Sitting at our table on Valentine's Day

[Owies Nana]

So, here we are sitting at our breakfast room table having supped on calzones with marinara sauce and red wine...and I am looking across the table at my husband of 34 years who is looking at his computer while I am looking at mine. There is something to be said for being an "old" married couple (even though early 50s is hardly old by our standards). Not many of our friends have made it this long, and even though I wish I felt more romantic...I feel quiet...and content...which are rare feelings for me in my very fast paced life. It helps to be sitting in the dark with a candle and snow falling fast outside.

At any rate, I happened to glance down at the collection of stones stacked on my "married" finger and thought, "What else could i do to integrate these rings so they look more unified?"

Then I thought, "Ask your PS friends. They always have great ideas!"

So, what do you think?

 

[Niel]

Do you always wear them in that order? Maybe mixing the metal colors up could make it feel note unified. Maybe yellow eternity, e ring, white diamond eternity, gold band? Just thinking aloud.

 

[Owies Nana]

I can only wear the solitaire against my wb or against the white diamond eternity. The canary eternity will eat the prongs on the solitaire.

 

[sarahb]

So, here we are sitting at our breakfast room table having supped on calzones with marinara sauce and red wine...and I am looking across the table at my husband of 34 years who is looking at his computer while I am looking at mine. There is something to be said for being an "old" married couple (even though early 50s is hardly old by our standards). Not many of our friends have made it this long, and even though I wish I felt more romantic...I feel quiet...and content...which are rare feelings for me in my very fast paced life. It helps to be sitting in the dark with a candle and snow falling fast outside.

At any rate, I happened to glance down at the collection of stones stacked on my "married" finger and thought, "What else could i do to integrate these rings so they look more unified?"

Then I thought, "Ask your PS friends. They always have great ideas!"

So, what do you think?

What a wonderful description you just gave on your 34 years! Congrats on your milestone.

I think it looks great, & each ring probably represents a different phase of your life, each a unique memory--quite a collection.

I'd have to concur with Niel, maybe see what the metals would look like mixed a bit, wonder how that would look. Stay warm, we have the heat cranked up, the cold & wind is ferocious.

 

[Owies Nana]

Here is a different configuration.

 

[Owies Nana]

Love your doggie avatar, Sarahb! We have four yorkies.

 

[Niel]

What if the solitaire was one of the middle pieces?

 

[Owies Nana]

Like so?

I always thought it looked kind of "naked" in the middle (if you know what I mean) when the rings are stacked like that.

I am also not opposed to a reset. I was thinking that the yellow gold and warm color of my stone would look great with a yellow gold ring with diamonds and rubies or platinum with diamonds and pink sapphires.

All these rings have stories, told in earlier threads, so I would like to wear them, or most of them, at the same time.

 

[Niel]

Hmmm.... I do like that better but its not quite right. Do they all have to be on the same finger?

 

[Owies Nana]

I think the issue is that my wb is yellow gold, the solitaire is an L color stone in platinum, the Memoire eternity is colorless and the canaries are in 18k yellow gold.

DH's thought was the canaries would make the solitaire look whiter, which they do, but that ring can't be worn next to the solitaire without a spacer...and it doesn't look right with the wb in between the canaries and the solitaire.

I don't know what to do. It's a terrible thing to have such problems.

 

[Niel]

Yes a terrible problem to have

I wouldn't have never guessed your stone was an l. It seems to go well with the colorless eternity.

 

[Owies Nana]

It's not even an I: it's an L.

Cut is king for sure.

 

[Owies Nana]

Last pic: pardon the scaly fingers due to dry hands and joint swelling from RA.

Still would love feed back on ruby/diamond pink sapphire/diamond (a la Tiffany) combo to wear with this set.

What do you think?

 

[sarahb]

Here is a different configuration.

I like this configuration--it looks pleasing to my eye, & have to add, the original order looked good to me as well....

Not too sure about adding another color, (i.e. Ruby/sapphire) I love your stack as it is. Just my 2 cents

Thanks ON, they are our children now that only DS is in college. Your 4 Yorkies must be quite something, they are so dear--aren't they?!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Hi, ON!!! Honestly, I love all of your rings, but my preference is wearing e-ring, gold band, and one diamond eternity. I think each eternity is beautiful and can be appreciated more when worn alone rather than both at the same time. I'd just alternate wearing them and have the wedding band act as the spacer. Same thing with the ruby/diamond band. One e-ring, plain band, other diamond/gemstone band at the bottom.

You sound like us, although we have a few additional years!

 

[mrs-b]

Hallo

I'd have the e-ring and the eternity re-set into yellow gold. I think it would make the e-ring stone look lovely, and all three rings more cohesive. Since you're after integration, rather than contrast, if they were all the same metal you'd be ahead of the game immediately.

Secondly, I'd only ever wear that glorious yellow diamond eternity alone, most often on my right hand. No matter what you do, in relation to your e-ring, it's always on the large size, and since it's so deep, it's always going to stand a long way up the basket of your e-ring by comparison, 'swallowing it', in effect. Also, looking down on it from above, it will always stick out at the sides a lot further than your other rings, which I think makes a set look disjointed. So for me, that one would go on the other hand to be switched to your left hand if you wanted a change up.

Alternately, if you were to set your e-ring into a yellow cold shank with platinum prongs, it would definitely tie in the yellow of your wedding band and the white metal (platinum?) of your eternity. That way you could avoid re-setting your eternity and all the metals would be nicely balanced together. And ditto what diamondseeker said - I'd do e-ring on top, wedder in the middle, eternity on the bottom. Then yellow diamond eternity on the other hand.