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My first engagement ring was a 1/4 ct solitaire in a swoopy white gold head on a yellow band. The diamond was given to us by my father, as it was my deceased mother's diamond and we were both full time college students and my then-fiance was only 19 at the time.
We put it in a setting, and it was the thinnest, lightest setting imaginable and it was great for someone of that age at that time (1982)...but was not the ring to carry one through life. My wedding ring was a tiny band of 8 1 pt stones set in white gold on a yellow gold band. As it turned out, the white gold had nickel in it and I was allergic to it, so didn't wear it much or for long. My husband wore his ring consistently till it snapped while helping some friends move house. We took that opportunity to melt down the yellow gold in my wedding band, my engagement ring, and his wedding ring (6mm wide and fairly heavy), and make 2 new rings for our 25th wedding anniversary. DH'S ring is 2.5mm wide and mine is 2mm, and both are nice and thick, half round comfort fit with milgrain. Our original rings were only 9 kt gold, so we added enough pure gold to the remakes to bump them up to 14 kt. This gave us enough gold left over to make me 2 small pendants - a solid disk with our initials and wedding date engraved on it and the 8 diamonds from my wedding band set around it, and a smaller disc with the first diamond my husband ever bought me with his own money bezel set in the middle. I wear the 2 pendants together on the one chain, and call it my wedding pendant. That pendant and my remade wedding ring are the two pieces my husband would never resell if anything ever happened to me, and they're on my '5 things you'd save in the event of a fire' list.
The diamond from my original e-ring later went on to be one diamond in a pair of earrings I had made for my niece, who never met her grand mother, and whom I wanted to have something from my mother, who would have loved her very much.
We put it in a setting, and it was the thinnest, lightest setting imaginable and it was great for someone of that age at that time (1982)...but was not the ring to carry one through life. My wedding ring was a tiny band of 8 1 pt stones set in white gold on a yellow gold band. As it turned out, the white gold had nickel in it and I was allergic to it, so didn't wear it much or for long. My husband wore his ring consistently till it snapped while helping some friends move house. We took that opportunity to melt down the yellow gold in my wedding band, my engagement ring, and his wedding ring (6mm wide and fairly heavy), and make 2 new rings for our 25th wedding anniversary. DH'S ring is 2.5mm wide and mine is 2mm, and both are nice and thick, half round comfort fit with milgrain. Our original rings were only 9 kt gold, so we added enough pure gold to the remakes to bump them up to 14 kt. This gave us enough gold left over to make me 2 small pendants - a solid disk with our initials and wedding date engraved on it and the 8 diamonds from my wedding band set around it, and a smaller disc with the first diamond my husband ever bought me with his own money bezel set in the middle. I wear the 2 pendants together on the one chain, and call it my wedding pendant. That pendant and my remade wedding ring are the two pieces my husband would never resell if anything ever happened to me, and they're on my '5 things you'd save in the event of a fire' list.
The diamond from my original e-ring later went on to be one diamond in a pair of earrings I had made for my niece, who never met her grand mother, and whom I wanted to have something from my mother, who would have loved her very much.
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It has certainly brought me much joy over the years, and husband is also quite proud (in fact he endearingly calls all my other rings "traitor rings").
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