The theme of the 2025 competition is Light. This year marks the 18th edition of the competition.

The theme Light invites jewelry designers to draw inspiration from the world of brightness and illumination or from the play of reflections, shadows, and colors. What is light? How does it manifest itself in the form and details of a ring?
And how can we work in accordance with the principles of sustainability, ethics, and transparency, ensuring that rings crafted by Finnish artisans remain a part of both everyday life and celebration for decades and centuries to come? What must we consider today to ensure that new rings continue to be created, last over time, are passed on to future generations, and that valuable materials are redesigned and recycled?

The preliminary jury selected the finalist rings based on anonymous images, the rings’ names, and inspiration texts. The jury evaluated not only aesthetics and storytelling but also the rings’ quality, wearability, ethics, and commercial potential – that is, how the design might win the hearts of new generations in Finland and abroad.

The Most Beautiful Ring of the Year competition is organized by Häät magazine and Häät.fi in collaboration with partners including the Love Me Do Wedding and Celebration Fair, Kruunu – The Finnish Watch and Jewelry Museum, and the Goldsmiths’ Association of Finland.
Ring photography by Teemu Töyrylä.

Artwork Details

Ismo Alakärppä, Ainua Jewelry
Minun tähteni (My Star)
Minun tähteni depicts a distant galaxy and the beautiful idea that even in infinity, one special, meaningful star can be found. Diamonds and pink sapphires set into a titanium band form a sparkling belt of stars, framed by dark silver and individual stars reminiscent of space. The polished inner surface is visible only to those who know it is there.
Materials: 925 silver and titanium, lab-grown diamonds and sapphires
Year: 2025

Annika Eklöf, Atelier Eklöf
Up!
When the first rays of spring sunlight warm the cold ground, coltsfoot flowers awaken from their winter sleep. Up! Up toward the light! Amid the dry grass of last year, they glow like tiny suns, warming souls tired from winter. The Up! ring is handmade and a tribute to the light of the northern spring.
Materials: 750 yellow, white, and green gold, 1 diamond 0.295 ct Irradiated Gold, and 10 diamonds totaling 0.05 ct Fancy Canary Yellow
Year: 2025

Tero Hannonen, Au3 Kultasepät
Varjossa (In the Shade)
The brightness of spring after winter is wonderful, but especially that moment when you can lie in a hammock under an apple tree and watch sunlight filtering through fresh leaves, bringing gentle warmth. You might still be wearing wool socks, but a smile spreads across your face and you just have to enjoy it.
The stones of the ring are set in a kinetic rotating element, making their sparkle move like flickering light through branches.
Materials: white and yellow gold, stainless steel, colorless and green diamonds, green sapphires, tourmalines, tsavorites, and peridots
Year: 2025

Pekka Hirvonen, Malmin Korupaja
Keskiyön aurinko (Midnight Sun)
After the dark winter, the light of midsummer never fades but illuminates hearts to beat more boldly. It sets dreams in motion and makes love linger. In the nightless night, where the light never disappears, the heart dares.
Materials: 585 red and yellow gold, 1.10 ct Intense Pink lab-grown diamond
Year: 2025

Elias Narsakka, Festive
Auréa
Auréa is a ray of light that wraps gently around you like a quiet, tender moment. The yellow gold glows softly and timelessly. The diamond rests in its embrace like still light, bright and alive. The union of materials tells of beauty that endures. The ring’s shape reflects the harmony of movement, continuity, flow, and the light of life. It does not merely shine; it carries the story of light.
Materials: 100% recycled 585 yellow gold, oval-cut 1.00 ct lab-grown diamond
Year: 2025

Harri Nukarinen, Aito Helsinki
Bright Kiss
"We walked on the ice of Lake Saimaa. The sky was dazzlingly clear. The golden rays of the sun gleamed from the mirror-like white ice and the snow-covered islands around us. I remember my beloved’s joyful laughter shining in the brilliant light, and her red lips when I kissed her."
It is worth pausing for those dazzling moments of happiness and love.
Materials: 750 white gold, diamonds, and rubies
Year: 2025

Tony Peltonen, Alkemia Kultasepät
Aurinko (Sun)
The Aurinko ring draws from wisdom traditions in which the sun has an ancient meaning. It symbolizes perfect light, purity, hope, and above all the powerful force that brings good into being.
Its message, however, does not point outward but to the light and strength within each of us.
You are the light, capable of shining and radiating goodness all around you.
Materials: 585 white gold, center diamond 0.50 ct, other diamonds totaling 0.412 ct
Year: 2025

Miki Rahikainen, Mykoru
Sunrise
The Sunrise ring is like a celebration of light and life encircling the finger. Its delicate flower waits quietly until its wearer decides to awaken it. When the ring is lifted and turned, the flower opens, spreading rays of light like the first beams of dawn. It reminds us that life is a continuous cycle – each day brings a chance to open again, grow, and shine.
Materials: 750 white and yellow gold, center diamond 0.25 ct, other diamonds totaling 0.06 ct
Year: 2025

Mika Tarkkanen, Master Goldsmith Tarkkanen
Tähdenlento (Shooting Star)
I remember that moment as if it were yesterday.
A shooting star crossed the sky like a wish spoken aloud.
I looked at you and knew that moment was ours.
And now that moment is here, captured as diamonds in your ring.
Not just a ring, but our shared promise – a promise that though shooting stars last only a moment, our love will remain, grow brighter, and live on in our own starry sky.
Materials: 750 yellow gold, 103 diamonds totaling 1.51 ct
Year: 2025

Ville Tuovinen, Master Goldsmith Tarkkanen
Läpi varjon (Through the Shadow)
There can be no light without shadow. Through the Shadow is a reminder that the brightest moments often emerge from darkness.
The ring is a visual journey toward light. Its rhythm and surfaces tell of shadow giving way as light gradually breaks through. This form is a symbol of hope – that behind every shadow lies a new beginning that carries far.
Materials: 750 yellow gold
Year: 2025