Anjays Designs

What to know about shopping at Anjays Designs

Anjays Designs is a bridal specialist first and a general jewelry store a distant second. Of roughly 127 pieces in the catalog, more than a hundred are engagement rings; wedding bands, bridal sets and a handful of diamond pendants and earrings account for nearly all the rest. Settings are handcrafted in 14K gold, 18K gold or platinum, and stones come as both lab-grown and natural diamonds, most of them IGI certified. Usefully, the carat weight, metal and certification are written into the product names themselves, so you can compare across the range without opening every listing.

The house style is worth knowing before you start browsing, because it is unusually consistent. A large share of the range is nature-inspired - leaf, petal and floral settings, often described as such in the title - sitting alongside the more familiar solitaires, minimalist bands and four-prong rounds. If that aesthetic is what drew you here it is a genuine strength; if you want a plain classic setting, the range covers it but you will be filtering past a lot of botanical designs to find it.

This is an appointment-only Los Angeles studio rather than a walk-in showroom, and most custom pieces are built to order on a three to five week turnaround. Plan backward from the date that matters. At the time of writing the store advertises free domestic shipping, worldwide delivery, a 30-day return window and what it calls transparent, markup-free pricing.

Two practical tips. Lab-grown is where the money is on this catalog - it is the route to a visibly larger stone at the same spend, and the range is built around it rather than treating it as a budget afterthought. And because turnaround runs to five weeks on custom work, get the ring-size question settled early; a resize after the fact costs time you may not have.

— MoneySaverCodes Team