We actually looked at a bunch of rings together because I am picky and liberal and refused to support blood diamonds. To be truthful, I wasn't even sure I wanted a diamond (my mother was horrified) and I was so unprepared for diamond browsing that I had no idea what the different styles and cuts of diamonds were, etc. We started off looking at rings at Tiffany's, because who can resist going to the Tiffany store on 5th Avenue when you live in NYC? After an hour of being blinded by the sparkles and deafened by the squeals of delighted girls, we booked it out of there, knowing that whatever I got, it would have to be custom made and not shiny and sparkly.
We ended up finding a beautiful jewelry/gallery in the Meatpacking District- Ten Thousand Things- where we immediately fell in love with these curvy, organic rings by Erin Daily. She was able to hook us up with conflict-free diamonds which were in their natural, uncut, and unpolished state (diamond in the rough) that could be embedded into the ring. With a brief meeting to measure my finger and talk about stones, we let her work her magic.
I absolutely LOVE my ring- it is yellow gold with an embedded unpolished diamond.
So, I had been talking to my mom about the ring and she totally huffed and sniffed when I brought up the term "blood diamonds". Then she asked me to email a photo of the ring to Auntie Sohpia's "internet", so that she could take a look at it at her house (my parents do not have/understand the concept of email/internet- those words are used interchangeably in my parents' world).
When she finally saw the ring, she declared "Oh, that is SO you. Very unconventional. Don't worry, on your wedding day, you'll have PLENTY of nice jewelry to wear."
That's my mom.
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