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When Mr. Chocolate Chip took me ring shopping, I found myself disinterested in the traditional "solitare" or "3 stone" rings. In fact, the ring I liked the best had no center diamond at all! Everyone thinks i'm crazy for not wanting a big diamond, but its just not what I liked.
Since technically I will not have an engagement ring because of this, Mr. Chocolate Chip thinks I need another band of some sort, so that once we get married, people won't think i'm "just enagaged". I was thinking of having a plain band engraved with our names or wedding date on it. What do you bees think?? Do any of you have untraditional rings??
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I don't have an E-ring yet, but we're talking about it, and I'm going to be sending the Mr. some ideas.
I've never really liked the look of the "traditional" diamond solitaire either. Some of them stick up so much that I would always be afraid of getting it caught on things. If I get a ring with a center diamond, I also want it to have some color to it -- a small gemstone on either side of the diamond, maybe.
I thought of getting a ring incorporating both of our birthstones, but both (ruby and citrine/yellow topaz) are stones that I think of as only going well with yellow gold, and I don't wear yellow gold.
Mine was custom made by an ethical jeweler in the UK. We talked about it and neither of us was ok with supporting the diamond industry. It's a ceylon sapphire and I love it, though it clearly needs a polish :)
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I love the ring in the picture. While i personally like to have a center stone, I always notice and admire the simple bands that some women wear. The one you attached up there would scream "married" to me, but you could consider either getting two of them, or like you suggested, get a plain one. Have you seen the "stackable" bands that Precision Set has? They have a photo of them on their home page:
I think that's a cool idea, too.
First of all, I love your ring...because it is my wedding ring! :) It is also the band for my engagement ring. I fell in love with it, but like you, wanted something different. I ended up designing my own ring. They took that band and put a single princess cut diamond on top of it. BUT, because again I wanted to be different, they turned the diamond 45 degrees so it is "star set". I love it.
I can't find this photo quick enough to upload, but my absolute favorite, non-traditional wedding ring are the custom engraved bands in the first photo of this blog post. I love this! It's only second to my own traditional princess solitaire.
august15bride - my princess cut diamond is set the same way!! Someone who works for a jeweler called it "kite set" but I like "star set" much better. That's how I'll describe it from now on!
I don't think mine is that unusual, but before I got married (and had a band next to it) I had people ask me if it was an engagement ring. So I guess it's nontraditional, otherwise they wouldn't have had to ask, right?(the picture is below)
Also- I wanted a sapphire, but FI wanted a diamond. I told him he could make the decision, so he went with a white sapphire. It's a nice compromise because I think most people assume it's a diamond, but I know it's not!
I think the ring you posted is beautiful.
Basically- I think you should get whatever you want! It's your marriage/relationship/finger. Wear what you want.
MegK- I LOVE your ring.
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I love your ring. It's SO pretty! I don't think anyone will think you're just engaged. Lots of women I know wear just a band and it's clear that they are married. However, If you want another band to go with the one you have right now, go for it!
I love the stackable bands that marquisemiss posted! I think that would look great.. and you could always add a third later for an aniversary band.
Mine is a green sapphire. I'm not a big fan of diamonds, so my fiance got creative. His birthstone is sapphire and my favorite color is green, so he chose a pale green sapphire. And I love it! We're using it as the inspiration for our wedding colors, which are varying shades of green.
My ring is not "traditional"... but neither am I! FH designed it through a celtic company in newyork (raru.com). The centerstone is a lab created sapphire. The setting is white gold. The ring is called a reverse cradel, the wedding band sit inside the e-ring! Our plan is to get a yellow gold wedding band for myself, and a yellow gold band with white gold rails for the FH!
I have two rings- one is big and I hate it. I've had so many problems with it already. I've tried to sell it but we aren't even getting any where close to what we paid for it so maybe I can give it my grandkids or something.
The other is small and gorgeous. I love it so much that I am going to have my wedding band to go with it- and its going to be nontraditional as well, black diamonds! I'm so excited.
I love non-traditional rings! Everyone's rings look so gorgeous. I'm wearing my e-ring now, but plan to switch to the band (plain white gold) for day-to-day wear as soon as we're married. We got engaged 1 year ago today (hurray!) and I've still never gotten used to wearing a sizeable ring on my finger! 
i wear an heirloom... it's sort of traditional but not really since it's such an antique. it was from his grandma when she got married (her husband passed about 10 years ago). i personally think that you should get what YOU and your FI want. really... people either will or won't like it but you have still that chance with an engagement ring. besides, you shouldn't care about what others think. they're not the ones in love!
my wedding ring is jus tlike yours (miss choco chip!) but it has a chevron (or a curve... i think that's what it's called...) so that it can fit up against my heirloom. i LOVE the fact that my diamond doesn't stick out far... it doesn't get in the way with my 2 year old and my preschool class!
i think a plain thin ring would look gorgeous with it. i wouldn't go any thicker than the thickness of the e-ring, though. i love the thought of engraving it! (i'm assuming me mean inside the band??) we've been talking about doing that with our wedding rings, too.
good luck with the ring process! OH and check out any diamond stores that are closing with the economy! we got his white gold band for $35 bucks!!!
Mine isn't a "traditional" ring either - it's a sapphire and I absolutely LOVE it!
I have a sapphire ring as well... I love the meaning behind it- fidelity and trust! Plus, you can get them in almost any color you so desire!
Here's my baby:
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blossom: I love your ring, i'm looking for something exactly like that. I'd love to get an awesome gemstone ring instead of a diamond.
kayfi: I love how unique your ring is, it is beautiful.
Right now, I wear a plain titanium band but I am looking around for something with a little bling.
blossom! We have very similar rings!
I fell in love with my e-ring a long time before it was actually my e-ring. I wanted to get it as a gift to myself since it is so non-traditional and then the Fiance gave it to me as an E ring and I love it. it's so beautiful (if I do say so myself!)
Sorry - last post didn't include my photos!
I'm trying again because I love my pink ring that much ;)
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Blossom - love the pink sapphire!
Mine is a natural fancy yellow diamond, set in a platinum and gold semi bezel setting. My FI got it at a family owned jewelry store. Even though we looked at the traditional rings, he thought the yellow was really special. I do too : )
I wish I had a more creative picture, but here goes!
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Miss Chocolate Chip, we are of the same mind! FI actually proposed to me with a giant CZ ring and the intention that we would go out ring shopping for my "real engagement ring" together. I toyed with the idea of sapphire and moissanite, but am now leaning towards buying a diamond eternity ring to use as my engagement ring and an engraved thin band to use as my wedding ring. FI wants us to have matching wedding rings, which I think is sweet, plus this will have the look of stacked rings which I've always loved, and hey, maybe I can get a third at an anniversary or something!!
I love this post!! So many pretty rings!!
Thank you guys for the sweet comments on my ring! Angee524- I say go for it! We got our ring online from AfricaGems.com, and it appraised for almost 3x for what was paid for it. We also loved dealing with The Natural Sapphire Company- it is so much fun to play with their build-a-ring tool. :)
Irish- Our rings could be sisters! very stunning!
Erin- I love the yellow diamond!! That is very pretty!
Hello Deux!
Sadly no. It's classified as slightly too red for a padparadscha. But it's as close as I'm ever going to get! :)
My ering is three clusters of diamonds, which is an new piece purchased from a jeweler. My wedding band is an old piece purchased at a local antique store that sells quite a bit of estate jewelry. For some reason, the picture won't upload-I'll try again! The photo looks like multi-colored stones, not sure why, but they are all regular colored diamonds.
My ering is three clusters of diamonds, which is an new piece purchased from a jeweler. My wedding band is an old piece purchased at a local antique store that sells quite a bit of estate jewelry. For some reason, the picture won't upload-I'll try again! The photo looks like multi-colored stones, not sure why, but they are all regular colored diamonds.
I figured it out! :) Here they are! I was totally disinterested in single diamond or traditional styles. I have never cared for pave' or clusters before, but found myself drawn to those styles and also to more vintage style jewelry. My ering is three clusters, my fiance picked it out bc he said I'm engaged to three of you, not one of you (I have 5 year old boy/girl twins) and it has three clusters in it. I just love it!
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I don't have an engagement ring, technically, but I do have a ring that looks kind of engagement-y that I wear in my left ring finger (mostly because people got confused when I told them I was getting married and that there was no ring... or proposal...) that he bought me for unrelated reasons this past summer... it's a mystic topaz, and I love it.
Our wedding rings aren't really traditional either - they're titanium bands with a four letter word translated into binary engraved on the outside (with our initials, date, and the infinity symbol on the inside). We're getting married 10/10/10 so we went with a binary theme 
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Our rings aren't terribly traditional either. He knew I don't care much for diamonds and but I LOVE pearls, so my engagement ring is a pearl. My wedding band is something we found at an estate sale and is roughly 70 years old. And his ring is titanium with Amboina wood inlay, made in Hawaii. PS - Loveland Pass is where he proposed while hiking the continental divide. -sigh-
All of your rings are beautiful!!! Tradition or not, what's you is you!
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Not traditional here either....we went the sapphire route. My FI is also looking at unique titanium rings.
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I love all the sapphire rings! I want a blue sapphire ring, but my boy is rather traditional and wants to get me a diamond. After a lot of searching, I think I found a good compromise. I saw a sapphire in a setting that I adored (which is what prompted me to want a sapphire to begin with), and after looking at a diamond in that setting, I realized that also looked pretty good :) so that's what we'll be getting soon.
I agree that it is more than ok to be un-traditional with rings now, especially if you want your ring done ethically.
I am choosing to go locally and have my jewelry handmade. I live in Los Angeles and am having my ring made by Liza Shtromberg Jewelry. They custom design wedding and engagement rings and do everything in Los Angeles. And you can choose your metal and stone. You don't have to go with diamonds. They also do custom designed male wedding bands.
I'm getting all of my jewelry here, including cz earrings for all of my bridesmaids.
Here's the ones I am looking at. I think they're gorgeous.
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This is my engagement ring from Kwiat. Center stone is not my style either, and I chose this one because it has a fun design. Everyone comments that they have never seen one like mine before, and I take that as a compliment big time.
Yesterday we were looking at bands, and determined that a plain white gold band does not do my ring justice. Sadly, a lovely diamond eternity band does, but I would rather have a couch that doesn't look like it lived in a frat house at one time, so we went with these from Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21377334
I love that I can match his, and I also love the price! I plan on wearing my wedding band on my right hand most days, and my left hand in situations where I would rather not wear the diamonds :)
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not engaged yet.. but I'm with those that went with the non center stones. I actually just started a thread about it but i'm glad i found this one... everyone's rings look so gorgeous! the bf and I have been discussing rings and we want to go with the flush look. here's the one i have my eye on....... hopefully we'll get engaged soon and i can post a picture of it on my finger!
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I love my ring - it was designed by Ann McKay and the diamonds are "recycled" from antique rings. My H2B is a traditionalist who was against a colored center stone at first and who wanted a platinum setting instead of yellow gold but when he saw her designs in person, he was sold! Not to mention her prices are amazing compared to what we're used to in NJ!
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