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Originally Posted by Icansavedaily  Am I missing something here? You wanted to give her a necklace? Looks like grandma gave her the pearls and you are giving her the craftsmanship and setting? Real pearls are not manmade and can be matched at any quality jewlers. Pearls come from oysters and they just don't all go to top of the line upstate jewlers in N Y. I would ask my daughter if my providing a setting would be the gift of her choice and have her pick the setting. |
No you're not missing anything.
I know that the pearls can be purchased and or matched as these are Akoya pearls (cultured) and readily available, but I didn't want to just fill her up to make a 16" necklace, we wanted to necklace to only include the pearls from her grandmother, just for sentimental reasons.....maybe it's dumb....but that's what we wanted.
To get the same type of cultured pearl would run us an additional $900.00 for 5". More than I'm willing to put into this, plus the labor for the stringing, I'd be in for $1000.00
It was supposed to be a surprise gift for her 21st, but the more I look at the "traditional" pearl strand, the more I realize that, like most of the posters here said, they will probably sit in her jewelery box and not be worn. The picture in my original post would seem to suit her more, and I think that's what we are going with.
Thanks for all the input.