Ring less no more!

As I mentioned in my very first post; there was no proposal. There was a decision made by D and me.  Would I have wanted a proposal? Yes, of course..what girl doesn’t? I can’t lie; I have to admit that I was still secretly hoping for a proposal sometime before the wedding. Why not? I didn’t want to miss out on that experience! But I know D too well, it won’t happen. Oh well.

Now, I still get a ring right? And I get to chose it! Fine, I’ll get over the “no proposal” issue if I get to choose my very own ring. Back in February, we went to Downtown L.A’s Jewelry District just to “look around”. We walked around and after about 6 stores, I was getting annoyed. I couldn’t find something I liked, something I’d want to wear for the rest of my life. And if I did like something, it was out of our budget. We were walking around the corner to walk on the other side of the street heading back to the car. St. Vincent’s Jewelry Center is on the corner of 7^th and Broadway; we walked inside and didn’t make it very far. At the very entrance, we found a super sweet lady who was eager to sell us “the” ring. We were looking at her collection but I couldn’t describe what I was looking for, maybe because I had no idea what was it that I wanted!  She showed us ring after ring and nothing caught my eye. D picked his wedding band 5 minutes after we sat on the stools to check out the pieces.  Men.  The lady then said that her husband had just designed a piece 2 weeks ago. I think, sometime recently. She took it out and I immediately liked it, after I put it on my left finger I told D this was it. I wanted this ring and we could go home now.  The sweet lady (being a sales person of course) told me that “it was meant for me” since it fit me perfectly and it was a unique design made by her husband. I believed her of course (don’t judge me).

So we bought my ring and agreed to come back later to order my custom-made wedding band. Since the engagement ring has an odd design, the wedding band has to be custom-made as well.

I went back last week and dropped off my ring so they can take the mold for the wedding band. It was ready last Monday but we couldn’t pick it up until today.

Wondering why there is only ONE pea? well this little monster took "care" of the other one :[

Our ring sets are complete. We can get married now!  Over all, I think it was a pretty easy process for us, we didn’t spend months and months looking, it took couple of visits and we were done.