star sparkle
Brilliant_Rock
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2008
- Messages
- 1,706
So BF and I had The Talk a few months ago and decided that we'd like to be engaged sometime within the next year. Of course I was very excited about this, and thrilled to be embarking on my e-ring project. BF knows of my jewelry and diamond obsession, so was perfectly happy to let me take the reins and pick everything out myself.
For the last couple of months, the lovely B.E.G. has been helping me out and being my sounding board for ring/setting/stone ideas and has very graciously gone to try on sparklies with me, give me her opinions of how things look on me, and indulge my flip-flopping on what I thought I wanted. We finally had a clear picture of what I wanted, which was to purchase a round stone stone (either modern RB or OEC) and have a custom setting created that would meet my very picky standards.
I had been leaning towards finding an OEC center but having not seen very many IRL, B.E.G. and I decided to visit Lang Antiques in San Francisco last weekend for some sparkly fun and to see if I liked OEC's as much as I thought I did, since the store is completely filled with gorgeous antique cuts. Away we went! After trying on a ton of gorgeous rings, I put this one on and immediately fell in love with it. I was so surprised because I had zero intentions of finding a ring that day, and I had even less expectation of finding a completed ring anywhere that made my heart sing. I looked at the price tag and would you believe it, it was less than HALF of what BF and I had discussed for the budget! The stone is quite a bit smaller than what I had been wanting and had my heart set on getting, and I questioned the size and whether or not it looked "big enough" on me, but ultimately I realized that this entire ring is so perfect that the stone size doesn't matter. (The setting won't really allow for a larger stone and Lang's only sells the complete ring, so swapping out stones wasn't an option.)
I told BF about it a couple of days later, and he was amenable to accompanying me to Lang's this weekend to have a look at it and possibly deciding to get it. So we did, and he did!! I don't expect an engagement in the immediate future, it'll probably be sometime in the next 6-8 months, but I knew I couldn't wait that long to get on here and post some pictures of it. Not sharing would make me a very bad PSer indeed!
B.E.G. took all of these pictures last weekend, and I've been looking at them all week. Each time I do, my heart skips a beat - even moreso now that I know it's going to be MY ring. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get any other pictures of it until BF proposes, which as I said will probably be in 6 months at the earliest. But I guess until then, I have these pictures to keep me going!
Thanks for looking!!
For the last couple of months, the lovely B.E.G. has been helping me out and being my sounding board for ring/setting/stone ideas and has very graciously gone to try on sparklies with me, give me her opinions of how things look on me, and indulge my flip-flopping on what I thought I wanted. We finally had a clear picture of what I wanted, which was to purchase a round stone stone (either modern RB or OEC) and have a custom setting created that would meet my very picky standards.
I had been leaning towards finding an OEC center but having not seen very many IRL, B.E.G. and I decided to visit Lang Antiques in San Francisco last weekend for some sparkly fun and to see if I liked OEC's as much as I thought I did, since the store is completely filled with gorgeous antique cuts. Away we went! After trying on a ton of gorgeous rings, I put this one on and immediately fell in love with it. I was so surprised because I had zero intentions of finding a ring that day, and I had even less expectation of finding a completed ring anywhere that made my heart sing. I looked at the price tag and would you believe it, it was less than HALF of what BF and I had discussed for the budget! The stone is quite a bit smaller than what I had been wanting and had my heart set on getting, and I questioned the size and whether or not it looked "big enough" on me, but ultimately I realized that this entire ring is so perfect that the stone size doesn't matter. (The setting won't really allow for a larger stone and Lang's only sells the complete ring, so swapping out stones wasn't an option.)
I told BF about it a couple of days later, and he was amenable to accompanying me to Lang's this weekend to have a look at it and possibly deciding to get it. So we did, and he did!! I don't expect an engagement in the immediate future, it'll probably be sometime in the next 6-8 months, but I knew I couldn't wait that long to get on here and post some pictures of it. Not sharing would make me a very bad PSer indeed!
B.E.G. took all of these pictures last weekend, and I've been looking at them all week. Each time I do, my heart skips a beat - even moreso now that I know it's going to be MY ring. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get any other pictures of it until BF proposes, which as I said will probably be in 6 months at the earliest. But I guess until then, I have these pictures to keep me going!
Thanks for looking!!
Congratulations! .....and I bet you won't have to wait the whole 5 months. My guy said that the wait was as hard for him as it was for me. Some how I doubt that! 
300x240.png)