We picked our wedding bands! vintage wedding invitations! We are purchasing them from a local jeweler, VA where Mr. B bought (actually designed!) my engagement ring. I'm going this weekend to buy them and get Mr. B's ring engraved, but I have a problem—I have no idea what the engraving should be!

Here are some of my options:

Traditional - I heard the traditional engraving is the bride's maiden initials to the groom's initials and the date. I love the timelessness of that idea, but I think I want to do something more original.

Bible Verses - We're both very spiritual and believe that we need to keep God at the center of our marriage. We discussed some of Mr. B's favorite verses, Galatians 2:20 and Proverbs 3:5 as options, but I'm not sure I want to take that route, either.

Funny - I saw a really funny one on TV once that said "Put it back on!"

Sayings - I also thought of using a saying we said to each other a lot during our relationship. When we first started dating we would always say, "It is what it is!"

Those all seem way too crude  though, and I don't want the engraving in his ring to be joke.

Meaningful and new -

Looking for pictures and ideas for this post, I ran into this list from the Gemvara blog with lots of other options:

• Happy Ever After
• Truly, Madly, Deeply
• Yours
• Life Begins
• Love, Faith, Hope Together
• Love Is All In All
• Love Is Eternal
• Love Me And Leave Me Not
• Love & Kisses
• Infinity symbol
• My Heart Is Yours
• My Best Friend
• My Heart Is Yours Forever
• My Love Is Forever Yours
• Never Another You
• Never To Part
• No Heart More True Than Mine To You
• One Life, One Love
• One Love, One Lifetime
• Today, Tomorrow, Forever
• One Heart
• With All That I Am
• With These Rings We Bind Our Love
• With You Always
• XOXOXOXOX
• You And No Other
• You Are The Love Of My Heart
• Love of my Life
• You Are My Strength and My Love
• You Have My Heart
• You Shall Never Walk Alone
• From This Day Forward
• To Have and To Hold
• All My Love, All My Life
• All My Love
• Always
• Always For Forever
• Endless As This Shall Be Our Bliss
• Faithful Love Will Ever Last
• Forevermore
• For You Alone
• Forever
• Forever And Ever
• Forever Entwined
• Forever In Love
• Forever In My Heart
• From This Day On
• Grow Old With Me
• Here Is My Heart, Guard It Well
• How Do I Love Thee
• I Love You Most
• Joy Without End
• Kismet
• More than Anything
• With all my Heart
• My Love, My Life, My Friend
• Still a Spark
• My Heart is Your Heart Always
• To be continued…
• Now and Forever
• This Day and Always
• Eternally
• Two Become One
• Only You
• All my Love, All my Life
• Here is my Heart, Guard it Well
• With You Always

There were even ideas for sayings in different languages!

• Deus Nos Iunxit (Latin: God Joined Us)
• Semper Amemus (Latin: Let Us Love Always)
• Semper Fidelis (Latin: Always Faithful)
• Pari Passu (Latin: With Equal Step)
• Amor Vincit Omnia (Latin: Love Conquers All)
• Il Mio Cuore e il Tuo Per Sempre (Italian: My Heart is Yours Forever)
• Amore Mio (Italian: My Love)
• Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li (Hebrew, Song of Solomon 2:16: I Am My Beloved's and My Beloved is Mine)
• Mon Coeur Est a Vous (French: You Have My Heart)
• Mon Amour (French: My Love)
• Je t'aime (French: I Love You)
• Myn Genyst (Old German: My Heart)
• God for Me Provided Thee (16th/17th-century English)
• I am my beloved's… My beloved is mine
• Love is Eternal
• Never to Part
• forever and forever and forever and forever and (continuous around ring)
• You Complete Me
• I Do

Let's face it: the possibilities are endless!

What are you having engraved in your groom's wedding band?