We'll take the tails off mermaids

[sovay]

We picked up our marriage license and our rings this afternoon. We were on our way back from Somerville City Hall when we heard from the jeweler that the rings were ready. We were a block from her shop: we wrote back joyfully and walked straight in.



Jade Moran made our rings; she's done extraordinary work. We met her for the first time last Wednesday; she showed us the models on Saturday; they went to the caster's on Monday and were polished and ready to take home by this afternoon. The design on the inside of each ring is a binary star system: two stars in each other's orbit, moving on their mutual arc through space. She wrote us an accompanying poem for a wedding present. We stepped outside the shop and swung each other around, hugging so tightly. They are beautiful; they are ours. They say what we want them to.

I understand it is not a prerequisite for all relationships, but it pleases me that I am marrying someone who understands why this photoshoot melts my brain. The sea as well as the stars, always.

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

They're beautiful. :-)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

...two stars in each other's orbit, moving on their mutual arc through space....

Perfect.

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[gwynnega]

They're beautiful.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

They're gorgeous.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Wow. They are very, very you.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, and yay, and mazel tov, and yay rings, and I will be thinking of you, and you both deserve (if you do no need) longer messages. But I have to go catch a bus.
I will think of you on the bus.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How perfect they are, indeed, for you guys!

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! I couldn't possibly be happier for you both!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous rings. Chaz and I have matching hourglasses (stylized and runic) on ours, with two tiny sapphires inside. This is imagery from "Desdaemona", and I love it, and their ours. I hope your rings continue to make you two happy for many years to come.

[sovay]

They're beautiful.

Jade is amazing. We bonded with her over astronomy and other forms of awesome science. I liked the star pattern visible on some of her other rings; she suggested the binary system. We think it might be something in Cygnus.

[sovay]

Perfect.

We think so.

[sovay]

Lovely.

I am already very attached to mine! It gathers small scratches, from being clinked against whatever I handle, like mugs or coins or handholds on the train; that means it's living.

[sovay]

They're beautiful.

We didn't even know quite what we wanted when we walked into the store, except rings; we had thought at one point of Möbius strips, because Rob had found a jeweler who specialized in them. But this was right.

[sovay]

They're gorgeous.

It amazes me that we have them. They're not heavy rings, but they are small and solid, integral things; I can feel the weight on my hand and I like knowing it's there, like stars behind the day-sky.

[sovay]

Wow. They are very, very you.

Thank you. They feel very right.

[sovay]

I will think of you on the bus.

I hope you caught the bus!

Thank you.

[sovay]

How perfect they are, indeed, for you guys!

Thank you! They were a late miraculous addition!

[sovay]

Oh my goodness! I couldn't possibly be happier for you both!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Chaz and I have matching hourglasses (stylized and runic) on ours, with two tiny sapphires inside. This is imagery from "Desdaemona", and I love it, and their ours. I hope your rings continue to make you two happy for many years to come.

That is lovely. I like the image of runic hourglasses. Thank you!