Weddingbee boards

I have no idea if it's bad luck for me to be playing with it a couple weeks early...but we picked it up yesterday and I can't wait to be wearing it everyday!  The lighting's a bit off, but it's white gold.  They jeweler said it was harder than he thought to mold it, but we both love the finished product.  Jewelry is *not* FI's thing, but he keeps saying how happy he is with it also.

BTW, for you Bay Area folks, Ronald at TC Jewelers on Union Street (i've heard the othr branches aren't as good) is excellent!  He's got some beautiful stuff in his shop...and he did this for us :)

Yes, those are rubies.  I didn't want an engagement ring (he got me a saphire solitaire pendant and solitaire earrings instead), so having a fancier band made sense.  We debated sapphire or ruby, but the jeweler said he thought ruby would look better (small sapphires just look dark he said).  I said I prefer the pinker rubies (which are a bit lower priced I think), and he found the cabachon cut ruby for the center to match the small ones that are inset in the band.

The design was from an estate piece I found at another jeweler.  That piece was way too big for me and also not well-made.  But I got a photo of it.  It was our jeweler's idea to add the stones in the band though (the one I saw only had a center stone).  I'm really happy with the final product...it looks way better than the photos I showed him :)

Thanks so much everyone.  I'm totally in love with it :)

But I'm worried that it might be too big :(  Sometimes I struggle to get it over my knuckle, and sometimes it just slips off.  I'm wondering if my fingers were extra swollen the day we ordered it b/c it was super hot.  The only way to size it would mean ruining some of the work in the back.  I know the jeweler will do it (said he'll size it whenever I need), but I'm hoping that my fingers are just extra thin right now due to pre-wedding stress.  And maybe I ought to stop trying it on pre-wedding :)

Fi's a little worried I'm going to leave it on a beach somewhere in Greece, though...

Thanks for the info...that might definitely be an option.  We're probably going to have him reset my engagement jewelry (sapphire solitaire pendant and earrings) after the honeymoon...so we can ask him about those options as well.