Ring Tones

I've had my engagement ring for about 8 months and I'm currently shopping for a wedding band, but I've been wearing rings on my left hand ring finger for years. Some people may have assumed that I was wearing a promise/engagement/wedding ring, but that wasn't the case until recently. Since I'm right handed I prefer wearing my rings on my opposite hand and I don't subscribe to the idea that the left ring finger is reserved only for engagement and wedding rings.

Here is my collection of rings. All are vintage except for my engagement ring (the blue sapphire) and the rose ring, which once belonged to Tori Spelling. I guess you can say that Donna Martin graduated that ring to me. (Please tell me someone out there gets that lame attempt at a joke. Please.)


I don't like wearing more than one ring at a time, so the rings above have been ignored in the past few months. I plan to work them back into my ring rotation after the excitement of the engagement and wedding rings have died downwhich I happily suspect will take a while.

Are there any other ring collectors out there?

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Mr. Cheetah Suits Up!

After I had my gown, it was time to dress my groom. Since we aren't going the casual (button down and jeans), vintage (suspenders and tweed), or themed (knight in full armor riding in a white horse) route, we have two basic options: Tuxedo or Suit.


The suit won out pretty quickly. Neither of us are fans of rental tuxes, and a tux seemed a tad too formal for our outdoor desert wedding anyway. Plus, Mr. Cheetah has been itching for an excuse to invest in a snazzy suit. We both agreed on the overall look: black and slim fitting (why, oh, why do so many suits look so huge and boxy??).

We hit up the post-Thanksgiving sales in search for the perfect black suit, not really expecting to find anything. But when Mr. Cheetah slipped on a slim-fitting Theory suit over his strong, manly shoulders (hey, Mr. Cheetah reads the blogI need to make sure his ego is good & healthy ;). And he does have nice shoulders. ) we knew we had a winner. It was exactly what we were looking for and Mr. Cheetah could not stop raving about how good the fit was. We even spent a couple hours checking out other shops in the mall to see if there was anything better. Nothing even came close, so we headed back to Bloomingdale's to pick up Mr. Cheetah's wedding day suit.

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I looooove the way Mr. Cheetah looks in his wedding suit! I wish I had a better picture to show youbut I'm sure we'll get plenty of great pics at the wedding!

Where do you stand on the Tux vs. Suit debate?