It was such a pleasure to work with Aaron and Rish on the design and manufacture of their wedding rings, and this is a story of sentimentality, love and meaning.

It was hugely important to the soon-to-be married couple to have rings that were laden with sentimentality. Although they live in Manchester, Aaron and Rish wanted to meet me at their parents’ house near Chester, along with in-laws, brothers and sisters, and their little bundle of joy, Reuben. Designing the rings was to be a family affair and cause for celebration and so everyone was involved, and champagne was most certainly had.

They presented me with two boxes of jewellery; one from Rishveen’s side of the family, and one from Aaron’s. Rishveen had a selection of beautiful, but unworn Indian gold, primarily made up of bangles and rings, and Aaron had a white gold and diamond ‘boat ring’ with some stones missing and a sapphire trilogy which had had the centre stone removed for the creation of Rish’s engagement ring. It was important to everyone that I used as much of the materials as possible to create a new pair of wedding rings, bringing together the heirlooms from both sides of the family.

We began by discussing ideas that they had whilst I sketched away. Rishveen wanted something classic, timeless, but sparkly – not difficult given the amount of diamonds I had to work with! Aaron, on the other hand, wanted something totally unique and had been researching the likes of wooden rings laced with meteorite – a little more difficult given the lack of wood and meteorite I had to work with!

After plenty of discussion and design alterations, Rishveen decided upon a very classic, very beautiful claw set half eternity, and Aaron a 6mm platinum flat profile band, set with a diamond and two sapphires and finished with a parallel groove around the two edges. The three stones in Aaron’s ring represented his little family of three (with scope to add more should there be any new arrivals in the future!)

Rish’s ring was a breeze and a joy to make. We mixed a good deal of the metals together, and added a sprinkling of new metal to get the fineness to 18ct yellow gold, in order to match the fineness of her engagement ring. We unset the round brilliant cut diamonds from the boat ring, which were of a beautiful quality, and created a ring of elegance, sparkle, but most importantly, great sentimentality.

For Aaron’s ring, we needed to begin by cutting the sapphires down ever so slightly, as after unsetting them, we noticed that one was much deeper than the other, and too deep to sit snug in a flat profile band. We built fine bezels to set the sapphires into so that they were slightly raised, and set them either side of an emerald cut diamond from the boat ring. Aaron chose platinum as his metal of choice as he understood the benefits of its durability and natural white colour, which he preferred to gold, and at the time of making their rings, platinum was at an excellent price per gram.

We handmade the band in a flat court profile with a softened edge, and milled fine parallel grooves around the edges, completing it with a shiny, polished finish. The end result was superb; a marriage of modern and slightly edgy with its flat profile and sapphires, whilst still remaining subtle enough to be timeless, and ultimately, something that will be handed down to his children, with the same deal of love and meaning that was found in those two little jewellery boxes on the first day we met.