By Rachel Langston

My wedding ring is on my mind today so I’ll share a few thoughts about it…

I LOVE MY RING! It is an emerald cut diamond mounted on a white gold band with channel set diamonds across the top. I have a yellow gold band with channel set diamonds on either side and all 3 bands are sautered together.

Even though he knew what I wanted, my husband picked it out by himself (at my request). I wanted him to be happy with it also and I wanted to be surprised about what it looked like and when I got it. I think he gave it to me the day he picked it up because he didn’t think he could keep the secret!

This is, actually, my 2nd wedding ring. My first one was stolen out of my house during my silver jewelry phase. During that time, I had a silver wedding band (I still have it) that I wore on the days that silver jewelry went better with my outfit for work. In April 2000, just 2 days before I found out I was pregnant with my first child, my husband called while I was at work (that was unusual). He had arrived home before me (that was not unusual) and found that our house had been burglarized. When he called, he wanted to know what color jewelry I had on that day. I told him silver and he said, “Well then, I think we have a problem.”

My ring HAD been stolen along with the watch I gave him as a wedding gift and some other pieces of jewelry. Nothing that was taken, except my wedding ring, was terribly valuable but all of it had sentimental value. Thankfully, my original ring was insured so I was able to replace it completely. Actually, that is when we made the change to white gold on the middle band. My husband wanted me to do something so that I wouldn’t feel the need to NOT wear it when I was/am wearing silver jewelry.

I can still get angry thinking about the people that broke in my house and stole my stuff while I was at work. I don’t wear my ring all the time because it doesn’t fit me as well as I would like (remember all that weight I am working on losing). Also, there are still days when I wear my silver ring.

I will never love a ring like I love this one and I pray it is the only one I’ll have from now on!

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