We’ve been planning on getting married for some time now, so in December 2007 we decided we were going to buy rings even though we hadn’t set a wedding date. Initially Groomasaurus Gal wanted an engagement ring with a different stone – emerald, sapphire, something that had color (she’s very untraditional, this girl). So we shopped around for a day or two and found an heirloom emerald ring at a local jeweler that was okay. But we didn’t want to settle for okay (this is her engagement ring for God’s sake), so as we walked away from that jeweler’s store we wandered into another jeweler and, whammo, there they were.
We saw displayed in one of their cases rings that bore designs that I had never laid my eyes on. They had all these intricate contours of different colors of gold, bronze and copper – it actually looked like a cross-section of rock, but that’s not doing it justice whatsoever – and some were embellished with platinum and others with diamonds. We asked to see them, and once we started to closely inspect them, we were hooked.
The designer is George Sawyer, and he is a Minneapolis-based metallurgist who many years ago started making rings by folding layers of gold over on each other in the style of Japanese samuri swordmakers. The technical process of folding the metal is called mokume, and it results in creating rings that are one of a kind. Just check them out…
Here is what Groomasaurs Gal's wedding band looks like
And this is pretty close to how our wedding bands appear ... we wanted the two platinum bands to signify the two of us united by our vows
And here's what a plain band looks like (although it's anything but plain)
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Ohhhh these are sooo cool looking.
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