Choosing Bands, part 2

I am so excited about our wedding bands! If you need to catch up, here's what we've decided on.

We took an overnight trip to Golden Bay, NZ to 1- escape and 2- meet with a jeweler about designing our wedding bands. The original weather forecast called for heavy rains, gale-force winds and an all around yucky weekend. What did we end up with?

Beautiful, sunny and slightly breezy weather.

It did rain overnight, but was clear by the time the sun got up this morning.

We went to Onekaka Arts to meet with Peter, the silversmith, and talk to him about what we wanted for our wedding bands. Then the jeweler that I originally contacted and talked to showed up, Grant, and between the two of them and Jeff and I, we figured out how to get the wedding bands we want!

Onekaka Arts

Yay! They will be 100% original and unique and will incorporate the gold wedding bands that Jeff's Nana gave us a couple weeks ago. I am THRILLED that these two guys will be working together on our bands and cannot wait to see what they look like when finished. While they are going to end up more expensive than we were initially comfortable with, we talked and figured out a way to make it a little cheaper, but still get exactly what we wanted. You'll have to wait for part 3 to see the finished rings (probably in November sometime). Now we gotta save up money so we can pay for our rings when we go pick them up!

Relaxing after meeting with the jewelers, with ice cream of course!

Good ice cream, but I think I should just stick to cookies and cream.

Tai was very happy to come on our trip too.

Did you consider bespoke rings? After a couple months of research and hashing out of what we wanted in our rings, we're pretty happy. How important were the wedding bands to you when planning your wedding?