We adore this ring because it has so much meaning and background behind this! On September 2, 2023, we went to a few jewelry stores and ended up at Kay's as a last resort. We were looking for something specific but weren't quite sure what that was. We were looking around in the cases and asked for some help from an attendant. She listened to our story of what were looking for and said that we should make a custom ring! She directed us to another attendant who specialized in custom-made rings. We explained to him that we had Brooke's grandmother's engagement ring with us. We really wanted to use the center diamond from her ring for our ring. Her grandma had died on April 25, 2023, and jewelry was something that was very special to her grandma. So, it was incredibly important to Brooke (since she was very close to her grandma) to have a piece of her grandmother's engagement ring in our own. So, the attendant guided us to begin looking at bands. We picked out a jeweled wedding band and the attendant explained we could remove one of the jewels to place our own handpicked setting into the band. All three of us searched for a setting for the ring for about 20 minutes and found the most beautiful one!! Brooke's entire face lit up when she saw this setting!! It looked just like a flower and it would even fit the gorgeous diamond from her grandmother's ring. We left Kay's that day knowing that would be our ring but Brooke wouldn't be able to see it all put together until the proposal and she also didn't know when the proposal would be... On September 11, 2023, Josh went and picked up the finished project of the ring and began to plan the proposal!