  My brain is still catching up from missing two days of work, so I fear I haven’t had time to properly formulate a blog entry today. So I’ll, cop out and do a wedding update. Boo and I went to urlLink Mayfair Jewelers yesterday to meet with the big honcho about getting custom rings. You see, my engagement ring is kind of unique (I am not skilled enough to post the picture, sorry)… It has what they call a knife edge running around the band, and then there is a princess cut (square) diamond weighing .5 karats in the middle, with 6 teensy weensy princess cut diamonds on each side. The setting is platinum and the band is white gold. Anyway with the knife edge, and with my engagement ring being so wide, the normal wedding bands look funny with it. So, this appointment for custom rings went very efficiently. We explained to him that we wanted to mimic the knife edge (actually, we said “ridge” the jeweler told us it was a “knife edge”), and we wanted it to lay right with the engagement ring, and we wanted Boo’s ring to match as well. The guy said very quickly, we can do the knife edge, and we’ll put a single row of princess cut diamonds in it to mimic the engagement ring.
He took a Polaroid of my engagement ring, and explained the process. Within a week, they will fax us sketches of the two rings, and we have to approve them or request changes. Then once they are approved, they will make wax ones, and we have to approve those. They will take my engagement ring for 10 days to line up the stones in both rings, and make sure they look right. Finally we will have rings to try on and approve, and pay for. Boo went to like, eight jewelers before he picked my engagement ring at this store, and he feels confident that they will do a good job on custom rings. I am willing to go over budget on them because, after all we are going to wear them for the rest of our lives! 
