Ok...soo....I'm having my little wedding religious ceremony with the exchanging of the rings in a month. We got married in a courtroom, so now we're going our vow and ring exchanges in front of family (long story).
ANYWAYS....I've been wearing my engagement ring as my wedding ring. Now I feel its time to get an actual special ring. So my mother in law offered to foot the bill for my ring (my huz already has one I bought him).
Her mother, who is dead, had this dinner ring. Its MASSIVE and has diamonds all along it in this weird pattern and quite frankly I think it is hideous. Its SO over-the-top and gawdy and when I put it on it takes up half my hand. My mother in law wants to take that ring in to a jewlers and have it combined with my engagement ring to make a wedding ring. WTF? I HATE the ring and there is no way I want to wear it. NO WAY! It is too big, impractical, ugly ugly ugly...and it is going to ruin my pretty opal engagement ring.
I talked to my parents and they said the cost of having the rings combined and re-sized would be more expensive than just buying a ring. I mentioned this to my mother in law and she didn't care. She wanted me to have a "sentimental" ring. And ya, I understand that.....but the dinner ring is just so not my style. Its my grandma's style and I REALLY don't want to wear that hideous ring on my finger for the rest of my life. (its not even a wedding ring...its a dinner ring...its SUPPOSED to be gawdy and over-sized).
HOW do I get out of ending up with this ring as my wedding ring? What can me (or my husband) say to her so that she understands where I'm coming from and that I would prefer a small and simple ring?
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