Circle of Life - Your Rings

Did you know that the gold prices are increasing by the day!!!! The last we checked a sovereign/22kt was priced at roughly 37000 bucks!  And its not going to get any lesser either. When my parents got married, their wedding rings were just 4000 bucks each some twenty odd years ago!

Oh! Inflation-est, thou art so-est cruel-est! This is my cry.

My advice is, make sure you go give your band designs or purchase your rings as soon as possible, without rushing and giving the design 1 month prior! Then what happens is, the couples (budget ones) don’t give any thought towards their bands and just go for something you know costing really cheap because everything else has been overspent on!  (having a budget for both rings is a prerequisite btw!)

Your rings are one of the few things that last throughout your lifetime, I am not trying to assign some superficial value to some materialistic thing (cuz ring or no ring, it aint gonna decide your marriage!) but the fact of the matter is you wear it for the rest of your lives and it’s good to make it a sort of a priority, atleast more than flowers that die the very next day after the wedding!

We planned on ordering our rings by end of this December so that we can choose what we like and not wait for my arch enemy inflation to come ruin that for me! Oh, Oh and do you know, I am not working now, I just worked 1 year as a telemarketing representative before I was selected to local university and I saved up like a good little girl to somehow buy Dimi’s ring! Aren’t I lovely? Sweet? I know!!!!!

There are countless jewelers as you know, sometimes we tend to go with what people say, that is word of mouth and have convinced ourselves that one particular place is good and the other bad. Rather than doing so, be wise, go all over, big places and small places, nobody really cares where you shop for your wedding bands from unless you are going to the pettah pavement to get em! If you know some places that are obvious danger zones then don’t even try!  

So don’t worry too much what this person and that person says, unless you have seen their proof and real life experiences of purchasing stuff and being played out! Don’t be fooled to go and spend a fortune on the biggest possible place just because others are doing it and you feel that that must be the only actual good place!
JUST know what you want, take advice(not empty words!) from all over and not just 1 source and then nothing should shake you!

So in a seashell, no wait nutshell, have a budget for your rings, research on ring designs (the net has got loads!), go to all the vendors you know of (check around 4-6 places if possible), compare and contrast, DO THIS ALL EARLY AS POSSIBLE (3 months prior at least, if you are planning your wedding atleast 6 months before that is)! and voila! You are wise! Many blessings!

JOKE.. Lame huh?