Actress Lea Michele (Glee) was recently spotted wearing a gold nameplate necklace reading “Cory,” in honor of her boyfriend/co-star Cory Monteith.
The concept doesn’t appeal to gorgeous JCK Magazine writer Stephanie Schaefer, who blogged, “To me, this trend seems to be the equivalent of doodling hearts around your boyfriend’s name in middle school—cute, but also a little tacky and immature.”
Stephanie asked Twitter for thoughts on boyfriend name jewelry and included this highlarious response in her post.
Also included in Stephanie’s post were her suggestions for other types of word jewelry, such as the necklace of mine that best represents my reaction to the idea of the boyfriend necklace.
SERIOUSLY?
On the other hand, gorgeous blogger behind iDazzle did make an excellent point:
Yeah, if you break up with the bastard, you can melt a gold necklace down, sell the metal for scrap and get a few bucks to ease your heartbreak. But if you get a tattoo, you’ll wind up spending your hard-earned money to get that fool’s name lasered off your skin. It makes me think of the booze ads that say, “If you do drink, drink responsibly.” In this case, if you do have to wear your boyfriend’s name like a tween would, wear jewelry, not skin art!
But, really, just don’t do that shit.
UPDATED JULY 14, 2013, TO ADD: Sadly, Cory Monteith was found dead yesterday. He was 31.
No fucking way mate! I’d rather wear my own name, or my IDGAF necklace any day. Or a necklace involving some of his chopped off body parts suitably dessicated. LOL! Also YUCK! But I am bitter and twisted! Maybe I could get a necklace that says that?
“Introducing the Bitter and Twisted Collection by Wendy Brandes and Mary Panjari”!
If only my half-sister gave herself her bf’s name on a necklace. Instead, she did the usual and had his name inked just above her wet oven.
They broke up afterwards.
And of course, she could have also taken that gold and got herself some Bitcoins right when the first bubble began to expand! Can’t really do that with body art.
WET OVEN OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.
My day has been made and it’s only 2:30 a.m.
Happy to be of service!
only if his name were “Patti”, or possibly “goddess”.
That made me LOL!
Ha! No. But I did turn one of my husband’s wisdom teeth into my engagement ring, so if we ever divorce I can put a curse on him.
Preparing for future cursing needs is smart.
I engraved my own initials on a gold crown: http://wendybrandes.com/blog/2010/06/play-goldmolar/
I’m likely to need another crown on the other molar, because of a too-large filling, and I’ve threatened my husband that I would put his initials on that one. It creeps him out. But lately I’m thinking I would want to engrave a face on that crown. Like a grumpy-cat face.
i agree, very middle schoolish
i remember wearing id bracelets with a boy’s name on it way back in the day, same thing NO?
brett
Argh, thanks, I was trying to remember what form of jewelry it was that we used to wear!
Eurgh, weird! No way. Kinda makes me want a necklace with my own name now though…
If you want one of those, let me do it for you.
Having your OWN name on a necklace is cool, it shows pride in who you are!
I wouldn’t want a necklace with his name, but I want Nate’s name on an old school style ID ring for my wedding band. I think it’s kitchy and cute!
If you were to let me do your wedding band, I’d do something with both your initials…very Tudor king and queen 😉
Romantic, except for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, whose combined monogram was “HA” to the amusement of the Boleyn haters.
Wow, all these decades on the planet, and it never once occurred to me to wear my man’s name on anything. Wut th’ hell is wrong with me? 😛
God, Lynne, GET A GRIP!!!
I’m against both- boyfriend jewelry and skin art- no non non! But I am FOR: owning Wendy Brandes jewelry. Everytime I see one of my favorite bloggers sport your pieces I get so envious! Your stuff is so cool and clever and special- so yeah, WB a yes. And one of these days, I will get mine, and like a tat, it won’t ever come off.
I would be very proud if you joined my list of gorgeous clients!
No names! Even when I wanted something family related to keep a part of my McKenzie line, I got my family motto, not my name. I love my DH, but he can just buy me a nice ring or necklace or something instead.
(TBH I always thought the name plate necklaces a la mall kiosks to be pretty tacky)
It made a statement on SATC to bring back something that was kitschy and wear it like it was “fashion,” but I’m pretty over it!
Ew I always hated when girls did that in HS! The trend then was to get ID bracelets with their name. Usually made of crap so I guess you could just toss once the thrill was gone. But you’ve gone and blown my idea to have my name tattooed on Dan’s forehead. I’m bummed. (; XXX
There’s this junkie guy who lives in an SRO on my street who dresses like a 1970s punk and he looks like he was a real one…and the odd thing is that he JUST got a huge face tattoo. Like why did he wait till he was in his 50s to start that project?
Maybe his “old lady” left him so he went wild, hahahaha! (; XXX
Nah, I see them together all the time. She wears yarn extensions in her hair. Stacy once overheard them debating what cereal to buy at the dollar store.
Okay the plot thickens, you know you’re going to have to find out why he waited so long!
Stacy and I have been very curious!
Do it do it do it! Muahaha!
I think my husband should have a medallion with MY name. But I just got a funny idea – his name is Richard, so I could wear a necklace that says DICK.
HA HA HA! Genius!
If I were a dude and Gangsta Boo was my girlfriend I would totally wear her Gangsta Boo necklace if she would let me :).
Oh, she would!
Umm…well maybe this is because I live/work in LA, but I am surprised no one knew this necklace is a bit of an inside joke. Her character on her show- Glee – had one for her boyfriend – played by her now actual boyfriend. So its a goof at heart, not really this high school claiming thing.
And yes I feel silly for knowing this. Yep.
When the show first came on the air, I heard such great things about it, so I tried to watch but I found it unbearable.
More importantly, Cory’s gone to rehab! Now I think she should wear a necklace stating his substance of choice: “Vicodin” “Meth” or whatever. Shit, I shouldn’t have given that idea away…that could be a best-seller.