Well, taking advantage of the long weekend holidays, we went around the Mel Little Collins area in the CBD and started on our research.
The aim - Wedding bands
Budget - Up to $5000 for 2 (around RM 14000)
Outlets visited - George Jensen, Tiffany & Co, Canturi
BF has taken a fancy on the Canturi "Comfort Band". The prob now is, my engagement ring is a solitaire and being a single stone, the wedding band has to be equally complimenting. I personally do not fancy a plain wedding band esp if one is paying quite a bit for it. I did try and liked their white gold "Upswift Band".
Next stop - Tiffany & Co. We immediately fell in love with their "Sheamerice" white gold band for him and it does come with a female version. However, the feminine version was overshadowed by my current band and we started looking around. The "Channel" 2mm complimented mine precisely (oh the sparkle!) but decided to head up to Georg Jensen ... but not before I eyed this gorgeous diamond 0.1 pendant which is on my "wish list" for the mo. ;)
At Georg Jensen .. we both liked the "Fusion" collection. BF doesn't want any diamonds on his, I am still contemplating my options but the 3 tone effect looks good on him whilst the 2 tone effect (yellow and white gold) suit me better as I have (and I say this without sounding like a vain pot but all of the sales ppl say it), long delicate fingers.
Heading to Chaddy tmr to look at more rings. Rather we do the research early than be stuck later on. Furthermore, it gives us more time to budget!
p/s: Yeah, BF and I are engaged. We got engaged over new yrs. He asked my dad for permission first. Its a good thing that he did too.. as apparently my dad was going to have a 1-on-1 if he didn't.. so he got brownie points for that.
Proposal venue - At my parents - His original plan was to do the whole she-bang thing back here but as he wanted to show them the ring, the wasn't any hoopla on it. :)
The ring - Platinum set, "Love Diamond" single solitaire from the C-Club (formerly Carat Club), Pavilion - KL
5 comments:
hey!! thanks for the blog stop..
Heres a coupla other places you can check out that might not break your budget too much. Esp if youre looking at tiffany's!
http://www.gordonsjewelers.com/
http://www.robbinsbrothers.com/
and some actually dare to venture the successful online site of:
www.bluenile.com
Let me know if that helps!!
Congrats congrats! :)
I personally love Tiffany!!! If I ever get married, I'd settle for the Lucida band. I figured it'd go beatifully with either the classic Tiffany's 6 prong engagement ring, or the new Tiffany's Novo.
Forgive me while I dream away...
I'd go for the Tiffany ring but then again the fusion rings are l o v e l y :-)
Happy hunting, isn't it fun!? :-)
*mwah*
DD - still looking for that ring.. and this is just the ring!
MsPinky - Thankyou! Yeah, the Tiffany is nice..but sometimes we pay more for the name no? My engagament ring is on a 6 prong setting ;)
SG - Hmm...not so fun. Thank GOD my mum is doing most of the work.. ! Hhahaha. Im hopeless arent I?
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