Comments on: How I Went Mining and Made My Wife’s Unique Engagement Ring (The Best $1,390 I’ve Ever Spent) https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/ Money | Minimalism | Mohawks Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:19:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319988 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:19:29 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319988 Cheers Fiona :) I screw many things up, but this is one I really think I did right! haha. Have a great week buddy!

]]> By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319872 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:51:36 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319872 In reply to Steveark.

I always pictured you as a young 30-40 guy, Steve. You’ve been married for 42 years!!?? No wonder you spit out such mature and sound advice!

Congrats on a long and successful marriage. And thanks for proving that mega expensive gifts aren’t needed when wooing your life partner :)

]]> By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319871 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:46:22 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319871 In reply to Adam.

Great story Adam, and very similar! Send me a pic of that ruby! It sounds cool!

When the ring makers set my wife’s stone, they said that there’s a good chance it will fracture or break in the first year or so (when you hold the stone up to the light it has many cracks and fractures visible in it). But it’s been 7 years and it’s still going strong! I’m waiting for it to break any day because my wife is clumsy also, but so far so good! haha. :)

]]> By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319870 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:42:06 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319870 In reply to Angie Pannkuk.

Agreed! The universe was on my side to make this happen for sure :)

]]> By: Angie Pannkuk https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319837 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:04:37 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319837 Love this story. By the way, it wasn’t a “coincidence” that your friend just happened to bring a jewelry designer to your party. That was a divine appointment.

]]> By: Adam https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319836 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:59:11 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319836 Right on — nothing like making the stone happen with your own two hands! When I was eleven I took a gemstone grinding class at a local science center (man I miss those summer classes); I came out of it with a large gorgeous polished opal. Wish I knew where that thing ended up.

My wife definitely did not want a diamond, so I worked with someone in Idaho to find a .8 carat ruby and then had a local guy design and cast a platinum setting (she is clumsy and bakes a lot; it took some doing to craft something sturdy that looks good). The metals market today is far removed from what it was eleven years ago; at the time a platinum engagement ring with matching palladium wedding bands made great sense, but today’s palladium prices are crazy. It’s pretty fantastic that fate found you someone to design the setting!

]]> By: Steveark https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319832 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:41:59 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319832 That is cool Joel, my wife had no interest in an engagement ring and opted for a plain gold band for a wedding ring. It cost $31. But 42 years later she’s still putting up with me.

]]> By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319829 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:04:11 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319829 In reply to KYmath.

My wife doesn’t know this yet (and I don’t think she reads these comments haha!) but I’m planning to use the remaining small yogo stones to make 10, 20, 30+ year anniversary gifts throughout our life. Doesn’t have to be jewelry – I can try sicking them into any home made gift somehow :) Something fun to figure out!

]]> By: Joel https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319828 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:00:21 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319828 In reply to Samantha.

That’s so cool! There’s really cool places around the world to go pearl hunting too if people want to turn the ring making into a travel activity!

]]> By: KYmath https://eliteedgemoney.com/how-i-went-mining-and-made-my-wifes-unique-engagement-ring-the-best-1390-ive-ever-spent/#comment-319820 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:09:57 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=63626#comment-319820 Cool story about the ring. Always great to have a good story to tell.

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