Showing posts with label traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditions. Show all posts

Friday, June 18, 2010

#45 Engaged... Again!



The night before our engagement-ish celebration in Melbourne, my engagement ring met with a fate worse than death...
Well ok not actually worse, but it did die. Violently.
Lucky I'm not superstitious hey?
What followed was a lot of ridiculous behavior by one jewelers who shall remain nameless.

However. Happily - 3 months later - I have some sparkling new bling!

I haven't taken any photos & I'm feeling lazy having been working on long overdue Save the Dates as well as Wedding Favours all night, but I've found this picture from the wonderful wide web that is mightily similar...












As with my first ill fated engagement ring, it is a LOT more traditional than what I would have expected myself to like?
It's very different to my usual taste in jewelery, which is big & chunky whereas this is quite fine.
I did play with the idea of an Amber ring for a while, a big & chunky one, but came to the realisation that although I'm not someone who has been planning their wedding since they were little or in all honesty even believed i would ever get married, I LIKE that it looks like an engagement ring... I also feel oddly guilty for that?

Anyhow.

I feel ever so lucky & I LOVES it!

x


Thursday, February 25, 2010

#30 Garters...


I don't love them.

It may be sad, but it is the truth.
There is just an overwhelming amount of bridal garter kitsch out there! Kitsch is not the right word. Think of a worse word & please apply it.

Once I saw a garter that was gorgeous but the price tag was the kind that pained you to even look at. Haven't been able to find it again so even if my money tree did finally begin to flourish...

I informed Mr N that I would not be partaking in garter-ness. He objected.
So I am rethinking & keeping an eye out for a garter that doesn't give me reason to object.

Here are some that I have found & don't mind....





Or, perhaps I should mix it up? Whatcha reckon? ;)


There is also the matter of the tradition/origin of the 'Garter toss'... It's all a bit much?
Here's an interesting link if you would like a little history lesson...
And really, does the 'modern age man' really give 2 hoots about it all?!

Did you/Didn't you? Will you/Won't you? What do you think of it all?