greenpang
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2013
- Messages
- 24
So we're not traditional.
I don't want to a proposal; I like things to be mutual. But goddamn, do I love diamonds.
I wanted to be involved every step of the way. I read and learned everything I could, and I wanted to see the stones in person. Together, we investigated and researched, and he patiently viewed hundreds of diamonds with me under our idealscope in more places than I can count. He was amazingly patient...it's no wonder I've wanted to marry him! He helped me record and compare the specs from every Sarin report. Even though I was most concerned with cut and didn't care about color/clarity beyond F/VS, he encouraged checking out a 30K D/VVS1, just in case it happened to have the most perfect proportions.
We finally found our stone in a small shop in Chicago, 798 miles from where we live. We had been talking to the jeweler, she had it shipped in for us to see, and it was perfect. GIA 1.52 F VS2 XXX. Ideal H&A, the most beautiful optical symmetry I have seen. Now she's designing the setting.
And he's getting an engagement ring too! Seymchan meteorite set in platinum, also custom made.
Both of our rings are currently being designed, and we have been promised to receive them by 7/29.
We leave for our engagement trip on 7/31, and we are planning to "do engagement" (and exchange our engagement rings) on 8/1. It's hard enough to wait the next 6 weeks, but the days between 7/29 and 8/1 are going to be brutal! We haven't decided whether we will let each other see our rings in advance and how we're going to handle this...
For now, I'm a lady in waiting.
I don't want to a proposal; I like things to be mutual. But goddamn, do I love diamonds.
I wanted to be involved every step of the way. I read and learned everything I could, and I wanted to see the stones in person. Together, we investigated and researched, and he patiently viewed hundreds of diamonds with me under our idealscope in more places than I can count. He was amazingly patient...it's no wonder I've wanted to marry him! He helped me record and compare the specs from every Sarin report. Even though I was most concerned with cut and didn't care about color/clarity beyond F/VS, he encouraged checking out a 30K D/VVS1, just in case it happened to have the most perfect proportions.
We finally found our stone in a small shop in Chicago, 798 miles from where we live. We had been talking to the jeweler, she had it shipped in for us to see, and it was perfect. GIA 1.52 F VS2 XXX. Ideal H&A, the most beautiful optical symmetry I have seen. Now she's designing the setting.
And he's getting an engagement ring too! Seymchan meteorite set in platinum, also custom made.
Both of our rings are currently being designed, and we have been promised to receive them by 7/29.
We leave for our engagement trip on 7/31, and we are planning to "do engagement" (and exchange our engagement rings) on 8/1. It's hard enough to wait the next 6 weeks, but the days between 7/29 and 8/1 are going to be brutal! We haven't decided whether we will let each other see our rings in advance and how we're going to handle this...
For now, I'm a lady in waiting.
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