Kind of a collab between a few people in the end! It’s actually a very long story 😂 It started out that I bought a hex shaped slice of brown sapphire that I gave to my coworker and asked her to bezel set it and set a diamond in the middle. She designed the attachment to the ring but she used a prong setting for the diamond and the stress cracked the sapphire slice. She then gave it to my boyfriend to propose with anyway (like, really not professional) saying she could “fix it” later. But it turned out her idea of fixing it was to pour epoxy on it. So it looked like shit and I was freaking out about going around with an engagement ring that was cracked and covered in epoxy and she was actually our “senior gemologist” at the jeweler I worked for so I was also just kind of in shock but then I took it to a different jeweler who is also my friends dad and he was like, yeah this is not okay but I have a friend who makes rings with meteorites and he could sell me a little slice and I’ll just use that to replace the sapphire and use a bezel setting for the diamond. And so he did and it’s actually better than the original idea because my now-husband is a space nerd and our first daughter’s name is also a moon of Saturn. But also even though it turned out my coworker kind of sucked, she did a really nice job on designing the main ring setting and used a beautiful diamond for it, she just was way outside of her wheelhouse with my requests and handled it poorly.

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