engagement ring design. From intricate metalwork, unique setting styles, and iconic layouts, there are so many beautiful design elements throughout the history of ring making to weave into a modern engagement ring.

Here are 6 vintage inspired engagement rings custom made at our studio, that bring the beauty of decades past to modern engagement stories.

1. Peach Gemstone Engagement Ring with Vintage Style Halo

The subtlest of details have a powerful impact on the look and feel of an engagement ring. Here, a modern halo engagement ring is given a vintage inspired touch with its elegantly shaped outline, reminiscent of a bygone era. The peachy pink of the centre oval gem (which can be found in Tourmaline, Morganite, or Sapphire) works beautifully with the rose gold band, alongside the bright white platinum and diamond halo.

2. Filigree Diamond Engagement Ring

A true vintage ring is a stunning treasure, though often presents with structural issues stemming from decades of wear. Here, a vintage heirloom was re-created, allowing the new wearer to keep all the incredible history and style of their family’s ring, while ensuring it’s strength for another generation of wear. Hand shaped filigree and milgrain-edged elements are the replicated in the new ring, true to its original design, with a custom designed wedding ring to perfectly match.

3. Art Deco Inspired Sapphire Engagement Ring

Few design periods throughout history are as instantly recognisable as the Art Deco era, with its signature bold geometric elements. Here, the gemstone selections, structural arrangements and finishing details bring a distinctly Art Deco inspired feel to a timelessly modern sapphire engagement ring design.

4. Illusion Set Diamond and Ruby Engagement Ring

Originally created to give the illusion of a diamond appearing bigger than it is, illusion settings evolved into a beautiful design element in their own right. Stunning shaping and carvings create light reflections in the ring itself and give a distinctly vintage style.

5. Floral Milgrain Halo Engagement Ring

Milgrain edging is the tiny raised metal beads applied to the edges of a ring element, which rose to popularity over a century ago. It’s a seemingly small detail, yet has a powerful impact on the texture and style of a ring. Here, it’s applied around the small round diamonds of the engagement ring halo, giving it a fancy, vintage inspired style.

6. Swirling Vintage Style Halo Engagement Ring

Before the rise of digital design tools and manufacturing methods, all jewellery was made entirely by hand, making the intricate designs and structures of vintage style engagement rings all the more impressive. This ring captures that fully, not just in style, but in how it was created. Entirely handmade, its vintage inspired swirls, details, and structure are a nod to the beautiful style and skilful metalwork methods of generations past.

These 6 vintage inspired engagement ring designs are beautiful ways to bring the designs of a bygone era to a modern engagement ring story. See our custom jewellery gallery for more designs, or book an appointment to begin designing your very own custom piece.

The Australian Engagement Ring Trends to Watch in 2025

Like all things we wear, jewellery has trends that come and go with the times. While engagement rings are more resistant to the fashions of clothing (after all, they’re an item we wear for a very long time, not just one season), there are still shifts in styles that flow through engagement ring designs as times and generations change.

While you don’t want to choose an engagement ring based solely on a “trend”, new designs and styles are great inspiration for finding fresh ideas you haven’t thought of, to find something that is uniquely yours to love for many years to come. Here are the 4 engagement ring trends I’ve seen emerge in Australia, to keep your eye on if you’re designing your ring this year.

1. Asymmetrical Engagement Rings

While engagement rings are typically thought of as a straight band with a centre gemstone in the middle, there are so many ways to design an engagement ring that challenge classic profiles.

Fluid shapes in gemstones and band shapes have shaken up what has historically been thought of as an engagement ring in a way that’s fresh, elegant, yet still timeless and wearable. Asymmetrical designs are growing in popularity with freeform gemstone cuts, angled settings, and flowing wraparound bands, to create engagement ring designs that feel very different to those of generations past.

2. East-West Set Engagement Rings

Traditionally, engagement rings with longer diamond shapes are set with the gemstone vertically, with their longest side angled up-to-down on the band. Recent years have seen more and more gemstones set horizontally, or east-to-west, on the band.

This style is particularly great for oval cut diamonds and emerald cut diamonds, and allows you to have the simplicity and practicality of a solitaire engagement ring, with a profile that feels modern too.

3. Engagement Rings with Patterns and Colours in the Band

Most trends for engagement rings revolve around the centre gemstone, or shape as a whole, though there’s growing attention to bringing a unique spin to engagement ring designs through the detail in the band, or the wedding ring alongside it. Smaller gemstones seem like a minor detail, though have a powerful impact on the style and uniqueness of a ring.

Traditionally, engagement ring bands have either been entirely plain, or had all diamonds along the band. There’s a growing interest in fresh takes on these two options for band designs, by playing with diamond arrangements, patterning, and colour, which opens up endless options. This is a beautiful way to draw in meaning and personality to your design, for example by incorporating birthstones, favourite colours, or reminders of important moments together for your unique engagement ring.

4. Solitaire Engagement Rings

It feels like cheating to include a ‘classic’ engagement ring design in a ‘trend’ round up. However the interest in solitaire engagement rings has been so strong lately, it had to make my list. Many couples are opting for a single, beautiful gemstone for their engagement ring, in a classic solitaire setting to celebrate their engagement.

With such a classic design, the gemstone becomes the all important detail. Choosing your solitaire ring brings the focus to choosing just one wonderful gemstone that you love. While the classic round brilliant cut diamond is always a favourite for engagement rings, they’re not the only shape being sought for solitaire ring designs. Brilliant cut diamonds of all shapes, sizes, and proportions are making their mark as a subtle but beautiful way to make solitaire engagement rings unique.

There’s an art to bringing these trends to an engagement ring design that feels modern, timeless, and perfectly suited to the person who wears it. Looking at these 4 trends is a great starting point to finding your perfect design.

For help designing an engagement ring that’s both fresh, and uniquely yours, book your complimentary appointment to chat directly with a jeweller.