Custom Jewellery in Burnaby

What we make for Burnaby clients

Custom Engagement Rings

Designed around your stone, your story, your hand.

Custom Wedding Bands

Matched to any engagement ring, in any metal.

Custom Necklaces & Fine Jewellery

Pendants, earrings, and everyday pieces.

Heirloom Redesign

Give inherited stones and metal a new life.

Why Burnaby clients choose Vanhess

With Mandarin (14.5%) and Cantonese (12.3%) together making up over a quarter of Burnaby’s mother-tongue distribution per Statistics Canada, we work in Chinese and English at the bench every week. Ethnic Chinese residents make up 33.3% of Burnaby’s population, the largest single ethnic group. That shapes the commissions we receive from Burnaby families: tea-ceremony jewellery, dragon-and-phoenix bangle sets, 24K pure-gold pendants for traditional wedding customs, and Western-style engagement rings designed to pair with those traditional pieces for blended ceremonies.

Hart House at Deer Lake — the 1910 Tudor-style heritage venue overlooking the lake — has been one of the region’s premier wedding venues for decades, and we’ve made bands for many couples celebrating there. For proposal photography, the Deer Lake boardwalk, the Burnaby Village Museum grounds, and the SFU mountaintop view are local favourites; we’ve designed engagement rings specifically for each backdrop.

Practically, the transit story matters. The Millennium Line runs from Lougheed Town Centre and Brentwood directly to Coquitlam Central in about 12 minutes — a simple one-seat ride, no transfers required. For drivers, Highway 1 east or Lougheed Highway east from almost anywhere in Burnaby gets you to Coquitlam Centre in under 20 minutes outside of peak traffic.

Custom engagement rings & wedding bands for Burnaby couples

Burnaby couples come to us for the full spectrum of bespoke engagement rings: solitaires, halos, three-stones, hidden halos, bezel settings, tension settings, and unusual cuts (oval, pear, marquise, emerald, asscher, and radiant). We handle both lab-grown and natural diamonds, coloured gemstones, and 24K traditional pieces for clients blending Western and Chinese wedding customs.

Fine jewellery is one of the few luxury categories to have held steady through recent market cycles. Bain & Company’s 2024 luxury study (reported by National Jeweler) found that jewellery was the most resilient core luxury category at flat-to-+2% growth, with high jewellery and personalised / bespoke offerings outperforming the broader luxury market. For Burnaby clients evaluating a semi-custom mall ring vs a true custom piece, that broader trend matters: demand for personalised fine jewellery is rising, and the supply chain is shifting to match.

On price, our custom engagement rings start around CAD $1,500 (simple lab-grown solitaires) and most fall between $2,500 and $4,500. Wedding bands are typically $600–$1,800 in 14K or 18K gold, more in platinum. We price stone, metal, and labour itemised — you see every line before committing. For comparison, The Knot 2024 Jewelry and Engagement Study puts the US average engagement ring spend at around $5,200 USD; Canadian budgets typically run similar after currency conversion.

For couples planning ahead, the average engagement length in Canada is about 14 months per The Knot Worldwide 2024 Global Wedding Report. We recommend starting custom engagement ring design at least 3 months before the proposal date, and wedding band design 2 months before the ceremony.

Heirloom redesign and 24K gold work for Burnaby families

Heirloom redesign is one of our most-requested services from Burnaby clients, especially families with multi-generational Chinese wedding jewellery. We work in 24K, 22K, 18K, and 14K and can reset stones, melt down inherited gold, or rebuild a traditional piece into something the next generation will actually wear. Common Burnaby redesigns: reshaping a 24K dragon-and-phoenix bangle into a modern pendant, resetting a jade cabochon into a daily-wear ring, or melting a collection of inherited rings into a pair of matched wedding bands.

The sustainability case is real. The World Gold Council’s 2024 Gold Demand Trends full-year report shows recycled gold hit 1,370 tonnes in 2024 — roughly 27.5% of total global supply, the highest share since 2012. When we melt down inherited pieces for a redesign, we’re part of the same circular supply chain that the industry is formalising. For natural diamonds we source, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme covers approximately 99.8% of the world’s rough diamond trade.

Pricing, timelines, and what to expect

A typical custom engagement ring takes 4–6 weeks from design sign-off. Wedding band matching is 3–4 weeks. Heirloom redesigns vary — simple resets are 2–3 weeks, full rebuilds around 6. Burnaby couples with a specific proposal or wedding date should start the conversation 3 months ahead for engagement rings, 2 months for bands.

Canadian weddings aren’t cheap. MoneySense, citing WeddingWire Canada, puts the average 2024 Canadian wedding at approximately $29,450. The engagement ring typically sits alongside venue, catering, and photography as one of the largest single-line items — which is why we refuse to run a catalogue-based semi-custom model. Every piece is drawn for you, with sketch and CAD stages, before metal is cast.

Once delivered, Jewelers Mutual recommends a fresh appraisal every two years to keep your insurance coverage aligned with market value. We provide a full replacement-value appraisal at delivery, and a complimentary 6-month inspection for every piece we make.

Common questions from Burnaby clients

Getting to our Coquitlam studio from Burnaby

By car: Highway 1 east or Lougheed Highway east — 15–20 minutes from most of Burnaby. Free covered parking at Coquitlam Centre.

By SkyTrain (direct): Millennium Line from Lougheed, Brentwood, Production Way, or Sapperton directly to Coquitlam Central — about 12 minutes from Lougheed. No transfer required for Millennium Line stations. From Metrotown (Expo Line), transfer to Millennium at Production Way; total about 25–30 minutes.

By bus: Multiple TransLink routes feed into Lougheed and Production Way SkyTrain stations for the Millennium transfer.

Burnaby neighbourhoods we work with regularly: Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed, Burquitlam, Edmonds, Highgate, Capitol Hill, Willingdon Heights, Parkcrest, Central Park, Buckingham Heights, Government Road, Forest Glen, Sperling-Duthie.