Tuesday, May 31, 2005

This post will remain at the top of the page for today. Scroll down for newer posts, including the recap of my weekend.

It all started several weeks ago when I was talking with my mother about Beau and she said that if we got to the point of considering marriage then she wanted us to have her mother’s wedding set - we could do what we wanted with the diamonds. Wow. That is a generous and meaningful gift.

Meanwhile Beau and I were talking about marriage and goofing about rings - swapping links to pretty rings via email. And then somehow it turned more serious and the above ring was the one that jumped out at me one day. So I saved the link, just in case, not really thinking that I would have that ring.

After our family dinner on Wednesday, Beau asked my Dad for permission to marry me to which my father gave his approval and then Mom handed him the ring box. In the car, we made plans to look at rings on Saturday when I was in H’burg - just to see what was out there and to talk about maybe just resizing and cleaning my grandmother’s rings.

Those rings have sentimental value of course. The wedding ring is from Tiffany & Co. The center diamond in the engagement ring was my great-grandfather’s - my grandmother’s father. So we decided to keep the wedding band for sure and when we got to the jewelers we talked pricing on the cleaning/resizing of the existing rings. And then Beau suggested we look at the Tacori rings in stock.

Almost immediately I spotted The Ring in the case. I was surprised they had it in stock, but I was happy to try it on. Turns out it was in my size and then the guy said they could remount my grandmother’s diamond in 20-30 minutes. Wow.

“We’re going to go outside and talk,” I said. For several minutes Beau and I weighed the options - be practical and frugal or not. I told him to decide - that I was fine with either option - and I really was fine with keeping the existing rings because of their meaning and they are lovely. So we went in and I wasn’t sure what he had decided until he told me to try on the Tacori ring again.

“We’ll take that one,” and we then waited more like an hour for them to measure and all that they do to diamonds before they reset it in the new ring and then appraised it and all that jazz. Once that was done, they boxed it up and put it in a bag and handed it to Beau. We walked outside and he told me to sit on the bench where we had discussed the rings and he knelt on one knee and asked me to marry him and I said, “Well, yeah!” There was smooching and he put the ring on my finger.

Wedding date: December 30, 2005.

So much for my vow, right?