287 days?

Gary has a countdown clock on his new phone. He can tell you down to the second how long before we will be married. Or at least when we'll be at Vulcan and close to being married. I should know these things, but we're still doing so many other things... there's a lot in my brain right now. Plus I just remembered it's almost Christmas.
So anyway -- we picked out our wedding bands the day we went to pick up my engagement ring. That ring, in case you are curious, is a Scott Kay, Contemporary with knife edge band, palladium. (Scott Kay is impossible to link to something specific, so if you really want to see it, let me now, I'll send you the link from his site.) It's a lovely ring on it's own - but even more beautiful because it has history. My grandfather bought the diamond around 1950 and he wore it in his Masonic ring. When he died, my grandmother had it made into a solitaire that she then wore until she remarried. My mother then had it re-set, and she wore it after she remarried. For some reason she stopped wearing it, but I'm okay with that, because now it's on my finger.
Last week, Diamonds Direct was having a sale, the kind with a lot of people and beverages and music (and cleavage, but that's another story). We went in because pretty much everything in the store was 20% off. Angela, who had been helping us each time we were there, had written down the styles, all the specifics on the bands we had picked out. As we waited for her to finish up with another customer, one thing led to another, and we ended up picking out entirely different rings. That's a good thing, though. Both are now being custom made, and they were both less expensive as well (something about the recession being a good time to buy metal). But the coolest part is that they're custom - just for us, no other ones like them in the world - kind of like us. They are both palladium bands, Gary's with a little more detail than mine, and we're having stones hammered into each of them. Two diamonds that are my grandmother's will be hammered into my band. We also bought a few other stones for mine. (More on that later... like when you see it.) Gary's band, if I remember it right, is kind of a series of squares or maybe rectangles, with one diamond hammered into the center of one. I think they're both really going to be quite pretty - I'm very excited about them. And of course, I'm very excited about the wedding and seeing all of you. But I'm even more looking forward to being Gary's wife. I guess I really should set my own clock and start counting the days...