Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer
Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 24, 2008
Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception
About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
About Our Rings
May 18th, 2008 @ 10:29 am by Miss Gingerbread
I mentioned our rings a while back and several of you asked to see them. I couldn’t seem to get a decent shot of them, which is the reason for my delayed response. My apologies.
Here’s the backstory. A few years ago, Miss GB 2.0 and I talked about getting married. It was in our far off plans, after saving up to move to Canada. We wanted to wear rings as a sign of our commitment to each other and to our future together, but we weren’t in a financial position to buy any bling.
So one day, I was walking to work and I noticed a little jewelry shop that made custom jewelery. I went home and dug out a ring that my aunt had casually dropped in my lap many years ago. I’d always assumed that the big ol’ sapphire and diamond ring was costume jewelery. I decided to get the ring appraised the next time I walked to work. Well, wouldn’t you know, it was real! I talked to the jeweler about creating two new rings out of the old one. He agreed to do the work in exchange for the sapphire.
I really wanted Miss GB 2.0’s input on the ring design so I told her about our good luck. We met with the jeweler and he drew up various designs. Miss GB 2.0 wanted something channeled and we decided to go for two identical rings. After several months, we finally had our rings.
Here is mine (hers looks just like it):
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Please ignore how strange my hand looks in this photo :p
16 Responses to “About Our Rings”
What a gorgeous, unique ring! I can see why you would just want to keep those - why would you want to change anything when you have beautiful, matching rings and such a great story behind them?
That is a great story, and so sweet that you had them made completely custom and from something meaningful in your family. That originial ring must have had a ton of diamonds!! They really turned out beautifully.
Very pretty! And I love that they are both identical. 
That is so beautiful.. and WHAT A BARGAIN
A stunner! Wow, just wow— I’m having a little ring-envy moment here. 
ah, the custom ring! this was the way we went and i’m always surprised that more brides don’t choose this option.
mine is recycled from a pre-existing ring as well, which adds a lot of history to the ring AND makes me feel better, because it’s recycling. sparkly, pretty recycling.
That is a really pretty ring. I love how unique it is.
I love that! So pretty:)
Wow I love that! Thats beautiful!
What a great story and a beautiful pair of rings.
oooo! How great! So are you planning on having separate bands as well for the wedding, or will these play double duty? (they certainly can)
How lovely that the jeweller did the work in exchange for the sapphire. I think it’’s a beautiful ring
WOW, what a beautiful ring and a great story, I can see why you would want to keep them as your rings
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