Following the amazing story of a wedding ring that truly endured through disaster, the Broken Promises Coalition challenges the bridal jewelry industry to create wedding rings that uphold that same standard.
Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) July 27, 2012
On July 27, 2012, the Broken Promises Coalition became aware of one couple’s amazing reunion with a wedding ring they’d assumed had been lost in a devastating fire that took their home, an example of the standard of truly enduring rings that the coalition believes all bridal jewelry should uphold.
According to the Coloradoan, Kris and Earl Paige lost their entire home to the High Park Fire in Colorado last week and thought their personal items were long gone, including the wedding ring that Earl had taken off weeks prior while working in the couple’s barn. However, thanks to the efforts of volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse, a few personal items miraculously survived, including the Earl’s ring. The article states, “It was intended as an enduring symbol of their love when Kris and Earl Paige exchanged vows 44 years ago, and endure it did.” The article goes to say, “Little else of the Paige’s property remained. The fire reduced their fortified home with its metal roof and concrete siding and floors to heaps of ashes and gnarled beams.”
“What the Paiges, and all families affected by the High Park Fire, went through is something no one should ever experience. We commend the acts of the volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse in assisting with the clean up and the recovery of precious items not lost to the fire. We also believe that the fact that this wedding ring was one of only a handful of items to survive, that this representation of the Paiges’ commitment to each other also represents the standard that all bridal jewelry should be held to. The couple would have been devastated had the ring not survived just like hundreds of couples who buy tungsten carbide wedding rings are devastated when the ring that represents their vows breaks,” says Broken Promises representative, Clay Darrohn.
Tungsten carbide is a brittle compound that, when fatigued from daily use, can break or shatter – a fact that most brides and grooms are unaware of. Broken Promises believes that the public has a right to know this information before they even consider purchasing a tungsten ring. This is done with the hope that the newlyweds can carry with them for their entire lives the same rings that they have had blessed and used to exchange vows.
The Broken Promises Coalition is currently sponsoring a petition demanding that retailers be upfront regarding the truth about tungsten carbide. For all consumers who believe that love, vows, promises, and the rings that represent them should last a lifetime, this petition is available through the Broken Promises Facebook page.
Broken Promises is a grassroots consumer advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness about misleading information regarding tungsten carbide wedding rings. Started in April of 2012, Broken Promises is a group of concerned consumers dedicated to sharing information about the brittle nature of tungsten rings to brides and grooms to-be.
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