Wedding Rings!

Last weekend Kristjan and I were supposed to go order our wedding rings, but some things happened on his ship and he was unable to make it up to Waldorf last weekend. So we decided we would do it this past Friday, because he was supposed to have the day off. But, of course, something came up and he ended up having to go into work on Friday until the early afternoon. So by the time he got up here, it was too late to go order the rings, and we also had to go to pre-marital counseling that night. Saturday comes, and finally we get the chance to go order our rings!

We decided to go to the same place Kristjan went to for my engagement ring. They're a family owned business and have high-quality work and pay attention to detail. One of the many many reasons I love my engagement ring is because I know that it is completely unique and that no one else in the world has one like it! So we came up with a design for Kristjan's ring and decided on a verse to engrave on the inside of the rings. Kristjan's design is also very special to us, and will also be a one-of-a-kind ring.

When he was at OCS for 4 months in the summer of 2008, I'd write letters to him every day (the only other form of communication we had that summer was one phone call a week on Sundays for about 30 minutes or less). Well somewhere during our letters back and forth we came up with a special symbol that we would write on the inside of the envelope of our letters. It'll be too difficult to explain here, so I'll have to post a picture of his ring when we get them. Anyway, that is the design he wanted to have on his ring. As if a wedding ring wasn't meaningful enough already! And they also told us that when they make the rings, they'll cast them together, which we thought was really awesome. Anyway, we were both very happy with our order and the whole experience just made the wedding feel that much more real!

Oh and something else that was pretty cool - Kristjan told me later on that evening that it was exactly one year ago on that day (March 6) that he bought my diamond in Israel. So if we had ordered our rings earlier as we had planned on, we wouldn't have had that cool little connection between our rings. All in all, it was a pretty exciting day, both this year and last :)