ring-a-ding-ding

so, cross off our list of Adult Responsibilities or Adult Milestones: buying engagement rings and wedding bands.
william picked out a very beautiful diamond and ring for me when he proposed. it was a tiffany setting, a nice, weighty white gold band. i was super happy with it. but then when we started looking around for a band to match for the wedding...i was coming up empty. nothing looked quite right with it. i didn't want to give up what william had worked so hard to pick out—it's sentimental, and i liked it—but finally we started looking at other engagement rings.
we finally found it:


i'm so happy with it. it looks extra sparkly and sort of vintage—i wanted a vintage ring but couldn't find one. william doesn't like if i put on the band with it... so you'll have to wait to see the other part. :)

78 days. omg.

diamonds are a girl's best friend

To the right, I introduce Blog Love: my list of blogs I've been reading and loving. Some of them I know in real life, others not. There's more to come, I just ran out of time when listing them all, so stay tuned.

And now, to another question: my engagement ring and wedding band. I have a really classic engagement ring--round solitaire on a white gold band. William and I are probably going ring shopping tonight (I have to get mine sized FINALLY after six months), so we thought we'd check out bands to start looking. I'm kind of into the whole mixing stones thing--sapphires or pink sapphires especially--but I'm wondering if other stones will just distract from the solitaire or otherwise look weird if it's on the band. What about diamonds on the band? Should I just go plain? Thoughts?