We picked up my custom wedding ring today, hive! I’m so excited!
I’d never ordered custom jewelry before, and never really thought about it, so I want to take you quickly through the process. In this post, I talked about how I definitely wanted two tone with rose and white gold. There are some of my inspiration pictures in that post, but the main one I ended up taking to the jeweler was this one:
I decided that centering the stripe was probably the best idea, and I liked how this ring was smooth. Some of the others had the stripe recessed or sticking up, but I would fiddle and pick at that until my fingernails fell off, I’m sure!
We took that photo (and some of the others from the post I linked to above) to the goldsmith, and there they measured the diamond (I don’t know its carat weight, they just took the physical measurements) and we talked about how thick the band would have to be to fit it, and how much ring I wanted either side, etc.
I said that I didn’t really want a ring wider than 5mm but the diamond was wider than I expected (oh, to have such problems!). I’d tried measuring it with a ruler while it was still in the old setting… have you ever tried to measure something tiny, sparkly, and clear with an 18″ metal ruler? It’s hard. They had fancy caliper thingys that measured to points of a mm. They said that it could be 5mm, but it wouldn’t have the same proportions as my inspiration photo. I said, ok, they checked my ring size, and Cinnamon Buns and I left the store. At that point, I felt like I should have talked to them more… how would they know what I really wanted? Could they really tell from a couple pictures? I never actually talked to the goldsmith, just employees! What if something got lost in a game of telephone?!
The first thing we got back from them was a quote. We got the quote in November, but put off starting the process until January because we didn’t want that sort of money coming out of our bank accounts around Christmas. By January I was impatient to get going on it, so even though Cinnamon Buns was having a slow work month, we gave them the go-ahead to do up a rendering of it. Not too long after (less than a week, if I remember right) we got the call saying our rendering was ready and we could come in any time to have a look. This is what we saw:
Awesome! For some reason I was expecting something way more pixel-y, just an outline in green on a black background. This is practically a photo! This was when we had the chat about rounded edges/comfort fit/shape. They had done what they thought best (rounding the outside a little, and making it a comfort fit on the inside) which was what I wanted but never actually expressed in the first place. The stripe was wider than I’d thought originally, but I liked the look of the render, so we took the plunge and put half the money down so they could actually start making it.
Less than a week later (!) we got the phone call saying it was ready to pick up. OMG the time was here! I had a wedding band! And here, dear readers, we have the ring porn (photos courtesy of Cinnamon Buns) :
It is white gold, although it looks darker in all these pictures, it’s just dark in our house. The rose gold band is much more subtle than I thought it would be - in some lights you can’t tell it is there, but in others you can completely see it. I think that is mainly because is is mirror-shiny-finish right now. You can see Cinnamon Buns taking the photos in it!
Here’s one to show how wide it looks on my fingers. Plus all the scissors and craft mats and tape hanging up behind my desk. 
And how I’m planning on wearing them, come June. It is so hard not to just put it on and wear it right now! We brought it home today from the jeweler’s, but we’re going to take it back and they’re going to keep it in their safe (along with Cinnamon Buns’ ring, which we ordered while picking up mine) until the wedding. That makes me feel a little safer, and it will keep me from trying it on every day.
It’s got such a great weight to it, it really makes my engagement ring feel light and delicate now that I’m only wearing the one ring. (Ha, I typed One Ring!)
The custom wedding band process was way easier than I ever thought it would be, I totally recommend it to anyone wanting something super-special.
Was/Is your band a custom one? Your engagement ring?
Most of the wedding bands are plainly designed, with some small diamonds, but various color combinations are very popular nowadays. Me and my fiance have equal bands made from central yellow (not polished) and 2 symmetric white gold (polished) bands without gemstones which are very similar to your rings 
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