Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I made a trip down the road this weekend and got our wedding bands! I thought we would need to order them but lucky for us, Mr. CS and I are a perfect showroom size and walked out with our rings.
Did someone say, photo shoot!?!?!
Ooooh matching boxes!
What could be inside? Only the best present ever!
Oooooh ahhhhh!
And now please indulge me while I pretend to be 'artsy'.
I love, love, love, love them! We got them both at Jared's the Galleria of Jewelry for the best price we found and a lifetime guarantee on my diamonds. My ring is 14k white gold with round cut channel set diamonds 3/4 of the way around. Mr. CS's ring is tungsten. We had them engraved and I am excited that even though we don't have matching rings we have matching engravings.
I don't know if I will be able to stop myself from sneaking up to Mr. Cucumber Sammie's sock drawer and putting it on while he is not home. I am beyond excited to get to wear it permanently in just a couple of weeks!
Have you gotten your ring yet? Any ideas on how to prevent myself from wearing it around the house?
Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I set off on our ring-palooza (which makes it sound way funner than it actually was). First up: Mervis Diamond Importers. Mervis has about three stores in the DMV (District, Maryland, and Virginia) area making them a small family run chain. Any one from the area can probably recite their radio commercials because they are on.... All. The. Time!
Any whoodle, about a month ago Mervis was running a 'ring' event where they promised a plethora of wedding band designers, discounts, cake and vodka (I still can't figure out why the vodka but I am not one to argue). Cake!?!? Off we went. The event was the very first time Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I tried on rings and we were positively giddy. There were tons of people there so we got brought up to Zeb Mervis's office for our consultation! Now I know what being in the inner sanctum of a celebrity feels like.
The Man, The Legend's desk chair
While it was a really classy event, unfortunately it came with some really 'classy' prices. There may have been some tears in the car ride home because I thought I had significantly under budgeted the wedding rings. And now the whole wedding was ruined! Very calm and mature of me. Even with the 20% discount, we couldn't really afford anything. The rings were absolutely stunning though.
Onward and upward! I am completely susceptible to tv ads so the next stop was Jared the Galleria.
When we first walked in, we were immediately greeted and brought over the display cases. After seeing my engagement ring, the ooh-so-helpful sales person asked if he could clean it for me. Yes, please! It took only about 15 minutes for Mr. Cucumber Sammie to find the ring that he wanted.
Tungsten band with a brushed metal finish for the majority of the ring and just a little bit of detailing on the outer ring. It was a very handsome looking ring. And just like that he was done. Didn't feel the need to go to any more stores or look at any other rings. How do guys do that?!
I took a little bit longer than 15 minutes but not by much. I guess channel set diamonds have become quite the trend because Mr. Helpful Salesman let me right to the good stuff. Unfortunately it was not vodka like the other jeweler.
Oh how I heart you. Looks great without my engagement ring, all by its lonesome and looks extra fabulous with the e-ring. Of course, I can't make a spontaneous decision like Mr. Cucumber Sammie so no rings were purchased that day.
After one terrible trip to another jeweler that must not be named (seriously, they tried to convince us that if my CukeSammie ever got in an accident, his ring would not be able to be cut off and could cause severe finger damage), Mr. Cucumber Sammie finally talked some reason into me. Not everything in wedding planning has to be a big production. If we find the rings we like and they are in budget (and they are, cue happy tears!) we should just get them. It doesn't require hours and hours of research.
So back to Jareds we go! I can't wait to show you personal photos of the rings.... especially with my engagement ring.
Does your fiance ever need to talk sense into you? Don't you love rings with diamonds!?
Mr. Cucumber Sammie and I have started the search for our wedding bands a long time ago. We could have been our normal selves and put this off for another couple of months but there were some jewelry 'events' we wanted to attend. You know the 'events' where they lure you in with 20% off and cake! We are suckers for cake and discounts. Wedding bands were something we didn't budget a whole lot for so we wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities to save.
There were quite a few events coming up that we wanted to attend but first to the research mobile to see if we were really getting a good deal! I knew exactly what kind of ring I wanted so my search should be easy.
The problem with the research mobile is that sometimes the GPS gets a little wonky and you end up off course. Also known as I totally got distracted looking at shiny things. Originally I thought it was silly given our budget to try and get an eternity band. But....
And then I realized that it probably can't be engraved which was something important to me. After my love affair with all those diamonds I felt guilty and went the opposite direction with a plain silver band.
But while the simple band is a classic it seemed a little too plain. This is the point when things really went down hill. So many rings, so little time. Maybe I want a rose gold ring.
I love the two tone look of this ring and it is simple enough to be classic but definitely not boring. I don't know how the brushed metal would go with my shiny engagement ring. I am sure it is a stunner though. Another ring I thought about has certainly been making the rounds of the inter-web lately. The finger print ring!
The designer takes an imprint of your fiance's finger print and uses it to create the design on the inside of the ring. I heart the sentiment but am not crazy about the outside. Unless I took my ring off all the time and showed people (which I am totally not above doing) nobody would know how special of a ring.
Decisions, decisions. You will just have to stay tuned. Did you get overwhelmed by ring choices?
P.S. Mr. Cucumber Sammie had no idea what he wanted. All he said was he wanted plain and would get a 'feeling' about a ring when he put it on. Obviously that leave me with nothing to show you. So selfish!
The ring! Mr. Cucumber Sammie did such a great job picking out my ring that I have a hard time believing he did it all by himself. I always told him that I wanted a simple, round diamond solitaire. I thought it would be easy but I guess I was wrong. He went back to the jewelers 3 times just trying to decide what diamond to pick. I have to say those three times were worth it. It is perfect! Enough babbling... lets get to the ring.
Better view of the setting
Please forgive my embarrassing attempts at being artsy.
Any tips on taking ring shots? Don't you just love diamond solitaires?!
