Believe it or not (and I still don’t)… a miracle happened today. While shopping I had to make a quick trip to the little girl’s room (OMG, I can’t believe I actually wrote it that way, I always think people are weird when they say that — however, it just sounds much more diplomatic than saying, While I was at the crapper…)…. Martin stayed out (obviously). I joked, “Hey! You can go into there (pointing to jewelry store) to buy my wedding ring when I’m gone!”

See? He’s thus far been afraid to move forward in that avenue though we’re pretty strong as a couple. But - we had a really great conversation last night and did a bit of bonding in that we are sure we want to spend the rest of our lives together.

So, imagine my surprise when I came out and he’s lookin’ at them! And no blood had to be shed to get him into there! (no blood diamonds for us!) After almost half an hour of looking, we had a good idea of what we liked and didn’t like. I don’t like glam. I like simplicity. He likes big rings and in gold colour because of his skin complexion and the size of his fingers. I like white gold.   We managed to look at two rings we both like… I like them but am not in love with them. But - I wouldn’t mind them. We got some prices and since my very amazing, childhood friend Shelly has been so kind enough to lend me her wedding dress, we shouldn’t feel bad about buying rings that are nice. Both of these rings came up to about $1000 which includes an insurance and a lifetime of resizing… anything that damaged the rings, or wore them through or anything, it would be covered. Not bad, eh? And I don’t think (realistically) spending $1000 on a set of rings is super extravagent. Honestly, these days I don’t think you could get anything much cheaper than that!

We aren’t getting married until August, 2009 so no big rush to get the rings yet!

Now - the wedding dress! I forgot to tell you that Shelly and I got together and she is lending me her dress. I am much bigger than she is but by miracle of miracles, it fit! We have decided to dub the dress, the Sisterhood of the Travelling Wedding Dress because it seemed to fit each of us perfectly despite having a totally different body shape.  I took some pics of it and it actually looks very beautiful. I don’t want to post the pics yet ’cause - I want the day to be truly special and part of that is the pics that we will post of it… if you want to see it, leave a message and I’ll send ‘em to you by email.

It’s so nice to talk to Martin about it and to see him excited and looking forward to it… it makes me feel really good

Posted on April 26th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Wedding