Mrs. Bluebell, New York
Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting
Engagement Date: December 25, 2005
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks
About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like!
Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
Wedding Ring Engraving
December 22nd, 2006 @ 11:59 am by Mrs. Bluebell
Yikes, I haven’t posted in over a month!!! Sorry everyone!!! Work (& everything else) has been craaaazyyyy but that just means I’ll enjoy my vacation next week even more! 
But, my official reason for posting is - I just got my wedding ring engraving done! I am so happy with how it came out that I wanted to share a few pictures!
Because the ring is so skinny, we couldn’t get it engraved on the inside as is traditional, but we were able to have them hand engrave our initials and wedding date on the SIDE of the ring instead!
Mr. Bluebell is going to have the same thing engraved in his band, but with his initials first (and the engraving inside.) My family has a couple of heirloom pieces, and I just love the classic simplicity of initials + date on my ancestors’ rings. I want our rings to fit in as a part of that long chain, so one day my great great grandchildren will be squinting at the initials trying to figure out just which relative they belonged to. Hehe, that’s a pleasant thought to me, but Mr. Bluebell yells at me for being morbid!!
Regardless, the question is - Are you getting your wedding rings engraved? What will they say? Are you doing anything else special to personalize your rings?
FYI - I had the engraving done at Michael C Fina (5th Ave @ 45th Street). The hand engraving (which makes me swooon) is a bit pricey (um, shockingly pricey) at $5 per letter, but I didn’t have a choice because they couldn’t do machine engraving on mine since it was on the side. I figured if I’m going to have my ring FOREVER it’s worth it, so I wouldn’t skimp on my desired characters. Aside from that though, the quality of the engraving is spectacular and I highly recommend them if anyone is in the market for hand engraving!! Ask for Jackie - nicest salesgirl ever!
15 Responses to “Wedding Ring Engraving”
beautiful….I would have never thought to engrave the side. well done!
where did you get your wedding ring? it is the exact type i am looking for!
Gorgeous!
beautiful and very creative. I hadn’t thought of engraving my band but your example may make me rethink that decision. Thanks for sharing 
Beautiful! I haven’t thought about engraving either…. If it was up to Mr Orange, it will be the engraving of Lord of the Rings
OMG, I love it, I will have to look into something like that…
Oh, I LOVE it!! It’s a beautiful set!!! It looks very arty and romantic, like an engraved decoration, not just words. Nice!
We got ours engraved with our wedding verse from Song of Solomon. Mine reads “I am my beloveds….” and his reads, “… and my beloved is mine.”
wow….i never thought of engraving on the side!!! i dont think it would have worked on either my e-ring or wedding band, but still, its definitely a beautiful and intersting option!
We’re having our bands engraved, still figuring out what we want. If we can get a symbol, we’d want the pi symbol because we met on March 14 and we’re geeks. Otherwise, we have some phrases we’re throwing around.
Thanks everyone!
Miss Orange - HA, that’s what Mr Bluebell wants too!!! Hehe.
Jen - that’s such a great engraving; if we were going to go another direction I definitely wanted to get one where the two read together said a passage like that.
Felicity - get pi!!!! That is such a cool idea!!!!
Oh, and Katie - both my wedding band and e-ring setting (but not center stone) are Vera Wang! It’s so skinny that it looks kind of lonely without the engagement ring, but I love it!
I love how that looks!! I’m not sure if we will be doing engraving, but we might just do our initials and the wedding date.
Neat! The engraving is so beautiful on the side. I’ve seen a lot of rings that just have engraved decoration on the side, so it’s pretty cool that it’s personal and means something special to you.
My hubby’s ring says “Put it back on”. Not kidding! Mine would say it too except I’d have to part with my ring for a few days to get it done. See a photo at: http://tinyurl.com/sfmt6
Hahaha, SoireeLaura that’s awesome!!! I’ve heard of people SAYING they were going to get that engraved on their husband’s rings, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone actually go through with it!!! I am temtped to do that for Mr Bluebell though…hmmmm…
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