Jewellery News

Have you ever thought about how on a woman’s hand a wedding ring always hides in the shadow of the engagement ring? Now this is true even if your engagement ring is a slender band with a tiny sparkling diamond. But maybe there is a story to tell here.

The engagement ring time is usually a time when you’re walking on air. There’s nary a care in the world and it’s like the two of you are in your own special space bubble, lost in time and space. It’s a different dimension and most things that happen around you either don’t intrude into your space or they don’t affect you. It’s a glorious feeling and very often, that’s the way it goes right through from the time the engagement ring is slipped on up to the time the wedding ring joins it on your finger.

After the wedding ring is slipped on, the honeymoon is an escape from reality too. But what the wedding ring really stands for is the time that comes after this, when you go from the wedding day into marriage, when the journey to reality begins. The wedding ring time is more down to earth, more practical, more real. This is what life together really is.

So look at your engagement ring again. Watch the light catch that diamond and break into a million different shards of brilliance. And remember those days when even the light around you took on a special glow. The engagement ring holds those memories and you can always go back and bring them back when you focus on its dazzle. The wedding ring is more subtle. It is strong, it’s durable – like the deep love that so many couples are lucky to have. It might not shine its brilliance for all the world to see. It might not evoke a magical and head in the clouds kind of feeling like your engagement ring did. But it’s there, it’s solid and you know it’s your lifeline. So the wedding ring might seem the less obvious ring to the ones who are looking. But to you who are wearing it, you know that both the wedding ring as well as the engagement ring evoke such wonderful feelings within you and they both have their special place in your heart. Maybe the feelings are different – but then you need both in a marriage. The foundation and the froth. The solid and the sizzle. Together, they are the elements that go to make a perfect marriage.