Week 3 of Today Throws a Destination Wedding

On the Today Show's annual series, Today Throws a Wedding, viewers get to help plan a dream celebration by voting on every aspect of the event – from which lucky couple will win to how the bride will wear her hair. This year, viewers get to help plan a destination wedding. And, of course, the most important choice in a destination wedding is where it will be held!

Nikki Hensley and Buddy Butler reported that since learning they're the Today Show's winning couple, they've had a whirlwind week of sightseeing, hearing congratulatory calls from family and friends, talking to their local newspapers, and even eating lunch at the same restaurant as Robert De Niro and Leonardo Dicaprio. Buddy's army brigade has even started calling him Corporal Hollywood. (Buddy is an Army Corporal who recently completed a tour of duty in Iraq.)

So where are Nikki and Buddy, the lucky couple, going to get married?

Viewers had to choose from Le Chateau Frontenac, The Lake Placid Lodge, The Biltmore Estate and Cap Juluca. Click here to read more about their choices

213,000 viewers chose my pick of Cap Juluca, a gorgeous carribean hideaway. (In a new feature called the "Confession Cam", Buddy and Nikki revealed that their favorite choice would be the Biltmore Estate, with Cap Juluca a close second.)

This week's vote is on the wedding band set:

Robert Verdi reported that there is a new trend for the wedding band to be a new piece of jewelry in the bride's wardrobe; not necessarily matching or interlocking with the engagement ring. Brides then wear the engagement ring on their right hand, with the wedding band on the left.

To that end, the wedding bands they've chosen are each unique and spectacular that any bride would be happy to add to her jewelry collection.

Penny Preville – For the bride, they offer a ring of 142 full-cut round diamonds, set in a garland design of flowers and leaves, surrounded by diamonds on both sides of diamonds. Buddy's ring would be a simple 18k white gold ring with engraved filigree on the side echoing Nikki's ring.

Fred Leighton From the famed seller of fabulous antique jewelry comes this art-deco-feel frieze of 1.3 carats of round brilliant-cut diamonds set in platinum. Buddy's is a brushed matte platinum, which is a less shiny and more casual choice.

Neil Lane offers 1.43 carats of pave diamonds set in platinum for the bride. The groom's ring is also platinum with mill-graining around the outside, in a distinguished

Tiffany and Company. The most traditional of all choices: Her ring is alternating diamonds and sapphires in a platinum Lucida band. His ring is a simple clean rounded Lucida band of 18k yellow gold.

Voting is closed for week 3. Go to The Today Show Throws a Destination Wedding Week 4 to find out which wedding rings they chose and learn about the wedding dresses voters will have to choose from.

Read more about Week One of Today Throws a Destination Wedding and which couples viewers had to choose from.
Read more about Week Two of Today Throws a Destination Wedding and the fabulous locations that could have been the site of Nikki and Buddy's big day.