Pick the picture before the pendant. One clear face, close up, reads well in a small frame, and a wide scene turns to blur. Then keep the frame small. What sold here sits under an inch wide, light enough for a thin chain every day. Take 14K yellow gold with a diamond edge, the way most buyers did, and ask the desk how your photo goes on before you pay.
The picture: photo pendant, picture pendant, memorial pendant, photo under glass, enamel portrait
Send one clear face, cropped close, and it will read at pendant size. A group shot loses the faces in a frame an inch across. A picture pendant and a memorial pendant are the same piece here, a gold or silver frame that carries someone you want near. The photo goes on in the metal, under glass or in enamel, and few listings say which. Ask the desk how yours takes it and whether you see a proof.
Motif: Sweet Memories, dog tag, spinning, heart and pet photo pendants
Start with a Sweet Memories frame if you want what most buyers took. It is a small 14K frame edged in diamonds, and the line outsold everything else here by the piece and in sales. The plain gold photo pendant, sized in millimeters, came next. The spinning and rotating frames run bigger and heavier, and no listing says whether the back turns or holds a second photo, so ask. For a woman, see women's photo pendants.
Size and weight: how big is a photo pendant, mini photo pendant, photo pendant grams
Keep it under an inch wide if it goes on every morning. Seven in ten pieces bought here were that small. The middle frame here measures an inch and a quarter across and an inch and three quarters tall. Read the grams before the inches. At one width a frame can weigh three or four times another, because a second row of diamonds or a spinning back adds gold the width hides. Under an inch, the middle frame weighs under five grams.
Metal and stones: 14K or 10K photo pendant, diamond frame photo pendant, lab or natural
Take 14K yellow gold. Nearly every frame here is 14K, and most buyers took yellow. White and rose sit on the color menu of most listings, and in the year nobody bought rose. A few frames come in 10K, paler and harder, and a handful in silver. Choose a diamond frame if you want what sold, since three pieces in five carried diamonds. Hardly any diamond title says lab-grown or natural, but the origin line does on all 71 diamond frames, natural on 70.
Chain and buying: what chain for a photo pendant, custom photo pendant, made to order, returns
Buy the chain apart, since no photo pendant here comes on one. Some listings suggest a box or rope chain at mid-chest, and the heavy 3D pieces a heavy rope or Franco. Whether a bail clears your chain is covered in the men's pendants guide. Nearly every frame is marked custom. A photo pendant is made for you, so ask us for the timing on yours, and the desk tells you how to send the photo. One built around your photo is final under the refund policy, deposit included. A frame bought as listed returns within fourteen days of delivery, unworn and unaltered, on our return label, minus that label and a five percent restocking fee. Clear it first with the desk on the live chat, or by text or call on 212-872-9692, answered from 10 AM ET.