Wedding Ring
Oct. 15th, 2013 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI wasn't sure if I wanted to wear a wedding ring. On the downside, I tend to fiddle with stuff, and normally hate extra "things" cluttering up my body. On the plus side, I thought it was rather sexist for R to have a ring and me not to.
I decided to try wearing it and see how it went.
It went really well for about a day, and then I sprained my hand, and it dramatically swelled up. And I didn't get the ring off immediately, after which it was just about stuck, and I was a bit scared, especially when I was travelling home by myself. Fortunately, I was just about able to wrench it off at home with plenty of soap.
But then I was paranoid about putting it on again until my hand was healed. And then it had been quite a while. And it was a little too tight to start with (we bought it second hand and it was pure luck we found one of the right size I really liked immediately), and given that it had got stuck, I kept putting off wearing it until I got it resized, and kept putting that off too.
Until one day, I just suddenly felt like it, and put it on, and it felt fine, and I've been wearing it ever since.
It's also the case that I lost some weight since the wedding, and now the ring fits just about perfectly; it slides on and off easily, but doesn't slip over the knuckle. So in a way I'm really glad I didn't get it resized before, it's another triumph of laziness (insofar as going to the gym three times a week counts as "lazy" :)).
I sometimes wonder if the white gold looks odd against skin, as a close-ish colour, but quite different. But I think I'd think that about any ring. And I really love the ring as itself; it has a white gold body which is really pretty, with gold braiding round the edge.
I still have my engagement ring (silver with garnet). It served the function of bridging the time between the legal wedding and the main wedding, which it then completed and handed off to the imperishable ring. I wear it I want to feel like I've especially dressed up, but not day-to-day.
I decided to try wearing it and see how it went.
It went really well for about a day, and then I sprained my hand, and it dramatically swelled up. And I didn't get the ring off immediately, after which it was just about stuck, and I was a bit scared, especially when I was travelling home by myself. Fortunately, I was just about able to wrench it off at home with plenty of soap.
But then I was paranoid about putting it on again until my hand was healed. And then it had been quite a while. And it was a little too tight to start with (we bought it second hand and it was pure luck we found one of the right size I really liked immediately), and given that it had got stuck, I kept putting off wearing it until I got it resized, and kept putting that off too.
Until one day, I just suddenly felt like it, and put it on, and it felt fine, and I've been wearing it ever since.
It's also the case that I lost some weight since the wedding, and now the ring fits just about perfectly; it slides on and off easily, but doesn't slip over the knuckle. So in a way I'm really glad I didn't get it resized before, it's another triumph of laziness (insofar as going to the gym three times a week counts as "lazy" :)).
I sometimes wonder if the white gold looks odd against skin, as a close-ish colour, but quite different. But I think I'd think that about any ring. And I really love the ring as itself; it has a white gold body which is really pretty, with gold braiding round the edge.
I still have my engagement ring (silver with garnet). It served the function of bridging the time between the legal wedding and the main wedding, which it then completed and handed off to the imperishable ring. I wear it I want to feel like I've especially dressed up, but not day-to-day.
Annulus mirabilis
Date: 2013-10-15 09:34 pm (UTC)Must not say 'Precioussss'. At least, not often.
Re: Annulus mirabilis
Date: 2013-10-15 09:36 pm (UTC)