Weddingbee Boards Topic: Unusual rings

Weddingbee Boards Topic: Unusual rings http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Weddingbee Boards Topic: Unusual rings en Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:18:37 +0000 Kristin25 on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/4#post-51043 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:10:01 +0000 Kristin25 51043@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ My ring is not very unusual, but the setting is hard to find these days. I have my great grandmothers original engagement ring (she got a newer bigger model on their 30th anniversary). My ring is 70 years old this year. My grandfather bought it for 33 dollars back in 1938!!!! GorgesViola on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/4#post-50969 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:21:40 +0000 GorgesViola 50969@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ hulafish, that lace idea is so cool!!! I love that from some angles yours could look somewhat traditional (the Asscher cut, at least... which I totally love), but then... surprise! <img src="/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/icon_biggrin.gif" /> hulafish on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50965 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:03:42 +0000 hulafish 50965@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ What gorgeous rings!!  I think mine is unusual...FI wanted it to look antique.  He and the jewelry designer based the design on a piece of lace!  Here is the somewhat funky-looking computer model.  The center stone is an Asscher cut, and the two side stones are VERY unique "old miner's cut" stones from a family heirloom.<img src="///Users/pkwa/Desktop/Stacey_1b_jpg.jpg" /> <a href="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/sshepar1/Stacey_1b_jpg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/sshepar1/Stacey_1b_jpg.jpg</a><img src="///Users/pkwa/Desktop/Stacey_1b_jpg.jpg" /> LNickle on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50961 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:39:28 +0000 LNickle 50961@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ My fiance picked out a 3 carat pink sapphire with trillion cut diamond side stones.  He really wanted to get something that was unique and different.  The pink sapphire is actually completely natural, and the color wasn't heat enhanced at all.  GorgesViola on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50958 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:13:38 +0000 GorgesViola 50958@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ My ring was designed by Todd Reed (www.toddreed.com), who works with recycled gold and raw (uncut) as well as traditional cut diamonds. I really liked the sort of industrial feel of his pieces. Mr.GV and I had a really hard time finding something we both liked, and TR's stuff was the only jewelry we've really ever agreed upon! I took one of his designs and asked for the raw diamonds to be as varied as possible, and also add one princess-cut diamond for a little sparkle. The picture doesn't really show how many colors there are, but they're different shades of red, green, gray, yellow, brown - depending on the light they can look very muted or very colorful, but the 18K yellow gold always sort of glows. It's funny because I've always gravitated to silver and more white metals, but I really wanted the 18K! Now we're trying to figure out wedding bands... I think I might want to mix it up and get something white. Any ideas? (I would love another Todd Reed ring - esp with a lot of cut diamonds <img src="/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/icon_biggrin.gif" /> - but I don't think Mr.GV is so into that, aesthetically or financially!) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24596372@N06/2497509395/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/24596372@N06/2497509395/</a> I'm so dumb with the image-posting thing... can someone comment on Mrs. Bee's sticky if they know how to do it on a mac? hokouk77 on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50943 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:49:00 +0000 hokouk77 50943@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ how can i upload an image??? hokouk77 on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50942 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:46:30 +0000 hokouk77 50942@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ hokouk77 on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50941 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:45:51 +0000 hokouk77 50941@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Mine has a white diamond in the middle and two blue diamonds on the side! I love it an was totally surpirsed and so impressed because he put put the ring together himself! thepinkestpainter on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50877 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:51 +0000 thepinkestpainter 50877@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Ok so my post above about my pearl ring didnt work, you can see the ring if you paste that address in and then remove all the symbols after the html   Just in case anyone was interested.   Gerby on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50873 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:38:21 +0000 Gerby 50873@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ My stone is pear cut. Popular about 30-40 years ago...   thepinkestpainter on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50856 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:59:54 +0000 thepinkestpainter 50856@http://boards.weddingbee.com/  I'm another "pearl bride. FI have been together a long time and I had no intentions of wearing the engagment ring with the wedding band so having a super expensive e-ring was sort of out of the question to me. Plus I really love the very southern elegance of pearls.    Hence my pearl ring <a href="http://johnandlaura08.blogspot.com/2007/12/ring.html " rel="nofollow">http://johnandlaura08.blogspot.com/2007/12/ring.html </a>   <img src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Wlp_eNEFaLE/R3bTYgygZ6I/AAAAAAAAACo/8KLx27Xq5jY/s1600-h/pZALE1-2221717t240.jpg" /> JillBeee on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-50826 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:51:49 +0000 JillBeee 50826@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Our wedding bands just came in this past week:)<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/iridemyownmc/CIMG3353.jpg" alt="Photobucket" /> here's a close up of mine (purchased from Macy's): <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/iridemyownmc/CIMG3349.jpg" /> and with my e-ring: <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/iridemyownmc/CIMG3354.jpg" /> haselwand on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36682 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:17:29 +0000 haselwand 36682@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ jennytyum: Good Lord, that is rude! Did he at least tell you why he felt so strongly about it? My goodess, I can't imagine what I would have done if someone had said that to me! tberry on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36630 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:01:13 +0000 tberry 36630@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ The ring below is not my ring but it is close and it is one of the rings we looked at. My ring does not have the diamonds clustered on either side nad the band has milgrain running down both edges instead of just one, with a detail that makes it look like the ends of a grosgrain ribbon about halfway down.  It also has diamond chips inside the ribbon detail.  The stone is also about 1 1/2 carats larger. <a href="showCustomPopUp('/largeImage/index.jsp?PID=2670692','largeImage','width=610,height=569,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no');"><img src="http://zgor.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pZALEGORD1-3650991t240.jpg" /></a> Now I just need to find a wedding band to fit flush against it, but that can be worn alone.  With the larger stone a traditional band willl not fit cleanly agianst the band.  (I garden and cook a lot and don't want to wear my e-ring all the time but I do want to be able to wear my band with it.  I also do not want to wear my e-ring on my rt hand.) emilycreatives on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36624 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:50:33 +0000 emilycreatives 36624@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ My ring is also semi-unusual. It is a Gelin Abaci tension setting. The metal is also a bit unusual, rose gold. It is just quirky enough, my FH knows me very well :) <img src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_831zxwbkKns/R9BUERbX33I/AAAAAAAAAI0/jli7qfABjps/s400/Picture+4.png" /><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_831zxwbkKns/R9BkgxbX4KI/AAAAAAAAALI/3-e0_ipwUs0/s1600/Picture%2B7.png" /> rosychicklet on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36610 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:18:44 +0000 rosychicklet 36610@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ rosychicklet on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36609 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:16:56 +0000 rosychicklet 36609@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_e0EVrnP7E20/RwVgEdpUqyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FAYWxOaZEn0/s1600-h/thering_up2.jpg" />I wanted an estate piece- I love the vintage look and didn't want FI to pay for something to be custom made when we could find it if we looked hard enough.  I also was not heartset on a diamond- which didn't come into fashion as an engagement stone until DeBeers launched an add campaign to make it so in the 1900s- and preferred sapphires (which symbolize truth, sincerity, and faithfullness).  Well, we hit the jackpot at Bostonian Jewelers (in Boston of course).   The ring is about 75 years old and was part of the estate of a jeweler who never finished it.  My FI chose a white sapphire as the center stone (He was afraid a blue stone wouldn't look enough like an engagement ring) and the setting includes blue sapphires and diamonds in platinum.  We went back later and they custom made a wedding band to match.<img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_e0EVrnP7E20/RwVgEdpUqyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FAYWxOaZEn0/s400/thering_up2.jpg" /><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_e0EVrnP7E20/RwVgEdpUqyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FAYWxOaZEn0/s1600-h/thering_up2.jpg" /> jennytyum on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36605 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:01:23 +0000 jennytyum 36605@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ peihan17 - hahah i laughed when he asked us if we had gotten our wedding rings yet - because if we hadn't yet, he wanted to make sure we came back to his store for them.  yeah right!!! peihan17 on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36599 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:47:21 +0000 peihan17 36599@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ jennytyum, wow, I hope you didn't give that jeweler any business!  What an ass.  (I don't have a picture of my ring, but it's tension set and neat lookin'.) jennytyum on "Unusual rings" http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/unusual-rings/page/3#post-36592 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:15 +0000 jennytyum 36592@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ i was tolby a jeweler that my ring was "disgusting" - but i love it! <img src="http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/jennytyum/september2007015-1.jpg" />d