whitby_2773
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my husband tim and i were engaged 26 years ago. we were both full time students with no money, so my father gave us my deceased mother''s engagement ring. it was 1/4 ct and a nice stone. we went to look at settings, and found a delicate yellow gold setting with white gold head which, when we saw it, had a .18ct stone in it.
we asked the jeweler if he could replace the stone in it with our stone, and he said ''sure.'' we left our stone with him and he ''sent away'' the ring and our stone and 2 weeks later - voila! our new ring! we later go on to buy yellow gold wedding rings - mine with 8 x .01ct stones in it.
fast forward a few years, and tim says it''s time to get me a ring of my own. he buys me a .83ct stone and plans to put our .25ct stone on one side and buy another for the other side. he goes to a different jeweler who is also a good friend of ours. they tell us - "sure! we can get you a .25ct stone..but we''re going to have to get you 2 of them, because the stone in your original ring is .18ct."
the long and the short of it is that the first jeweler kept our stone and gave us back the ring as it was and we were too naive to notice (we were 19 and 23 yrs old at the time.)
we had the 3 stone ring made with all new stones - and as many of you may have seen, i recently had (finally!) a james meyer platinum band made and the side stones upgraded to .46 and .47ct, still with my .83 in the middle. for my money, i find it very pretty and completely adequate. simply put - i love it.
however! we now have my old YG wedding ring which i havent worn in years, my husband''s YG wedding ring, which snapped a few years ago, and my empty original engagement setting (we took the ''fraud'' stone out in disgust and used it in something else when we realized it wasn''t my mother''s ring.) so a couple of months ago we sent them home to Australia to our jeweler friends to be melted down and remade into solid, much nicer rings.
and here they are! they''re 2.5mm (my husband''s) and 3.5mm (mine), flat, comfort fit, with a milgrain edge. a small purchase, but we love them. that''s my husband''s and my hands holding them safe - kind of like we''ve been doing for 25 years.

we asked the jeweler if he could replace the stone in it with our stone, and he said ''sure.'' we left our stone with him and he ''sent away'' the ring and our stone and 2 weeks later - voila! our new ring! we later go on to buy yellow gold wedding rings - mine with 8 x .01ct stones in it.
fast forward a few years, and tim says it''s time to get me a ring of my own. he buys me a .83ct stone and plans to put our .25ct stone on one side and buy another for the other side. he goes to a different jeweler who is also a good friend of ours. they tell us - "sure! we can get you a .25ct stone..but we''re going to have to get you 2 of them, because the stone in your original ring is .18ct."
the long and the short of it is that the first jeweler kept our stone and gave us back the ring as it was and we were too naive to notice (we were 19 and 23 yrs old at the time.)
we had the 3 stone ring made with all new stones - and as many of you may have seen, i recently had (finally!) a james meyer platinum band made and the side stones upgraded to .46 and .47ct, still with my .83 in the middle. for my money, i find it very pretty and completely adequate. simply put - i love it.
however! we now have my old YG wedding ring which i havent worn in years, my husband''s YG wedding ring, which snapped a few years ago, and my empty original engagement setting (we took the ''fraud'' stone out in disgust and used it in something else when we realized it wasn''t my mother''s ring.) so a couple of months ago we sent them home to Australia to our jeweler friends to be melted down and remade into solid, much nicer rings.
and here they are! they''re 2.5mm (my husband''s) and 3.5mm (mine), flat, comfort fit, with a milgrain edge. a small purchase, but we love them. that''s my husband''s and my hands holding them safe - kind of like we''ve been doing for 25 years.
