My Engagement Ring

I finally got to take some good pictures of my beautiful ring that Scott and I picked out while we were in Capri, right after the proposal. The picture in my last blog where we are in a little shop and Scott is down on one knee...that was the place where we bought my ring. I love it as it's very unique, just like me. :) It's definitely not your typical engagement ring, but I'm so happy with it. Scott's plan was to pick out a ring while we were there and then for me to pick out a diamond ring of my choice for our wedding. That works out well for 3 reasons: I will always have a sentimental item that will remind me of that perfect day, I will have a beautiful right hand right when we get married, and it'll give us some time to save up some money for wedding rings. :) And for those of you who are dying to know a date...too bad. We plan to have a fairly long engagement (no sooner than 2 years) so that we will have time and money to have the wedding of our dreams back home in Montana. Scott has a year and a half left of his Master's program so it definitely can't be before then. And since I didn't even figure that we'd be engaged before he finished school, it'll work out great!
Well, just one more thing I wanted to share about these pictures - the romantic velvet box that Scott made for me that he gave to me before getting down on one knee. It's gorgeous and he made everything...from the poems inside to the box itself. He's so dang talented! Anyway, I didn't want to take a picture of each of the lines on each of the leaves in the box, so here's what was written for me:

Without you...

I am weak

I am sad

I am fragile

I promise always...

To make you smile

To make you laugh

To make you happy

And then on the very inside, under all the leaves of paper above, was a little heart shaped paper book with the following written on each page:

You are my heart

You are my soul

I love you so much it hurts

Please will u marry me?

And there was a place underneath the heart book for a ring...which was empty at the time he gave it to me, but when we picked one out, it fit in the spot perfectly. :) Well...I guess you can see why I fell so in love with him.

One last little tidbit - Scott also got a ring while we were in Italy. He wanted to have an engagement ring too, so that he could show off the fact that he was engaged because he is so excited. How sweet is that! Even though it's not very traditional for the guy to have an engagement ring, it's a really cool ring and if you haven't noticed, we like being a little different. He doesn't like to do what everyone else does. So....here's also a picture of his cool ring...oh yeah, we bought it in Venice so it also has a lot of sentimental value. ;)