engagement/wedding rings?
Q.Ok, for you engaged girls, married girls, or girls who just dream of the perfect ring...what kind of engagement ring do you have (dream of)? What kind of wedding band/ring? Do you have two, or just a band, or just one big ring? What kind of stones and metal? Do you wear them on the left or right hand? Was it a surprise, or did you pick it out together?
A.I found this discussion to be so interesting on the Ultimate Internet Wedding Guide when I was planning my wedding. It is like the choice of jewelry reflected the individual personalities of each person, and was a manifestation of their hopes, dreams, love. My husband has a 11mm wide titanium band. It's a replica of the ring in Abyss that saved the dude's life...he gets tons of compliments on it, and it's so *him*. He's a technogeek who works with computers, so of course he loves the aircraft grade titanium. My engagement ring, we designed together. It started out this way. I went to a gem and mineral show and picked out a gorgeous champagne diamond, about a C6 on the color scale, one full carat. No cloudiness, and truly the color of champagne. Then, Jeremy had it set in a platinum setting (he said no gold, not even white gold, so I said "you're the boss!"). The setting is heavy, has six bright white 5pt diamonds in triangle formation on either side of the larger round stone, which is raised up very high and protected by six prongs. The white diamonds really set off the color of the champagne diamond. But eventually, after we got married, I discovered a fissure that worried me about the diamond, and since I was afraid of cracking it, I had it taken out and put into a white gold bezel set pendant, and now I wear it as a choker. I got a 1 ct. moissanite for the center of my engagement ring, for a mere $500. It looks like an H colored diamond and is internally flawless; it is fun to have it tested in stores and then tell them what it is. I love it so much! There is a good possibility that Jeremy will get me that perfect colorless diamond to go in that ring one day (which will cost over $5K), but right now...the most important ring I have is the plain 3mm wedding band that goes *next* to the sparkly ring. That is the most important ring I wear, the one that was blessed by the minister in our ceremony. *sniffle* I dream of finding the one I lost over 4 years ago. I have no idea what happened to it, but I've assumed that I just had it resized too soon after having my baby and it just slipped off my finger one day. It was an original design of tri-color gold, using my mother's engagement diamond, and my husband has a matching band. He bought me a gorgeous, jaw-dropping replacement as a surprise a few months afterward when we were pretty sure my original was gone for good, but as stunning as is the new one, I'd trade it in a second for my real one.
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