September 2009 Weddings
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PIP: Rings
PIP your rings. How involved were you in choosing them? Would you pick something different now?.... Let's be reasonable, ladies. ;-)
Re: PIP: Rings
Robin started hinting around about rings, but I wanted to be surprised, so I just kept saying "simple and classic." That's exactly what I got. I don't have a pro-pic of my rings, and I'm too lazy/unmanicured to take one myself, but this is pretty much what they look like. My solitaire is a Leo and super sparkly, which I super love.
I often look at ladies' rings who got married in the 90s or earlier, and they are so hideous and over-designed. I'm really glad mine is simple and, hopefully, timeless. IF I were picking one for myself, I'd probably have gotten something with smaller diamonds surrounding the larger stone, like these, but I'm really happy with my ring.
I had pretty much no say in what my ring looked like since I thought we weren't getting engaged for another year and a half! In times where Jay and I had talked about engagement rings I always said I didn't want 1) a solitaire, 2) a 3 stone ring or 3) colored stoned. I did want something unique looking and I though Jay did an amazing job choosing/designing something that I'd love. I picked out my wedding band. I found Jay's ring in an ad in the paper and said, "that's his ring" tore it out, showed it to him and we bought it two days later. I like that is has loose similarities to my ring (3 'lines" and inset, square diamonds) but is still pretty masculine.
Because I never really thought about what kind of engagement ring I wanted there really isn't anything that I would change. I wouldn't be opposed to a bigger center stone though
These are our wedding bands:
I really don't have a good picture of my engagement ring:
It's a solitaire princess cut on an open cathedral setting. I love my ring, but if I had to pick one today, I would've picked something a little more feminine like:
To this day, I still love my rings. It's from BlueNile.com - a radiant cut 1.0 carat diamond in a white gold setting with channel set rubies and diamonds along the band. The wedding band is a match, white gold with the same channel set rubies and diamond.
I knew what I wanted, so when I knew Chris and I were at that point to talk about it, I felt comfy sending him the website link to the setting. The diamond he picked out all himself, and he did a mighty fine job.
The one thing that makes me sad? I went looking for another band because one day I would love an anniversary ring to go on top to make it a nice set, but it looks like Blue Nile discontinued the ruby wedding rings. =(
updated 10.03.12
Your rings are so pretty! What about doing something like this on top?:
Sadly, I'm a sucked for symmetry. If anything, I think we may try to get a duplicate made. Someday...
updated 10.03.12
I love my rings. I wasn't involved at all in picking out my engagement ring, H had asked me one time what I liked and all I told him was white gold.
I picked out my wedding band and H chose his ring.
I always pictured myself with a solitaire, but I'm really happy with the 3 stone look.
I love my rings. I had absolutely no say in my engagement ring. DH refused to take me into a jewelry store to look at them and said the engagement ring was the only part of wedding planning that the guy had total say in. I did tell him I wanted white gold and not a solitaire, but that was all the guidance he got.
The wedding band we custom-made using the same semi-mount as my engagement ring. I took the diamong from my grandmother's engagement ring and had it mounted in the middle and set so it was an even band. I think it turned out really beautifully.
If I had to pick my own ring, I may have gone toward something with channel-set diamonds down the sides or something, but I'm really so impressed by how DH did picking out my ring I can't imagine wearing anything else.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
I've always loved your rings!! So pretty.
This is the best pic I have of my rings, and I absolutely love them. The story behind picking them out kind of freaks me out, because I am such a planner. Josh and I went together to look at rings and I narrowed it down to two specific rings from Shane Co. I would have been equally excited for either of those rings. They were simple and elegant. I never saw myself having anything other than a solitaire. But, when Josh went to purchase his favorite of my two (he was literally handing the sales associate his card), and he saw a beautiful calla cut ring. He said that he knew that was my ring. He bought it, and when he proposed to me I was completely stunned. I LOVE my ring. It is so beautiful and I love it so much more than the other two rings I had chosen. He did such a fabulous job, and I'm so thankful that he saw this ring.
We chose the band together, and his at the same time. I love my band because it curves around the main diamond, and has the same smaller diamonds as the engagement ring. Ahhh, love.
Mark actually proposed without a ring the first time. The day after Christmas we were hanging out downtown Cincinnati and he walked me into the jeweler and said pick out your favorite... I really thought he was joking. We spent about 2 hours looking at rings and types and he got "ideas" then went back, picked out the center stone and bought it about a month later. It was awful waiting because I didn't want to announce our engagement until I had the ring. We had one more complication and fixes so I didnt get to wear it until the beginning of April. It was terrible!
I would probably pick the same ring, maybe add the second band!
I LOVE my engagement ring. I gave no input, although he solicited feedback from one of my best friends, and went shopping with two of his aunts. He did an awesome job, I would have picked the exact same thing.
His wedding band is very simple/classic, just what he wanted (and since he lost his first one, I'm glad we didn't spend a lot of money on it). At the time, I wanted "more" from my wedding band, but in the end, I'm happy with what I got. It doesn't "match" exactly, but it kind of compliments it nicely.
This is the best picture I have of my engagement ring (my sister calls this the phallus picture---it is pretty awkward):
I love my e-ring.I wanted a ring like my mom's: 1/3 carat round diamond solitaire. I liked the idea of letting Danny pick one for me, but I really wanted a solitaire. I have already banged my hand around so much, I knew if I got something bigger than 1/3 K, or more diamonds that the likelihood of me losing a diamond would be huge. I pretty much gave him a shopping list for the type of ring I wanted.
We picked out our bands together. We both just wanted something simple:
Here's a picture or mine and my mom's rings:
And I wouldn't change it at all.
However, I wouldn't have been disappointed with the ring Danny was going to get me before I gave him my list. It was pretty similar to this (he showed me after he proposed, that if I hadn't given him guidelines this is what he would have picked:
Even before I read that, I was thinking the same thing.... lol sorry
updated 10.03.12
No need to be sorry. We laugh at it all the time. Apparently my photographers don't have minds in the gutter like my family (and apparently, my friends).