I didn’t want to surprise my girlfriend with a ring she’d be obliged to wear, which may or may not have been something she’d have liked.
I proposed with a small brooch, and a plain ring shape open on my screen in 3D design software. I worked in 3D printing at the time, and suggested we could design our wedding rings together.
She said yes, and that’s what we did; our wedding bands are comparatively-inexpensive 3D-printed silver rings which reflect our different tastes in jewelry on the outside and have matching inscriptions on the inside. No expensive blood diamonds were ever involved, which suits us fine. Nobody else will ever have the same ring as us. If either of us lose or damage our ring, we still have the 3D file and can just get a new identical one printed.
We just celebrated our eighth anniversary yesterday.
I didn’t want to surprise my girlfriend with a ring she’d be obliged to wear, which may or may not have been something she’d have liked.
I proposed with a small brooch, and a plain ring shape open on my screen in 3D design software. I worked in 3D printing at the time, and suggested we could design our wedding rings together.
She said yes, and that’s what we did; our wedding bands are comparatively-inexpensive 3D-printed silver rings which reflect our different tastes in jewelry on the outside and have matching inscriptions on the inside. No expensive blood diamonds were ever involved, which suits us fine. Nobody else will ever have the same ring as us. If either of us lose or damage our ring, we still have the 3D file and can just get a new identical one printed.
We just celebrated our eighth anniversary yesterday.
Thanks for sharing your story. This is the actual ‘stuff of life’ that matters.