My anniversary was 9/15. It was our 5th. When we were first married I never got a wedding band. I have been wearing only my engagement ring since then. The reason we never bought the wedding band was because we bought a house just two months after our wedding. Actually, we didn't even go on a honeymoon for this same reason. We bought a real fixer-upper of a house and we had entirely too many costs related to the house to spend money on frivolities. We did take some vacation time from work right after our wedding just to spend some time together and have a "honeymoon" at home.
So, we always said that on some anniversary we'd buy the wedding band to match my engagement ring. The ring was made by a company named Fotiny& Co. Here's a picture of the ring right after Lacy gave it to me. I didn't have the nice camera then, but I'd rather use that photo than taking a new one for some reason.
You can't see in the pictures, but the whole underside is engraved with a design. When I look at it (and I do often gaze at it) I think that every detail was considered when it was designed. Can you tell that I really love the ring my husband picked for me?
Lacy was told when he purchased the ring that I would need to send the engagement ring back to California, to Fotiny's design location, so that the wedding ring could be fitted specially around the engagement ring. The ring sits at such a low profile that this really does seem necessary. It always made me nervous about sending the ring across the country, but I am willing because I do want the wedding band badly.
For our wedding I acutally used a gold band that we bought at at pawn shop for $10 in North Myrtle Beach for the ceremony. It was about 3 sizes too big, but never intended on wearing it; only using for the ceremonial act. I still have the pawn shop ring. I saved it, along with some other keepsakes, for scrapbooking purposes. Of course, I never made a wedding scrapbook. It was a small wedding, so there wasn't that much to save and commemorate in a scrapbook. Plus the album from the photographer turned out so nicely that it seemed like a waste of time to do it. For a long time I just carried that pawn shop ring around in my purse. I finally put it in my jewelry box for safe keeping.
So, time has passed. We spent our money renovating our first house and investing in the stock market. I never fussed about not having a wedding band or considered it a priority. But, I think we both always assumed that on our 5th anniversary we would drive down to Columbia, SC to the jeweler where Lacy bought the engagement ring, order the wedding band and have him mail off my engagement ring to match it correctly.
However, a snag in that plan occurred. Close to three weeks before our 5th anniversary, we decided to buy a new house. Another fixer-upper. It was my in-laws old house which sat on the market for quite a while, then off the market... a few minor renovations done, but essentially no one lived in the house for almost six years. So, when we bought the house, along with it came a laundry list of repairs to be made.
And there went my wedding band. Another house; another postponement of the symbol of our eternal love. We already have a contractor working on the house, so that should be complete soon. As I mentioned in my last post, I have a new job, so hopefully we'll get some cash freed up soon for this purchase that continues to be pushed down the priority ladder.
I occasionally browse Fotiny's website and I wanted to embed some pictures from their website of some jewelry I like, but the website isn't conducive to copying links. Check it out though, http://fotiny.com/
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