We’re so excited to announce that our black diamond jewelry and model appear on the cover of prestigious INSTORE Magazine May 2012 issue!

We just love how our black diamond earrings, cocktail ring and bracelet sparkle on the model!

Thank you to these amazing San Francisco fashion professionals for helping with creating this look:

Photography by Ian Maxion

Model Jodi James Miller

Makeup by FaceMe By Carlen

Styling by Ukushu Khrystyna

Hair by Lana Orca

This spring bridal magazines are raving about our emerald-cut diamond engagement rings and we’re feeling grateful!

Our emerald-cut engagement ring is prominently featured in the May issue of Bridal Guide magazine along with super brands like Tiffany & Co and A. Jaffe.

After the surprise announcement of Angelina Jolie’s engagement to Brad Pitt, Brides featured another Yael emerald-cut diamond engagement ring in its story “Angelina Jolie’s Engagement Ring: Get the Look”

We’re very excited to see our Leone earrings with Japanese seed pearls and black diamonds featured by Grace Ormonde Wedding Style magazine!

Glamour magazine featured tips on how to choose your wedding band by Yael Designs CEO Yehouda Saketkhou. The article featured not only useful advice on matching the band to engagement rings and to spouse’s ring, soldering rings together and choosing the right settings, but also showcased 6 wedding bands by Yael!

Check out the original article on Glamour.com.

We’re loving the All That Glitters section in the newest edition of Bridal Guide!

Bridal Guide featured our morganite ring in their article about engagement rings with color gemstones. Were you born to stand out? Just like BG said, “Let your personality pop” with a gorgeous colored stone for your engagement ring! 

Here’s a closer look at the Morganite and diamond ring, gorgeous isn’t she? 

First of all, congratulations to Britney Spears who got engaged during the holidays with a Neil Lane sparkler!

We are excited for her good news, but perhaps even more excited that Brides magazine chose our round-cut diamond engagement ring as a beautiful alternative in its story Get the Look: Britney Spears’ Engagement Ring!

Here’s the close-up of our engagement ring, set with 0.19 ct of white diamonds in a sturdy platinum band:

We are very excited about our most recent press love on 7x7’s online Wedding Resource Guide! They featured the gorgeous black and white diamond ring designed by yours truly and Ashley Morgan in an article about San Francisco’s local Wedding Ring Designers. 

We loved the uniqueness of all the different rings featured in the article. But here’s an even closer look at the wedding ring from our Leone Collection:

The November/December issue of Bridal Guide Magazine featured one of our wedding bands from the Affinity Collection in their All That Glitters section! 

Here’s a closer look at the gorgeous Affinity wedding band! 

Don’t forget to pick up a copy - now on newsstands! 

We have received some recent press love from fashion, bridal and jewelry editors that we wanted to share.

The Fall issue of Bridal Guide featured our pearl earrings in their Pearl Chic spread (top right):

JCK magazine, the industry authority on jewelry, chose our hand-made Magical Bird Forest jewelry display case as a highlight of the JCK show held in Las Vegas in June.

Jewelry expert Diana Jarrett wrote about our Mexican fire opal ring on her blog Color-n-Ice, which was featured in multiple other industry publications.

Yael Designs featured on the cover of INSTORE magazine’s July 2011 issue!

Model Khrystyna Ukushu wears Nectarine Pendant with 18k gold, golden pearl, accented by white and yellow diamonds; a cocktail ring with 1.21 carat fancy yellow diamond surrounded by white and yellow diamonds set in 18k two tone gold and matching earrings with fancy yellow diamond center stones.

Photography by Laura Tillinghast

Make-up by Elizabeth Chang