Sharxfan
Well-known member
I don't have a pic yet but today was my 25th wedding anniversary. My wife's wedding ring broke quite a few years ago and she has been wanting to get it fixed. I am the worst at remembering to do stuff so that explains the years of her waiting for me to get it fixed so I decided today was the day. So my wife has been telling me all these years that getting her ring fixed will be expensive so I was like okay then if its too much to fix then why don't you just pick a new set. If ya'll know my wife she is very sentimental about stuff so that was not her optimal outcome but she was like okay let's see. So I took here to the mall to look at one of the chain stores and turns out the malls don't open until 11am anymore. WTF??? So seeing as it was 10am when we got there I was like Google to the rescue. We found a small local store a little bit away and so I said lets go hit that store for a bit and we can come back here later and see if they have anything. We walk in the place was pretty nice and the girl came over to help us out. We asked about fixing the ring and she said sure they could do it but couldn't get a price for a bit. I was like how long because we are looking to either fix or replace today. So while she was writing stuff up my wife started to browse the selection they had and while she did that for a bit the girl came back and said the owner had taken a look and said $275. I had to ask again and she said again $275. I looked at my wife and saw that was what she wanted to do, I was kind of hoping she would want a new one as when we got married I was pretty poor and it was not the best thing by far but being who she is she wanted that ring so we told them to go ahead and fix it and resize.
So as we were walking out and we got to the car I said babe how about we get the ring fixed but we get a better stone one that's a lot more sparkly. She said well lets see what they have so we went back in and talked to the same salesperson and she went and got some loose stones that were the same cut and of a size that would fit the setting. So she looked at a few and picked a higher grade diamond that's about a half carat bigger and way more sparkly. While I was paying the piper for the new rock she was perusing some men's wedding bands and found one we both liked as I am not really a gold person and my original wedding band is gold but the one she found is black with a pattern that looks kind of celtic/renaissance vibe. So it was a win-win day for us and just wanted to share. Will post a pic when it is all done in about 2 weeks. In the immortal words of Ice Cube Today was a Good Day.
So as we were walking out and we got to the car I said babe how about we get the ring fixed but we get a better stone one that's a lot more sparkly. She said well lets see what they have so we went back in and talked to the same salesperson and she went and got some loose stones that were the same cut and of a size that would fit the setting. So she looked at a few and picked a higher grade diamond that's about a half carat bigger and way more sparkly. While I was paying the piper for the new rock she was perusing some men's wedding bands and found one we both liked as I am not really a gold person and my original wedding band is gold but the one she found is black with a pattern that looks kind of celtic/renaissance vibe. So it was a win-win day for us and just wanted to share. Will post a pic when it is all done in about 2 weeks. In the immortal words of Ice Cube Today was a Good Day.
