Earth-Friendly Wedding Gifts
Wedding season is here, and unique and earth-friendly wedding gifts like rocks and minerals are becoming a popular alternative to china and service ware. They can be found at one of New York City's most interesting places to shop: the 10,000-square-foot-gallery, Astro Gallery of Gems, at Madison Avenue & 34th Street.
This huge shop, across from the Empire State Building, is seeing steady growth in the purchase of gems, minerals and other specimens as wedding gifts. Natural formations of rose quartz also known as “Love Stones” are very in-demand, as are amethyst bookends (for home libraries) and a variety of decorative stone animal carvings and spheres of various weights made from semi-precious stones.
“Wedding registries at most retail stores these days are quite similar, but at our gallery there are items that can't be found anywhere else in New York,” says Dennis Tanjeloff, the third-generation owner of Astro Gallery of Gems. That's why the store is introducing its first-ever formal gift registry program.
The natural specimens available at Astro Gallery of Gems have come from inside the earth or in the case of meteorites, have literally fallen from the sky. For newlyweds, a selection from Astro's array of dazzling specimens can become the centerpiece of a living room or be used to decorate a private study or foyer.
Astro Gallery of Gems is one of the world's most established gem and mineral galleries. Carrying specimens suitable for the novice as well as the most advanced collector and a wide variety of holistic stones, Astro's inventory is massive with everything from tumbled stones to 2000 lb. amethyst geodes. Check out www.astrogallery.com for more information.