The Dream Ring

All of these wedding plans and conversations took place before any question was ever asked or any answer given. In fact, The Ring was chosen before The Proposal.

My boyfriend, who was not my fiance yet, said, "If I were engaged to you, I would want you to wear a ring so people would know you are taken. Do you want to look at rings?"

Come on. Did he really not know that women are always looking at engagement rings? I have been looking at rings for DECADES! In fact, I already had my dream ring picked out, a bezel-set ring that was not one of your average run-of-the-mill-sticky-uppy prong numbers, so I emailed the link to him. He loved it, too. He said it looked high-tech, like something from Star Trek, tee hee. We love Star Trek. So we ordered the ring. In platinum--because that felt more solid, more permanent, more TAKEN.

And when the ring came, there was an inscription engraved inside it, a quote that was very special to us both. It said:

"Live long and prosper."