Other than the exchange of wedding bands, there are no rules when it comes to your wedding jewellery. 

You can choose to wear as much or as little jewellery as makes you feel comfortable on your special day. Popular choices include earrings, necklaces and bracelets that compliment the bride or bridegroom’s outfits

A bride can wear any jewellery that makes her feel confident and beautiful on her wedding day, including her engagement rings if she chooses.

On your big day, you may choose to wear an elegant pair of drop earrings and a matching necklace, and combine this with some heirloom jewellery that has special significance to your family.

Bridal jewellery is jewellery worn by a bride on her wedding day.

This jewellery may be selected by the bride herself, or gifted to her in the lead up to her wedding day by the groom or members of the bride’s family. Bridal jewellery can include silver or gold necklaces, diamond or pearl bracelets, and earrings that will help the bride sparkle. 

Yellow, white and rose gold jewellery is suitable for weddings, as is silver jewellery. 

The jewellery you choose will be dependent on your personal preference. While you might opt to stick to your preferred metal for your wedding and engagement ring, which will be worn every day, feel free to experiment and mix metals when it comes to your other wedding jewellery.

There is no need for your wedding jewellery to match your engagement ring, so this choice is completely up to you.

It may be more important to you that your wedding jewellery matches your dress, shoes and hair than whether it matches your engagement ring - this will create a cohesive look on the day. Similarly, you may choose jewellery that has a special significance or meaning to you and combine this with new pieces rather than focusing on complementing your engagement ring. 

While you do not need to wear your engagement ring to your wedding, traditionally brides wear their engagement ring on their right ring finger on their wedding day.

This leaves the left ring finger bare, ready to receive a wedding band during the exchanging of vows. The engagement ring can then be placed above the wedding band after the ceremony - leaving the wedding band closest to your heart.

You can match your yellow, white and rose gold jewellery with silver jewellery on your wedding day to express your personal style and compliment your wedding outfit. 

This applies particularly to your engagement ring and wedding bands - if these are white gold, don’t be afraid to wear yellow gold bridal jewellery. Stay true to your style and accessorise in a way that makes you feel confident, and you will truly shine. 

There is no need for your wedding earrings to match your wedding ring.

On the day and in photos, your earrings may be more visible than your wedding band, so it’s important to choose these carefully and match them to the aesthetic of your dress and hair, rather than your wedding ring. This will achieve a stylish, cohesive wedding day look.

A gift for your bridesmaids in the form of a necklace, bracelet or earrings is the perfect way to show them how much they mean to you. 

You may consider purchasing your bridesmaids matching jewellery to ensure uniformity on the day, or you may like to give each bridesmaid something unique that captures their personality or style. Popular bridesmaids gifts include engraved pendant necklaces, gemstone earrings and gold or silver bracelets that they can treasure for a lifetime.

The wedding ring is traditionally worn on the fourth finger of the left hand, along with the engagement ring.

While this may vary between cultures, wearing your wedding ring on the left finger became the tradition due to the belief that there was a vein running directly from this finger to the heart.