A True Story · Boonville, MO

One Ring Became Three.

Her mother's wedding set hadn't been worn in years. Today three generations wear it. This is how that happened.

Where it started

Her mother's wedding set

White gold and diamonds, from a marriage that didn't get the years it deserved. When she passed, the ring went into a drawer. Nobody was going to sell it. Nobody was going to wear it either.

Her mother's wedding set
She didn't know what to do with it.

What now?

She didn't know what to do with it.

Selling it was never going to happen, and wearing it wasn't either, it was her mother's ring, not hers. She hadn't considered that it could become something else. Most people don't.

The design

Before anything was taken apart

This is what she saw. Her mother's rings still whole on one side, the new design on the other. She could have stopped right there. She said go ahead.

Before anything was taken apart
It stopped being one ring

The idea

It stopped being one ring

We asked what she would actually wear, and who else in the family would wear something. A ring and a pendant for her. Earrings for her granddaughter. Her mother's diamonds went into all of it.

At the bench

Set by hand

Yellow gold, because that's what she wears. Every stone set by hand, including the five that had already lived in another ring for years. Four weeks from approval to her hand.

Set by hand
Seven stones, four people

The band

Seven stones, four people

Five diamonds came out of her mother's ring. We added one for her husband and one for her daughter. The oval at the center is new, and he picked it out. She wears all of them at once.

The center stone

Close to her heart

Her mother's center diamond became a pendant. She didn't want it on her hand. She wanted it somewhere she could feel it. She hadn't known that was possible.

Close to her heart
The next one to wear them

Her granddaughter

The next one to wear them

Her first diamonds came from her grandmother. Two stones from the original ring, set as studs. Someday she'll be the one deciding what they become next.

Every Angle

The Finished Pieces

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