bling.

i love my wedding ring. a lot. like, to the point where hubby teases me about be materialistic. which i'm not. i just really, really love this ring(s) -technically it's a set.

but i'll let you in on a little secret. this ring that i wear everyday and stare at during boring lectures and purposely position to sparkle in the sun while i'm driving to see if it will blind passing motorists, is not in fact the same ring that was slipped on my finger in march of 2007 when hubby proposed. nor is it the same ring that was placed on my hand when he said 'i do.'

hubby proposed when i was a freshman in college majoring in journalism and he was working part time at a movie theater and taking community college classes with no major in sight. i believe in total my wedding ring set cost under two hundred dollars. but i loved it. it was my most prized possession because it meant i was going to marry my dream guy.

a few months before the wedding, hubby got hired at the company where he still works and is building his lifetime career and i switched my major to communication disorders in preparation for becoming a speech therapist. our life was slowly starting to fall into place.



i have no idea why it's all woodsy.



fast forward to our second wedding anniversary. i had a diploma on the wall and was preparing to start graduate school, hubby got a promotion at work, we now had our first kitten-baby. and for a christmas/anniversary/graduation/valentine's combo gift, i got a new ring set. i'll start with the obvious- it's a much larger diamond than my original ring. and since my favorite color is polka dots, i adore the smaller, round diamonds that make up the bands. and i love that when i put them on, they do not fit perfectly flush against one another but instead make a cute, quirky zig-zaggy gap.

but most importantly, i love that two years after we were married, after two new jobs, a big major change and decision to go to grad school, after living with me, helping me through the bad and helping create the good, and despite the fact that neither one of us were still exactly who we were when we got engaged, hubby still felt sure enough about us to make the committment all over again. so when people ask if i get sad or dissappointed that it's not the 'ring with all the meaning,' i politely let them know that there is more meaning in this ring than there is in the whole dictionary.

and that is why this wedding ring set is now my most prized posession, and my original is in second place.