For over 20 years, Serendipity Diamonds has created custom-made fingerprint wedding rings from their showroom on the Isle of Wight. Their extensive knowledge of fingerprint engraving, combined with a vast collection of wedding ring styles and a highly developed process for refining fingerprints, creates the engravable design.
Why add a fingerprint to your wedding ring?
The technical name for fingerprints is dermatoglyphics. Each print features papillary ridges—giving each print the classic plough-line appearance. The unique appearance of each print provides a great opportunity to add a personal effect to each ring.
At the centre of each print, one of three different features defines the print. These vary between whorls (accidental whorls, double loop whorls, peacock’s eye, composite, and central pocket loop whorls), arches (plain or tented) and loops (radial or ulnar). The science is fascinating! As part of our work, we focus on the unique features of each print and define the loops, whorls, and arches to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art for your ring.
The process of how to create a fingerprint ring.
At Serendipity Diamonds, our fingerprint rings go far beyond the service most jewellers offer. Our service includes the kit, guidance on submitting prints and a complete enhancement service. As a result, we create the perfect rings or jewellery with an incredible personal touch.
Watch our short video, which shows some of the stages involved, from sending your fingerprint kit to receiving the finished rings. Personalise your wedding rings with a unique effect.
What makes our fingerprint rings unique?
The answer lies in the lengthy artwork preparation, the finish and general attention to detail.
Every fingerprint undergoes a manual process to create perfect fingerprint artwork before being engraved on your ring. But, for clients who prefer no enhancement, we can apply prints exactly as they are sent. This post shows examples of prints before and after they have been cleaned up.
Black Fingerprint Rings
Over the last 12 months, we have added a unique effect to our Raven black wedding ring in our collection. The Black Fingerprint Ring features a laser-engraved fingerprint applied on the inside or outside of the black satin surface of the ring.
Titanium fingerprint rings
For buyers with a smaller budget, we introduced the Titanium fingerprint available to buy online. This less expensive ring adds a personal effect to a domed Titanium wedding ring with a print. Choose your engraving inside or on the outer surface.
Find out the price and read more on our new Titanium ring.
Personalised Fingerprint Wedding Rings
If you are looking for fingerprint wedding rings, we offer a unique way to customise your wedding rings. We are one of the few jewellers with a tried and tested method of creating beautiful rings.
By comparison, many other jewellery shops now offer this service. However, quality varies from one shop to another. This is especially true regarding the final quality of the print itself.
Our classic FP01 fingerprint wedding ring is shown with a 5mm width, in Platinum, engraved on the outer surface.
We give you the tools to create your fingerprint in the early stages. This is where the work begins.
We perfected our methods over many years. The result? A beautifully crafted ring or pair of rings.
Heart fingerprint wedding rings for bride and groom are available with a combined heart pattern created from two fingerprints.
Enhanced prints for beautiful fingerprint rings
At Serendipity Diamonds, we always find ways to go the extra mile. Each fingerprint wedding ring receives our care and attention. We run submitted fingerprints through our proprietary process to enhance fingerprint quality if necessary. The following image compares a fingerprint before and after the process.
We are sometimes asked what makes our wedding rings different from those found on cheaper online sites. Our enhancement process, dedicated support and option to fully personalise any wedding ring style make our jewellery one of our most demanded services.
Additionally, most of our wedding rings are crafted from solid precious metals and not cast. Additionally, we offer custom rings for each individual to order.
Please note that we cannot enhance smudged fingerprints. We advise clients on whether their prints are suitable for submission, and our small team will be happy to offer any assistance needed.
Before and after. Showing a fingerprint before and after it has been through our process to ensure the best engraving.
How do we refine fingerprints?
Most fingerprints go through our unique process. The results ensure the best possible engraving, whether on the inside or outside of your wedding ring. We take a standard fingerprint and transform it into clear artwork, ready to engrave onto your ring.
Many fingerprints include small details besides the fingerprint. These appear when the skin is damaged or dry. By ‘cleaning up’ the print by hand at high magnification, we improve the result.
Follow 5 simple steps to get perfect rings
For help, we provided a series of 5 steps – to create the perfect pair of wedding rings. The process takes approximately 4 weeks, which includes the time required to craft the rings themselves. We can also match up your wedding band to your engagement ring band.
Medium-weight court (RWD001) with a satin finish and fingerprint-resistant inside. This is just one possible wedding ring finish available at Serendipity Diamonds.
1. Choose your plain wedding rings
First, choose your wedding rings. Decide on the basic wedding ring shape. We can engrave on the inside or outside of most rings.
Remember, any wedding ring with a pattern only suits engraving on the inner surface.
Consider metal choice, width, finger size and style. Please note that due to the high quality of the finish, we can only fingerprint engrave wedding rings bought from us.
What if you haven’t decided on the rings yet?
If you haven’t decided on the wedding ring styles, you might want to take your prints first. These can be used for other jewellery, too.
With this in mind, you can order the stand-alone fingerprint jewellery kit here, before making any purchase. We’ll refund this cost against the engraved wedding ring order if you place one afterwards.
2. Place your order
Please place your order on our website and choose the engraving option that best represents your needs. We create your fingerprint wedding rings from the basic ring ordered with the engraving option.
There are added options for both fingerprints and wording.
Contact us for any other additions. If you are in the USA, Australia, Europe, or Canada, our website provides the overall cost at checkout, including insured delivery and duty paid.
3. Wait for the fingerprint jewellery kit and then take your prints
If you would like to order your fingerprint kit first, please place your order here, and we will refund the cost later against any order placed for fingerprint jewellery.
You will receive a fingerprint kit within the week, and we deliver the print kit worldwide. Once it arrives, take your time trying to get a good print for your rings. Try alternative fingers.
Photo paper with a satin or glossy finish can produce great results. Coat your finger with ink from the ink strip inside in the kit. Press down without rolling the finger. Remember that the most detail is on the lower part of your fingertip.
Aim for a clear print with lots of detail. For this reason, make as many attempts as you want. Remember – the clearer the detail, the better the results.
The image above shows the print clarity you should aim for to achieve ideal results for your rings. First, the print on the left is far too blurred. Conversely, the print on right is perfect.
And, if you decide to scan and email your print, please avoid sending blurred, smudged or blurred prints, as our examples show. Remember that lines and marks on the fingerprint will come out on the engraving.
4. Write your instructions
Use the help sheet on the reverse of the fingerprinted paper to provide us with important information, including your name, order number (if known), and instructions, such as which ring the print is to be applied to.
Next, use the box to tick, indicating whether you want the fingerprint on the inside or outside.
And, if you have requested wording, please provide the wording and the font you would like for your fingerprint wedding rings.
Then, either post them to us or scan and email them to our office address.
Email: enquiries@serendipitydiamonds.com
Our office address is on the Contact Us page of the website.
5. Await your beautiful fingerprint wedding rings
Example of a completed fingerprint wedding ring for a groom
While you are busy taking your fingerprints and sending instructions, we work on the fingerprint rings themselves. Next, once work has been completed, we apply your engravings. Finally, after your rings have been engraved and re-finished, we are ready to send out your beautiful fingerprint wedding rings.
Inlaid Fingerprint Wedding Rings
One of our previous fingerprint jewellery commissions, from late December 2016, featured fingerprints engraved within an inlaid central band crafted from two metal colours: 18ct White Gold and 18ct Rose Gold.
Two colours inlaid fingerprint wedding rings created for bride and groom
Remembrance Fingerprint Rings
Remembrance fingerprint rings honour a loved one. Moreover, they capture fingerprints for eternity. We advise you to keep prints and email us high-resolution scanned copies. By doing this, your fingerprints will be available to re-apply if anything happens to the finished ring.
What if your fingerprints are not of such great quality?
As part of our services, we now offer memorial rings featuring a fingerprint, providing all the necessary help and guidance with sensitivity and understanding. Additionally, we provide reconstructive help to restore prints. At the same time, so prints appear too faint. Or, in some cases, lack enough detail. Ultimately, we provide help to restore your print.
Example of a memorial fingerprint ring with a little time spent to improve the print quality prior to engraving.
If a relative has passed and prints are not of a high enough quality, we can sometimes help by spending some time improving the fingerprints sent. For this reason, we discuss the quality of prints with you first.
We do this using various techniques to better the final results of your print. Few jewellers offer a service for memorial fingerprint rings. As a result, we produce great results on the final rings.
Print enhancement often takes hours of work to better the final print. As a result, the final ring looks amazing. See the example of our fingerprint art process at the start of this post.
Heart Patterned Fingerprint Wedding Rings
View prices and choose your heart fingerprint wedding rings in our shop section of the website
View other fingerprint ring videos on our YouTube channel.
By way of another update, earlier this year we introduced a brand new pattern. Two fingerprints are applied in a unique position to create a heart-shaped effect across two rings. We advise using a flat-edged design such as the Arreton wedding ring which has a flat outer edge suited to this type of engraving.
This combination will work with varying widths, metal choices and finger sizes, but we advise similar-width wedding rings for the best effect.
If you would like any extra help on any of the fingerprint wedding ring styles you see above, please get in touch with us. We are happy to discuss other styles and advise on the cost and work involved with a fingerprint ring purchase.
Remember to allow plenty of time for your wedding. For example, most bespoke wedding rings take around 4-5 weeks as a guide from start to finish.
Precious metals to avoid when you’re considering a Fingerprint ring
Lastly, it is important to note which metals to avoid when choosing your fingerprint rings. Avoid any precious metal lacking durability.
Choose 18ct Gold instead of 9ct Gold. If you really want 9ct Gold, ensure your fingerprint goes on the inside of the ring.
Externally, the print wears quickly because 9ct Gold is less durable. In addition, avoid Silver. In contrast, 950 Platinum, 18ct Gold, Palladium and Titanium are all good choices.
Fingerprint jewellery – more designs and more choice
Finally, we recently added to our collection of jewellery offered with this unique service. Look out for our other fingerprint jewellery, featuring additional styles.
View our current promotions running at Serendipity Diamonds
Can fingerprints be added to a diamond eternity ring?
We receive many requests for diamond fingerprint rings. For example, fingerprint diamond engagement rings to fingerprint eternity rings.
Our example below shows a recent fingerprint diamond eternity ring with two children’s prints added inside the ring. This idea is perfect for mothers rings standing for each child within a single ring style.
As part of our service, each print went through our process to clarify details.
View the fingerprint diamond eternity ring on the bespoke page of our website
Fingerprint cufflinks are now available at Serendipity Diamonds
Fingerprint cufflinks make an ideal wedding day or anniversary gift. For this reason, we now fingerprint engrave cufflinks in a variety of shapes. Learn more in our dedicated cufflink section of the website.
Round fingerprint cufflinks crafted in Titanium
Frequently Asked Questions
A fingerprint ring features an actual fingerprint laser engraved onto the inner or outer surface of a ring.
Fingerprint rings typically take between 2 to 4 weeks to create, depending on the ring design ordered.
Use our fingerprint kit, which includes detailed instructions. Either, order this separately or wait to receive your free kit after ordering your rings. Then, return the fingerprints or scan them in high resolution and email them to us by way of an attachment.
Yes. You can add as many fingerprints as you like. There is an additional cost. Please contact us for a quote.
A memorial ring features the fingerprint of a deceased person. In fact, we create memorial ashes rings with the addition of a fingerprint, or we can apply a print to any plain band.
If you have a low-quality fingerprint, our work process ensures a clear final print on the finished ring. First, contact us with your print. Then, we will be happy to advise you on the suitability of any print taken.
Unfortunately, we don’t add prints to existing rings unless they have been purchased from Serendipity.
For women, we recommend a 3mm wide band or 2.5mm as a minimum width. The wider the band, the more detail can be applied to the inside or outside surface of the ring. At the same time, men tend to choose 4mm or 5mm as minimum widths.
We recommend against Sterling Silver rings for fingerprint engraving unless the print is applied on the inner surface. To explain, the softness of Silver results in wear to the print in a short space of time.
We recommend ordering in the correct ring size. For this reason, we have ring sizers available in plain sample rings to check before ordering the final rings.
Yes. If you can take a clear macro photo of your fingertip (for example, using an iPhone 14), we can create the artwork from a photograph. Or, a clear photograph of the inked print. Please see our example photograph for the clarity we ideally need when working from a photo. 
About Mark Johnson
Mark founded Isle of Wight jewellers Serendipity Diamonds in 2007 after a career on the polished diamonds industry. Today he works in the Serendipity showroom, helping clients with jewellery, creating handmade designs and updating their two jewellery websites SerendipityDiamonds.com and Isle-of-Wight-Jewellery.co.uk
