Weddingbee Blog

If there is one thing I would potentially change about our engagement before it happened, it would be giving Mr. Jaguar my ring size. Sometimes I wish I had gone and tried on a ring, any ring, just to give him an idea about what size I wore—but then I feel that it might have spoiled the complete surprise that came with his planned proposal weekend away.

So what do you do when the engagement ring you’ve just been presented with is too small? You go and get it resized! I think Mr. Jaguar thought I was joking when I said I wanted to go straight from the airport to the jewelery store to get the ring fitted to my fingers…but I wasn’t. We hoofed it from Heathrow airport to the Tiffany store in the gorgeous Westfield London shopping centre. Actually, I’m going to go ahead and add in one more thing I would potentially change if I could: the outfit (a tank top, jeans, and trainers) I wore inside one of the flashiest stores in the centre. Hindsight!

It was then that we got the bad news: the ring had a channel-set band of diamonds on either side of the stone, and it was too delicate for them to resize in their UK stores. My ring was to be sent back to New York City for a complete resizing—and could be gone for 10-12 weeks!

Tell me you said 10–12 days, not weeks?

There wasn’t much we could do, so after having my beautiful ring in my possession for less than 24 hours, I said goodbye to it and we left the store. I think Mr. Jaguar could tell I was a bit crushed—three months is a long time to wait before you can proudly flash your bling, especially when you’ve been waiting for what feels like a lifetime to wear it!

I jokingly said I should go and buy a piece of costume jewellery to wear in the meantime so that I could trick my work colleagues when I showed them “the ring” that Mr. Jaguar had bought. Funnily enough, Mr. Jaguar thought that was a great idea—so we ended up in an accessories store buying a token ring. We chose a lovely sterling silver piece that cost us a whopping ten pounds.

Hello there, temporary replacement ring.

Yet this was the ring that I keep staring at in wonder for the first few months of being an engaged lady. It just goes to show that it’s not all about the ring—what was more important was the gesture that went behind it, the story I’ll never forget, and the amazing partner I have who went to such efforts to surprise me and blow me away.

Is there anyone else out there who wore a temporary ring during their engagement?