Another cross-post from my personal blog! I forgot to mention there (and I won't add, because the RSSers would kill me) that the ring is pictured on the guitar that Eddie played for me when he proposed!
I wasn't prepared for the number of people who would ask to see my ring! The first time I saw friends after getting engaged, I would notice their eyes going down to my left hand. And right after Eddie announced that we were engaged in church, people came up to me asking to see it. Some people have even asked to try it on (who were men!). Actually, I've noticed that I get the most inquiries about it from men. At first I thought that it was because many of the men who had asked me were engaged or married (or maybe looking?) and had felt so personally invested in the process that they wanted to know what other women were wearing. But after talking to Eddie, I realized that women are interested too, but they just aren't necessarily as forthcoming as their male counterparts. They just try to sneak-a-peek! I have to admit that I am guilty of this myself; in the days that Eddie and I were trying to decide what stone to get (diamond vs. non-diamond), I found myself trying to see married women's rings and what they had chosen for themselves. But fear not, fellow sneak-a-peek-ers! I present to you my ring:
It's a Tacori setting and an aquamarine center stone. I have gotten quite a few "Oh.... it's... blue..." responses and I wanted to note that although justice issues and price were a factor in our looking for diamond alternatives, the impetus for this particular decision was mainly an aesthetic one, since we wanted something super unique. I say this because, as I'm sure you'll be able to tell, there are diamonds in the setting. My favorite feature isn't super visible in the picture, but there is a little diamond at the bottom of the ring with little holes around it that I thought was really cool.
One of the reasons I haven't posted ring pics until now is that I haven't really had good pictures of it! Do you know how hard it is to take decent macro pics with a point and shoot?! But since Santa (ha! yeah right! Santa isn't going to take credit for that one!) brought Eddie a DSLR (a Canon T1i, to be exact) for Christmas this year, we thought we'd take some pics. Just for fun, here is a picture with our point and shoot (which Eddie has now passed on to me, yay!). It's a Lumix camera, but I can't remember what model.
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