The Promise Bar

“Put 09.03.2021 on it, the night we met at her cousin's cookout. She read it, looked at me, and went completely quiet for like ten seconds. Then she cried into my shoulder. Gold one. She hasn't taken it off in three weeks.”

“My husband engraved our wedding date. I touch it all day.”

“Got the silver one with SOPHIE 21.04.00 for her 26th. Proper nervous about the date, she's day-first and I always write it the other way. The preview showed it exactly how it'd come out so I triple checked. Arrived in 8 days, box with the cream bow, looked expensive. She's not taken it off.”

“Quality is great and the gold matches her ring perfectly. Only reason it's 4 stars: it's capitals only, and I wanted her name in lowercase like how she signs it. In caps it reads more formal. She still loves it and wears it to work every day, so maybe that's on me.”

“He's in San Diego, I'm in Austin. He engraved the coordinates of the coffee shop where we met, 30.2672 -97.7431, and mailed it with a note in his terrible handwriting. Every time I miss him I spin it around and read the numbers. Silly, but it works.”

“We had a bad couple of months. Not going to get into it, but I said things I shouldn't have and she almost left. When we got through it I wanted something that said I'm staying without making a big speech, because I'm bad at speeches. I engraved STILL YOU on the gold bar. That's it, two words. I gave it to her on our five year, she opened the box, read it, and just put her forehead on my chest for a long time. She told her sister it was the best thing I've ever given her. Thirty-eight bucks. I'd have paid three hundred.”