one ring to bind them

you have got to see it for yourself. seriously. my photography skills - actually, the utter lack of it - will never ever do justice to the magnificence that is my engagement ring. its five - FIVE! - diamonds look like interdimensional portals. i see worlds when i look inside each stone.





moks presented it to me last sunday. i say "presented" instead of "proposed" because, as this wedding blog attests to, we have decided to get married even before i got the ring. in fact, we have decided to get married when we got back together almost a year ago now. it's pretty much a topsy-turvy love affair. we were together for almost two years. we broke up. when we started seeing each other again in 2006, we took our time praying and thinking about whether it would be good to commit to each other again. and when we did commit, we committed for life. two days after we got back together, moks proposed that we open a joint account and start saving up for our wedding. so we did. and then almost a year later, he gave me these really beautiful rocks.


the proposal was no easy feat either. moks knew all along that i wanted drama when he gives me the engagement ring. he, on the other hand, wants to sit me down and talk to me about how he sees our married life would be. he was able to do both. moks asked me to walk around UP last sunday, in the guise of visiting again the places we love there so we can check where we want to hold our pre-nup shoot. we got tired after walking just from CMC to vanguard, so we went back to batibot - the tree in CMC where we sat and prayed the first time we became boyfriend and girlfriend. while resting, he read me a poem he wrote for me. the poem rhymed, and just the thought that i made him rhyme brought me so much kilig. i don't want to disclose the rest of the things he told me before he gave me the ring. sufficie it to say that i know my husband-to-be has got a clear head and he knows - more than i do perhaps - what we're getting into.


he asked me to be his companion in the journey God has set out for him. of course, i accepted.


so now i have this ring - the one ring that binds us. and each time i look at it (which is like, every 2 seconds) all i keep thinking is: what a way to be bound!