wedding rings | Power of a Story

Hard to believe that the wedding is only 5 weeks from today! Yesterday, Nick and I obtained our marriage license and today we bought our rings.

Obtaining the license was quite uneventful, it just required waiting in line for about 40 minutes. The woman who issued our license said most people in line were getting the license for the next day. Yikes, I couldn’t image doing that.

I think buying our rings was more exciting for both of us. We did a first look for rings about 2 months ago, to get an inital idea. Today, we started with the jewelry stores in the mall. After waiting 10 minutes at one place and not being greeted we left, wandered around to other shopping stores, got a Starbucks coffee and went to another jewelry store. At this store, all of the men’s rings were the “average” size for guys, which meant none of them fit Nick’s finger, so he was done. Then the saleswoman (wrongly) assumed the size of my ring (which irritated both of us since she was off by 40%!). And she pushed me towards this crazy-huge ring wrap (I can’t remember the formal name) which meant she wasn’t listening to what I said I wanted!!

Finally, Nick and I looked at each other and decided to go to Jared’s where Nick purchased my engagement ring. The experience at Jared’s was beyond wonderful – they have excellent customer service, attention to detail and were so helpful. We were immediately greeted and one woman started helping us with my rings. I pointed out what I liked last time and started trying them on, although still wasn’t sold 100%. The woman started to get a feel for what I liked and pulled out the perfect ring for me! I put it on and knew it and Nick knew it too; I started to tear up. Then another woman helped us find Nick’s perfect ring – a yellow gold comfort fit band. Both women were so knowledgeable, helpful and FUN!! They brought us bottled waters, cleaned my engagement ring and took such good care of us. We won’t be shopping anywhere else for jewelry, and Jared’s now has two customers for life.