BS: What to engrave on wedding band?

Subject: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Marion
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:55 PM

No, not that kind of wedding band. They can just get tattoos.

But my sister is fishing for ideas on what to engrave on a couple of wedding rings. Does anyone know of any traditional mottoes to use - or have any cool new ideas?

Thanks, Marion

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:58 PM

All of the traditional engravings I have seen bear an uncanny resemblance to the scribblings found on restroom walls - Joe and Carol forever, that sort of thing. Why not just the date of the marriage and your names?

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:00 PM

One ring to rule them, one ring to bind them

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:27 PM

Translated from the Hebrew (Song of Songs): "I am my beloved's and he/she is mine>"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:48 PM

We just recieved our rings for our wedding in October...

Our inscription reads "The Sun Rises In Your Eyes"

But I wish I thought of this sooner...

"A Kiss To Build A Dream On"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:26 PM

A jeweler friend of mine likes PUT IT BACK ON !

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:03 PM

Forever, (name)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:37 PM

This circle has no end..
The claddaugh symbol of
Irish origin has a heart
and two hands and a crown
they stand for love, and
loyalty and something.....

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:45 PM

The rings consists of two hands holding between them, or presenting, a heart. Over the heart is a design representing a crown or fleur de lis. The phrase or posy, that usually accompanies the ring is: "Let love and friendship reign".

The heart symbolized the love he yearned to share... the crown his undying loyalty... and the hands, friendship because it is the foundation of love and loyalty and holds the two together.

and in my post above the "This circle has no end.." is a seperate
entry.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Jeanie
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:21 PM

The words: "Love goes toward" running all around the ring, so that it reads, continuously: "Love goes toward love" however many times you read it around the ring.

(It is a quote from 'Romeo and Juliet').

Aaaah....romance.....

All good wishes to your sister and her husband,

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:42 PM

Unbroken Token?

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:03 PM

If found, please return to....

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:15 PM

or, "I am loved" ?

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 11:17 PM

do NOT use what a friend of mine found inside a ring when she eloped once. They had to buy a ring, and inside it said "Genuine Imitation LUCITE"

...the marriage was annulled the next week...

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 03:43 AM

In a book I read a long time ago,I think probably PG Wodehouse, the prospective husband has his wife's ring engraved with "wedding ring", on the grounds that bath mats frequently say "bath mat".

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 05:31 AM

Lots of suggestions to be found here from reproductions of inscribed "Poesie Rings", with examples in English, Gaelic, Old French, Latin, Hebrew: Poesie Ring Inscriptions

Amor Vincit Omnia - Love Conquers All

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Bo Vandenberg
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 05:58 AM

This ring and no other was made by Elves
Who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves
If Broken or Busted it cannot be remade,
If found send to Sorhead (postage prepaid).

Bored of the Rings
National Lampoon.


Seriously, a friend of mine was just showing me his great grandparents rings, that were now serving as rings for his marriage. He values the date on the ring and the names of his grand parents. I don't think he could buy a ring that would mean more to him.

You might never have offspring but I think I'd like the message:

for love ~ first names.

or

God keep our Love


My own preference is to not claim the highest achievements like "love forever" as if it is easy. Rather I'd ask help to get there, or a reminder to the wearer of the necessary elements ie.. trust, hope, loyalty etc....



sigurd

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Matt_R
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 01:05 AM

"And I shall call her Beloved who was not beloved."

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 11:21 PM

Today, Tomorrow, Always

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: s&r
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 06:37 AM

Property of....

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Greyeyes
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 09:40 AM

I'm getting hitched in 2 weeks. Neither ring will have any engraving bar the hallmark. Silence is, after all, golden.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:41 AM

" A dream within a dream".

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:56 AM

If found, please return to...

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 03:15 PM

What about house number and post code like on your bike sterio etc.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: pdq
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 03:20 PM

"to whom It may concern"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:21 PM

For a good time call . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:28 PM

Danged, brucie, I wish I had thought of that one...

Howz 'bout "Me & You"? It's safe and...

...recyclable...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: pdq
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:41 PM

"redeemable upon request"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 11:06 PM

Inside of Karen's, I wanted something that would remind her of me so we engraved:

There was a young fellow from Sparta.
A really magnificent farter.
On the strength of one bean
He'd fart "God Save the Queen,"
And Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

He could vary, with proper persuasion,
His fart to suit any occasion.
He could fart like a flute,
Like a lark, like a lute,
This highly fartistic Caucasian.

This sparkling young farter from Sparta,
His fart for no money would barter.
He could roar from his rear
Any scene from Shakespeare,
Or Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado.

Nobody could play the classics finer,
As he showed me one day in the diner.
I had a bagel with lox
while played from his buttocks:
Chopin's Etude #12 in C-minor.

He'd fart a gavotte for a starter,
And fizzle a fine serenata.
He could play on his anus
The Coriolanus:
Oof, boom,er-tum,tootle, yum tah-dah!

He was great in the Christmas Cantata,
He could double-stop fart the Toccata,
He'd boom from his ass
Bach's B-Minor Mass,
And in counterpoint, La Traviata.

Spurred on by a very high wager
With an envious German named Bager,
He'd proceeded to fart
The complete oboe part
Of a Haydn Octet in B-major.

His reportoire ranged from classics to jazz,
He achieved new effects with bubbles of gas.
With a good dose of salts
He could whistle a waltz
Or swing it in razzamatazz.

His basso profundo with timbre so rare
He rendered quite often, with power to spare.
But his great work of art,
His fortissimo fart,
He saved for the Marche Militaire.

One day he was dared to perform
The William Tell Overture Storm,
But naught could dishearten
Our spirited Spartan,
For his fart was in wonderful form.

It went off in capital style,
And he farted it through with a smile,
Then, feeling quite jolly,
He tried the finale,
Blowing double-stopped farts all the while.

The selection was tough, I admit,
But it did not dismay him one bit,
Then, with his ass thrown aloft
He suddenly coughed...
And collapsed in a shower of shit.

His bunghole was blown back to Sparta,
Where they buried the rest of our farter,
With a gravestone of turds
Inscribed with the words:
"To the Fine Art of Farting, A Martyr."

It's a really BIG ring...............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 11:10 PM

Like the one around Uranus? Shame on you, Spaw. I'll bet Karen's ring is engraved with "Love you, forever" or some such nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 02:38 AM

'Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering'

Just joking!

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 04:49 AM

On the outside, you could engrave 'Left' for hers.......
'Likely to be left:' on his.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 02:05 PM

I always liked from Shakespeare

Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart:
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

On the other hand Ricahard 3 says it to Lady Anne while he planning to do her in!

Whatever you have put, I hope your sister and her chosen one have lovely happy life together.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Scoville
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 10:36 PM

[no jokes here]

For my high school graduation--since I didn't like my high school much and definitely didn't want to spend a load on a ring commemorating it--my parents bought me a silver ring that was a reproduction of a sixteenth-century one from France. It has little primitive flower engraved on it and says "Por Tous Jours" (for always) on it. Simple and direct but not entirely predictable. I always thought it would make an excellent wedding ring, in the off chance that I ever need one.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Neighmond
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:26 AM

Here I place a band of gold
on thy left hand, to have and hold
If you should die before I do
It's coming with me, for bride (groom) number TWO!

Chaz

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: GUEST,Patricia
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:16 AM

When I met my fiance I fell for him a lot faster then I had expected. i was so afraid of how i was feeling when i finally told him all that came out was "I fell yo" now it is engraved on my ring. It makes me smile every time I think about it. Tell your sister to think of something simple that she once said to her fiance that would make him smile and confuse everyone else.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:38 AM

Weelittledrummer - I beg to differ. Subsequent events have shown us that Richard III did not 'do in' his wife, nor the Princes in the Tower. That's all Tudor propaganda - history written by the winners. The truth was published shortly after the death of the last Tudor, Elizabeth I.

As for rings... I favour 'one and only', because I sure as hell ain't doing that again!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 07:21 AM

Hmmmm: "Expiry Date:"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 12:35 PM

"So why did you take this ring off?"

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:44 PM

In his: her initials and the wedding date; in hers, his initials and the wedding date. Mine says, "CET 98.10.10", which is just about all that fits -- it's not a placard!

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 04:09 PM

Do people really engrave things on wedding rings these days? Hardly seems necessary. There's a saying about "gilding the lily" which seems fitting somehow

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 04:28 PM

I wish mine had been engraved : "For use on finger only." NNWW.

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: MuddleC
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 08:04 PM

hows about

'okay, you win'
or
'Ohh sheet!'
or
'of course I listen to you'
or
'you have the right to remain silent'

personally, I like 'two-timing slut'


-me, bitter and twisted? surely not.....

Subject: RE: BS: What to engrave on wedding band?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 08:09 PM

I would suggest a generic name in the even the marriage fails. Make it a guy/gal type name like Lee, Toby, Chris, Jessie or Sue (as Johnny Cash about that one). Keep things simple and plan for the future.