Help me design my ring - finished! photo on page 2

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My wedding ring kinda crapped out on me. It was a 8mm wide white gold band with two sapphire flowers that had diamond centers. Because of the poor way the jeweler attached my flowers, I kept losing stones. I haven't worn my ring for 3 years, and I'm tired of not having one. So I get to get a new ring!!!

I've ordered in a 12mm wide white gold, pipe cut band. Like this one.


I'm going to have the sapphires and diamonds set in the ring like this but not in this pattern.



I need help deciding the placement of the stones. I've got 10 sapphires and 2 diamonds. I can order in more diamonds if I want.

Right now I'm leaning towards having them set in a row but offset from the center. And going with a pattern, sapphire, sapphire, diamond, sapphire, sapphire, diamond.

Whadda think?
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[LooseyMama]

Mr. Mama and I picked my engagement ring together, from an antique store in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It was totally NOT what I thought I wanted: I thought I wanted a white gold or platinum ring with an elaborate antique setting. And instead I chose a simple yellow-gold band with a solitaire. It's a "mine-cut" stone, meaning it was cut at the mine, roughly, to determine the grade of the stone and how much it could be sold for. I'll tell you a secret: the diamond in my engagement ring has a big old flaw right in the middle of it that you can see if you look carefully through a loupe. But apparently someone had it set for some sentimental reason, and some woman wore it for alot of years -- you can tell by the wear on the band. We had the setting checked and the (can't think of the term) bendy-over-points renewed so I wouldn't lose the stone.

But we got it. You know why? For me it's metaphorical of my life: there's this big old ugly reality that's close to the heart of my history, and yet the pressure of the world made this beautiful stone around it. And it's not been "perfected" with a perfectly round cut. And it's beautiful. It catches the light, and makes me happy. To the naked eye, it's just a beautiful solitaire. And this incredible man who makes me so happy wanted to get me exactly what I wanted.

My point in telling you this? You just might want to consider a design that's less than perfectly symmetrical, less than "perfect" in some way. Because that's how life is, that's how marriage is, and seeing your wedding band can remind you of it. When I have the presence of mind to notice my engagement ring when I'm in "a bad space," it's a good reminder of life's messiness, and yet life's wonder.

*shrug* It's a thought. And the design you've suggested sounds beautiful, too.
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LuciMama, as usual, you touch me and inspire me.
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[LooseyMama]

Aww, I'm glad you liked my story. I'm a sentimental old broad....

I was thinking about your flowers. And flowers, you know, are really perfect in their imperfection. You could have them reset with the petals a little out of symmetry, for example. Or one with a petal dropped.

Thinking about buying some new stones, and thinking about the flowers, I wondered if you might pick up some 'leaf-shaped' emeralds, maybe one for each of your children. (But then, in case you have another, later.... maybe that's not a great idea.)

Or maybe forget the flowers entirely and go with something abstract.
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my husband picked out the ring with the flowers. He didn't realize that sapphires are my birth stone. I think he chose it because blue is one of my favorite colors. These sapphires are unique in that they are a really light blue, which I like.
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[theboy]

[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y169/geoffy/ring.bmp[/img]
i think something like this could be cool. i didnt use all the stones you said you have though.

but maybe it looks like a domino now

i like the idea of an off center stripe too

eta it appears that geoffy doesnt know how to post pictures...oops
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Oh, that's pretty cool. Maybe I'd need to buy a bigger diamond for the middle. :wink:

You've got your pic right, but I think it's not posting because it's a .bmp. I think you can only post a .jpg or a .gif.
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Well, that worked out ok anyway, because I thought it looked cooler with the bigger diamond.
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[xuli]

You'll have to update us with how the ring turns out. The basic concept is lovely -- it reminds me a lot of my mom's engagement ring, which I love. She has a thick yellow gold band, with the stones from my great-grandmother's engagement ring set in it -- three small diamonds. It's very 1970s, but in a really good way, and very unique. I don't even really like yellow gold, but I love my mother's ring.

Good luck with yours! Maybe years from now one of your kids will see someone contemplating a similar ring design and say, "Wow! It's just like my mom's! Hers is the coolest ring ever!" like I did.
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[rabbit_sun]

My husband and I got titanium wedding bands with different-sized holes throughout the bad. I love them. Nobody else has bands like this.
http://www.titaniumera.com/order/luna.html

Your ring reminds me of ours. The way the stones are set into the ring, like the holes are in ours.

I like what Luci Mama said about the stones not being in perfect order because marriage is never in perfect order. (ok, paraphrasing) I would go for a design that is random and unplanned, because, thus far, everything in my life has been random and unplanned.

I can't wait to see your finished product, though.
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[jessystar]

Maybe instead of having the stones go horozantally around the ring, have them in collums vertically. Close together but pattern the saphires and diamonds randomly within the collums. then the ring has a definate front .

[honeybee]