Dealing with Rings

[Tengu]

Who can afford to get married these days?

 

[Broch]

A registry office wedding cost between £50 and £500 depending on where and when. It's a legal process not necessarily a religious one.

 

[Paul_B]

Who can afford to get married these days?

I don't know, I'll ask the FiL? LOL!! FiL will probably be against it!! MiL too for different reasons!!

 

[Chris]

Who can afford to get married these days?

My wife and I got married in 2021 (we had to do it then for visa reasons) and it cost about £50. No guests allowed by law, which was a great excuse for just us and two others as witnesses!

So my recommendation is just to wait for a global pandemic.

 

[Hammock_man]

that close to Hull

The Bl**dy check of the man..... and he's from link con shire mutter mutter mutter.

 

[oldtimer]

Who can afford to get married these days?

Dunno about the cost of getting married but we're still married after 62 years because we reckon divorce is far too expensive.

 

[Mesquite]

A registry office wedding cost between £50 and £500 depending on where and when. It's a legal process not necessarily a religious one.

Yup, that's why the wife and I got married in the registry office on a Friday as it was a lot cheaper than having the wedding on the Saturday.

We then went down to a local pub for the reception. In total our wedding cost £1500 including the honeymoon.

 

[Pattree]

If you don’t want to melt the rings and reset the stones, could you consider having them linked into a necklace (plus chain)?

 

[hughtrimble]

Found it in the pawnbrokers, -one of the best places for old silver.

Lucky they had a suited chain.

Unhallmarked, alas.

This sounds like you may be breaking your decluttering drive! Hopefully it's gone well thus far.

 

[Broch]

Yup, that's why the wife and I got married in the registry office on a Friday as it was a lot cheaper than having the wedding on the Saturday.

We then went down to a local pub for the reception. In total our wedding cost £1500 including the honeymoon.

Friends of ours decided to repeat their honeymoon holiday for their 40th and go to the Seychelles; I asked Sue if she wanted to do the same, but she said she didn't fancy camping in Beddgelert for our anniversary

 

[Tengu]

If you don’t want to melt the rings and reset the stones, could you consider having them linked into a necklace (plus chain)?

This is the best idea. Ill get some silver wire and give it a try.

 

[matarius777]

No, my legs not up to it yet.

Nor am I going to use B Baggins advice on wearing. Not suitable for rings with stones really.

Though most of them dont have stones.

(Gran and Great Gran went for emeralds, interestingly.)

(Never been to Hull though I have heard they have a nice bridge and museum...)

Last went there on a British Rail mystery trip around 1979, aged 14. I remember the museum was especially interesting, full of items from the whaling industry and fishing in general, there was also the William Wilberforce museum, he was instrumental in bringing about the abolition of slavery, a Hull born man. The Dock area was also very interesting, although, sadly, I imagine it will have suffered a massive decline, so no more ships chandlers and other such fascinating stores (to a 14 year old avid reader of Percy F Westerman stories of daring do on the mercantile seas of the early 1900s ).

 

[Tengu]

As I have never been but I have heard the museum is worthwhile.

Anyhow, looking at silver wire; what hardness do you think is best?

 

[Pattree]

I really don’t know. I would imagine the softest you can get.
If you will only be wearing the finished piece occasionally I don’t suppose it matters. If it’s EDC then perhaps you need professional advice.

 

[Tengu]

No, not EDC. I know some folk wear jewellery as EDC but not me.

(That Tengu who lives in the Iron Age and is very much socialised loves bling...)

 

[Keith_Beef]

Last went there on a British Rail mystery trip around 1979, aged 14. I remember the museum was especially interesting, full of items from the whaling industry and fishing in general, there was also the William Wilberforce museum, he was instrumental in bringing about the abolition of slavery, a Hull born man. The Dock area was also very interesting, although, sadly, I imagine it will have suffered a massive decline, so no more ships chandlers and other such fascinating stores (to a 14 year old avid reader of Percy F Westerman stories of daring do on the mercantile seas of the early 1900s ).

I've been to Hull no end of times but the most recent must go back to about five years ago.

The old docks have been transformed into a very artsy district full of 'spaces' for 'pop-up' exhibitions and restaurants, but the physical structures of warehouses and train tracks are still there.

And the Wilberforce house is definitely worth a visit. The women's sugar boycott is not what was taught in my school when we were studying the abolitionist movement.