Taylor Swift is bending tradition.
Fans finally got a closer look at the 14-time Grammy winner’s wedding ring over the weekend, when she stepped out solo for musical collaborators Laura Sisk and Oli Jacobs’ nuptials in the English countryside.
Nestled just beneath Swift’s Kindred Lubeck-designed engagement ring was a curved band crafted from yellow gold and dotted halfway around with delicate diamonds.
“An eternity band has always carried this beautiful symbolism of continuity and enduring love,” said jeweler Logan Hollowell, whose gold and gemstone designs are a hit with stars including the “Opalite” songwriter.
“A half eternity band gives you the visual effect of a diamond band while often being more practical for everyday life. It can protect the stones from some of the impact and friction that naturally happens underneath the finger.”
That sort of functionality’s especially important for brides who spend their days playing the piano and strumming guitars, like Swift — and the pop icon’s choice of an arced ring is equally personal, according to Hollowell.
“A contoured band allows the wedding ring to become part of the engagement ring’s design story rather than simply sitting beside it,” she said.
“There is something incredibly romantic about it. The wedding band is shaped specifically to meet another ring. On its own it has one silhouette, but when the two pieces come together, they create something entirely new. I think that feeling of two individual pieces being designed to belong together is part of what makes the style resonate so strongly with brides.”
As for Swift’s “other piece,” Travis Kelce recently debuted his own yellow gold wedding band, which appears to be engraved in a style similar to his wife’s engagement ring.
“Taylor is known for weaving symbolism and sentimentality into everything she does, and given the intricate hand engraving and thoughtful details of her engagement ring, it would make sense for both wedding bands to continue that story,” The Clear Cut founder and CEO Olivia Landau told Page Six Style, noting that the rings reflect a larger shift she’s seeing in bridal jewelry right now.
“Couples are moving away from perfectly matching wedding bands and instead choosing rings that feel connected without being identical — through a shared metal, finish, engraving, or other design element.”
While Lubeck hasn’t claimed credit for making the duo’s bands, Brilliant Earth‘s SVP of Merchandising & Design, Annie Chen, told us that the way Swift’s band sits flush against her engagement ring “strongly suggests they were designed together rather than paired after the fact.”
And just as the musician’s old mine diamond sent interest in similar stones soaring, her curved wedding band seems destined to spark a trend, too.
“We may start seeing customers request that shape from the start, rather than discovering it works well once they’re already trying rings on, which is how most people land on it today,” Chen said.
Ultimately, however, the most special elements of Swift and Kelce’s new rings are likely the ones we can’t spot in a long-lens paparazzi photo.
“People want their wedding bands to feel uniquely theirs, whether that means a hidden engraving, a meaningful motif, a significant date, or a design detail only the couple understands,” Landau told us.
“Taylor and Travis’ bands feel very much in line with that movement: complementary rather than matching, timeless but highly personal, and designed to tell a story beyond what you can immediately see.”
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