Design Your Own Wedding Ring

Description

Custom Wedding Ring CAD Design Pricing

CAD Design – $150

Includes approximately 2–4 hours of professional CAD jewellery design and one design alteration.

Suitable for many custom wedding rings, including classic bands, shaped wedding rings and designs with relatively straightforward construction.

Complex CAD Design – $250

Includes approximately 4–8 hours of professional CAD jewellery design and one design alteration.

Complex designs may include intricate shaping, detailed diamond or gemstone arrangements, unusual profiles, multiple design elements or more technically demanding construction.

The hours refer to CAD design work rather than the overall production timeframe.

How to Design Your Own Wedding Ring

1. Choose Your Wedding Ring Style

Your wedding ring can be as traditional or individual as you want it to be.

Popular starting points include:

• Classic wedding bands
• Curved and shaped wedding rings
• Diamond-set wedding rings
• Channel and grain-set designs
• Contemporary wedding bands
• Mixed-metal designs
• Textured and patterned rings
• Custom men’s wedding rings

You can customise one of our existing designs, combine features from different rings or create something completely original.

2. Choose Your Metal, Width and Profile

The width, thickness and profile of a wedding ring have a major influence on both its appearance and comfort.

Our designers can help you compare different proportions and precious metals, including platinum, yellow gold, white gold and rose gold, along with contemporary metal options for selected men’s wedding rings.

CAD allows these dimensions to be developed around your finger size and individual design rather than relying on a generic ring.

3. Add Diamonds or Personal Details

Your custom wedding ring can remain beautifully simple or incorporate diamonds, gemstones, engraving, textures or other individual details.

For diamond-set wedding rings, CAD allows the size, spacing and position of the diamonds to be carefully planned before manufacture.

4. We Create Your Wedding Ring in CAD

Once the design direction has been established, our jewellery designer creates a precise three-dimensional CAD model.

We can develop details including:

• Ring width and thickness
• Inside and outside profile
• Curves and contours
• Diamond or gemstone placement
• Engagement ring clearance
• Matching edges and profiles
• Symmetry and proportions
• Practicality and comfort

5. View, Refine and Approve Your Design

You receive detailed CAD images showing how your wedding ring will look before manufacture.

Both our CAD Design and Complex CAD Design services include one design alteration, allowing a proportion or design detail to be refined before you give final approval.

Once you are happy with the design, your wedding ring can move into manufacture.

Match Your Wedding Ring to Your Engagement Ring

A wedding ring does not always need to be straight.

Engagement rings with low settings, halos, unusual galleries or wide centre settings may require a curved or shaped wedding ring to sit neatly alongside them.

Polished Diamonds can measure and laser scan your existing engagement ring so its dimensions and profile can be incorporated into the CAD design of your wedding ring.

This allows us to consider the:

• Curve around the engagement ring
• Width and depth of both bands
• Position of diamonds
• Side profile
• Space between the two rings
• Overall balance when worn together

You can then review your wedding ring design before it is manufactured.

The result is a wedding ring designed specifically to complement your engagement ring, rather than choosing a generic band and hoping the two work together.

Men’s Custom Wedding Rings

Designing your own wedding ring is also an excellent option for men who want something beyond a traditional plain band.

Choose the width, profile, metal, finish and design details that suit your style and lifestyle.

Your ring might be classic and understated, wide and contemporary, textured, diamond-set or combine contrasting materials and finishes.

CAD allows the proportions to be visualised before manufacture, helping you create a wedding ring that looks balanced on your hand and is comfortable for everyday wear.

Why Use CAD for a Custom Wedding Ring?

A wedding ring is usually worn every day, so small differences in width, depth, profile and shape matter.

CAD gives our designers precise control over these dimensions while allowing you to see the proposed ring before it is made.

The main advantages are:

Precision – dimensions, curves and gemstone placement can be carefully controlled.

Visualisation – see a detailed three-dimensional representation of your wedding ring before manufacture.

Matching – an existing engagement ring can be measured and scanned to help design a complementary wedding band.

Control – review and refine your design before approving production.

Custom Wedding Rings Made in New Zealand

Once approved, your wedding ring can be manufactured through our dedicated New Zealand jewellery workshop, combining advanced CAD technology with skilled jewellery craftsmanship, finishing and gemstone setting.

You can work with our designers in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, or design your wedding ring remotely from elsewhere in New Zealand.

Custom wedding rings manufactured by Polished Diamonds are supported by our lifetime workmanship guarantee.

Design Your Own Wedding Ring FAQs

How much does it cost to design your own wedding ring?

CAD Design costs $150 and includes approximately 2–4 hours of professional CAD design work. Complex CAD Design costs $250 and includes approximately 4–8 hours. Both include one design alteration.

Can you make a wedding ring to fit my engagement ring?

Yes. We can measure and laser scan your engagement ring and use its dimensions to develop a wedding ring designed to sit alongside it.

Can I see my wedding ring before it is made?

Yes. CAD images allow you to review the proportions, shape and design details before approving manufacture.

Can I design a diamond wedding ring?

Yes. Diamonds or coloured gemstones can be incorporated into your custom wedding ring, with their position and spacing developed during the CAD process.

Can men design their own wedding rings?

Yes. Men’s custom wedding rings can be personalised through width, profile, metal, finish, texture, gemstones and other design details.

Do I need to visit a Polished Diamonds studio?

No. Visit us in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, or work with our jewellery designers remotely from elsewhere in New Zealand.

Start Designing Your Wedding Ring

Start with your engagement ring, an existing Polished Diamonds wedding ring, a photograph, sketch or simply an idea.

Our jewellery designers can transform your concept into a precise CAD design that you can view, refine and approve before your wedding ring is made.

CAD Design – $150
Complex CAD Design – $250
One design alteration included