Weddingbee Blog

I swear I’m not completely bling obsessed (shrugs) even though this is (hangs head) another post about jewelry. This is not a post about just any old jewelry though, this is the story of F Stripes’ super magical wedding ring, and the roundabout, but in the end, oh-so-simple way we ended up finding it. So, pull up a chair and pop open a beer (or is it too early for that still?).

Now you may remember that F Stripes declared pretty early on that she had always pictured a plain yellow gold band. After a bit of research, we determined that it’s super hard to find a really pretty, slightly vintage (or even just vintage looking) plain gold band. If you want a little bit of character and a hand-hewn quality, then it’s really tough. Or really expensive.

And so while we waited for my super fantastic daisy ring to arrive, we scoured Etsy, eBay, everyvintagejewelrysiteimaginable and then some more places in search of the perfect ring. For a quick minute there I was winning a hundred year old Tiffany’s ring on eBay. Then a more savvy bidder swooped in (or had a computer do it for them—damn cowards) and outbid me by $1.99. Grrr! No really—I need to get on that auto-bidding business, but of course, I digress…

The hunt continued.

We considered the suggestion that we use the inverse of my daisy ring for F Stripes’ ring. But we weren’t really committed to matching rings. And we couldn’t decide who would get the inverse, because, um, we’re both yellow gold freaks. (Told ya it was true love.) So that was out.

And then one day I started thinking about what made me choose Adzia to make my daisy ring way back in the beginning. I know I blabbered on about how lovely and awesome and wonderful her correspondence was (and it was!) but what had made me choose her from among the many talented Etsy jewelers who responded to my initial alchemy post?

Hmmm. A light went on somewhere in my fuzzy little bride brain as I realized that I must have liked, I mean really liked, something in her store. And so I simply followed my own link and there it was: a beautiful gold feather ring. It seemed like the perfect combo of yellow gold and beautiful detail. And F Stripes is crazy for birds. Like, tattooed crazy. So I showed her the feather ring, and she was sold. And that was it.

And I’ve gotta say Adzia came through like a champ once again. First, my daisy ring arrived with a companion—a silver sample of the feather ring, because we had expressed concern that it might be too wide. And it was. So then Adzia created a custom made narrow(er) gold feather band just for F Stripes! And it arrived a few days ago. And it’s fan-freakin’-tastic!

Check it:

I LOVE that both our rings were created by the same super amazing artist but I can’t believe it took me so long to figure out that Adzia was the answer to our (second) ring dilemma. (Hangs head again…) Silly me!

Have you ever spent tons of time and energy hunting for something that was right under your nose?