8 Occasions When Giving Your Girlfriend Jewellery Is A Great Idea
Giving jewellery in a relationship is great - I love to do it, and my girlfriend loves when I give jewellery as a gift!
But before we count down the eight top jewellery giving occasions, let's mention a few times when giving a jewellery gift is not a great idea!
1) Don't surprise your partner with an engagement ring too early in the relationship – most guys test the waters before going mad with their credit card. Too early, and you're going to create an embarrassing scene that you and she might never get past.
2) Don't give jewellery as a way to apologise for something you did wrong (or that she thinks you did wrong)
3) Don't give an expensive jewellery gift in a relationship where you are not mutually committed – all sorts of wrong messages go out when that happens!
The Eight Best Times To Give Jewellery Gifts In A Relationship
1) Anytime – Just Because!
You know those times, you see something pretty when you're mooching online, and in an instant, your heart beats faster, and you just know she'd love it? That's the 'anytime' gift. She'll love it even more because it is absolutely a surprise and there's no way she could be expecting it!
Suggestions: don't do it too often, or it will stop being an 'anytime' gift and more of a 'too often' gift! Also, try to keep the price down. There are times for spending big money and times for keeping it real!
2) Birthday
One way or another, you're in the doghouse if you forget her birthday! For us guys, a jewellery gift has been the fall-back gift option for decades, so try to mix it up a little. Not jewellery every birthday!
What types of things to look out for? Jewellery with birthstones is an excellent idea. Tennis bracelets are an ongoing favourite. Charm bracelets are a great way of storing up gift-giving opportunities into the future – you can buy her a new charm for Christmas, Valentine's Day or another occasion that a small gift seems like a good idea.
Avoid giving her a ring; that might carry overtones of engagement and possible awkwardness if you are not quite there yet!
3) Christmas
Christmas is the perfect time to push out the boat a little. Some fine diamond jewellery will make you the pagan god of the holiday season if you put a diamond bracelet or necklace under the Christmas tree! Just make sure that there can be no mix-ups over the labelling! You don't want to surprise her aunty with that diamond and emerald pendant!
4) Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day can be a tricky one to get the balance right. Giving something too big or too little can both be mistakes.
As the guy who has gotten this one wrong more than once, here's my suggestion:
If you have been together for less than a year, then a piece of costume jewellery will go down well. On the other hand, if you've been together for a while or are pretty much committed to each other, then make a bit of a splash. Valentine's Day does not carry the same weight as a birthday or Christmas gift, so perhaps a nice pair of diamond earrings or a not too showy diamond pendant necklace.
5) Engagement
This is a big one! It can be complicated or straightforward. I'd suggest trying to keep it simple! My fiancée and I had discussed getting married. A proposal was not going to be a surprise. So, we chose and bought the ring together. More accurately, she chose the ring, and I negotiated a small discount and paid for it! I know some guys like surprises, but in my opinion, that's just a whole lot of NO, NO, NO!
One other point: don't spend too much on the ring, you're going to have many expenses. As a rule of thumb, if you're using finance to pay, buy nothing that you cannot afford to pay off in full within three months! You will not do yourself any favours if you end up having a smaller wedding because you're paying off the cost of a ring!
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6) Wedding Day
Apart from the traditional wedding rings – we'll take those as a given – it is becoming customary for couples to exchange a small gift on their wedding day. Very often, this is a gift of jewellery. The gifts are exchanged through intermediaries, the best man and bridesmaid. If you choose to do this, and it is an excellent idea, something small such as a pair of earrings for her will go down well, and she might even wear them to the wedding breakfast and the nuptials!
7) Anniversary
Anniversaries are so obvious as gift-giving opportunities once you're married that it hardly needs mentioning, does it? There's even a list of the various traditional anniversary gifts, so you just can't go wrong!
Here is a link to the complete list. It runs for 60 years. Not all the items are jewellery related, but a lot are. So, that's it. Sixty years of gift-giving – sorted!
If you are not married, perhaps a small jewellery gift that will commemorate your relationship both on the day and into the future would be nice. Maybe limit the value initially and then increase as time goes by. Another excellent opportunity to buy her a charm bracelet – if you didn't take my advice earlier in the article.
8) New Baby
To my mind, there's only one way to do this! A birthstone gift for mum and child. She can pass down the gift to the child when a little older and make it a lifelong keepsake into the distant future.
A gift like this is the perfect way to show how much you care and how much both your wife and new baby matter to you.
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So, that's it—eight occasions for giving gifts of jewellery and some matching suggestions and advice. If you follow my recommendations, I promise that you will avoid some of the mistakes that I have made. On the other hand, we live life to make our own mistakes, so perhaps you should just go for it, wing it, just, whatever you do, surprise and delight her every day! Remind her of why she chose to be with you and that she made the right choice every day!
