Why choose a designer over a jewelry store
90% of couples end up choosing from what already exists: the display cases, the catalogs, the pieces thousands of others have worn before. That makes sense when time is short and the decision feels overwhelming.
But some people know that's not enough. They know their wedding is a declaration of who they are. They want to wear something no one else in the world has. They understand that the difference between decorative jewelry and transformational jewelry is everything.
For those people, there is The Joy Alchemy.
Economist + Artist
20 years of financial precision combined with artistic training and a synesthetic design process.
Every piece carries the exact mathematical proportion and the soul that makes whoever wears it look unmistakably themselves.
Buenos Aires as an advantage
We don't import styles. We create from here — with our own standards, international vision, and privileged access to stones and gold that only comes from knowing this market from the inside out.
One piece at a time
We don't mass produce. Every commission is the only one of its kind in the world.
When your piece arrives, there is exactly one on the planet carrying your story.
This is for you if...
I don't design for everyone. I design for specific people in a specific moment of their lives. If you recognize yourself in what follows, you probably already know you're in the right place
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You know your wedding is not just a celebration. it's the first time you'll show up publicly as who you've been becoming in private for years. you want pieces that meet you at that level.
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you've spent hours looking at bridal jewelry on Pinterest, on instagram, in shop windows. and at some point, you realize that nothing you saw was exactly your world. that wasn't a lack of taste. it was that you hadn't found your designer yet.
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you understand the difference between decorative jewelry and meaningful jewelry. the first kind you pick in an afternoon. the second is designed with you, in conversation, over months.
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you want the jewelry from your wedding to not end up in a box after the day. you want to wear it again. to find reasons to wear it. to remember, every time you do, exactly who you were the day you got married.
This is not for you if...
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you need something ready in less than 8 weeks. my process from first conversation to delivery takes between 12 and 16 weeks. that's not slow - it's what it takes to design and create a one-of-a-kind piece. if your date is closer, we can't work together on this commission, but we likely can for something afterwards.
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price is your priority. I work with fine materials (14k/18k gold, silver, semi-precious stones selected one by one) and design time devoted exclusively to you. if price defines your decision before design does, there are better options for you than this one.
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you expect me to guess what you want without conversation. my process begins with the tea table: a 60-to-90-minute conversation about you, not about jewelry. if you don't want that level of involvement, the way I work will frustrate you.
What are you looking for on your wedding day
The Individual Experience
For those who want jewelry pieces designed exclusively for their wedding.
What's included:
Exclusive engagement ring ·
Personalized wedding bands ·
Complete look for the day: earrings, necklace, bracelet and/or hair pieces (tiara or hairpin) ·
Full The Alice Experience consultation · The Looking Glass Manuscript bridal edition
Approximate price: USD 5,000 – 15,000 depending on selected pieces
The Experience with Wedding Party
For those who want the people they love most to arrive that day reflecting who they are too.
What's included:
Everything in The Individual Experience, plus:
Coordinated sets for the wedding party (earrings, bracelets, necklaces and/or hair pieces) ·
Design that unites without uniforming · Each member receives a unique piece within a shared story ·
Optional group consultation
Approximate price: USD 8,000 – 22,000 depending on number of members and pieces
The Joy Alchemy Experience
For those who want their wedding to be a collective transformation experience. The complete package with the documentation of every story.
What's included:
Everything above, plus:
Individual The Looking Glass Manuscript for each wedding party member ·
Group design session ·
Exclusive packaging per piece · Photographic documentation of the process
Approximate price: USD 15,000 – 35,000+
How do we work together
From the first conversation to the day you receive your pieces, every step is designed so you never write a check and wait. You co-create with full visibility at every stage.
The last detail that changes everything
There's something most people don't think about when planning their bridal look: the hair. Not the hairstyle — that's the stylist's job. The piece that lives inside the hairstyle. The one that appears in every photo. The one that remains as a keepsake when the veil is long gone.
I design tiaras and hair pieces in 14K/18K gold or silver with semi-precious stones. Pieces that complete the look without competing with it.
That can be worn that day and also ten years later, at a dinner, on a special night, at a fiftieth birthday.
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Delicate gold tiaras with colored stones
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Structured tiaras with Art Nouveau or Art Deco influence
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Unique hairpins for updos and half-up styles
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Articulated pins for braids
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Hair pieces coordinated with the rest of the bridal look
Why it matters:
An Aine1 hair piece is not a generic bridal accessory.
It is a fine jewelry piece designed for your head, your hairstyle, and your specific story.
It doesn't come from a catalog.
Nobody else sells it.
Approximate price:
Hairpins and pins: USD 400–900 Delicate tiaras: USD 800–2,000 Structured tiaras: USD 1,500–4,000
Important note:
Hair pieces can be designed as part of any of the three proposals, or as an independent commission. If you already have your engagement ring or wedding bands and are simply looking to complete your look for the day, this may be your entry point into The Alice Experience.
For everyone who also deserves to wear something unique that day.
In most weddings, the groom or partner wears whatever they find first: generic cufflinks, a chain from a shopping mall jewelry store, or simply nothing. As if intention and detail were only for whoever wears the dress.
It doesn't have to be that way.
I design pieces for men and partners with the same level of precision, character and meaning as any other Ainé piece. Pieces that are worn that day and also for the rest of their lives — at an important meeting, on an anniversary, in the moment when someone asks where they came from.
What I design:
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Cufflinks in 14K/18K gold or silver with semi-precious stones or engravings
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Exclusive design chains and necklaces
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Everyday rings beyond the wedding band
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Bracelets in gold or silver
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Charms and pendants
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Lapel pins and brooches
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Any combination of the above as a coordinated set with the bride or partner's pieces
The difference it makes:
A wedding where both people wear pieces designed by the same hand, with the same stones, in the same palette — that is visual and emotional coherence. It shows in the photos. It's felt on the day. It becomes shared history.
Approximate price:
Cufflinks: USD 600–1,800
· Chains / necklaces: USD 800–2,500
· Rings: USD 700–2,000 · Bracelets: USD 500–1,500 ·
Lapel pins and brooches: USD 400–900
· Complete couple's set: USD 2,000–6,000
There is something deeply meaningful in the decision to dress your wedding party in pieces designed especially for them.
It's not protocol. It's recognition.
Every member of your wedding party carries a story with you. A role in your life that deserves something more than a generic set from a bridal store.
I design pieces that represent each of them within a shared visual palette: united in aesthetic, distinct in soul.
For the people who were there when you needed them most.
What I design for the wedding party:
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Earrings with individually selected semi-precious stones
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Bracelets in silver or 14K gold
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Delicate necklaces with meaning
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Hair pins and hairpins coordinated with the bride or partner's pieces
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Complete sets that look beautiful together and unique apart
Price ranges per piece:
Earrings: USD 400–900
· Bracelets: USD 500–1,200
· Necklaces: USD 600–1,500
· Hair pieces: USD 400–900
· Complete set per member: USD 800–2,500
The minimum order for a wedding party collection is 3 pieces. Production time for coordinated sets is 10–14 weeks.
Lautaro V, La Plata
"We were looking for some jewels for our wedding and we found Lucia and Aine1. After contacting her, she came up with some beautiful ideas for some brooches and we loved them. She understood what we wanted immediately.
They're still in development since we will marry in some months but I can't wait to wear them and I will definitely try to squeeze some other jewelry for myself in our budget.
Definitely recommended"
About the woman behind every piece
I'm Lucia Medico. For 20 years I worked in banking as an economist. I learned to read numbers with precision, to design structures that work over decades, to understand what it takes to build something that lasts. In 2018 I walked into Tamara Lisenberg's workshop for the first time - one of the leading figures of Argentine contemporary jewelry - to take a class. What began as curiosity became a craft.
I walked away from a two-decade career because I discovered my real passion: the work with metals and stones, the exact moment a sketch begins to take physical shape in my hands, design as a way of thinking. I understood something simple: I wasn't made to execute someone else's vision. I was made to create my own. But I didn't leave my training behind. I brought it with me. Every time I design a piece, there's mathematical proportion work that comes from that side of me. Every time I think about how a piece will live with someone for 30 years, there's a financial planner's mind behind it. That combination —the rigor of an economist and the sensitivity of an artist— is what makes my pieces more than beautiful. They are pieces built to outlast you.
I studied with Tamara Lisenberg for three years, took specialized courses with Davik in contemporary jewelry, trained in silversmithing and goldsmithing with Meaghan Young in Sedona, completed a degree in jewelry and accessory design at TECH Universidad Tecnológica, and trained as a bridal stylist at Atelier Imagen. That last credential matters more than it looks: I don't only design your jewelry, I also help you understand which pieces will make you look exactly like yourself on the most photographed day of your life. Most jewelers do the first part. I do both, and that's why the process with me is different.
I designed pieces for four couples before formally building The Joy Alchemy. Each one taught me something different. The first couple taught me that people getting married want to be heard, not advised. The second taught me that wedding party pieces are as important as the couple's own —they are how you say "you are also part of this." The third taught me that the time between the first conversation and the final delivery is sacred: something happens there that can't be rushed. And the fourth —a couple who commissioned lapel pins for their wedding day— taught me that every member of a couple deserves to arrive at that day wearing pieces that reflect who they are, not just what protocol expects. When the pieces arrive, my clients don't put them away. They wear them. They find reasons to wear them. That's when I knew I was doing my work right.
The Joy Alchemy is what I learned from those four processes, distilled for you and your partner. Ainé Luxurys is the brand. The home base is Buenos Aires. The reach is international —shipping to the US, Europe and Latin America with full insurance and tracking. And the person on the other side of the first conversation is me. Not a team, not an intermediary. Me, listening.
The Investment
The three offerings begin at USD 5,000 and go up to USD 35,000+, depending on the pieces you choose and the scope of your wedding party. Those are the ranges. What those numbers don't tell you is what you're actually buying.
You're not buying jewelry for one day. You're buying a piece you'll wear the rest of your life —at your tenth anniversary, at your 50th birthday dinner, at your children's birthdays, at your best friend's wedding. You're buying 12 to 16 weeks of my work devoted exclusively to you: conversations, sketches, stone selection, hours in the studio with metal and fire. You're buying a story documented in the Looking Glass Manuscript that will remain in your family long after you're gone. And you're buying something that exists only once on the planet: the single piece, with your name in the archive, with your story inside it.
If you divide any piece from The Joy Alchemy by the number of times you'll wear it in your lifetime —not just the wedding day, every single time— the real cost per use is less than a good bottle of perfume. But that calculation doesn't fully capture what matters: what you're buying isn't measured in how often you wear it. It's measured in what you feel when you do.
FAQ
The questions you're probably asking
Five direct answers to the questions I receive most often.
1 / How far in advance do I need to commission my pieces?
Ideally, 6 months before the wedding. That gives us time to move through the five stages of the process without rushing any of them —especially the creation stage, which takes between 8 and 12 weeks from the moment you confirm the final design. If your wedding is sooner, it's not an automatic no. Let's talk. Sometimes we can do an adapted version, and sometimes the right answer is "we won't make it for this, but we can design a piece for your first anniversary." What I will never do is pressure you to rush a decision about something you'll wear the rest of your life.
2 / How does it work if my wedding isn't in Argentina?
I work with couples in the US, Europe and all of Latin America. The first conversation —The Tea Table— happens over video. Nothing changes. The design process is fully remote: you receive the moodboard, the sketches, photos of the work as it progresses in my studio. We select the stones together over video, showing you each option. Delivery is by international shipping with full insurance and tracking. I have already shipped pieces to Miami, Madrid and Mexico City without a single issue. Distance is not a problem. It's only logistics, and I have it handled.
3 / What if you propose something I'm not fully sold on?
That's exactly what the process is for. In the Mirror stage —when you receive the first moodboard— you tell me everything: what you love, what you're unsure about, what you want to explore further. Then comes the sketching stage, where we refine the design until it is exactly what you feel is yours. We don't move to physical creation until you say yes. No surprises. No finished pieces that don't represent you. If at any point the design isn't quite right, we keep working it until it is. That's included in what you pay.
4 / What if I already have the engagement ring?
That's the most common situation. Almost every couple that contacts me already has the engagement ring. In those cases, we design the wedding bands in relation to that existing ring —the gold palette, the height, how it will live next to the piece you already wear. And we complete the rest of the look for the day (earrings, necklace, bracelet, hair pieces) or the wedding party pieces, depending on what you're looking for. If your engagement ring was an emotional gift or carries a story you want to honor, that comes into the first conversation and guides everything else.
5 / Do you accept staged payments?
Yes. The Tea Table is free and without commitment —it's the space where we get to know each other, where I listen to your story, and where we see together if we're a good match to work. I don't charge you for meeting you. From there, I work with a three-stage payment structure aligned with the process. The first payment secures your place in my calendar and begins the design work. The second happens when you approve the final sketches and we begin physical creation. The third happens before shipping, once you've seen the finished pieces in photos and video. That means you never pay for something that doesn't yet exist, and you never wait months wondering what's happening with money you've already sent. We work out the specifics during The Tea Table, adapted to your particular situation.
Before you close this page
If you've read this far, you already know this is for you. The question isn't whether you want pieces designed exactly for your day. The question is whether you have permission to want something like this.
You do. Your wedding will happen with or without me —but it only happens once. And it isn't about having "the most expensive" or "the most impressive." It's about having exactly what you are. What you've already known you are, for a long time.
The next step isn't a purchase. It's a conversation. You fill out the form, I respond within 48 hours to schedule The Tea Table, and in that first conversation —60 to 90 minutes, no commitment— you decide if you want to continue. Most couples who sit at that table do. But if you decide not to, that's fine too. The conversation is yours either way.
And when the pieces arrive, you'll notice something. You won't put them away. You'll wear them. You'll look for reasons to wear them —at a dinner, on a trip, in a moment that wasn't special until you decided it was. That's what you'll remember ten years from now. Not the wedding party itself. The times you got dressed as yourself again.
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