I heart Monday presents

Last night, Danny surprised me with this fetching little bauble from Freshy Fig....a vintage ball and chain locket (Get it?? Ball and chain. HA!). I've been wanting a locket for a while, and this one is simply perfect. Now, I just have to find some teeny tiny pictures to hide inside.

wedded bling

like i mentioned in my last post, we went to the jewelry store last thursday to pick up my band. unfortunately, tom who does all their jewelry work wasn' there, so we couldn't see about getting the milgrain added. martha, the cute little woman who sold us our rings, told me that she thought the my rings were very pretty together as is & danny agreed. but i'm picky (according to danny) & i wanted them to match. we agreed to come back on saturday when tom would be there. so, saturday afternoon, we (we being my mom, dad, brother, & danny) went back & left the ring for tom to work on.

i went to pick up the ring yesterday. i was kind of nervous. what if i didn't like it? as tom watched, they handed me the ring, and...it was perfect! i am so happy with it & so happy i didn't let martha & danny convince me not to get the milgrain. it matches the band of my engagement ring perfectly.

the best part was that danny wasn't in town to make me take it off...no, i didn't wear it all day...just a little while to see how it looked... :)

it's arrived!

the jewelry store called & my wedding band is in! we're going today at lunch to try it on & see about adding the milgrain. yay for bling!

sparkle sparkle

after our time spent in jewelry stores, i became obsessed with wedding jewelry. what's makes this funnier is that i haven't even seen a dress on me. but oh well, it's still fun to look. i don't know what my jewelry ensemble will entail...big earrings, no necklace? small earrings, big necklace? big earrings, small neckalce? bracelet? diamonds (or things that look like diamonds)? pearls (or things that look like pearls? neither? oh, the choices!







(i'm sorry i can't remember where these pictures came from...i will try to figure it out & update)

shiny things

we didn't meet with a caterer, but we did check something off our wedding to-do list - wedding bands! i, of course, was very difficult. i think i tried on every possible ring at multiple jewelry stores & even then i couldn't decide. in contrast, we fell in love with the first ring danny tried on. it's beautiful. he's very upset that he can't wear it now. here it is (the bottom two pictures have my hand):

we found it at reeds. they were so nice. they cleaned my engagement ring, so i had to get at least one picture of it being so sparklely.

we did get my wedding band too, but i don't have it to play with. the ring we picked out is a very thin eternity band, so it couldn't be resized. they had to order a new one in the correct size. it's just about a perfect match to the band of my engagement ring. the only difference is that the band doesn't have a milgrain edge like my ring (danny says you can't tell a difference), but the jeweler said that he can probably add it by hand when they ring comes in. it looks like this ring from ritani:



yay for shiny things! very exciting!

no tina's today

the cantina isn't going to be open today. tina's been sick and it's too cold outside (currently 36), so, we're going to meet with her sometime next week. either during the week or next weekend. but i think we might go look at wedding bands today instead, so that's fun. :D