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I can finally tell the secret I’ve been holding on to for…oh, a couple of months now!
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Those are our “wedding” rings. We can’t get legally married, of course, and we’ve been practically married for a few years now, but this just symbolizes our commitment. I’m on cloud nine now that we finally have them. We ordered them a couple of weeks ago from DVB, a New York-based company that is the source for many other sellers. My wife (I’ll be calling her that more often now) felt strongly that she wanted a poesy ring, so we were looking at those pretty much exclusively. The ones we ended up getting are in Old French, and they say here is my heart, guard it well. You can see a close-up picture from the maker, but it doesn’t show that the word coeur is actually a drawn heart. It’s based on a ring that is currently in the British Museum, and it dates to about the 15th century. My ring is 14k white gold, and my wife’s ring is 18k yellow gold. For heterosexual couples, the man doesn’t usually have other jewelry to coordinate with and doesn’t care what color the rings are. But being two women, we each had different tastes! We’re not having a ceremony just yet, though…we will probably have some kind of party for our ten-year anniversary, but we don’t really feel the need for a ceremony right now.
As I mentioned, I am absolutely flying high with this. I love our rings, and I love my wife.
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Congratulations! If you’re particularly keen to make it legal, you ought to come visit Canada, where you can get legally married in seven out of ten provinces. Come to Vancouver, as it’s the warmest bit–I’ll show you around.
Your rings are beautiful. Congratulations on your commitment. For what it’s worth, I wish you could be legally married.
That’s wonderful. Beautiful rings, too.
Congratulations, Meredith! I wish you could be legally married, but until stuff changes in America, I wish you much happiness and joy!
Congratulations! Hopefully gay marriage will be legal in the next few years.
-Mike
oh, how beautiful. Congrats!!!
Congradulations to you both. Even if you cant be married legally, I bet your just as happy. Best of fate on your marriage. 
Congrats. The rings are great, so is the committment.
(BTW, I used up one of your BE credits visiting the site this evening.)
There’s always Massachusetts…
Congratulations! I love the matching rings.
Congratulations!
The rings are quite loverly.
(I’m partial to white gold too…)
Holy cow, congrats, Meredith and A.! That’s excellent.
Committed
Congrats, Meredith!…
How wonderful! Congratulations, Meredith.
How wonderful, I’m so excited for you both! The rings are beautiful, as is the commintment that you already had. {{{{{hugs}}}}}
Bit late, but congratulations nonetheless . Let’s hope that someday your marriage will become legally recognised.
Wonderful!!! I am so happy for you guys!