Monthly Archives: April 2009

Three Promises Bands

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I will protect you.

I will support you.

I will come home to you.

What will you promise?

Turtle Love Committee is pleased to present the new Three Promises wedding band sets. These beautiful (and affordable) sets are a subtle and lasting reminder of the promises you’ll make to each other on your wedding day. The notion of three promises and three rings makes for a beautiful wedding ceremony, and our Three Promises rings are a great way to focus your wedding ceremony and your wedding jewelry on the things that are most important in your relationship.

Clockwise from the top left, the Three Promises sets are: Gardner, Parker, Raymond, Stevens, and Katahdin.

The Katahdin and Raymond options look great on a man or a woman. You can check out all of Turtle Love Committee’s Three Promises bands here.

We’d love to hear your ideas for the Three Promises.

Cool Rings in Real Life: Robin’s Ring

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Here’s the second installment in our series of people with cool engagement rings and wedding bands - yay Robin!

What is your favorite place in the whole wide world? Home; second favorite: any island.

Childhood ambition? To be a jazz singer.

What do you do for work? Play! I’m fortunate to make my living playing music. Not jazz, but close enough.

What are you passionate about? Harmony.

Where would you rather be right now? At home.

Favorite beverage? Cream soda.

Sweetest indulgence? French toast with caramelized bananas.

What is your favorite physical feature? My hands.

What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like? A band of two strands of silver continuously intertwined. We bought the ring during an island vacation together, not intending that it would become my wedding ring. When we married six years later, I wanted to use that ring as my wedding band, so I moved the ring from my right hand to my left.

Yay Robin! Thanks for sharing - we think you’re cool!

Readers: do you have a wedding band or engagement ring that’s not the typical diamond solitaire? Wanna be profiled here? Share it with us in the comments, or by emailing helpfulturtle [at] turtleloveco [dot] com.

Cool Rings in Real Life: Adrianne, The Head Turtle

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This post marks the beginning of a project profiling people with unique engagement rings, wedding bands, or other rings celebrating commitment. The goal of this series isn’t to judge the artistic merit of particular pieces of jewelry, but rather to validate and celebrate the decision to make a lifetime commitment without getting sucked into the hype of wearing a huge diamond ring. Since I’ll be trying to convince people to participate as “profilees,” it’s only fair that I should go first. Here goes:

Childhood ambition? Concert violinist.

What do you do for work? I own Turtle Love Committee, an online jeweler focused exclusively on cool engagement rings and wedding bands.

What would you do if you had a million dollars? Go on vacation. Then I’d come back home and keep running TLC. Repeat.

How many pets do you have? One: a snake named Monty. Well okay - he’s (a) a step-pet, and (b) actually a she. Whatever.

Favorite joke? Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was left?

Favorite book? Possession, by A.S. Byatt. But the book that I’ve read most recently is The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss.

Favorite beverage? Horchata Valenciana.

What did you do for fun today? Yoga on the back porch.

If you could be any animal, what would it be? A manatee.

What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like? It’s a plain gold band from Sears, about 4mm wide. It cost around $50 (10 years ago). I don’t have an engagement ring.

What do you think about your ring? I love it - I don’t have to worry about losing it or comparing it to anyone else’s. Also, I feel like it gives me proletarian street cred.