Yesterday Michael and I went out to Koehlers Jewelers in Lansdale to pick out our wedding bands. This is where Michael bought my engagement ring and he was very pleased with the experience (and I am certainly pleased with the result!). Shopping for the bands was made easy for us by an attentive jeweler pulling out a whole array of white gold rings as soon as I asked. We kept things simple, I got a band that is the same thickness as my engagement ring, Michael got it’s male counterpart which is thicker but the same very basic band. We were sized for the rings and put down a deposit on them, we’ll be going back a couple weeks before the wedding for final sizing and then to pick them up. I’m so excited.
The next big thing will be the clothes. As I’ve explained in the past, I have my heart set on getting a sari (saree? I see both spellings everywhere, dict seems to be happy with either). This means I need to find an indian clothing store that is good and attentive to a woman looking for something as serious as a wedding dress. I wasn’t impressed with the Indian store in New Hope. Nita was the first one to discover Iselin, New Jersey online for my shopping needs. According to wikipedia:
“The downtown area is made up mostly of shops selling South Asian (mostly Indian but some Pakistani) food, sweets, clothing (particularly saris), jewelry, music, and other goods.”
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The South Asian culture of this downtown area is known to attract visitors from towns all over New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
And this article further explains:
…is not your run-of-the-mill bedroom community. In the last decade, the downtown business district of this Middlesex County hamlet — centered at Oak Tree Road and Green Street — has become a thriving retail mecca for Indians, who flock here to dine on authentic Indian food and to shop in the many Indian groceries, jewelry stores and sari shops.
OH MY GOSH! I am such a sucker for Indian food and clothing, I’d want to go there even if I wasn’t shopping for a wedding dress.
The plan is to head out there some weekend in July when I can coordinate things with Nita. Michael will be driving us out, about a 2 hour drive, even if he won’t be part of the dress decision he doesn’t want to miss the perfect excuse for visiting this place.
So, have any of you been there?