From Met Gala to Mandap: A Groom's Necklace, Reimagined

A mother of the groom gave us one photo: Diljit Dosanjh at the Met Gala. Her brief was simple — she wanted that design, but for her son's wedding day.

Not a copy. Not a costume moment. She wanted the weight of it — regal, Maharajah, pearls somewhere in the mix — reimagined as something a groom could actually wear on the big day.

"During production, it was hard to see what it would look like," Nisha admits, "but I had a vision in my mind that I wanted to bring to life." That's the part nobody tells you about custom jewellery — the piece lives in your head, fully finished, long before it exists on the table.

So she built it in layers. Different shapes, different textures, stacked so your eye keeps finding something new the longer you look — a deliberate move away from the usual bridal approach of just piling on more sparkle. The original necklace stayed the reference point throughout. It just never became the finish line. "I still wanted to give it a Kyles twist," she says.

We just love to be challenged to create new, flamboyant pieces and push our creativity in the workshop.

For the finish: antique gold, warmer and more heirloom than a bright polish, with a flash of Siam crystal pulling the whole thing toward a Mughal-Rajasthani palette. Small detail, big difference. "During the crystal work, I was just taken back with how amazing it looked," Nisha says. "It was absolutely beautiful."

What started as one photo and one conversation became a piece with its own identity entirely. "It looks very regal, very traditional, and very unique," Nisha says. Which is really the brief every time, whether the reference is a Met Gala moment or a photo from someone's grandmother's wedding: take what someone's drawn to, and build them something that's actually theirs.

Got a reference photo of your own? Brides and grooms, get in touch — we'd love to hear it.

— Nisha, Kyles Collection