Rings and things

Doesn't it look like he's about to punch you?...

So we had a very productive day today.  We met with Father Joven at 10 to basically turn in the paperwork for the wedding.  The church will be $600, music etc will be extra, and I guess I'll take that up with Grace.

Then we went to the MoVal house to work in the front yard.

Then back to wedding things, we headed to the mall for more ring shopping.  Yesterday we went to Victoria Gardens: Ben Bridge, Zales, Helzberg, and Kay.  We found that he likes two tone rings, it didn't really matter the metal.  It was more about what was aesthetically appealing to him.  He liked the pin stripes in some rings.  He disliked thick bands, bands that were too plain, bands that were too shiny.  

Armed with some prices, we continued shopping today, and happened upon a Daniel's jewelry store.  There we found the ring in the picture above.  It was completely different in style and color from the rings we had been looking at before. We hadn't really seen any dark/black colored rings and the stripes on the rings had mostly been inlays, rather than grooves.  But it was a striking ring, and we did ended up ordering it.  (Though there was a moment at another jewelry store where the guy told us if we paid cash we could get a tungsten ring we were looking at for $100...which he tried to sell also by saying for that price we could come back and get another one anytime... which totally did NOT sell it for me, as I would prefer that if we're buying a wedding ring it's a forever thing!)  The sales lady who helped us was a nice Filipino lady who also threw in a pair of cubic zirconium heart studs, a $50 gift certificate redeemable at the same jewelry store, and a cranberry scented candle.

We finished off the shopping trip with a trip to Chik-fil-a with a buy one entree get one free.

All in all, a productive day. ;)