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Designing and Making Custom Wedding Bands?

Posted by Cliff on from the more-on-wedding-rings dept.

dystrophy asks: "I'm planning on getting married shortly after I graduate in December. Because I'm a student who doesn't work much, I don't have tons of money to spend on an engagement ring/wedding band. After discussing this situation with friends and family, I discovered that poverty is the great equalizer. My parents designed their own wedding bands and had them cast for relatively little money because they inherited diamonds and gold from their family. Because of finances, they decided to forgo the engagement ring and spend what they had on wedding bands. I have some decent quality diamonds and gold from my family. I haven't talked to my "wife to be" about the engagement ring yet (touchy topic), but she might be willing to go with a simple engagement ring, or just put the money toward a wedding band. I have just started doing research on the topic of designing rings. I have talked to several jewelry designers in the Bay Area, but they don't want to deal with me. They want to sell me their diamonds and gold (I've heard various and interesting excuses from each). How should I go about this? Where should I go? When it comes down to the design, should I just work with my wife-to-be to create sketches to give a designer, or is something more needed? Any really cool ideas and designs for wedding bands?"

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  1. Why design a ring? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pfft. Just get her a nice 800 carat cubic zirconia from Big Ass Diamonds.com.

  2. weddding rings by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure, wedding rings are traditional, but i think a cock ring would be more practical. At least more useful on your wedding night.

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  3. Only on slashdot by metalhed77 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My wedding ring is half zirconium, half yellow gold (like the top and bottom halves of a sandwich).

    Only on slashdot would you see someone describe the ultimate material symbol of his lifelong unending love, as a sandwich.

    What a website!

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  4. Stylish wedding ring concepts by S.+Baldrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing says I love you like a simple gold band engraved with the runes of the black speech of Mordor. Why years from now your spouse will be fondly calling it her "preciousss."

    1. Re:Stylish wedding ring concepts by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why years from now your spouse will be fondly calling it her "preciousss."

      And a few years after that, she'll accuse you of trying to steal her "precious", drown you in a river, eat your remains (uncooked, of course), and disappear into a cave for a few centuries...

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  5. what?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why would you put a ring on your chicken?

    Actually, why the hell would you even bring a chicken on your honeymoon???

    1. Re:what?! by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, why the hell would you even bring a chicken on your honeymoon???

      Hey, don't knock it, City-Boy!

  6. You should get her a plain gold band by Mordant · · Score: 2, Funny

    that expands and contracts to fit the wearer's finger, confers the power of invisibility, and displays odd-looking runes on its interior, when heated.

    And when you talk to your "Precious", she'll think you mean
    -her-!