5 Textured Wedding Ring Designs

Traditionally, wider wedding rings were almost always a plain, polished, low dome band. While these are still a long lasting classic, more and more wedding rings now include texture in their design. Whether subtle or detailed, textured finishes are a magnificent way to make your wedding ring unique.

Here are 5 textured wedding ring designs to inspire your own custom design.

1. Matte Wedding Ring with Polished Lines

A matte finish brings a modern style to a classic wedding ring, while keeping its timeless appeal. This matte wedding ring is personalised with horizontal and vertical polished lines to create a unique detail. Customise your own version of a ring like this with your own arrangement of straight or angled line patterns.

2. Brush Textured Wedding Ring

A wedding ring with a brushed texture makes for a practical low maintenance style, given marks from everyday wear are cleverly concealed in the design. Brush textured bands work well in both narrower and wider designs. This one is applied to a classic low dome profile wedding ring, creating a classic-meets-modern style.

3. Wedding Ring with Contrasting Textures

Two contrasting textures create a striking effect in a wedding ring design. Here, polished edges either side of a brushed texture centre create interest in a white gold wedding band. For extra contrast, choose a different colour metal for the polished and textured sections, such as 18ct yellow gold, or 18ct rose gold.

4. Polished Hammered Wedding Ring with Milgrain Edging

While most textured wedding ring designs are (by definition) not polished, it’s possible to include texture yet also have a timelessly polished look. This wedding ring has a surface rippled from hammering, and is finished off with a polished surface. Milgrain edging on each side of the band adds a modern vintage element to the design.

5. Rough Textured Wedding Ring

Textures can be created to be as rough and rugged as you’re willing to wear, especially for pieces that are made by hand. Here, an ultra rough finish is created with hand carved textured patchwork-like segments. Especially when created by hand, a piece like this is entirely unique, with no two textured wedding rings being exactly the same.

To design your very own textured wedding ring, book an appointment directly with the Australian jeweller that handmade each of these textured bands.

Jewellery Trends to Watch in 2025

Fine jewellery sees trends in a different way to fast fashion. High end gemstone jewellery, gold jewellery, and platinum jewellery, are pieces we enjoy in our collections for years, decades, and even generations. So trends are less of a chop-and-change passing fad. Instead, trends add to the memories and stories the piece is all about. They’re trends that we’ll love in our collections for the long haul.

We’ve covered the trends in engagement rings we’re watching in 2025. Now, let’s look at trends of dress pieces entering your collections at the moment. Here are the 4 trends we’re seeing at our Canberra jewellery studio to watch in 2025.

1. Luxury Signet Rings

There’s a strong, growing love of signet rings for all occasions. In the luxury jewellery space, signet rings are a representation of who we are, what we value, and what we love. It’s this sentiment that’s soaring in popularity, with designs incorporating the nuances of the important things we want to be conscious of as we go about our days.

As well, there’s a growing trend of signet-like ring profiles for diamond rings, with bezel settings that flow seamlessly to a wide look band. Either as an engagement ring, or a dress ring, this style is both modern, and practical to wear.

2. Pink Diamond Jewellery

Australia’s Argyle diamond mine - the most significant source of pink diamonds in the world since the 1980s - closed its operations in 2020. So, for the last few years, collectors have taken the chance to include this gemstone in everything from engagement rings, to wedding rings, to pendants and remodels.

Knowing they’ll be harder and harder to get hold of makes these pieces true treasures for gemstone lovers. Whether it’s as a feature gem, or a minor accent, each piece featuring Australian pink diamonds are a tangible piece of Australia’s (and the world’s) history of gemstones.

3. Inset Gemstone Rings

Rings with gemstones set flush with the band are becoming a highly sought after ring style, for all occasions. This style has been a favourite for remodelling multiple jewellery pieces into one cohesive band, though it’s now extending far further into designing new one of pieces as dress rings, wedding band, and milestone celebrations.

These wider style bands are comfortable to wear, durable, and are a modern way to incorporate colour into a ring style you’ll wear day to day, with the bonus that the gemstone is protected within the ring. Blue gemstones in particular - in all shades and gemstone varieties - are seeing the spotlight in a big way for this style of ring, with meaning and personality showing through in gemstone selections.

4. Heirloom Remodelling

While heirlooms have always been a loved treasure, there’s a growing interest in remodelling family jewellery and pieces from former chapters in our lives, into new pieces we can wear all the time - rather than stashing them in a safe place, to never see the light of day.

We’re seeing more and more people redesigning meaningful gemstones and design elements into fresh and sturdy new designs that allow them to keep the memories their heirlooms hold as part of their everyday life through jewellery. Each treasure is an honour to help recapture.

Emerging trends are a great way of finding fresh inspiration for a unique jewellery design, and adding to the time capsule that fine jewellery represents in your life-long collection. For help designing a piece that’s uniquely yours in 2025, book your complimentary appointment to delve into the process.

6 Unique Diamond Shapes for Engagement Rings

When it comes to engagement rings, round brilliant cut diamonds have been the most popular choice of diamond shape for decades. However, diamonds are cut into a wide range of different shapes. Some are familiar, though there are many diamond shapes that very few people know about. If you’re looking for a unique diamond shape for your engagement ring, here are 6 beautiful alternatives to the round brilliant cut diamond.

1. Oval Shaped Diamond Engagement Rings

A shape that is almost round, but not quite, oval shaped diamonds have been an increasingly popular diamond shape for engagement ring designs throughout the 2020s. They’re elegant, flattering on the finger, and work beautifully alongside small brilliant cut diamonds if you want to add extra sparkle. While they’ve been popular, each oval diamond has unique variations in the proportions and curving of their specific oval shape, making each one unique. This makes an oval shape diamond a beautiful choice that is both on trend and uniquely personal in one.

2. Asscher Cut Diamond Engagement Rings

A style that has been around long before the round brilliant cut diamond soared into popularity, the Asscher cut diamond makes for a beautifully unique engagement ring. Step cut faceting in these diamonds creates a ‘hall of mirrors’ effect in the stone. Asscher cut diamonds have a beautiful vintage style feel to them, yet can also be designed into modern engagement ring designs like the bezel set signet-inspired ring below.

3. Radiant Cut Diamond Engagement Rings

The radiant cut is so rarely used in white diamond engagement rings, that we’ve only had a few of these made into rings at our studio. Here’s why almost no one knows about them.

Radiant cuts are common for coloured diamonds, because the way the faceting reflects light within the stone enhances the colour within it. For a coloured gemstone, this is an excellent property, enhancing the colour in the stone. However, apply this logic to white diamonds where a lack of colour is the goal, and you can see why radiant cuts pose a problem. Jewellery makers who use anything below the very highest of white colour grades avoid them because they’ll enhance any yellow/brown/grey shades within the stone, even if they’re subtle. With the highest colour grades in a D-F diamond though, like the ones we use in our jewellery studio, radiant cut faceting showcases a colourless diamond beautifully, and creating incredible white light reflections in the stone. To me, it’s one of the very best hidden-in-plain-sight secrets of the fine diamond jewellery world.

4. Emerald Cut Diamond Engagement Rings

The emerald cut diamond is one that brings an elegant old world style to an engagement ring design. They’ve been around for hundreds of years, but soared to popularity in the art deco era, when design was dominated by geometric, streamlined shapes. Due to its smaller number of facets than a brilliant cut - many of which are long and rectangular - be sure to look for excellent clarity and colour to get the most out of this beautiful shape.

5. Cushion Cut Diamond Engagement Rings

Before modern diamond faceting advanced, cushion shaped profiles known as ‘old mine cuts’ were one of the few shapes of diamond around. The modern cushion cut diamond takes this shape and applies modern brilliant cut faceting techniques, to create a sparkly beautiful blend of modern and traditional styles. Cushion cut diamonds work marvellously in a wide variety of engagement ring designs, giving you the flexibility to get creative with your piece. They’re available in square or more elongated cushion shapes, which both make for beautiful engagement rings.

6. Kite Shape Diamond Engagement Rings

I'll finish my list with a diamond shape that’s so unique, it doesn’t even have a consistent agreed upon name among jewellers and gemmologists. This last diamond shape on my list can be called a ‘kite cut diamond’, ‘shield cut diamond’ or ‘pentagon diamond’, depending on who is naming it. Though whatever you decide to call it, it’s a unique and beautiful diamond shape for an engagement ring that almost no one knows about. Each diamond faceted in this way has significant differences in its shape and proportions. So if you’re looking for a kite shape diamond, be prepared to find diamonds that look quite different from one to the next, and enjoy the process of choosing the one you like best.

Design your own unique diamond engagement ring with a jewellery maker

These 6 diamond shapes are a few of many available alternatives to the popular round brilliant cut diamond. If you’re looking for a unique ring, there are many options around to incorporate into your engagement ring design. To begin exploring the shapes you love, book an appointment directly with our jewellery maker to get personal advice and support with designing a beautifully unique piece.

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