{jewelry} dreams do come true..

my fh has not had a day off since mid-january. he's works 5 days a week and goes to "fireman school" on his 2 days "off." we never see each other anymore and he's working himself sick..yesterday, he stayed home with a headache he can't seem to shake...but by the afternoon, he was ready to get out of the house for an hour or so..just long enough for us to buy our wedding bands!

his (only his is all platinum, without the gold):

hers:

as we sat there, watching the incredibly nice manager of the store wrap up our beautiful tokens of love (cheesy, but true!), i was engraving the memory in my mind. i don't want to forget the moment when we purchased our rings. it was one of the happiest moments of my life...a girl from not a lot of money, sitting in tiffany's buying a wedding band with the man of her dreams. that doesn't happen for a lot of girls, i know. i am very, very blessed. i want to remember that feeling and i want to smile back on it someday when we are old and grey..and our son or daughter calls to tell us they are purchasing their wedding bands...and i will remember, sitting in an ever so elegant room, young (well, sort of), and giddy in love.

we were so excited, we stopped for a cocktail on the way home..

and vowed to only wear our rings around the apartment every once in awhile until the big day!

{the ring} my bling post

reading heathers blog yesterday inspired me to finally post my bling. (isn't hers just lovely?!) she writes about how interesting it has been dealing with the different reactions you get while wearing a "non-traditional" ring. i fully understand what she is going through..i have actually had people argue that my ring is not an engagement ring...that it is a wedding band and had implied that we had already eloped. people are funny.

well, here it is..and i love it.

isn't it just divine?

this next image shows what it will look like after my wedding band (bottom) and my anniversary band (hint, hint to my honey) are added:

eek. a-maz-ing. stack your own rings at tiffanys.com.