Washington DC Custom Engagement Rings & Wedding Bands

Secrète Fine Jewelry tells our clients’ unique love stories through custom design. We consider our mission to be champions of love, and our designers work closely with each client to create a personal expression of your love. We listen to your love stories, what matters to you, so that the rings we create are the perfect expression of your unique story. Our fully custom design process goes beyond the commonplace options for customization; we pay attention to details— the place where you met, the color of your beloved’s eyes, a family heritage, a shared memory, the story of a cherished heirloom— to offer possibilities beyond what is typical, to craft a piece solely for you.

The bespoke design services at Secrète Fine Jewelry have earned us a reputation for providing beautiful and well made expressions of love, especially when other avenues fall short of offering something unique and personal enough to suffice. Since we opened our doors over 30 years ago, our diverse and discerning clientele have sought us to express what is personal, what transcends the narrative of trends, what lies closest to the heart.

Choosing a custom engagement ring at Secrète Fine Jewelry is choosing a one of a kind symbol of love. Each of us, when we fall in love, understands the value of uniqueness. We believe our engagement rings and wedding bands— these symbols of commitment— ought to be so unique, too. Secrète Fine Jewelry creates engagement rings specifically for each bride, groom, or partner, specific to your style, specific to your love.

Engagement rings and wedding bands are precious symbols of love meant to last a lifetime, and our clientele rely on our expert craftsmanship to ensure that the rings are as strong as their commitments to each other.

Artisanship at Secrète Fine Jewelry is of the highest priority, without question. Our master jeweler calls upon decades of experience to create jewelry with a level of vision and precision beyond compare. Our quality-first philosophy is simple: no design can be good enough to compensate for bad work. Because of this truth, our commitment to craftsmanship takes precedence above all else in the Secrète workshop.

Boundary-breaking technology, time-honored techniques, and handcrafting skills dating back thousands of years all contribute to the making of a masterpiece at Secrète’s workshop. The master uses his wisdom and experience to create each piece by hand, along with our team of specialized artisans whose craftsmanship in arts like stone cutting, engraving, and enameling contribute to Secrète’s unique ability to execute even the most intricate custom engagement rings and wedding bands.

At Secrète Fine Jewelry, the beauty of our jewelry is apparent. The quality of the work is undeniable.

The rare materials that make up an engagement ring are steeped with symbolism and meaning. The ancient beauty of a diamond that formed a billion years ago symbolizes the eternal force of love. The rare flawlessness of a natural stone reflects the purity of our feelings towards our beloved. A color— whether it’s the pure white of a diamond or the vibrant flash of a gemstone— can carry more meaning than poetry can express. Precious metals convey a history of reverence, millenia of temptation, epics of longing.

Secrète Fine Jewelry sources rare and beautiful materials for each ring with an understanding of the tenderness of these symbols and a reverence for the power of the nature that created these materials. Each stone is hand-selected for you and your design alone.

Our bespoke stone-sourcing services give us the ability to have a stone flown in from halfway around the world just for you to see its sparkle, its fire, and its place on your loved one’s hand. These services, along with our custom stone-cutting services, also allow us to work with unique stones that are often unseen in others’ stocks. Whether you are searching for a rare stone from a location significant to your life or are searching for a unique shape or uncommon cut, Secrète can provide the rarest materials to help you celebrate that rarest joy of life— falling in love.

Secrète Fine Jewelry is committed to ethical practices, globally and locally, economically and ecologically. We work with recycled precious metals, patronizing certified responsible suppliers and employing in-house recycling to protect the planet. We source gemstones ethically through conflict-free, ecologically friendly operations. We work directly with mine owners in Sri Lanka and Australia for many of our gems, especially supporting small family-operated mines and women-owned businesses.

We offer full transparency about the origins of your diamonds, whether you choose a certified Canadian, recycled, lab-grown, a diamond alternative, or a diamond from traditional diamond markets. Because our rings are 100% custom made, you are free to make informed choices for every stone in your ring, even the tiniest pavé stones. Our standard melee diamonds are sourced with vigorous screening from Canada, South Africa, Botswana, Russia, Australia, and Namibia through certified conflict-free protocols; we also offer options for lab-grown and all-Canadian diamond side stones, giving you the freedom to choose the conflict-free option that speaks best to your conscience for each and every stone.

Secrète Fine Jewelry supports beneficiation programs that empower people in regions where diamonds are mined. We donate to organizations which establish co-ops, fund education and healthcare, and empower women in developing economies with natural diamond resources.

We are proud to be Made in the USA and made for every member of our community. Every ring is lovingly hand made in our local Maryland workshop. Our local production ensures the quality of each piece, supports our local economy, and prevents the waste that occurs with large-scale factory operations. Since our beginnings over 30 years ago, we have been proud to design beautiful engagement and wedding rings for members of the LGBTQ community, who have long been underserved by the mainstream jewelry market. We are proud to be local, ethical, and inclusive in all the jewelry we create.

Your engagement ring will have a legacy that lives on through the generations. At Secrète Fine Jewelry, we have lovingly crafted engagement rings for multiple generations of the same families. Our own legacy of creating beautiful and personal jewelry for over 30 years gives us special insight to the lasting sentiment of a custom engagement ring. Our unfailing focus on quality speaks to our commitment to tell your love story; we create heirlooms, built to stand the test of time, pieces that will live on in your family story forever.

Secrète Fine Jewelry’s custom engagement design process can also help you redesign an heirloom piece or create the perfect setting for a family stone. Our designers understand the lasting meaning of symbols of love that have been in your family for generations. Whether you wish to pay homage to an antique style or reimagine your pieces in a modern way, whether you have the perfect center stone ready to be set or if you inherited an eclectic collection of jewelry that needs a little more creativity to take its shape, Secrète will help you tell the next chapter of these historic love stories.

Your engagement ring from Secrète will be a true reflection of your personal style. Secrète Fine Jewelry believes in style over fashion, that is to say that form and substance transcend both time and trend. Secrète Fine Jewelry custom designs fine jewelry for people of style, engagement rings and wedding bands that will last for generations, not simply because of the mastery of the craftsmanship and the purity of the materials. Secrète’s custom jewelry is designed to last for generations because of the personal, elegant, and unique designs. While each client may have a different aesthetic, a unique sense of taste, and a particular point of view, Secrète’s bespoke services ensure that each piece of jewelry reflects the individual style of the one who will wear it, that each piece is formed with artistry, that each piece will reflect style beyond time.

Secrète Fine Jewelry’s custom design process is custom tailored for each client. Our flexible, personal service lets you set the pace of the process. When you start creating your engagement or wedding rings at Secrète, you’ll work with one design team member who will be with you throughout the entire process, making sure all your questions are answered, and making sure your vision is carried out perfectly.

We always start by finding out what you love, what would make your beloved’s heart soar, what speaks to your unique point of view and your love story. Some soon-to-be-engaged lovebirds will have an exact vision of what their dream rings look like, while others will need more experimentation and trial to envision that perfect ring. Wherever you are in the journey, our team is here to help, to provide options and suggest opportunities, to offer expertise, and, most importantly, to translate your dreams into solid metal and stone.

As we get to know you better, the idea of your perfect ring will start to take shape in more visual terms. At different points in the process, you’ll be able to view and revise detailed drawings, look at loose diamonds and gemstones, and ask as many questions as you need. When the details are established, the design and materials chosen, and we finally have the winner, our master jeweler begins the work. Our hand-crafted rings are never printed or cast by machine, but each is lovingly sculpted in our local Maryland workshop. With decades of experience, our jeweler works diligently to realize your dreams. The finished product, your ring, will be as one-of-a-kind as you are.