Adam and Katies 10/2/2010 SBP/Attic/?? ~ brainstorming!

[MainStMandy]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

 

[GoonieBride]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!!!

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[shippedtosea]

happy birthday dear! hope you have a good one!

 

[figment fan21]

Good luck ring shopping and have a happy birthday!

Oooo, yay!! Happy Birthday!

Ring shopping is the so fun! Take your time and enjoy?!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!!!

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happy birthday dear! hope you have a good one!

Awe thanks girls!!!!

You're all too sweet!!!! I wish i could give you all some birthday cake! I guess this will have to do...

Am I a major dweeb for thinking... "this time next year we'll be less than two months away from the wedding!!!!"

 

[Boardwalk_bride]

Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a great day!

 

[pezaddict231]

Have an awesome birthday!

 

[polynesianbride]

 

[teddygurl28]

u had a good birthdaY!!

havent been to water country in ageeees!! It has been perfect weather for it that must have been a blast!

Let us know how ring shopping went

 

[GoonieBride]

Awe thanks girls!!!!

You're all too sweet!!!! I wish i could give you all some birthday cake! I guess this will have to do...

Am I a major dweeb for thinking... "this time next year we'll be less than two months away from the wedding!!!!"

You are not a major dweeb! maybe a little one just like the rest of us. that must be why we all get along so well.

 

[tiggersam00]

happy belated b-day Katie, hope it was awesome

 

[figment fan21]

Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a great day!

Have an awesome birthday!

u had a good birthdaY!!

havent been to water country in ageeees!! It has been perfect weather for it that must have been a blast!

Let us know how ring shopping went

You are not a major dweeb! maybe a little one just like the rest of us. that must be why we all get along so well.

happy belated b-day Katie, hope it was awesome

Thanks again for all the birthday wishes girls!!! You're all too kind!

Nicole - ok i'm just a little dweeb

meghan - yes we went to water country neither one of us had been in FOREVER, it kind of lost its appeal from when we were ya know 10 years old but we made the best of it and chilled in the lazy river for a while


Ok so we went ring shopping! I called my boss at work because she is like a jewelry expert, he neices call her auntie bobbles, so i asked her where there were some good jewelers in NH because she also lives in NH. She gave me two places to go to. One of them she told me was a fairly large shop where there were TONS of things for us to check out but she warned be that she was on the more expensive side. The other place was relatively close and she said that his shop was small and family owned and operated and that they dont stock alot of jewelry but they were excellent and VERY reasonsably priced. (i should also mention that the name of the place is "joey's jewelry"... thats right ladies i went to see Joey the Jeweler )

Ok so i decided that since the first placce she told me about had alot of things to look at we'd head over there first. I must've tried on 100 wedding bands it was awesome! My original plan was to do something with pink sapphires but because my e-ring didn't have any in it, they didn't look right so i'm going with just diamonds. She was showing me alot of bands with diamonds in a channel setting (or pave if you want to get technical) and i liked it but i saw a really pretty ring that was diamonds half way around in prong settings. It was very dainty and lady like and what i liked about it was that it wasn't exactly like my e-ring but it was close enough and didn't take away from my e-ring. I also noticed a common trend with all the bands though... my e-ring is raised up towards the center stone.... so none of them looked like they truly matched. I told the women helping us and she found a band that was slightly raised (diamonds in channel setting) and had me try it on. It wasn't a perfect match but i got the idea and it totally looked ALOT better raised up. (But i still liked the diamonds in the prong settings)

Next we moved on to Adam's band. He explained to her that he is an electrician so he needed something that would hold up and that he read alot about tungsten rings. Well he HATED them! They were too bulky and he just wasn't liking them at all. So she suggested titanium to him. He LOVED those! They were very light and he found one that he LOVED! It was shiny on the sides with a matte finished thick strip in the middle.

She quoted us some prices and they were VERY high. DF's ring she was going to charge us 150$ and she said that the ring i liked was 1000$ and if I wanted her to customize it to be raised higher it would be about 1500$. Not in our budget. Especially not for exactly what i wanted. So we asked her for her card and we left. She was very nice and if you have the money thats great but yea....no


Ok so we move on to Joey the Jewler. We drove by the place twice because it is in this little hole in the wall. We walked in and like my manager said it was VERY small and not alot of things to look at. We were greeted by a young boy who i think was joey's son. (joey was helping another person) He was very sweet and asked us how he could help us. We told him that we were on the hunt for some wedding bands and that we had looked at another shop and got an idea of what we liked. DF explained that he really liked the titanium band and the kid (we'll call him DJS for for darling joey's son) handed DF a book and said go to page "whatever" and there are a whole bunch of titanium rings to look at find on you like and i'll let you know when we can get it for you and what price. COOL! So while DF went looking through the catalog he asked me what i was looking for, i explained what i wanted and how it would need to be raised up a bit. He asked for my e-ring and he studied it for like 10 mins. He said that he could absolutly make me something custom to what i wanted. YAY! So DF came back over and low and behold there was the ring from the other shop in the book! So DJS looked it up and said ok so for the Gent's band it'll be 55$ and for the custom Ladies Band it'll be roughly 400-500$ Thats one heck of a difference. DJS must've seen our faces and he said "ya know we can always work on the price, just let me know when you two are ready to get going and i'll take good care of you!" He handed us his card and we told him that we would definatly be back!

So DF and I decided that once the time gets alittle closer we'll be heading back over to go see DJS and get out wedding bands! I am super psyched! His prices were totally in our budget, it was exactly what we wanted to spend. I have enough money saved to get both rings made but DF said he'd be too worried that we'd end up wearing them early if we had them done now, which he is absolutly right.

So that is our wedding band story. I'm off to go do some laundry. Have a good day ladies!

 

[MainStMandy]

Oh yay!! I am so glad you guys found something you like. Isn't it crazy how expensive wedding bands are!?!? Especially for men, lol. Df tried on one he loved and it was $1500!!!! Can't wait to see what you end up picking.

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

OK first, Happy Belated Birthday!

Second, YEAH for wedding bands! Your DF is right...We have ours and I can't wait to wear mine and I'm pretty certain my DF feels the same way. Either way, we have them and not we have to wait for (check my ticker) to wear them!

 

[shippedtosea]

yay! thats awesome! I'm glad you guys had a good experience getting rings. Can't wait to see them!

 

[Pirate's Princess]

Happy Belated Birthday!!

And that's awesome that you found better deals on the rings!!

 

[tiggersam00]

yay for Joey the jewler!! How awesome you found nice affordable bands, one more thing to check off the list Katie!!

 

[GoonieBride]

that is soo crazy your DF's ring is $55 at the mom and pop shop and then they chain store wanted to charge $1500!!!! my jaw dropped honestly it did! thank goodness your gonna get the rings you want and in your budget! that is always a plus!

 

[polynesianbride]

Congrats Katie that is such an awesome deal on the bands AND you are getting EXACTLY what you want- what a find!

 

[figment fan21]

Oh yay!! I am so glad you guys found something you like. Isn't it crazy how expensive wedding bands are!?!? Especially for men, lol. Df tried on one he loved and it was $1500!!!! Can't wait to see what you end up picking.

OK first, Happy Belated Birthday!

Second, YEAH for wedding bands! Your DF is right...We have ours and I can't wait to wear mine and I'm pretty certain my DF feels the same way. Either way, we have them and not we have to wait for (check my ticker) to wear them!

yay! thats awesome! I'm glad you guys had a good experience getting rings. Can't wait to see them!

Happy Belated Birthday!!

And that's awesome that you found better deals on the rings!!

yay for Joey the jewler!! How awesome you found nice affordable bands, one more thing to check off the list Katie!!

that is soo crazy your DF's ring is $55 at the mom and pop shop and then they chain store wanted to charge $1500!!!! my jaw dropped honestly it did! thank goodness your gonna get the rings you want and in your budget! that is always a plus!

Congrats Katie that is such an awesome deal on the bands AND you are getting EXACTLY what you want- what a find!

Awe thanks girls! It made me feel alot better to know that we now have somewhere to go get them when we are ready. And i love that mine will be custom made! I was really nervouse because we aren't really jewelry experts and were worried about the whole experience. So yes, one less thing i have to worry about

 

[LLLBelle]

Happy Belated Birthday!

That's an awesome deal