10 Best Gifts of 2023: Holiday Jewelry Gift Guide | GLDN
’Tis the season of joy, sparkle and togetherness...and what better way to express your love and appreciation than with jewelry? Our 2023 Holiday Gift Guide is here and we’re unveiling the top 10 gifts for everyone on your list—your partner, friends, family, you name it—featuring new pieces and GLDN classics that top our best-seller list year after year.
In this year's jewelry gift guide, we've sought out timeless classics and handpicked pieces that feel perfect for 2023 (and all the years after, too). From personalized necklaces to delicate pearls to solid gold keepsakes, each piece tells a unique story. So, snuggle up, grab a hot cocoa and start checking off your gift list with the perfect adornments that’ll light up the holiday season, all chosen for their aesthetics, quality and sentimentality (AKA the trifecta of the perfect gift).
#1: Best Personalized Jewelry Gift
Bennett Necklace
One personalized necklace to rule them all. This customizable disk necklace has been a GLDN favorite for years with no signs of stopping. Featuring one medium-size pendant plus up to five tiny initial tags, the Bennett Necklace is the perfect canvas to tell a story. Add a symbolic stamp to the main pendant, then add initials you know your recipient would love—their family’s, friends’ or pets’ initials are some great ideas, though there are so many more! This necklace also makes a great base for extra charms and tags, like our Aura Gemstone Charm!Available in 14k solid gold, 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop it now.
#2: Best Birthstone Jewelry Gift
Aura Birthstone Hoops
The newest addition to our fan-fave Aura Collection, the Aura Birthstone Hoops are the perfect amount of personalization for anyone on your list—easy to customize and subtly symbolic. Note your recipient’s birth month and choose from 12 modern, jewel-toned birthstones (from Subtle Ruby to Forest Emerald)! We spent over a year refining a modern palette of birthstones people would actually want to wear…and turns out we were right. It’s easily been our best-selling new collection of 2023—and our favorite birthstone jewelry we’ve ever made.
Available in gold vermeil and sterling silver. Shop them now.
#3: Best Symbolic Jewelry Gift
My Garden Meuse Band
This is floral jewelry made even more personal. Choose from over twenty different flowers and pick the seven you think your recipient would love the most—whether it’s their favorite flowers, their family’s birth flowers or the flowers from their wedding—and we’ll hand-personalize the band with your chosen flowers. The entire idea with this floral band ring is to customize a one-of-a-kind garden blooming with symbolism. Trust us, this is a gift your special someone will seriously love (because it’s so thoughtful and personal)! We also adore the My Garden Meuse Band as an alternative wedding band.
Available in14k solid gold, 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop it now.
#4: Best Pearl Jewelry Gift
Pleine Lune Necklace
For the ones who like to keep it simple and striking. Our best-selling Pleine Lune Necklace features a delicate freshwater pearl (choose from two pearl sizes) strung on our sparkliest chain, available in any length—though we love it as a choker or resting on the collarbone! Pearls are perfect for holiday party season, brighten up wintry outfits and, of course, are perfect for the spring and summer months, too. We also love gifting pearls for their quiet symbolism: clarity, purity and wisdom.
Available in 14k solid gold, 14k gold fill, sterling silver and rose gold fill. Shop it now.
#5: Best Sentimental Jewelry Gift
Oval Locket Necklace
A vintage-inspired locket for the modern era, our Oval Locket Necklace can be personalized with an initial or left blank. And, yes, this is a real, functioning locket! We love filling it with tiny photos, notes, flower seeds or other tiny treasures—a gift on top of the gift. If you’d like to fill it with a photo before giving to your recipient, use this template to get the size just right. Lockets are such sentimental, thoughtful gifts that we couldn’t leave it out of this list. Timeless for a reason.
Available in 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop it now.
#6: Best Statement Jewelry Gift
Kana Earrings
A little bold, a little timeless, infinitely wearable—our Kana Earrings feature medium-sized hoops with lustrous freshwater pearl charms. They can be dressed up or down and the pearl charms can be removed—so they can wear these earrings either way (like giving two gifts in one). Great for jewelry newbies and enthusiasts alike, everyone should have a pair of pearl hoops in their jewelry collection. Trust us, even the pickiest will be pleased with these.
Available in 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop them now.
#7: Best Floral Jewelry Gift
Small Flora Necklace
Flowers are our favorite love language. Our Small Flora Necklace boasts more than 20 one-of-a-kind, hand-illustrated flowers to choose from—asters, baby’s breath, sunflowers…the list goes on and on. When you’re gifting this piece, we recommend choosing your recipient’s birth flower, favorite flower or flower that blooms near their home to make it extra special, though you can’t go wrong with choosing for aesthetics either. Once you choose a flower, our makers will hand-personalize the pendant with your chosen flower and include a keepsake flower meaning card in your gift box.
Available in 14k solid gold, 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop it now.
#8: Best Solid Gold Jewelry Gift
Taiya Chain
Holidays are the perfect time to pull out all the stops. Enter the Taiya Chain. A bold herringbone chain crafted in heirloom-quality solid gold, the Taiya Chain is the centerpiece of any necklace stack…and any gift-giving moment. This is a piece your recipient can literally keep (and wear) for a lifetime, no matter the occasion, and pass down to future generations—it’s solid gold, after all! If you love someone who loves jewelry, this is the gift to get.
Available in 10k solid gold. Shop it now.
#9: Best Jewelry Gift Set for Beginners
GLDN Essentials Set
Pre-styled and specially priced—AKA the easiest gift ever. If you know someone who’s just getting into jewelry, this starter pack is the way to go. Includes one of our classic dainty chains (that they can add pendants to later), two stacking rings and one pair of our best-selling Aura Gemstone Studs in your choice of gemstone. We love this gift for sisters, nieces or friends who’d like to start wearing high-quality jewelry but don’t know where to begin! The GLDN Essentials Set has been curated by our founder and team, too, so you know it’s good.
Available in 14k gold fill and sterling silver. Shop it now.
#10: Best Jewelry Gift Set for Enthusiasts
Winter’s Night Set
What do you get when you combine white sapphires, stacking rings and celestial studs? This otherworldly jewelry set for the ones who love a little extra sparkle. Featuring one white sapphire band ring, one celestial stacking ring, and one pair of moon and star studs, our Winter’s Night Set is the perfect jewelry set to give during the holidays. Don’t get us wrong, this set is dainty and understated enough for everyday wear—but an extra dose of dazzle makes it feel special and timely, too.
Available in 14k gold fill/gold vermeil and sterling silver. Shop it now.
Bonus Gift: Signature GLDN Tote Bag
We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention this adorable $20 tote—the perfect add-on to any jewelry gift! Featuring 25 flowers illustrated by artist Mavis Yao, this tote bag can double as your gift wrap and another treat for your recipient. They can use it as a farmer’s market bag, shopping bag, all the things.
Our 2023 Jewelry Gift Guide
We hope you found something your recipients will love—and maybe something for yourself, too? Remember, we have hundreds of other pieces if these aren’t doing the trick—from fine jewelry favorites to curated gifts under $60 and more. Happy gifting!
Team GLDN ✨
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