Affordable Gemstone Engagement Rings

Using a red gemstone in jewelry is a bold and strong choice. Red gemstone engagement rings are traditionally associated with passion, bravery, and spirit, and make a piece of jewelry particularly meaningful. Settings of yellow or rose gold accentuate the warm tones in the stone, while white metal choices, such as silver, white gold, or platinum create an icy contrast.

Red Gemstones:

• Ruby
• Garnet
• Red Spinel
• Rubellite Tourmaline
• Sunstone

Orange gems symbolize energy and an earthy sensibility.  Free spirited and brilliant, orange jewelry evokes images ranging from autumn leaves to summer popsicles.

Yellow gold and green gold look amazing with orange gemstones, as do diamond side stones.

Orange Gemstones

• Orange Sapphire
• Spessartine Garnet
• Mandarin Garnet
• Fire Opal
• Topaz
• Citrine

Wearing a piece of jewelry set with a green gemstone is thought to promote calm and rest the spirit.  Green brings to mind growth and freshness, peace and vitality.  Green gemstones are also believed to be advantageous for business and money matters. Interestingly, either white or yellow metals are attractive settings, each bringing their own vibe in combination with green gemstones.  Pink or green gold look softer as mountings and bring an unusual personality to green gemstone jewelry.

Green Gemstones

• Emerald
• Tsavorite Garnet
• Tourmaline
• Peridot
• Jadeite
• Alexandrite
• Chrysoprase Chalcedony
• Zircon

Blue gemstones are said to symbolize devotion and spiritual enlightenment, and to be the crystals of trust.  These qualities make a blue stone an excellent symbolic choice for an engagement ring.  Blue gemstones look equally well with any choice of setting metals, providing the opportunity to create any look you like.

Blue Gemstones

• Sapphire
• Diamond
• Zircon
• Iolite
• Tanzanite

Pink gemstones are believed to reflect gentle love and amplify a sense of joy for life.  A piece of pink gemstone jewelry never fails to make one feel lively and cheerful, opening one’s heart to love, friendship, and peace.  Pink gemstones look great in a green gold setting, bringing out the rose tones in the stone.

Pink Gemstones

• Sapphire
• Diamond
• Tourmaline
• Morganite

Purple gemstones are believed to connect us with our intuition, spirituality, and higher selves.  They are also thought to quiet the mind and bring protection.  Purple gemstone jewelry is very meaningful and looks so regal.  The most beautiful metals for settings of purple gemstones are yellow gold or pink gold.

Purple Gemstones

• Sapphire
• Amethyst
• Spinel
• Tourmaline

Black gemstones are thought to bring out one’s inner power and promote feelings of security.  They also deepen your connection to the earth and physical world.  The iciness of white metals (silver, white gold, platinum) are perfect settings for powerful black gemstones.

Black Gemstones

• Diamond
• Jade
• Onyx
• Jet

Brown gemstones are the color of earth, and as such promote feelings of connection and grounding; calm and wellness. 

Yellow gold is beautiful used in combination with brown gemstones.  Together they feel warmly connected.

Brown Gemstones

• Diamond
• Smoky Quartz
• Hessionite Garnet
• Agate
• Tigers Eye
• Topaz

Wearing a piece of yellow gemstone jewelry is believed to increase clarity and optimism, and promote emotional healing. 

Metal choice in setting yellow gemstones is really a matter of personal choice, as they look equally nice in any color.

Yellow Gemstones

• Diamond
• Sapphire
• Citrine
• Topaz
• Golden Beryl
• Chrysoberyl
• Jade

Gold gemstones are thought to bring power, balance, and optimism for the future.  Jewelry featuring golden gemstones bring to mind warmth, dynamism, and confidence.  Both yellow gold and white gold make good settings, but rose gold does not bring out the best in a golden gemstone.

Golden Gemstones

• Golden Beryl
• Diamond
• Sapphire
• Citrine
• Topaz
• Jade

Grey gemstones are unique in that they symbolize friendship in some cultures, representing maturity, security, and dependability. 

Diamond side stones accentuate a grey center stone beautifully, especially if set a white metal such as silver, white gold, or platinum.

Grey Gemstones

• Salt & Pepper Diamond
• Moonstone
• Tourmalinated Quartz
• Chalcedony

Diamond gemstones stand on their own in terms of meaning.  Diamonds are considered intense gemstones, illuminating your future and purpose in life.  They are also the most durable of gemstones.  No wonder they are seen as the right symbolic gemstone for engagement rings. Clear or white gemstones are typically believed to amplify your own energy in many directions, as the gemstone refracts light into many different colors.

Any color of metal or setting style is complementary to white or colorless gemstones, as these powerful stones give off so much energy alone.

White or Clear Gemstones

• Diamond
• Moonstone
• Colorless Sapphire
• Rock Crystal Quartz