Better keep an eye on that ring…(Picture: ABC News)
Losing an engagement ring is bad enough – but it’s particularly worse when you happen to lose your wedding ring only two days later.
Oops.
That’s what happened to Alena Gale Smith, as she celebrated her nuptials on a yacht in Charleston, South Carolina.
Describing her big day before the fateful incident, Alena said: ‘We were on the bow of the boat. We arranged for a yacht, the Alize, to take us out, to sail for about an hour and half and we’d anchor close to the Battery right at sunset to do the vows. It really was perfect and very romantic.’
But then disaster decided to strike at the precise moment that Alena’s husband Trent pulled the wedding ring from a small pouch.
‘The boat was rocking and the wind picked up. The pouch got caught in the wind and went flying overboard’, Alena explained.
‘We said, “Oh my gosh, the ring went into the water! The pouch went into the water!” I asked the captain if he could quick grab a net, and as soon as I said that, Trent without hesitation just dove overboard. It was loud and kind of scary at first.”
And while the couple were unable to successfully salvage the ring, they enjoyed the wedding and tried to put the whole sorry affair behind them.
But then it got a whole lot worse only two days later after Alenna returned home and took off her engagement ring to play with her son, and the same thing happened again.
‘The following Tuesday, I don’t know what happened’, she said.
‘I was doing some crafts with my son, I had cleaned out the closet and the refrigerator, did about five loads of laundry, and then we played baseball in the fields and walked our dog that day.’
Losing an engagement ring is bad enough – but it’s particularly worse when you happen to lose your wedding ring only two days later.
Oops.
That’s what happened to Alena Gale Smith, as she celebrated her nuptials on a yacht in Charleston, South Carolina.
Describing her big day before the fateful incident, Alena said: ‘We were on the bow of the boat. We arranged for a yacht, the Alize, to take us out, to sail for about an hour and half and we’d anchor close to the Battery right at sunset to do the vows. It really was perfect and very romantic.’
But then disaster decided to strike at the precise moment that Alena’s husband Trent pulled the wedding ring from a small pouch.
‘The boat was rocking and the wind picked up. The pouch got caught in the wind and went flying overboard’, Alena explained.
‘We said, “Oh my gosh, the ring went into the water! The pouch went into the water!” I asked the captain if he could quick grab a net, and as soon as I said that, Trent without hesitation just dove overboard. It was loud and kind of scary at first.”
And while the couple were unable to successfully salvage the ring, they enjoyed the wedding and tried to put the whole sorry affair behind them.
But then it got a whole lot worse only two days later after Alenna returned home and took off her engagement ring to play with her son, and the same thing happened again.
‘The following Tuesday, I don’t know what happened’, she said.
‘I was doing some crafts with my son, I had cleaned out the closet and the refrigerator, did about five loads of laundry, and then we played baseball in the fields and walked our dog that day.’
She believes that the ring may have slipped from her finger – but has no plans to make her husband replace it.
‘He still wants to replace my band but I wouldn’t replace the band without it matching the ring.
‘He was like, “I’ll just buy you another one on our 100-year anniversary”.
‘He has no plans on replacing it because he’s hopeful that it will turn up. I’m not giving up hope yet, either. It’s still a hefty penny and even if it had cost less money, you hate to not have it anymore.’
‘It’s just materialistic. We still have our marriage. We still have each other.’
N’awww.
Metro
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