Gift Guide for Meaningful Grandmother’s Jewelry

Grandmother jewelry celebrates the role grandmothers play in our lives as strong, loving, nurturing women. Popular designs include grandmother's birthstone necklaces, grandmother's initial bracelets and stacked grandmother's rings. Some of our favorite calls are from a family member who is coordinating a multi generational gift for a beloved grandmother to celebrate her whole family.

Personalized jewelry can include a number of elements that help tell your story like birthstones, initials, engravings, or symbols. As its name implies, this jewelry is designed specifically for the person who will wear it and therefore for many women, it becomes something they never take off. Personalized jewelry can represent the people we love and life’s milestones to help connect us to what we value most.

There are so many possibilities in designing jewelry for grandmothers. Perhaps you want to create a necklace with her special grandmother name and her grandchildren’s birthstones. Or she might love a set of bracelets, one for each family. Or maybe this is her first grandchild and you want to create an initial and birthstone necklace or bracelet that she can add on to as her family grows. Let us help you create a personalized design that tells her family story.

At HAVERHILL, we specialize in personalized jewelry and so we have a range of designs that work especially well for grandmother jewelry which you can explore. If this is your first time designing, we have put together some hints to help you.

The best place to start is by deciding how many birthstones or letters you would like to include. Write down a list of names and birth months to use as a reference. Be sure to check with other family members to make sure you have included everyone and that you have their birth months correct. 

Now that you have an idea how many people you would like to represent, you can explore the different personalized designs. Begin by thinking about what kind of jewelry she likes to wear. Would a grandmother's necklace, bracelet or ring suit her best? Would she prefer a lightweight design that she will never take off, or a statement piece for special occasions? Necklaces and bracelets are great options for large families because they can accommodate the largest number of stones or letters. 

All of Haverhill’s personalized jewelry is handcrafted in solid 14k gold. Yellow gold is the most popular choice, but some women have a strong preference for white gold. Look at the jewelry she wears everyday, including her wedding ring and other favorite pieces she never takes off. If you are unsure, find a subtle (or not so subtle) way to ask which she prefers.

Finding the perfect fit for a gift can be tricky. Take a peek in her jewelry box and find a piece she wears to measure. Check out our Jewelry Sizing Guide for lots of tips on finding the perfect fit for necklaces, bracelets and rings. Still have questions? Our Customer Service Representatives are here to help.

Finally, think about how you would like the stones and letters to be arranged. Our Personalization tool lets you play around with different arrangements of stones and letters. Here are a few ideas on how to arrange the birthstones and/or letters.

• Birth order

• Group by family
• Place children between parents
• Accent with her birthstone
• Create one bracelet to represent each child’s family
• Add neutral stones like diamonds, white topaz or her birthstone to fill out the pattern

Many of our designs can be added on to as her family grows. You can place an Alteration Order online to add birthstones and letters as her family grows. We will send her a return label to send the jewelry back to us and we will ship it back to her. The process is easy and quick! We cannot add or swap out stones in rings, so if the family grows, you might want to give her additional Grandmother’s rings with birthstones for the new babies.

Haverhill designs are as individual as each Grandmother. Choose from a range of genuine gemstones in a rainbow of colors, solid gold discs engraved with initials or symbols, and chain options to pull it all together. We take your design and create it just to your specifications in our Rhode Island studio. We know you may be on a deadline, so we focus on getting the jewelry to you within 1 - 4 days (fast shipping options are available too). 

We are inspired by your stories and love working with you to create a special keepsake. If you want to create an arrangement you do not see on our website, reach out to our Customer Service Representatives and they can write a custom order for you.

We are honored to create jewelry that helps you celebrate these amazing women with personalized designs that are timeless, classic, comfortable, and meant to stand the test of time. Birthstones and initials are symbols of the people we love and personalized jewelry is the perfect way to keep those who mean the most to us close to our hearts.