Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Love is The Law
As a "straight" person, I grew up with a prejudice toward and a lack of understanding of people who were "gay". Age and experience, if we pay attention, enlightens our minds.
Back in the mid '70s, a woman asked me to make a ring for her "girl friend". They had been together for ten years. She wanted me to carve a symbol of corn growing in the snow. She explained that this was a native american symbol of something that was impossible. This was to signify how hard their relationship had been to maintain in the climate that existed at that time for same sex couples. It was a moving encounter.
I have been making rings for same sex couples throughout my career. These came to be called "commitment rings". I never liked that term since it was clear to me these couples were no different from the couples coming to me for "wedding rings" and who are just as much in love and just as committed to a life together.
Back in the mid '70s, a woman asked me to make a ring for her "girl friend". They had been together for ten years. She wanted me to carve a symbol of corn growing in the snow. She explained that this was a native american symbol of something that was impossible. This was to signify how hard their relationship had been to maintain in the climate that existed at that time for same sex couples. It was a moving encounter.
Ten years later her partner contacted me to make a matching ring for the first woman. I have never forgotten that experience and have had a particular fondness for the many same sex couples I have made rings for over the years.
I may have a picture of that ring but I have not been able to find it yet. However, several winters ago I was driving to work and passed a field and saw two stalks of corn left standing in the snow. It was the symbol that I had carve so many years ago.
I have been making rings for same sex couples throughout my career. These came to be called "commitment rings". I never liked that term since it was clear to me these couples were no different from the couples coming to me for "wedding rings" and who are just as much in love and just as committed to a life together.
I would like to
express my joy for my gay and lesbian sisters and brothers and my pride in the
people of Minnesota for abolishing that arbitrary distinction.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
A Joyous Occasion
Several years ago you may have seen one of the early YouTube
video’s that went viral. The dancing wedding! It is delightful. If you have not seen it, there is a link
below. The couple asked me to make
custom rings for them and I happily agreed. The link is for their wedding site, which
contains the YouTube video that you just have to watch!
About a year after they were married, I received an e-mail
from them that I thought I would share with you:
“Hello,
My husband, Kevin, and I had our wedding rings made by you
last year (we love them!).
You have also made wedding rings for some of our close
friends who are also in that video (Ann and Jeff Mason, Lisa and Jimmy
Krieger).
We are working on making a short online ad for Google about
our wedding- showing websites that we used to plan our wedding. We would like
to show your website briefly in the ad- because ours rings are really special
to us.
Sincerely,
Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz”
All weddings should be this joyful! Enjoy the video!
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