Stuck Trying To Choose Wedding Ring

Why is it that the most pleasurable things in life can give you the most stress? Eben and I carved through every choice for the wedding with relative ease so far but I am stuck. Stuck, stuck, STUCK on choosing the final design for my wedding ring. It's this thing about being...forever.  And I admit that I am feeling the pressure.

Because the choice of sapphire was in honour of my mother and my grandmother, I have this sense that I am trying to create a cross generational heirloom. Something to be treasured potentially by a granddaughter. And will that girl want some monumental modern statement? Who knows.

Emotion and design, that's what a great ring fuses together. You look at a wedding ring and want to trigger a heart sigh, not a reaction like “That is SO seventies!" And so with one left to choose I am on the fence between an avant garde design and a classic one. And I totally understand why brides choose readymade rings and avoid the Renaissance woman route, because design (like marriage) is a commitment. And when it comes to rings, I'm gun shy.

THE KNOT NOTE: Perhaps 'Diary of an Australian Bride' Kate would like the beautiful channel set sapphire and diamond wedding ring created by Bill Hicks Jewellery Design shown above?