Laced with Love: My Precious...

Our beloved rings are here. Mr. Lace and I wanted relatively simple rings and began ring shopping pretty early on. After looking at designs (and prices), we were having a hard time finding a ring that Mr. Lace liked. He has a cousin overseas who makes jewelry and we asked for some advice about rings and what the actual cost of the rings should be if we had them made at a jeweler. Well, after shooting a few e-mails and photos back and forth, he told us the cost to make these rings should be a lot less than what jewelers and retail shops were asking. The difference was about $500 and that's a lot of moolah when you're knee-deep in wedding planning. $500 bucks is a candy buffet or half of a photobooth rental or really fabulous shoes. :)

Luckily, Mr. Lace's cousin offered to make them for us and ship them over to the states. We sent the money right away. We waited and waited and waited. The rings were finished within a month. His cousin sent us photos of the finished rings. This was four months ago. He didn't have time to send them because he was flying in and out of the country for jewelry shows. But, finally, one day, we got an e-mail with a tracking number. They were on their way. I wasn't sure how long it'd take rings to ship from Asia. A few weeks maybe? I sat and waited and waited and waited. Spring break rolled around and Mr. Lace and I went on a couple of trips with friends and family and then, we got a call. The rings had arrived! *Insert record scratch here* But they required a signature nor would we want to postman to leave them on Mr. Lace's front step to be stolen away. So there was nothing to be done since we were several hundred miles away at a Dodger game in Arizona, we still had another day in Phoenix and three more days in Las Vegas.

The buffets distracted me until we got back to L.A. The first thing on the list to do was to pick up the package from the post office. I was so excited I forgot to ask Mr. Lace to take a picture of me being excited.

We ripped the box open and here are our babies! We tried our rings on right away, but we had to take them off lest we start becoming evil (Lord of the Rings? Anyone?!) All photos courtesy of Cousin Lace.