My engagement ring came back from the goldsmith! I never thought I would be such a girl as to go ga ga over something like a diamond ring, but I LOVE IT! I keep tossing my hand towards sources of light to look at my pretty hand!
There are many cool things to be said about this ring though. First off, the diamond, which Matt proposed with, belonged to his Aunt Kathy, who passed away from cancer, and the diamond was handed down from Matt's mother, to me.
I chose the setting, which is a 1920's engagement ring in white gold. This ring is completely unique, only one in the world! The history of its making and surviving the times is very interesting: Engagement rings like this were usually not set with diamonds. Instead they were usually set with a colored stone, of the girl's choosing, and worn on the left hand until the wedding day, when it would be switched to the right - flapper bling, if you will. Rings with detail like this were not filligreed, as they are today. Gold would be poured into a die cut mold which was then pressed with up to 10,000 lbs of pressure, thus, even if you were to use the same mold, each ring would be different because the pressure put on the mold would vary every time. Because of the impossibility of replicating these rings, restoring them is a pain, and most are melted down. Much of the detail on the top and bottom of my setting had fallen into itself with age, and a goldsmith had to individually peg every bar to recreate what it would have looked like. And I'm SO happy with the results!
Front view...
Side view...
Top detail...
This girl is engaged!
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