Hi Turtle Love Committee,

I just wanted to share pictures of my unusual engagement ring for your blog.  It’s a natural yellow sapphire set in a palladium band.  When my fiance and I started looking for an engagement ring for me, I was immediately drawn to natural yellow sapphires both for their color and their silky brilliance.  I chose palladium for the setting because it’s cheaper than 18 karat gold, and very similar to platinum in color, durability and hardness.

Although many traditional diamond engagement rings are beautiful, they really all look the same to me.  I may be weird, but most of those traditional rings bore me.    They just aren’t for me.  It is quite refreshing, in my opinion, that your website offers engagement or commitment rings that are more affordable and original.  I love the idea of engagement rings that don’t look like what an engagement ring is “supposed” to look like.  I feel like a lot of pressure can get put onto couples to buy a diamond engagement ring, or an expensive engagement ring.  Buying a diamond ring or an expensive ring seems to be expected, and it’s not necessarily as easy as one would think to stray from the norm.  Websites like turtlelovecommittee are great, because they remind us that it’s completely okay and cool to have a ring that doesn’t fit our society’s engagement ring archetype.

Thanks-

Hillary