{"id":20533,"date":"2017-08-12T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:41:49","slug":"looking-for-something-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/looking-for-something-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOKING FOR &#8220;SOMETHING BLUE&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Something-Blue-Wedding-Rhyme-Jewelry-Gifts.gif\" alt=\"Something Blue Wedding Rhyme Bride Jewelry Gifts\" title=\"Something Blue Wedding Rhyme Bride Jewelry Gifts\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20535\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>Wedding Day Blues?<\/h2>\n<p>\nYou know that <strong>old English rhyme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\nWell, did you know that there&#8217;s <strong>ONE MORE LINE<\/strong> to that ditty?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>It actually ends with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Sixpence in your Shoe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThese things are the items that <strong>a bride adds to her wedding dress attire<\/strong> (somehow), and supposedly, they are &#8220;<strong>good luck<\/strong>&#8221; charms. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe phrase &#8220;<strong>Something Blue<\/strong>&#8221; actually stands for purity, love and fidelity. <\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a huge British tradition that&#8217;s <strong>carried over into the states<\/strong>, and just about every bride gets objects from family and friends and loved-ones. <\/p>\n<p><h2>So what&#8217;s the Best <em>Blue<\/em> Gift?<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe best items to get for the &#8220;<strong>Something Blue<\/strong>&#8221; is <strong>Sapphire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nSapphire is <strong>the perfect gemstone<\/strong> for many reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sapphire is one of the three <strong>precious gemstones<\/strong> (the other two are <strong>Ruby and Emerald<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire is the <strong>2nd most durable gemstone<\/strong> on Earth (the 1st is Diamond), so it will last her a lifetime<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire comes in <strong>all ranges and hues of blue<\/strong> (The best Sapphire Colors are <strong>deep intense blue<\/strong> stones&#8211;just not so dark that they look <strong>black<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sapphire goes with everything!<\/strong> Blue Sapphire can be worn dressy, casual, and look great with any other color of gemstone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nSapphire really is <strong>the ideal good luck charm<\/strong>, because she&#8217;ll have it forever. And, she&#8217;ll be able to pass it down from <strong>generation to generation<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>\nJust like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/2767825\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/www.bluenile.com\/wedding\/something-blue-ideas?elem=head&#038;track=secondary1\">these beautiful blue sapphire pieces here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/2767825\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/www.bluenile.com\/wedding\/something-blue-ideas?elem=head&#038;track=secondary1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Something-Blue-Sapphire-Jewelry.jpg\" alt=\"Something Blue Sapphire Jewelry\" title=\"Something Blue Sapphire Jewelry\" width=\"640\" height=\"675\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Something-Blue-Sapphire-Jewelry.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Something-Blue-Sapphire-Jewelry-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h2>See, those are &#8220;NEW&#8221; and &#8220;BLUE&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nAnd if you&#8217;re still looking for those <strong>rhyming items<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>Get a Sixpence for her Shoe<\/h2>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vwdyIV\">A British Silver Coin<\/a> that <strong>ended minting<\/strong> in 1970 (and they started <strong>re-minting them again in 2016<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>\nSo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/2767825\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/www.bluenile.com\/wedding\/something-blue-ideas?elem=head&#038;track=secondary1\">buy your Sapphire jewelry HERE at <em>BLUE<\/em>nile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can never go wrong with <strong>blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wedding Day Blues? You know that old English rhyme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue?&#8221; Well, did you know that there&#8217;s ONE MORE LINE to that ditty? It actually ends with: A Sixpence <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/looking-for-something-blue\/\" title=\"LOOKING FOR &#8220;SOMETHING BLUE&#8221;?\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement","category-gemstones","category-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}