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Our wedding rings have arrived! We''re eloping next week, and it''s taking all my willpower to keep from wearing mine in the meantime ....
Those of you who very kindly replied to my previous posts might remember that selecting the rings was a bit of an ... ardurous ... process for us, just because we''re both incredibly strong-minded people with defined (and more or less diametrically opposed) tastes: I''m a fan of vintage styles and shiny things, and he''s very modern and hard-edged in his tastes. When we tried to find matching rings that we could agree on, we went back and forth between mobius bands and two-tone bands and just about everything else under the sun. So, finally, we decided that we''d each get what suited our individual tastes best ... however, once The Great Doors of taste were unbarred by my diamond-hawking self, it turned out that the ring that he liked best in all the world was the engagement band that I''d made for him. Awwww. Just maybe a little thicker and in a different metal and with a few additional modifications?
Well, 9 models later, I pointed out that he could, y''know, have the emotional import of wearing something crafted by my own two hands (i.e., not made by a professional jeweler), or he could have something that I designed made by the two hands of someone who did this for a living. And since we were going to have to cast it anyway (my little approved-by-the-housing-codes blowtorch is too weak to handle anything other than silver), and since the model that he''d liked best was the two-tone silver-and-copper one that couldn''t be cast in white-and-red gold anyway, but could certainly be fabricated that way by someone with the necessary equipment/mad skillz ....
Yep. One point of commonality is that both of the rings are designed by the same mind (mine), and made by the same hand (the family jeweler''s). Of course, that''s pretty much all that they have in common: mine''s a three mm platinum band engraved with 8 pointed stars and set with 7 tiny twinkling stones, and his is a 5 mm thick band of white gold inlaid with a 3 mm thick braid of rich red gold.
Well, I guess they have one other thing in common: the engraving of our names. And that''s the part that counts, right?
Those of you who very kindly replied to my previous posts might remember that selecting the rings was a bit of an ... ardurous ... process for us, just because we''re both incredibly strong-minded people with defined (and more or less diametrically opposed) tastes: I''m a fan of vintage styles and shiny things, and he''s very modern and hard-edged in his tastes. When we tried to find matching rings that we could agree on, we went back and forth between mobius bands and two-tone bands and just about everything else under the sun. So, finally, we decided that we''d each get what suited our individual tastes best ... however, once The Great Doors of taste were unbarred by my diamond-hawking self, it turned out that the ring that he liked best in all the world was the engagement band that I''d made for him. Awwww. Just maybe a little thicker and in a different metal and with a few additional modifications?
Well, 9 models later, I pointed out that he could, y''know, have the emotional import of wearing something crafted by my own two hands (i.e., not made by a professional jeweler), or he could have something that I designed made by the two hands of someone who did this for a living. And since we were going to have to cast it anyway (my little approved-by-the-housing-codes blowtorch is too weak to handle anything other than silver), and since the model that he''d liked best was the two-tone silver-and-copper one that couldn''t be cast in white-and-red gold anyway, but could certainly be fabricated that way by someone with the necessary equipment/mad skillz ....
Yep. One point of commonality is that both of the rings are designed by the same mind (mine), and made by the same hand (the family jeweler''s). Of course, that''s pretty much all that they have in common: mine''s a three mm platinum band engraved with 8 pointed stars and set with 7 tiny twinkling stones, and his is a 5 mm thick band of white gold inlaid with a 3 mm thick braid of rich red gold.
Well, I guess they have one other thing in common: the engraving of our names. And that''s the part that counts, right?
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