Endless Love
my do-it-yourself wedding bands
Life is a rollercoaster filled with crazy challenges, but the best thing that can happen is finding that one person to spend the rest of your life with. Wedding bands symbolize this special partnership, but to me, they are also a piece of love, giving you a kind of positive power, like a magic trick.
I designed and created our wedding bands, the box, and the little "felt planet." The challenge: I had no prior knowledge of how to do any of it.
The wooden box to carry the rings. Magnetic lock mechanism.
The Box: Made from a piece of special wood collected nearby.
The Felt Planet: Crafted from the fur of our beloved dog, Rocko, who passed away two months before the wedding.
The rings are made from different materials. My wife's ring is designed like a Möbius strip and is crafted from an old brooch that my grandmother used to wear.
Since I had never worked with metal before, there was a lot for me to learn.
I had never made jewelry before either, and I quickly realized that it wasn’t just about heating and melting metal. I faced many challenges and failed several times. Naturally, my fiancée started to worry that she might not have a ring at the wedding. This only made me more determined to succeed.
But it turned out quite well. The imperfections on the inside were intentional too, as a reminder that we are not perfect, and neither should the rings that symbolize our love be.
There wasn’t enough material to make both rings from the same batch of metal, so I created new 585 gold. The copper came from electrical wiring from my business, and the silver dollar was a coin I bought many years ago, back in the early days of our relationship. The gold came from a small coin my father gave me. He passed away a few years ago, and it made me sad not to share this important day with him.
The design of my ring is quite intricate. Since my grandmother and I shared the same ring size, I used her and my grandfather's wedding bands as a model—she had them combined after my grandfather passed away. I wrapped copper foil around the rings to create a natural texture with technical design elements that also resemble the bark of a tree.
The rings are displayed on a piece of rock collected from the furthest north we have ever been together, near Tromsø, Norway.
That has been the story of my DIY wedding bands. I hope you enjoyed it.