The thing about wedding rings….
My hubby proposed twice…I accepted both times. LOL
My original proposal was after we had dated almost 5 years. He planned a romantic weekend at a very expensive lovely hotel with a trip to the Ashville Zoo (we lived in NC) and lots of fun stuff—but I had to go and throw my back out while waiting tables (this was many, many moons ago) and I was not the best company. He so very sweetly carried the ring in his pocket the whole weekend hoping for a romantic moment but it never happened. When we got back home, he came in and handed it to me and although I was less than thrilled with the delivery (might have been the back pain LOL), I wanted to keep him if not the proposal or the ring so I said yes. I really disliked the ring, but it was sentimental because it was handed down from his family. I appreciated the romantic sentiment behind the giving of such a ring, but still I couldn’t like it…I tried too, but I didn’t. LOL Poor guy..he tried so hard.
The second proposal went much better even if it was the same ring…LOL I wasn’t grumpy and it was quite nice on top of our favorite mountain (this was back when we hiked) and he delivered the perfect speech…it helped I had already said yes once. LOL So we happily married, but I never really liked the ring. We added some stuff to it, but I still didn’t like the actual ring.
We have been together almost 17 years, and I didn’t care all that much about the ring as it is pretty much the only jewelry I wore (jewelry just isn’t my thing), but this year has been kinda of rough for us with the miscarriage and I needed a renewal of sorts. So I visited a lovely local jeweler who creates jewelry and had my diamond reset. A month later it is done, I love my new “old” ring and it is perfect for me. I wish I had gone ahead years ago and had something I enjoyed, but it was a bittersweet thing. A changing of the old into something new. I don’t know if I am the only one who has done this, but I wanted to preserve the diamond for my daughter later on too…It isn’t large or even valuable, but it is an important token. I remember seeing my mom’s ring and loving it so much when I was a child that I wanted one just like it. Funny thing was, that was exactly the ring my hubby originally gave me and I hated it. LOL I never claimed to be logical.
How do you feel about your wedding ring? Do you love it? Does it have sentimental meaning? Feel free share. I would love to know….
My proposal was a total surprise to me, so that also meant I didn’t get to pick out my ring, lol. I like the ring Brent got me…but I don’t love it. I’m more of a classic girl and would of loved just a nice solitaire ring. The ring Brent got me is more flashy then I would like.
This summer Brent went tubing out on a lake and lost his wedding ring. He decided he too wanted a different ring from what he originally picked out. Since that, he said he would buy me the ring I really wanted. It’ll probably still be a few more years, but I don’t mind waiting.
I plan to save my ring, even if I switch it or get another/different/upgrade. I don’t have kiddos yet, but maybe my daughter or son would like it.
We got engaged at 18, and spent everything we had, $800, on all three rings! We didn’t really like them, but it was all we could get so we went with them. On my parents’ 25th anniversary, my father bought my mom a 1/2 carat engagement ring (she only had a gold wedding band). Granted it was flawed and not high quality, but bless his heart he bought what he could. Well, my mom saved her money and eventually replaced it with a suitable stone, and gave that one back to my father. He gave it to me. So I had my rings reset to include my original ones, the stone from my dad, and my grandma’s wedding ring. All small and flawed, but all sentimental.
Well, they are yellow gold which I don’t care for at all. In fact, I hate yellow gold. Everything else I wear is silver. So for our 25th anniversary, I wanted to have it all reset in white gold or platinum. They just weren’t me, kwim? We looked into it, and the cost was extreme, far outweighing the actual worth of the stones. So for our 24th anniversary, Rick surprised me with new platinum rings, with new stones (he says everybody does something special for the 25th, so he wanted to surprise me early!). He also said they were the rings he wanted to buy me at 18 but couldn’t. I still have my old rings and would love to have them turned into a pendant or something someday. But I am delighted with my new ones! And I like that he thought about what I like and picked them for me. Much more meaningful than our first time around!
Christy, post a pic so we can see!
We did the same thing…it was every penny we could spare…that is also why we eloped. LOL I just couldn’t justify that amount of money. It turned out well and I haven’t ever forgotten Cupid’s Chapel of Love.
And why would you ever want to forget the Cupid Chapel of Love? Sounds PERFECT!!! In some ways, I wish we had done that. Would have avoided the nightmare of my mother planning the wedding she never had (she and my dad were married by a drunken judge in Vegas, LOL) and Rick’s mom getting drunk and telling EVERYONE at our reception that we were too young to be married! Other than that, it was a lovely affair.
When my husband and I first fell in love we were young and poor. He took all of his money he had been saving for a car and bought me a small ring and proposed over a nice dinner at a restaurant. It was small and you could barely see the diamond but it meant alot to me that he had bought it for me. Years later when fighting with my teenage daughter, she flushed my ring!!!!! I have been married 26 years now and have raised two kids, 25 and 23, son and daughter. DH called me to invite me to grab a burger for lunch and on the way he pulled into Shane & Co and asked me if I’d like to look at rings. I guess he’d overheard me talking with a friend about rings or wanting one. I’m not a jewelry person and have never worn much. Anyhow, my husband and I walked in and he told me to get whatever I wanted!!! Wow, times had changed! I looked around and found a beautiful platinum solitaire with diamonds in the band on the sides of it and fell in love. The ring is a work of art. I cringed at the cost ($5K) but did it anyway. It’s incredibly beautiful and I think it means more to me now after all these years than if I’d gotten it in the beginning. It has 47 diamonds in it, from every angle. It’s simple yet fabulous. I still have to get used to it. I’ve had it about six months. I also am scared to death of losing it even though it’s insured. My daughter has grown up and feels horrible but it’s water under the bridge…..she’s my sparkling jewel now….smart, beautiful, giving, loving, kind, generous and just an angel. I’m so blessed!
Ahhh, Debbie…that is a sweet story!!!
I bet your daughter does feel bad, but her turn will come with her kids…MWWWWHHHAAA! 