jking259
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- Mar 29, 2012
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Help Replacing Lost Wedding Ring
I am hoping for help finding an affordable replacement for my lost and uninsured wedding ring. On March 7th, I cleaned my wedding/engagement ring along with my mother’s wedding band and was drying them in a napkin. That’s the last thing I remember. Something must have interrupted me, but I don’t know what. I’ve been in a state of grief and shock for months.
I’ll give my sad but true story in hopes that someone will help me. A few months ago, my father died of a long term illness, COPD. An hour after his funeral, my mother asked me to take her back to the cemetery. We got in her car and before I backed out of my driveway, she had a heart attack. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital, but she died. The nurses gave my husband the jewelry that she was wearing and I put her wedding band on my right hand. I have worn it since then, until March 7th.
The irony of losing both my parents at the same time and then both mine and my mother’s wedding rings, at the same time, is hard to bear. We have put more than 40 hours into searching the house. I have even paid people to search. I did have two people in the house working that day. Someone may have picked them up, but I doubt it. I fear I laid them down and they were thrown away with the napkin. The trash went out that day. I have done everything I can think of, including seeing a hypnotherapist in hopes they could help retrace my steps. Nothing has worked. There is no way to replace my mother’s wedding ring, even an exact copy wouldn’t mean much. I do need to attempt to replace my ring. However, since it was uninsured, I am going to have to look long and hard to be able to do so.
I got married in 1993. I can see that marquise diamonds aren’t that popular now, but I loved it. I had a 1.23 carat center stone that was G, I1. I know the I1 would usually be considered poor quality, but this one had one small visible inclusion right at the tip, by the prong, so it wasn’t noticeable. Because of the cut and surface area, it looked more like 1.5 carat. I insured it for 16 years, but three years ago, my husband upgraded the setting and I never got it reappraised and reinsured. I know this was a terrible mistake.
All that to say, I’m spending hours on the web looking at diamonds. I would like to find a 1.5 or better marquise with a setting similar to the one I just lost. It would be nice to go a little bigger because spending this amount of money and ending up right back where I started seems sad. My ring was 14k yellow gold with 3 round diamonds and 3 baguettes on each side of the center stone. It doesn’t have to be exact, but close would be nice.
I have seen several on Ebay from Universal Diamond Exchange that are similar to what I’m looking for, but I’m unsure of purchasing from them. I have princess cut earrings that were my mom’s ½ carat each. My husband suggested using them on either side in the setting so that I feel it’s part of my mom. But, that may be more costly than just buying the setting with diamonds already in it and leaving these as earrings.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this company or would you willing to help me look elsewhere on the web?
Thank you in advance,
Jana
I am hoping for help finding an affordable replacement for my lost and uninsured wedding ring. On March 7th, I cleaned my wedding/engagement ring along with my mother’s wedding band and was drying them in a napkin. That’s the last thing I remember. Something must have interrupted me, but I don’t know what. I’ve been in a state of grief and shock for months.
I’ll give my sad but true story in hopes that someone will help me. A few months ago, my father died of a long term illness, COPD. An hour after his funeral, my mother asked me to take her back to the cemetery. We got in her car and before I backed out of my driveway, she had a heart attack. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital, but she died. The nurses gave my husband the jewelry that she was wearing and I put her wedding band on my right hand. I have worn it since then, until March 7th.
The irony of losing both my parents at the same time and then both mine and my mother’s wedding rings, at the same time, is hard to bear. We have put more than 40 hours into searching the house. I have even paid people to search. I did have two people in the house working that day. Someone may have picked them up, but I doubt it. I fear I laid them down and they were thrown away with the napkin. The trash went out that day. I have done everything I can think of, including seeing a hypnotherapist in hopes they could help retrace my steps. Nothing has worked. There is no way to replace my mother’s wedding ring, even an exact copy wouldn’t mean much. I do need to attempt to replace my ring. However, since it was uninsured, I am going to have to look long and hard to be able to do so.
I got married in 1993. I can see that marquise diamonds aren’t that popular now, but I loved it. I had a 1.23 carat center stone that was G, I1. I know the I1 would usually be considered poor quality, but this one had one small visible inclusion right at the tip, by the prong, so it wasn’t noticeable. Because of the cut and surface area, it looked more like 1.5 carat. I insured it for 16 years, but three years ago, my husband upgraded the setting and I never got it reappraised and reinsured. I know this was a terrible mistake.
All that to say, I’m spending hours on the web looking at diamonds. I would like to find a 1.5 or better marquise with a setting similar to the one I just lost. It would be nice to go a little bigger because spending this amount of money and ending up right back where I started seems sad. My ring was 14k yellow gold with 3 round diamonds and 3 baguettes on each side of the center stone. It doesn’t have to be exact, but close would be nice.
I have seen several on Ebay from Universal Diamond Exchange that are similar to what I’m looking for, but I’m unsure of purchasing from them. I have princess cut earrings that were my mom’s ½ carat each. My husband suggested using them on either side in the setting so that I feel it’s part of my mom. But, that may be more costly than just buying the setting with diamonds already in it and leaving these as earrings.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this company or would you willing to help me look elsewhere on the web?
Thank you in advance,
Jana
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