When I got pregnant with Harry, my fingers swelled and I gained weight and had to remove my wedding ring and engagement ring. After Harry was born my fingers didn't shrink so I haven't worn them since.
Another problem - my engagement ring was an antique from Bond Street in London. Because it's so old, the gold band actually wore so thin that it snapped at the back.
After Harry was born I took both rings to a jeweller to enquire about getting the engagement ring repaired and both of them resizing. The jeweller said that the prongs holding the diamond had also worn thin and that I was in danger of losing the stone, so should seriously consider having the stone reset into a new band. Rather than agree on the spot I took them home to consult G and then never did anything about it....... so I've basically been without rings for the last 4 years, which I really hate.
On the day Tabitha was born G presented me with this gorgeous diamond eternity ring from Tiffany..... really beautiful. This week we took it to get resized and aLso took my engagement ring to see about getting it reset. They had a fabulous new band and setting for it so we went ahead and left it to be done, and also to resize and polish my wedding ring.
Note: When did gold become unfashionable? My engagement ring and wedding ring are gold, as was the tradition when we got married, other options were not really very common or available. Now, it seems the people working in jewellery stores look at you with a bit of a sneer when they say incredulously 'you want YELLOW gold?'
But sod them, I'm really excited because this week I'll finally have my rings back plus my new glorious eternity ring and will finally stop feeling like a single mother when I'm out on my own with the kids ;-)
Posted by katie at August 19, 2007 08:20 PM