Make Summer Last Forever with These Vibrant, Colorful Gemstones

Who doesn't love Summer? After the long winter season in Chicago, where Love and Promise Jewelers makes its home, there is nothing we appreciate more than warm, sunny days and weekends relaxing on the beaches of the world’s greatest Lake (Michigan, for you out of towners.) Summer is also the Season of Love. More weddings take place in the month of June than at any other time of the year, with the next most popular being August--a time when many of our happiest memories are made and the world around us blossoms with color and possibilities.
We like to think of love that way too, as an endless Summer full of romance and color. And Summer’s spirit bursts from these colorful gemstones, among our faves for Summer weddings, any time of the year.

For sun worshippers: Yellow sapphire

Sapphires, one of the top three gemstones in terms of their beauty, sparkle, and durability, are a variety of the mineral corundum and come in many hues, from white to black and every color in between (except for red corundum, which is better known as a ruby). Trace amounts of iron give the yellow sapphire its hue -- the more iron, the more intense the color. Yellow sapphires are mostly found in Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Madagascar, Thailand, and Australia. Rosados Box, our exclusive designer line of engagement and wedding rings, turns yellow sapphire into an eternal sunrise on your finger!

For lovers of forests and fields: Emerald

Since ancient times, the emerald has been associated with fertility, growth, renewal, and abundance. The emerald is a variety of the mineral beryl, and gets its green hue from trace amounts of chromium or vanadium. Check out some of our favorite emerald rings, from Rosados Box:

For water lovers: Blue Sapphire, Topaz, Aquamarine

“A livelier emerald twinkles in the grass, a purer sapphire melts into the sea,” wrote the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).Of course, real sapphires don’t melt; at 9 on the Mohs scale, they are second in hardness only to a diamond. Blue sapphires (the blue hue is caused by trace amounts of titanium and iron) are among the most popular gemstones in wedding and engagement rings, especially among royalty. But you don’t have to be a royal to wear one!
Topaz and Aquamarine are among our other favorite blue gemstones. Topaz is a nesosilicate mineral and comes in a variety of hues, blue being the most rare in nature (most commercially available blue topaz has been heated and irradiated to give it its color), and has long been believed to carry healing properties.
Like emerald, aquamarine is a type of beryl mineral, often embedded granite, and can be found in nature across the western US, as well as in South America and Africa. Ranging on the Mohs hardness scale from 7.5-8, Aquamarine is less durable than a sapphire and needs to be worn with extra care.
Here are some of our favorite blue gemstones from Rosados Box:







Whatever color is your favorite, these summery gemstones make a perfect statement of your love all year round!