Dad Handmade His Daughter’s Engagement Ring (Unique)

• Bryce Sherring all the time dreamed of her dad, a goldsmith, designing her engagement ring
• When the time got here for her longtime boyfriend, Dawson Leedahl, to organize for his proposal, he teamed up together with her dad for assist
• Collectively, they brainstormed concepts, finally touchdown on a design crafted from 18-karat white and yellow gold, with the setting in white gold and a Canadian diamond
• In February, whereas on a household trip in Arizona, Leedahl proposed with the ring
• Not lengthy after the proposal, the bride-to-be determined to share some video clips of her dad making the ring on TikTok

Ever since she will be able to keep in mind, Bryce Sherring has dreamed of her dad designing her engagement ring. Her dad, additionally named Bryce, 66, is a goldsmith who has been within the business for greater than 40 years, and at the moment he and his spouse, Lorna, run a family-owned goldsmith store in Canada.

When the time got here for the youthful Bryce’s longtime boyfriend, Dawson Leedahl, to organize for his proposal, he teamed up together with her dad for assist. Collectively, they brainstormed concepts, finally touchdown on a design crafted from 18-karat white and yellow gold, with the setting in white gold and a Canadian diamond.

“18 is a big quantity between Bryce and I, nicely, for the 2 of us. And so I needed that integrated, and I understand how essential that quantity is to her,” the dad tells PEOPLE solely.

“It was very laborious,” he continues, including that essentially the most troublesome a part of making the ring was preserving it a secret from the entire household, even his spouse. “It was essential to me that my daughter’s mom and I shared this second, to be pleased collectively. I needed to divide enterprise from private life, and we’re so delighted to be part of that entire course of.”

On Feb. 10, the day after ending the ring — which took a month to handcraft — he and his spouse drove all the way down to Arizona for a household trip. Once they arrived, they picked up their daughter and Leedahl from the airport.

A few days later, Leedahl proposed with the ring.

“Dawson has been pretending to suggest to me for the previous couple of months. So, when it really occurred, I used to be in shock,” the bride-to-be says. “We simply went horseback driving. It’s a wonderful location, and it was sundown and every thing. So, when he was doing it, I assumed, ‘Okay, you’re actually going to drag this now? That’s so annoying.’ I assumed he was simply pretending. After which he had tears in his eyes, pulled out the ring, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God.’ ”

“I went by means of a whirlwind of feelings, and I haven’t even been in a position to cease wanting on the ring since,” she provides. “It’s so stunning, distinctive and excellent for me. I adore it a lot.”

Not lengthy after the proposal, the bride-to-be determined to share some video clips of her dad making the ring on TikTok.

“She was all on me: ‘Dad, why didn’t you doc this, take some pictures, do that, do this?’ And happily, I’ve a employees member who’s wonderful together with her cellular phone, videotaping,” the dad says. “When given a second, she was watching me, operating the shop, keeping track of Lorna and videotaping the chaos.”

Her hope in posting the video was to doc the particular second, one she likes to look again on and relive. However then the video went viral, amassing greater than 2.7 million views.

She admits that after the video went viral, she was greatly surprised by how many individuals beloved the ring. “I do know there wasn’t a doubt in my thoughts, however typically individuals have their opinions like, ‘Oh, I don’t actually prefer it,’ and that’s positive,” she says. “I really didn’t see many feedback like that.”

“It was actually particular to me that individuals simply needed to share a lot pleasure with me and praise the ring, speaking about my dad and the way particular that’s for me,” she provides. “It was a reminiscence from two males who’re actually essential in my life, so it was actually heartwarming.”

“I believe the craziest half to me is simply individuals assume it is so cool that my dad does that and for me it is similar to, that is simply what he does. He has all the time achieved that,” she continues.

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Whereas she simply obtained engaged and is taking in her new, sentimental piece of knickknack, the bride-to-be says she already has her wedding ceremony bands — additionally made by her dad.

“A couple of years in the past, Dawson and I had been visiting my dad and mom in Yorkton for Christmas. It was simply me and Dawson there, and Dawson requested my dad how he makes rings. Rising up within the business, that was by no means one thing I actually thought of. It was simply my dad doing his factor. So Dawson requested my dad, and it was snowing that day. My dad stated, ‘Nicely, let me present you.’ The shop was closed, however he introduced me and Dawson to the store, and we really made these matching bands.”

“We put them on our center fingers in hopes to at some point resize them and use them as our wedding ceremony bands,” she provides.