A remarkable thing

A month or so ago, when my fiance and I were in Asheville meeting with cake vendors, we decided to look for wedding bands. We went to an independently owned place first with no luck. High prices and nothing that suited me. My fiance bought just the engagement ring, so because of the nature of the ring, I was having a hard time finding a band that matched to my liking. We then went to the mall and looked for rings in 3 different stores there. Nothing.

On Friday the 13th my fiance took a day off of work to run wedding errands with me. Before we headed out to Asheville we stopped at Hollifield Jewelers here in town. There's two jewelers here in town, but I picked this one to go to first since they were the nicest to me on the phone.

So we're looking at bands and again, I can't seem to find anything I really like. There's the wrap-arounds that make it look more like a set, but those have diamonds and are therefore more expensive. The lady pulls out some regular bands and I demonstrate how they just look funny and what exactly I'm looking for. We even start discussing custom made bands and how expensive they can be. On a fluke she pulls a band out that in my mind now, just glows of brilliance while the Hallelujah Chorus is playing.

This ring is perfect. Well, about 95% perfect. It doesn't match completely, but it's perty darn close. It's white gold and raised a little like my engagement ring, it has a notch in it that enables one of the prongs to fit into (therefore making it fit closer together and look more like a set), it was inexpensive, and a size 6. My exact size. Apparently it was left over from another set where someone didn't want the band. Ridiculous.

I went home with it that day. And my fiance had to hide it from me because I kept putting it on & trying to wear it.

Oh yeah, and he bought his there too. ;o)