This is the ring I'm thinking about getting to match my engagement ring. That way I'll match him and the ring I'm already wearing.
I just think the titanium rings look wicked! They also have a Tungston Carbide series. I REALLY dig the tension settings , but I didn't go with one. My finger size changes so much, I thought it be too much trouble to get it resized because you have to send it back to the company to do it. And, what if the company goes out of business?
Anyway, what do y'all think?
Edit: to fix my fiance's ring link.
[ April 28, 2004, 11:21 AM: Message edited by: aretee ]
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Super, super cool.... but too rich for my blood. I'm planning on choosing rings that we can lose without too much heartache. Maybe the Target sale of the week. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Titanium maybe, it looks so pretty from the light. But, I could never give my beloved a tungsten carbide ring. I deal with the stuff every day since we use it in rotating shaft seal manufacturing and I just couldn't.
AJ
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
As an engineer, the idea of a titanium ring is way cool. There was a guy that made his own titanium ring on a lathe in the machine shop.
I considered getting a titanium ring, but I heard horror stories of people's fingers swelling up because of an accident, and the emergency workers not being able to cut the ring off because it was titanium. That perhaps was just an urban legend, but it scared me enough that decided not to get one.
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
Oh, AJ, I like that. It's very different and I like that.
My fiance works in engineering at a nuclear power plant and he rides mountain bikes. So, combine the two and he really digs the titanium.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
A $225 ring is too "rich" for you Ayelar? Maybe you can't even afford to get married.....
j/k
Farmgirl
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
I love the one you picked for him. Very cool.
I also like that all of them look so wonderfully practical. Ring shopping was such a pain because the jewelry store people kept trying to put bigger and bigger stones on my finger. My not so fabulously large engagement ring was already cutting thought gloves at work, I didn't want an even bigger ring!
The engineer in me also loves the idea of titanium.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Those tension settings are awesome!
AJ
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I especially liked the gold inlay one. Class and titanium!
Hobbes Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
I wanted a tension setting so badly. I may get one with a colored stone just to wear on another finger. They are just wicked.
There are other websites with more of a selection. That site is nice...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Farmgirl, I'd guess that she, like me, has other plans for the money than a ring. (That's a charmingly subtle way of describing non-girly/"not big into jewelry & would lose it anyway"/happily-debt-free-skinflint, at least in my case. I can't vouch for Ayelar, but I sense a bit of kindred in her soul.)
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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
AJ, the piece of Mars is awesome. (I can't see the others from a worksite, but they sound quite cool, too.)
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I like celia's engagement present. They have an entire series of giant framed color Dali prints that are just awesome!
AJ
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I really was joking, CT --- my last wedding ring was a $40 band from the pawn shop (figured we needed the money for other things).
But I always wished for a Black Hills Gold ring from South Dakota -- maybe for an anniversary or something...... (won't ever happen now)
Farmgirl
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Silver colour is best baby... Go for the white gold or platinum (mithril).
But yes...those rings are awesome. I think the new titanium rings are stellar.
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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
BTW, those aren't urban legands, I know someone who it happend to...not them personally, but they work in the ER, and it happened to one of their painents.
They got the ring off, but it was a lot harder to do than of it had been gold or platininum.
I like them, but JenniK and I went with plain white gold bands. We tried to order celtic inspired rings from our local jewler, but he had delivery problems. The first ones we picked would have been shiooed from Turkey, but the import business lost it's import licences. We then tried a company that he reccommended, as he had done a lot more business with them than with the first company.
Two weeks before the wedding, he called to tell us that they were having a problem geting it in. We told him to get los, and just went with plain bands, and I think that we were better off that way. JenniK wants to upgrade at some point, but I think we should keep these because they are the rings we were wearing when we said our vows...
Kwea
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Dadgumit, my wedding ring ain't gonna cost me no more than $20 if I can help it!
$225, now, that would make for a pretty nice food processor....
[ April 28, 2004, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Ayelar ]
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
quote: The first ones we picked would have been shiooed from Turkey, but the import business lost it's import licences.
Shiooing problems eh? Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Canadian engineers generally refuse to wear a titanium wedding ring as it scratches their iron ring. And they generally worked harder to get the iron ring than their spouse Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
omg, you've chosen the exact same set of dishes that I want! I already have the little ice cream bowls.
Registering seems so distant right now.... I haven't even gotten my act together with hiring an officiant, caterer, chairs, band, and on and on and..... *stressstressstress*.
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
Well, we both have good taste, huh? My fiance's daughters helped me pick them out.
My mother is doing all of that. I picked out my dress & fixings, and I hired my photograhpers (they are both friends of mine). LDS ceremonies are easy to plan for as they are free and you just make a phone call.
So, my mom is stressed and I'm not. I like it that way. I don't care what the center pieces look like. My cake will have white and chocolate cake, so I don't care what it looks like. The food? Who cares, I've never seen a bride who actually ate because she was too busy talking to people.
My stress will be getting my fiance's daughter's dresses through the airports without destroying them. (Getting wrinkled...etc.)
It helps that my mom is doing everything because I live in Texas and all the festivities are taking place in Missouri.
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
ooohhh! pretty - I've just gotta find somone who'll ask me to marry them now!
I like the tungsten ones, the mars ring is brilliant. Most of the tension rings are gorgeous but only if its a single stone the one with lots on the band are to over the top. I'm a plain and simple 40ct single stone girl - tehehehe Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Oh man.... I just had to drop off my engagement ring to be resized. (down, fortunatley)
My finger feels so naked! Where do they sell those little plastic rings? Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
I love my titanium wedding band (PSI and her husband have the same ones slacker and I have - the one at the top left).
You do need to be very careful about the size that you get, since they cannot be resized (and yes, they are much more difficult to cut off should that ever need to be done).
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Well, we both have good taste, huh? My fiance's daughters helped me pick them out.