A few weekends ago we went and picked up our wedding rings.  Actually just mine was ready — for some reason Ben’s order got lost so they’re reordering it and sending it to our apartment.  

The shopping process was a little bit hard.  I tried on at least a dozen styles - including all the rings belonging to the employees - and because the display rings run smaller than his hands, Ben got at least 3 or 4 seriously stuck on (they use Windex to get them off).  As we were trying to figure out what we liked we asked the salesperson if wedding bands had to match and she said no (which was pretty liberating).   So in the end we wound up choosing very different rings for ourselves.  It’s kind of exciting that we each found our own style that we’ll really like wearing. 

I went with a plain platinum band to match my engagement ring, while Ben chose beveled gold:

In April of 2007 Ben gave me a ring that has “PROPERTY OF BEN POPIK” engraved around the outside of the ring in big block letters.  We’re worried my little 2 mm band won’t be able to handle something that long, but we’re still considering some engraving on the inside of these.  We’ll see what happens!

PS> If Ben tells you he catches me wearing my wedding band all the time he’s lying….  He has only caught me once.