A Little More Bling

Needless to say, I have been slacking on my blog posts lately.  We have gotten so much done lately, that it has been hard to keep up with writing about everything, but I hope to post a bunch of new things in the coming week.  To start, about two weeks ago, Jack and I accomplished one very important task - we finally picked our wedding bands.  We had shopped around at a couple different stores and although it seemed like Jack could find a ring he liked at just about every place we went, I never loved any of the rings I was seeing for me. 

I should start by saying, I originally thought about just getting a plain white gold band.  However, when I tried one on at the first store we went to, it got completely lost behind the higher setting of my engagement ring.  Now don't get me wrong, I love my engagement ring, but the wedding band is the "important" one.  It is a gift we give to one another on our first day as husband and wife; it is a symbol of the commitment we will make that day.  The last thing I want is for the symbol of our marriage to be hard to see.  So then I started to look at rings with diamonds part of the way around the band in different settings.  It seemed that at all the stores we visited, they all showed me the same 2 or 3 settings.  After visiting 6 other shops, we finally ended up back at the jeweler where Jack bought my engagement ring.  What a different experience!  Instead of showing me one ring at a time, they took out a number of trays full of rings and told me to take my time and look at as many as I liked.  The woman who helped us pick out our rings and complete the order was really helpful and definitely knew what she was doing.  She was quick to say also that if there is a setting that you like but the size of the stones was not right, that they custom make each ring, so whatever we saw could be adapted to what we want.  After trying out a number of rings, I finally put one on that I got really excited about.  It did not get lost behind my engagement ring and it looked great on its own or with my ring.  It was not what I expected to pick, but I love it and Jack said that he liked the way it looked with my ring too.  I can't wait to get to wear it!

After picking mine, we moved on to look at men's rings.  Jack decided he wanted white gold too so that we would have rings made out of the same material.  After trying on a few different styles, he found a ring he really liked as well.  After taking a quick break to go outside the shop to discuss all this, we went back in and placed the order.  I can see why Jack felt comfortable at this jeweler when picking my engagement ring.  We both felt really good about our choices and felt very relieved to check this important item off our list.