Two Wedding Rings

I was once having a chat with a friend of mine who had just finished celebrating her wedding, and while I was admiring her wedding ring, a beautifully designed platinum band with a mount of three small diamonds, the thought of that beauty of a ring getting ruined or having one of those expensive diamonds lost crossed my mind. And because of this naughty thought of mine I heard myself asking her if she didn’t ever considered of buying two extra wedding rings. She looked at me kind of puzzled and asked what was the meaning of my question. They were already two, why should she need other two wedding rings for?

Then the thought that she would start pretty soon her work and knowing that she used her hands on those metallic and heavy machineries (she is a lathe-woman by trade, a manly job, I have to admit) was the first thing to answer her back as the only reason of my question. She looked back pensively saying that this idea would have never crossed her mind; she was thinking also at her job meant to be attended to pretty soon, but she rather considered the option of simply removing the wedding ring while performing the job.

Well, it was fine by me, but what if some day with all this taking out and putting back on, she would drop it somewhere or simply loose track of it? What then? She admitted that I had a point on this one, and told me that she would consider the matter together with her husband. At the same time she asked me if I had any piece of advice to give her in this situation, and I replied that if I were her, I would buy another set of two wedding rings, resembling this one but made only of silver or sterling steel with some stones to imitate the diamonds mounting as well, these being enough to wear at the working place while the others are left at home, preserved for the moments where their safety from scratching or losing is ensured.

She gratefully thanked me and told me that the moment her husband agreed with my idea they will go to the jeweler who had their wedding bands made and propose him to have the same wedding bands made out of a less precious metal with less priced stones and the day they will start working to replace the original ones with the replicated ones. I convinced her that it was a really good idea; in this way they would have kept the same shape of the ring that was the object of their vows exchanging and their eternal commitment in the place guarded by the omnipresence of the divinity, blessing the act of their marriage.

And after all, who wouldn’t like to have the chance to save the wedding rings from getting matted or ruined because of their life time wearing? I know that some things look better with their overall worn out aspect, it is the patina of time that gives a certain elegance and style of the thing, but wedding rings are the ones that we need to see them in everyday of their exposure as fresh as the day one, the day that brought the love in our soul with the perfume of eternity so well rendered by the circle shape of the life time wedding bands.

Written by WeddingRings, date Sep 12, 2009 in Uncategorized |
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