Stephanie Gottlieb

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Excuse My Grandma · Excuse My Grandma While We Talk Jewelry with Stephanie Gottlieb · 13 Mar 2025 podcast

What shape do you really love? And then there's so much you can do with the setting to adjust it to your lifestyle. Exactly.

Okay. So this is fun. I was working for this diamond wholesale company on 47th Street. And every few months I would find something new that I loved and I would save it to my computer at home, which I shared with my boyfriend at the time we were living together. And just to back up, my boyfriend and I are high school sweethearts, went to college together.

So we had been together forever. So there was no real question of whether we were getting married. It just wasn't something we had really spoken about. But of course, I'm working with diamonds every day and playing with jewels. So I would save rings that I liked to the computer and they would change every few months. And so at the time, it was this rose gold split shank ring.

And nobody was- Explain for the viewers. Yes. What a split.

I will. What a split. I will. Okay. So first of all, rose gold was not trending at all. Nobody was wearing rose gold yet. And that is exactly the reason that I loved it because I felt like if I'm working in this industry and I want my ring to feel special, then it has to be something very different than everything I've made for everybody else.

So I chose rose gold and then a split shank is like two rows of diamonds that taper outwards. So it's wide at the top and tapers down the finger. And I had nothing in rose gold, like absolutely nothing. So nothing goes with it. Exactly.

So my then boyfriend knew that I would want another piece in rose to match it or I would not be happy having the ring until I got the whole set, the wedding band too. Yeah. He's well-trained. Wow. He was. He is. He still is. So when he proposed, he woke me up at, like, 7 a.m. earlier than I needed to be to get ready for work. And, you know, my first instinct was to, like, shoo him away.

Like, I've got an hour. Leave me alone. And then he, you know, kind of nudged me again. And he had this red Cartier box. So, of course, I sit up.

And I open the box, and there's a love bracelet inside, and it's engraved BG Heart SG, our initials, April 26, 2012. So cute. I'm like, this is so nice. What's it for? What's April 26? Wait, was your maiden name also G? No. Oh, OK. I didn't pick up on that, though. So I said, what is April 26? And he said, it's the day I asked you to marry me. So now I had this rose gold love bracelet.

And then he brings out the rose gold ring. And so those were my first two rose gold pieces. And we had plans to travel to L.A., which, you know, we always used to do during college together. And we celebrated there. But that was our proposal. Did you keep that setting even now?

I knew you were going to say that. But I have a whole set of rose gold things. Naturally. And I will, of course, come back to them at some point in time. Right now I'm feeling yellow and I have upgraded my ring a couple of times for different occasions. I have two children, so I've gotten different rings with each.

And I'm building a collection that, you know, hopefully I have forever and pass down to my children one day. Very nice. It's nice when it has that sentimental value as well. I think there's so much sentiment that's wrapped up in jewelry. And it is one of those things that you really can hold on to for a lifetime and pass down. And we see so much of that.

I have so many clients who are in their 20s and 30s bringing in pieces that their grandmother left them. or that their mother gave them. And we repurpose them and give them new life and make it feel like something that belongs to this new wearer, but it always has that sentimental attachment to the original owner. Totally.

Yeah. I mean, even from when I started my business to now, the things that I wear are different. And I've seen a lot of my friends, you know, when you get engaged, you are obsessed with the ring and it has to be everywhere and you want to show it off and you're so proud of it. And then I think...

You know, you have kids and you're busier and your hands are dirtier and you stop wearing the ring and now you just wear your wedding bands. It's not that the things become less important. It's just that your life changes. And I think over a lifetime, the things that you wear and care about shift a little bit.

Um, you know, I'm sure you have beautiful pieces in your collection that I do wear and I don't wear them at all.

I don't know. I kind of feel like there is the right woman who can pull that off, and it... you know, I think what's cool about jewelry is that it can transport you to a time and a place and remind you of a person. And, you know, it's like a smell in that way. Like it's, you know, a perfume. It just, it kind of takes you there.

So I think why not have grandma wearing the big hoops that remind her of her younger days. Right. If that was your vibe.

I love that.

So for my second child's birth, which was in 2020, I designed myself a toi moi ring with two stones. One was a heart and one was a pear shape. And that really started a huge wave of two stone interest for us. And I would say for the two years following that, a huge influx of interest in two stone rings. And this was everything from two diamonds, a diamond and a gemstone, two different gemstones.

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