I love all of my clients, but this couple was especially amazing. The bride to be contacted me first to start talking about designs. I ended up meeting with both her and her boy a couple of times since they also live in Omaha and they were so sweet!

She put together a collage of rings ideas she had found that she liked and we went from there. She knew she wanted an opal for her center stone and was willing to take the risk of having a soft center stone. She also liked the idea of sapphire but didn’t HAVE to have one. I took her ideas and put together several designs for them to look at.

After a lot of consideration, they both decided that the 4th design was “their ring.” Then the question was diamonds or sapphires for the side stones and what size center stone. I brought in opals in 5mm and 6mm along with diamonds and sapphires that could go on the sides and let them decide when they could actually see the color combinations in person. He didn’t want her to know exactly what she was going to get before the ring was actually finished so it was his choice, but it was pretty obvious when she saw the stones, which combination she preferred.

The final piece is done in platinum with a 5mm genuine opal in the center with pear shaped diamonds on the sides. The opal I found (and they chose) has amazing color play. Here are the stones and the casting before the piece was finished.

The piece came out amazing! I can’t wait to hopefully work with this couple again!

This is a ring that a friend of mine actually gave me the idea for but I loved it so much that I decided to make it!

The main stone is a fire opal cabochon that has great color. On the side view picture you can see some of the play of color inside the stone and in person it is even more spectacular. The little stones are genuine diamonds and weigh 0.15 carats total. The white metal is palladium and the yellow metal is 14 Karat yellow gold.

The idea is for the diamonds in their metal arms to look like they are radiating from the center stone like the sun or a star. Let me know what you think!

This piece is available for purchase! Please contact me at leah@leahashley.com if you are interested!