{"id":210,"date":"2006-04-24T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/getting-band-ed\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:34:33","slug":"getting-band-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/24\/getting-band-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Band-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition may say who should be the party to choose the wedding bands, but we figured since I\u2019ve already chosen the engagement ring, Ling would get the say on the other one. So, for the month of March, we hunted around quite a bit for a pair that we liked. The bands were eventually found at Lee Hwa\u2019s, at their outlet in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetdirectory.com\/asia_travel\/search\/searchredirect.php?linkid=30314&amp;travel_id=6889&amp;travel_site=22936\" target=\"_blank\">Plaza Singapura<\/a>. While both rings did not have diamonds (neither of us wanted any) and we wanted a plain design, they weren\u2019t that inexpensive either.<\/p>\n<p>The shop didn\u2019t have our sizes, so we had to get them custom made. What was surprising was that even though we were advised it would take about 2 months for both rings to get made, they actually arrived much earlier: we got them in 3 weeks. Here\u2019re both rings:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image188\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/getting-banded.JPG\" alt=\"getting-banded.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition may say who should be the party to choose the wedding bands, but we figured since I\u2019ve already chosen the engagement ring, Ling would get the say on the other one. So, for the month of March, we hunted<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/24\/getting-band-ed\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Getting Band-ed<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[592],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-wedding","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}