Wedding Bands!

I have been SO excited to start looking for wedding bands with Mishka! This is something that there is not really a time limit on. It can be bought at any point during the engagement and I definitely would like to get these kindof things out of the way sooner rather than later.

When Mishka and I first sat down we looked at bluenile.com which is where FSIL Katerina and her husband S got their rings. Mishka's #1 pick from that site was:

Mishka liked the flat look and low price of this white gold ring. However, I actually wasn't crazy about this ring and, though I know it's Mishka's choice (or at least it was at that time :-P), I wanted to look into some other options.

So I turned to etsy.com. And I discovered wood in-layed rings. I LOVED them. I feverishly sent a few links to Mishka and he loved them too. To show you a few designs we fell in love with:

This one isn't so much wood as wood looking, but it still gives a bit of embellishment to the flat white gold ring.

This ring even has a bit of bling in it. Yes that is a diamond. The black bands on either side is a very dark stained wood. I actually really love the look of this ring, but Mishka wasn't crazy about the diamond in it and the additional dollars that diamond meant.

I LOVE the look of red wood. If I was picking a wood ring for myself, it would be with wood like this, but Mishka liked wood that was darker brown so we moved right along...

We both loved these. I think the look is gorgeous, and is decorative without looking gaudy or overdone. However, Mishka thought he would like some more metal in his ring so we moved on...

Again, we both loved this. Sparkly, unique... but could we do even better?

This is our current favorite. The dark wood, the silver strip on the right. It's unusual even among the wood ring crowd. And it looks as if it's two different rings welded together, similar to my wedding band which actually is two different rings welded together. Plus, the amount of metal means that I can even add a message on the inside of the ring if I wanted (which I definitely think I might do ;) ).

And now I read somewhere that the woman is supposed to buy the wedding band for her husband as a surprise, similar to how he bought her engagement ring as a surprise. I told this to Mishka and long story short, buying the ring is now totally in my hands. So the question becomes... do I go with our current favorite? Or do I search for a similar ring that I can surprise him with on our wedding day? (And would I even be able to keep it a secret from him? Maybe not...)

I'll keep you posted.