The Ring

My ring is a little bit special, not only because it starts the next stage of my life with the h2b, but because of the history behind it. About 6 months ago we mentioned to the future mother-in-law that we were starting to think about marriage but were concerned about finding the right ring that was ethical yet beautiful. A few days later my h2b informed me that his mum had offered him two rings, one from each of his grandmothers a solitaire diamond set in 18ct gold and another 18ct gold ring with 7 small diamonds in it. We could go with them as we pleased. This meant that I could re-use the diamonds – meaning that I wasn’t going to be contributing further to the diamond mining industry.

I had a think about what I’d like to do and decided to approach our local jeweller about a design I had in mind. I wanted to take the large diamond from solitaire, and two diamonds from the other ring and have them put into a ring that resembled a shooting star.  Tara, the jeweller, understood what I wanted and proceeded to make a mock-up for me. Once we’d agreed a few changes from that I left it up to the h2b to finalise the details. A few weeks later and my 18ct white gold ring with three diamonds was complete, stamped and ready to be collected.

Here it is…

I plan to use the gold and remaining diamonds in some other way that is linked to the wedding, but I’m not sure how yet