Not-So-Shameless Product Plug
For those of you who don't know (and shame on you for being oblivious!), I am getting married in the nearer-than-it-felt-a-month-ago future. Subsequently many a plans are being hatched to ensure a short ceremony, an enjoyable reception, and fairly soundproof walls for the Royal York hotel room Mel and I are planning to spend our honeymoon in. There are of course many small and at times irking details that must be sorted out in the meantime.
It seems quite fitting that the first time I do any sort of international importing (and use my new credit card for my first ever online purchase) would be for the wedding. My love of Anime and manga aside, I've never been one to run around trying to grab something simply because it's exotic and hard to find on this continent. I am quite content with the selections I find around me, thank you very much.
However, there's been one notable exception, and that revolves around the wedding ring. I am very pleased to have my wedding band in my possession now. It took only two weeks of waiting from the initial order to holding it in my hot little hands. It's a beautiful sterling silver band with the Hebraic script of the famous lovers' lines from the Song of Solomon:
I Am My Beloved's And She Is Mine. On the interior of the band Mel's and my name, and the date of the wedding has been inscribed.
And all I had to do was custom order it from Jerusalem, Israel.
I admit a great deal of nervousness was had during the ordering process. Without any idea of knowing how it would look until I received it, there was a lot of profuse sweating and extra showers. Well...it was either over the wait, or else all the humidity. Yet when the ring arrived yesterday, I couldn't have been grinning any bigger. The wedding ring looks even more fantastic than I was hoping for. The quality and the courtesy that the craftsmen of "Porat Jewellery" in Israel showed me has been amazing, hence the reason I am so intent on plugging their webpage.
So here it is: http://www.porat-jewelry.com/
It is well worth your time to see what they have to offer, especially those of you who may be interested in jewellery with Hebraic inscriptions. You will not be disappointed. Oh, and for those curious, my wedding ring is respectively the G-55 model found on the 'wedding rings' page.
In other news, it suddenly occurred to me that the link I have in my last bit of nowhere should have been given a post all to itself and been entitled, "Dingos Ate Your Webpage!" Which would have been quite accurate...so long as you replace the dingos with monsters.
Today's Lesson: just because the building you happen to be in while visiting Toronto for an hour or so has a sign that says:
Notice, filming for the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse is being done on this site doesn't automatically mean you'll stumble across some zombies waiting in the wings.
posted by Phillip at 5:22 PM
