rings
First comes love, then comes what?
Boy meets girl. Boy dates girl. Boy loves girl. Boy buys ring. Boy proposes to girl with the ring. Boy and girl plan the wedding.
…and so the story goes.
As I mentioned last week, my fiance came to Chicago last weekend to check out and book a wedding venue together. We have identified our #1, #2, and #3 venues and are working on the guest list to see if we can squeeze into #1. So our choice will have to wait until next week. Our decision is almost made and we are moving on to other important decisions, in our case, picking out an engagement ring.
I ALWAYS thought my engagement story would read like the first paragraph of this post. But actually…it is even better. My fiance proposed to me in Africa, the place that brought us together in the first place (we were Peace Corps volunteers there) and where I was working all of last year. He came to visit me in the Sahara Desert and given those circumstances, opted to propose with a “temporary ring” and then choose THE ring together when I got back to Chicago.
Within days of getting engaged, I realized I needed to set my priorities straight, and venue shopping was at the top of my list. However, now that that chapter is ALMOST done, I’ve moved my focus BACK to the ring. I would have been happy with ANY ring my fiance picked out and am happy with the temporary band, but he has explained that in addition to the precarious circumstances outlining our engagement in Africa and how dangerous and risky it would have been to bring a diamond, he wants to make the ring decision together since its as major of a life decision for him as us buying our first place together – in other words, he wants us both to be happy with it. And I am happy with that.
