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I gave them a size and they gave me a price, last week. I asked them the weight, in grams (I worked in currency and metal trading) the guy said "heavy" we make them "heavy"... I did not ask them to wait.
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pst Hey buddy I got a heavy gold ring over here, how much money ya got?
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What's your budget? Yeah, I'll make it extra heavy...
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wizardzz wrote: I'll make it extra heavy...
Lead and I'll leave the alchemy up to you? 
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No, and it's more likely than not, that they wont.
While I understand that you're probably just looking at a plain band (perhaps even one that's machine-made), the fact remains that jewellery has become increasingly treated as a commodity by the masses.
Nobody realizes that somewhere in the order of 5% of the gold/silver that enters is never accounted for nor reclaimed. It's often 10years from when the carpet is laid to when it is torn up and burnt, with the ash being sent to the refiners to recover the embedded precious metal dust from filing, sawing, drilling etc. To make a 3gm piece, it's my experience that ~80% of the time you'll need to start with 5gms and will only have filings/offcuts that weigh 75% of the extra 2gms. Straight away, your 3gm ring has cost the jeweller (at least in the short-term) 3.5gms of gold/silver.
To take the best analogy I can, how do you expect you'd feel if every Tom, Dick and Harry that came in to your work asked "How large will the executable be?" as a means to gauge the potential price and to compare 1 shop to another.
People seem to think that the cost of the metal makes up almost the entire price of the jewellery. That's just not the case, not with jewellery, not with software, not with cars.
You certainly don't expect to pay the same money for a 1000kg mercedes as you'd expect to pay for a 1000kg toyota - even though they're both still made of steel, aluminium, glass etc, etc. The point being that weight is not an especially good metric by which to compare two products/shops.
I say this not in agitation, anger or condescension but as a result of having left that industry, with the phenomenon being one of the 3 greatest contributors. Working daily with cyanide, having black fingers 24 hours a day for 48 weeks of the year (from polishing), along with the fear every day that some 'es aitch eye tee' is going to stick a gun in your face to rob you of the $50,000 - $100,000 of stock sitting in the window. Elephant that - the minimum wage for a jeweller is less than the minimum wage for a hairdresser - not even close to worth it!
Lastly, and by far, most importantly -  congratulations, hope you both have a great day that follows you with fond memories for the remainder of your lives.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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Here's a poem for your wedding:
No suit from the tailor,
...Don't have my shoes.
Not even a tie,
...but I got the booze.
No transport to the venue
...No active credit card to use
Dang, I also need a haircut
..but I got the booze.
Music list not finalized
...haven't paid my IRS dues,
Vows ain't even finished
...but I got the booze.
Now, if I don't drink
...that's OK, there's nothing to lose.
Cuz, without a place to get ready in the morning.
...I'll Just stay in bed for that final singles-only snooze.
Have an awesome wedding!
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If I had time, I'd start a sock puppet account to upvote this again.
CPians, upvote this, brilliant.
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Done.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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wizardzz wrote: CPians, upvote this, brilliant.
Done. Cheapest wedding gift ever!! 
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Here's my "rendition" of the song:
Wedding Blues[^]
 Enjoy! 
No suit from the tailor,
...Don't have my shoes.
Not even a tie,
...but I got the booze.
No transport to the venue
...No active credit card to use
Dang, I also need a haircut
..but I got the booze.
Music list not finalized
...haven't paid my IRS dues,
Vows ain't even finished
...but I got the booze.
Now, if I don't drink
...that's OK, there's nothing to lose.
Cuz, without a place to get ready in the morning.
...I'll Just stay in bed for that final singles-only snooze.
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It's saying this when I try in Chrome:
The webpage at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58104197/Wedding%20Blues.mp3 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 111 (net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error.
=(
Now this in IE:
Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct.
=(
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I've tried Chrome, IE8, IE9 & IE10, FireFox and Safari on WinXP, WinVista and Win7;
2 different internet access points
I've also tried Chrome & Safari on an iPad Mini & Mac OS, works fine.
I've also tried an Android phone, Dolphin browser, works fine.
Dunno what ta tell ya...
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Got it! My work firewall was no good for it!
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Well, is the song gonna get played during the ceremony or reception, then?! (haha)
or at the Bachelor Party Thursday night or Wedding Rehearsal Friday night?!!
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Or I can do a remix to make it smooooth / Barry White-style for your honeymoon !!
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These could be the lyrics to their own blues wedding march, I sang in my head while reading!
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I've sung at a rare wedding or 3; wrote my own lyrics / music for the betrothed couple(s).
Acoustic guitar.
I'll use GarageBand's loops this evening and put it to Blues music and post it up later 2nite.
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What's the hurry?
Use the best guess
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Take ten minutes to make a priority list.
Here's number one: Don't be too hungover.
The rest is up to you. Have the best day of your life.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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Do your taxes. As soon as possible, do your taxes. And congratulations on getting married.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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wizardzz wrote: Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead. You know? ... etc.
I hate it when idiots talk about language like that. It's plain that they don't have a clue what they're talking about -- i.e. they use the words to set up a specific feeling in the listener's mind, which, abracadabra, completely contradicts what they're saying.
Now, say "potato".
You have one chance. Get it wrong, and you'll have to call the whole thing off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would point out that Sartre said, "commitment is an act not a word" which, if I understand what you are saying, is a similar quote, from someone with a great understanding of language.
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Nope, he was just pointing out that people use words deceptively -- which couldn't happen if words didn't have intrinsic meaning and power.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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