I don''t know how many of you have created a custom ring, but it has been the hardest thing I have ever done. I have read about some of your experiences (Cehra for sure....) and know you share my frustration. I am sure hoping there''s a happy ending, and was hoping some of you could share your stories.
I started to design a custom ring months ago, and scrapped the project as the jeweler was a pain. We then started over with a wonderful jeweler, drew out a design, I had several pics, and when I went to look at the wax last week I almost cried. It was SO not what I wanted. Wrong shape, very flat on my hand. The owner of the stores has gotten involved, and I feel he knows what I want, and I think I will get there, but is is so stressful-trying to design the perfect thing and hoping that I can love it forever. I refuse to accept something I don''t love. This is also an upgrade for our 20th anniversary, and I have wanted a new ring for years-so now''s my chance. Trying to find something different is quite the challenge. On top of all of that, we have blown way past the budget we thought would work! The pressure is on.
Knowing what I know now, I don''t think I would reccomend "custom" to many people. It''s not that I didn''t try to find something that I liked, there just wasn''t anything I thought was worthy of the large price tag, and there was nothing that was perfect. I help people design houses for a living-how can I do that, but fail to design a great ring? Ugh!
Has anyone else found this to be the case?
I started to design a custom ring months ago, and scrapped the project as the jeweler was a pain. We then started over with a wonderful jeweler, drew out a design, I had several pics, and when I went to look at the wax last week I almost cried. It was SO not what I wanted. Wrong shape, very flat on my hand. The owner of the stores has gotten involved, and I feel he knows what I want, and I think I will get there, but is is so stressful-trying to design the perfect thing and hoping that I can love it forever. I refuse to accept something I don''t love. This is also an upgrade for our 20th anniversary, and I have wanted a new ring for years-so now''s my chance. Trying to find something different is quite the challenge. On top of all of that, we have blown way past the budget we thought would work! The pressure is on.

Knowing what I know now, I don''t think I would reccomend "custom" to many people. It''s not that I didn''t try to find something that I liked, there just wasn''t anything I thought was worthy of the large price tag, and there was nothing that was perfect. I help people design houses for a living-how can I do that, but fail to design a great ring? Ugh!
Has anyone else found this to be the case?