Illustration Friday - Shiny
This weeks Illustration Friday theme is “shiny”. This coincides very well with my current hunt for a wedding ring! I’ve been doing research on rings and the cost of them… some are wow… quite expensive. I’m not limited to wedding “band” shopping either. My engagement ring, which I do totally love, is curved and wont sit flush against a wedding band and it’s also a teeny tiny bit big for my left hand but fits perfectly on my right. So pushing all traditions aside I’m going to move my engagement ring over to my right hand and pick a ring I like to wear as a single wedding ring on my left.
I’m pretty astonished at the price of diamonds… I’m really not one to have ever thought, noticed or cared about them and they cost a motza! I also question the ethical practices and process of diamond mining. I’ve been researching an alternative stone called moissanite, it has been found in meteor craters (so basically it’s from outer space… right… awesome!), and is apparently just as dense as diamond, however it seems less common (in stores etc that is). I have more research and deciding to do and I do want to select something that lasts forever and I might just end up picking diamond… but I’d like to think I’d made an informed decision if/when I do.
Is your engagement or wedding ring made using something something unusual or different… something other than diamond? I’d love to hear about it if it is!
Good on you for considering the ramifications of diamond purchasing. We ended up going with a diamond but got it from a jeweler that didn’t deal with blood diamonds. I know that is a thing you need to watch out for but don’t know how prevalent it is nowadays. But moissanite sounds pretty rad! I hope you can find one in Australia.
My engagement ring is a diamond and like yours it didn’t sit nicely next to a band. I didn’t want the engagment ring modified or a band with a chunk missing so I just chose a ring I liked with the intent that it would be worn on the other hand. I wear my engagement ring on my wedding finger and my wedding band on my right hand. It was meant to be the other way around but we were so used to seeing my engagment ring on the left so I kept it there. The ‘band’ is set with three emeralds and some microscopic diamonds. All square cut because I like squares!
Could you buy the moissanite overseas then have it made into a ring here? We did that with my engagement ring.
I have the one band… A curved hand-beaten white gold and silver band with a half-carat oval diamond. It wasn’t meant to be my wedding band, but somehow morphed into both engagement and wedding ring. It came from a jeweler in Canberra; mad as a cut snake, wonderfully over the top and makes EVERYTHING from scratch. Peter’s band is extraordinary; it makes me jealous, and I’m the one with the rock! I have my anniversary piece all picked out… He’ll be my jeweler “for life” and he specialises in unusual stones. So I’m set for the next … …
Thanks for all your comments, it’s wonderfully interesting to know what others have done! I’m still deciding. Can get Moissanite in Australia though which is good :D