{"id":173,"date":"2006-11-14T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/11\/14\/even-my-wedding-band-has-a-garden-theme\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T23:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T03:29:59","slug":"even-my-wedding-band-has-a-garden-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/11\/14\/even-my-wedding-band-has-a-garden-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Even my wedding band has a garden theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>You know, I was just trying to decide how long I&#8217;ve been interested in gardening and I&#8217;ve decided that to some degree, I must have had an interest even as a young child.  I can remember helping my parents in our home gardens and at the two gardens we had at our cottage.  I might have complained a bit about it every now and then, but once I got working helping to pull the weeds or planting seeds and watching the new plants grow I discovered that I actually enjoyed what I was doing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Chris and I have beautiful wedding bands, and even these I realize have a bit of a garden theme to them. Well my band does anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t go the route of choosing wedding rings the way most couples do.  Chris and I were both jewelers at the time &#8211; not sellers of jewelry but the people who actually make jewelry.  It&#8217;s very bad luck for jewelers to make their own wedding bands, so as a gift, our brother in law who was also a jeweller, hand crafted our beautiful bands on his own as a gift to us. <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>We did have input into the design- thank goodness!  Mine does have a garden theme it&#8217;s a concave gold band with hand carved grape vine and grape leaves intertwined around the whole band.  Small emeralds and diamonds alternate around the band between the grape leaves.  It&#8217;s beautiful.  I wanted emeralds in my band because I felt they gave me a tie to nature.<\/p>\n<p>Chris band is convex yellow gold with a strip of white platinum encircling the middle of the band.  It&#8217;s very nice, but sorry no garden theme to his band.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we didn&#8217;t choose our wedding bands the traditional way, we did have a traditional wedding. 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