A Tale of Three Rings

In case you can't read the journaling: "It all started with a sketch on a napkin. We had been dating a little over 3 months and he brought me to Ohio for Christmas with his family. He had realized, earlier that night, that I was the one; I had decided I was going to marry him the summer before we were even dating. A few months later, we had a very wet day at Universal Studios. While we were picking up new shoes for me at Kmart, I put a quarter into a bubble machine and out popped a star ring. He proposed to try to cheer me up and I told him to ask me again when I was smiling. He proposed again on another rainy, sad day and was given the same answer: "ask again when I am smiling." And then I got sick…

Our dreams of eloping on 11-11-11 had to be tabled so we compromised by getting formally engaged. He found a star ring on Etsy that he could stamp a short message on. We chose "and into Faerie," a line from the Neil Gaiman book he tracked down for my birthday a month into our relationship. I was certainly smiling as I told him yes. But not everyone loved that ring as much as we did; we got a lot of negative feedback from family and friends. So he took the napkin with the original sketch to the jeweler's, along with stones from 3 generations of women in my family. The jeweler also tracked down a stone that changes colors from turquoise to blue to purple. Together they designed something more magical than I could ever have imagined. I wear this beautiful one-of-a-kind ring every day. After all, it's not every day that someone brings you a shooting star..."

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