Pictures used with permission from Tamara McFarland from McFarlandDesigns.com

Turtle Love Committee: What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Maggie: The beach. Any beach. Preferably one that occupies the same space as 80 degree weather!

TLC: Childhood ambition?
M: I had an opportunity to study abroad in Siberia when I was in high school. Ever since then I’ve been determined to see as much of the world as I possibly can.

TLC: Current ambition?
M: In one and a half years I’ll have completed my course of study for licensure in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. My goal is to make Chinese medicine affordable and accessible to as many people as possible.

TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
M: I’d pay off the student loans that my husband and I have accumulated over the course of almost twenty-five years of schooling. I’d also invest in organizations and institutions that are promoting health care accessibility, holistic care, and sustainable health care practices.

TLC: Who is your partner?
M: My partner is a healer, a gentleman, a hunk, a romantic, a comedian, a scholar and my husband.

TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
M: We couldn’t imagine life without the other and we wanted to share our commitment with our friends and family.

TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
M: They’re beautiful, simple, honest, ethical and eco-friendly! My engagement ring is a moissonite set in recycled sterling silver (moissonite is a stone that was originally discovered in a meteorite; it’s since been replicated in a lab and is similar in hardness to diamond) and we affectionately refer to it as my “space diamond!” My wedding ring is made with lab-created rubies also set in recycled sterling silver.

TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
M: When we knew we were going to get married we considered not exchanging rings at all (for a variety of reasons). It was challenging to find a local, eco-friendly jeweler, so we were pretty excited to discover Tamara McFarland’s work. She created a custom design based on our input and her style. I was so thrilled to have such a unique ring that really represented who we are as a couple.

TLC: What’s your favorite color?
M: This totally depends on the context, although pumpkin orange is always a safe bet.

TLC: Pets?
M: We live in a small apartment in San Francisco which doesn’t allow pets, but we’ve already named our future cat (Bubbles) and our future dog (Meatball).

TLC: What are you passionate about?
M: Healing. Travelling. Love. Baking. Lists (although I’m trying to wean myself from them). The beach. Creativity. Art Nouveau. Coconuts. Elvis.

TLC: What is the last book you read?
M: “The Time Traveller’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger.

TLC: Favorite beverage?
M: Coconut milk, hands-down!

TLC: What is your favorite physical feature?
M: I don’t have a favorite physical feature, but in terms of my personality, I’m grateful for my ability to see the positive aspects in any situation. I think I inherited that from my grandfather.

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Turtle Love Committee: What’s your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Melissa: I think I was a mermaid in a previous life because I love the sea so much! My favorite places to go “be one” with the waves are Bermuda and Oregon’s coast. Both are absolutely beautiful but in very different ways.

TLC: Childhood ambition?
M: I wanted to be a world famous mystery writer.

TLC: Current ambition?
M: Making a decent living doing something I love and believe in with a flexible schedule that allows me to spend time with those I love. That’s the reason I started Emerald Events & Weddings, my very own eco-friendly event planning business. I help clients save the planet while they throw amazing parties and events, AND, I can still make it to my niece’s school play! That makes for a happy Melissa!

TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
M: Half would go to charities I support like the Cystic Fibrosis foundation and Heifer International; with the other half I’d pay off all my family’s debts, buy everyone a new car, and maybe a second home near the beach for me!

TLC: Who is your partner?
M: Erich is the love of my life. I went through a LOT of frogs before finding my prince! He’s a techie with a wicked sense of humor, is one of the smartest men I know, and can cook gourmet meals like nobody’s business!

TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
M: It was a surprise to both of us actually. We were sitting on our couch one night and I was upset that I’d been so busy I hadn’t been able to spend much time with him that week. He told me that was okay, “because we had the rest of our lives to be together.” He then took a deep breath and said “Will you marry me?” I asked him “Are you sure?!” about forty times before saying yes! It turned out that he’d actually planned to propose to me after the New Year when things calmed down, but his proposal ended up being completely spur of the moment and I loved the fact that it was so spontaneous.

TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
M: I have a white gold ring with a lab created emerald-cut emerald with several small diamonds on each side. The front and back of the ring have lacework which allows light to shine through the emerald at all times.

TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
M: love it because it’s not cookie cutter in any sense of the word and it’s definitely a “me” ring. Since the diamonds and emerald are lab-created, I didn’t add to the destruction and suffering caused by mining those gems in the wild, which was important to both Erich and myself.

TLC: What are you passionate about?
M: My passions include time with my family and friends, traveling to exotic destinations, writing my how-to-books for greening events and gardening in our backyard. We raise hops (Erich homebrews beer) as well as vegetables, herbs, and heirloom flowers.

TLC: What is the last book you read?
M: Diana Mott Davidson’s “Fatally Flaky.” Her heroine, Gold,y is a caterer who, like me, is spunky, from Colorado and just a bit fluffy. She writes well and also includes several wonderful recipes in each murder mystery which I love to try out!

TLC: Sweetest indulgence?
M: Port and dark chocolate with my honey in front of a roaring fire.

TLC: What is your favorite physical feature?
M: I love my smile and it’s a good thing because I do that a lot!

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TLC: What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Conor: Anywhere where my backpack’s behind me and my son in front of me.

TLC: Childhood ambition?
C: To dig up dinosaurs and put them back together again.

TLC: Current ambition?
C: Not let today slip away, bake a five layer cake with homemade frosting, perfect my Spanish, get on airplane without knowing where it’s going.

TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
C: Hand out twenty dollar bills like parking tickets and get on an airplane without knowing where it’s going.

TLC: Who is your partner?
C: An occasionally shy, always humorous British boy with a killer crooked smile and a way with building furniture.

TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
C: We stopped thinking and dove in.  Literally- he proposed next to a swimming pool (because we wanted the ring to evoke the moment we took the literal and figurative plunge) and then he threw me in!

TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
C: It is a sapphire with two small diamonds on opposite sides made by Tom McCaffery in Chicago.  We later commissioned Tom to make a pair of earrings when Declan was born to expand the orbit to include all three of us.

TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
C: I get lost in it and wander to all of the places we still have to get lost in together.

TLC: Pets?
C: Our 2 year old son.

TLC: What do you do for work?
C: Bookkeeper for artists and nonprofits, while studying for CPA exam.

TLC: What are you passionate about?
C: Taking people places they never thought they’d go.

TLC: What is the last book you read?
C:”The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science” by Natalie Angier

TLC: Favorite beverage?
C: Sapphire and tonic with lime, light on the ice.

TLC: Sweetest indulgence?
C: Concerts that start after midnight.

TLC: What is your favorite physical feature?
C: The Jersey Shore.

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We hear you, Sarah-Jane!  And we’re super glad you ended up finding a pearl engagement ring that suits you perfectly . . .

Turtle Love Committee: What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Sarah-Jane: My family home, which is in the country in Central Texas.  It’s got quite a large acreage, giant oak trees, and a lake.

TLC: Childhood ambition?
SJ: Which one? It ran the gamut from lawyer and librarian to geophysicist and actress!

TLC: Current ambition?
SJ: To start my life with the man of my dreams and serve God as best I can with all that is within me.

TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
SJ: Buy a kayak, a few mountain bikes, and truck to haul them. After that, I’d donate the rest.

TLC: Who is your partner?
SJ: Matt Menefee! A truly wonderful, caring man who loves the Lord, and me. He’s an elementary science teacher with a background in outdoor education.

TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
SJ: I knew from the day we started dating (again) that I wanted to marry him.  It took us the next ten months to figure out all the other details. 

TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
SJ: It’s a pearl and white sapphire ring set in 14k white gold.

TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
SJ: I love it! It is beautiful and exactly what I wanted.  I understand pearls are fragile – much like a newly wed couple starting out. Things of great beauty and personal value often require lots of care.  I see it as a good reminder that though diamonds are hard and require little attention; a marriage is not like that.  Like a pearl, a relationship develops over time with lots of work from both sides. And it requires great care to keep its luster.

TLC: Pets?
SJ: Matt has Mr. Skittles the Wonder Dog (a Beagle/Pomeranian mix) and I have Nutmeg the Cat (a Snowshoe Siamese).

TLC: What do you do for work?
SJ: I’m a higher education communicator specialized in writing, research, photography, graphic design and social media. I work at a college in the Marketing & Communications office.

TLC: What are you passionate about?
SJ: People. 

TLC: What is the last book you read?
SJ: “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances.”

TLC: Favorite beverage?
SJ: Coffee! No, hot tea! No, coffee! (No, both!)

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Turtle Love Commitee: What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
Genevia: By far, it’s the North Carolina Mountains. I spent so much time there as a kid with my family, so there’s a lot of great memories. It’s so beautiful and serene there.

TLC: Childhood ambition?
G: My childhood ambition was to be a brain surgeon, mainly because my cousin wanted to be one as well.

TLC: Current ambition?
G: To be the best mother and wife I can be.

TLC: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
G: Tithe 10% of it to our church, pay off our debt, do updates on our house, give money to charity, and do some upgrades on my Jeep!

TLC: Who is your partner?
G: Kenny is a wonderful man of God.  He’s slightly cocky, very funny, and an amazing dad to our two kids, Gabriel (4) & Addison (almost 2). I never imagined that I would meet my husband online.  Let alone a website called hotornot.com!  But I did, and we’ve been together for a total of almost 7 years.

TLC: How did you and your partner decide to get married?
G: My husband and I got married after dating for 2 years. We had talked about getting married, but we weren’t engaged yet. Well, I got pregnant on Valentine’s Day 2005, and a few months later, we decided to get married.

TLC: What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
G: I have the Raymond wedding band from TLC, which is a simple sterling silver band with squared edges.  My engagement ring is the Bryant ring – a minimalist sterling silver ring, with a baguette cut peridot in a bezel setting.

TLC: What do you think about your ring(s)?
G: I LOVE my rings! I get compliments on them every day. I thought I wanted a traditional engagement and wedding band, but I am so glad I chose something simpler. Not as high maintenance and much easier to wear daily with two small children.

TLC: What’s your favorite color?
G: I guess if I had to pick one it would be either pink or green. I love all pink colors just because it’s so girly; and, I like green because it goes well with my skin tone, hair, and eyes.

TLC: Pets?
G: We have 2 dogs and both are rescues. Freckles is an 80lb pit bull and pointer mix, and Nestle is a 50lb chocolate lab and Irish setter mix.

TLC: What do you do for work?
G: I am a stay at home mom and home maker.

TLC: What are you passionate about?
G: I’m extremely passionate about childbirth and breastfeeding. After having two traumatic birth experiences and little support with breastfeeding my first child, I want to try to empower other women to do their research and discover what they think is the best option for them and their family!  And not to just do everything their OBGYN and pediatricians tell them to do.

TLC: What is the last book you read?
G: I’m currently reading “Created to be His Help Meet” by Debi Pearl. A wonderful book for wives and wives-to-be on how to be a great wife and have a glorious marriage in the eyes of your spouse and God.

TLC: Favorite beverage?
G: Oh, there’s a few: sweet tea, Sundrop, and Cheerwine are all in a tie. It’s very hard to find Sundrop and Cheerwine here in Tennessee, so when I do, I thoroughly enjoy it!

TLC: Sweetest indulgence?
G: Plain and simple: chocolate chip cookies . . .  I could eat them every day if I knew I wouldn’t gain a ton of weight!

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What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
A secret glen in the woods of Molokai, Hawaii.

What’s your favorite color?
Generally, the color of whatever piece of fabric I am currently holding.  If I’m not looking at a piece of fabric, then green.

Who is your partner?
My lovely, kind, considerate, patient, long-suffering (at least when it comes to finding pins in the carpets!), sports and politics mad husband, Mr Dreamy.

What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
My engagement ring is a very thin band of white gold set with a small peridot.  The band wraps around the peridot to form a spiral, the Maori koru, symbolic of new beginnings.

My wedding ring is a thin band of white gold set with five tiny diamond chips.

Mr. Dreamy wears two rings too.   His ‘engagement’ band is a small silver band studded with raised dots.  It fits both of us perfectly.  I sent it to him so that he would know my ring size to get my engagement ring made once we realized it was very hard to translate US ring sizes to NZ ring sizes accurately.  He called me up in tears when he got it, wanting to know how I knew what his ring size was.  Sometimes he takes it off to clean, and if I find it I ’steal’ it and wear it until he notices.

His wedding ring is a simple thick gold band.

What do you think about your ring(s)?
I love them.  I think they are really reflect who we are as a couple, and what we each bring to the marriage.  Mr. Dreamy selected my rings after lots of searching and thoughtful deliberation, whereas both the rings I bought for Mr. Dreamy were done on a whim when I just happened to be somewhere and saw something I thought was ‘right’.  Mr. Dreamy taught me to relax and live in the moment and not plan and over-think everything, so I really like that I was able to do that with his rings.

I completely picked out Mr. Dreamy’s rings, and he completely picked out mine, though he did ask what sort of stone I wanted in my engagement ring.  I originally asked for pounamu (greenstone, or nephrite jade) but the jewelers couldn’t fit it to the setting Mr. Dreamy had picked, so peridot was my second choice.  We found out later that peridot symbolizes marital fidelity, so it is very appropriate!

In addition, I’m a Baha’i and Mr. Dreamy isn’t.  My two rings added together exactly equal the dowry that a husband gives his wife in a Baha’i marriage, while also honouring the tradition of exchanging rings that Mr. Dreamy wanted.

What do you do for work?
I work for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa for short), which is the national museum of New Zealand.  My job involves arranging the lending and borrowing of museum objects.  It’s an awesome job because I get to work with and learn all the different things the museum owns and borrow, from whale skeletons to paintings to furniture and textiles.  I also teach Textile Design History at a local university every few semesters.

What are you passionate about?
Textiles and costume, and art and plants, and museums and dancing, and my faith, and the importance of seeing beauty and wonder in unexpected places.

What is the last book you read?
Pride and Prejudice.  I read it for the Everything Austen Challenge, and as research for my robe a la francaise (which I am designing as a wedding dress for Lady Anne Darcy)

Sweetest indulgence?
Mango lassis, especially when made from mangoes fresh from the tree that hangs over my old room on my parents farm in Hawaii.

What is your favorite physical feature?
My feet.  They have lovely high arches and nicely shaped toes, and are very small for my height.  I’m afraid I am exceptionally vain about them.

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
I think being our cat, Felicity, would be pretty nice.  She is spoiled with love and gets to lie in front of the heater all day and has no worries at all.

Hi Turtle Love Committee,

I just wanted to share pictures of my unusual engagement ring for your blog.  It’s a natural yellow sapphire set in a palladium band.  When my fiance and I started looking for an engagement ring for me, I was immediately drawn to natural yellow sapphires both for their color and their silky brilliance.  I chose palladium for the setting because it’s cheaper than 18 karat gold, and very similar to platinum in color, durability and hardness.

Although many traditional diamond engagement rings are beautiful, they really all look the same to me.  I may be weird, but most of those traditional rings bore me.    They just aren’t for me.  It is quite refreshing, in my opinion, that your website offers engagement or commitment rings that are more affordable and original.  I love the idea of engagement rings that don’t look like what an engagement ring is “supposed” to look like.  I feel like a lot of pressure can get put onto couples to buy a diamond engagement ring, or an expensive engagement ring.  Buying a diamond ring or an expensive ring seems to be expected, and it’s not necessarily as easy as one would think to stray from the norm.  Websites like turtlelovecommittee are great, because they remind us that it’s completely okay and cool to have a ring that doesn’t fit our society’s engagement ring archetype.

Thanks-

Hillary

Here’s what Ellie writes:

I don’t know if my ring qualifies as part of your showcasing rings that aren’t the typical diamond solitaire, because the stones in my ring are diamonds – but the ring itself isn’t typical.

My fiance, an engineer, designed my ring himself in SolidWorks, the same 3D modeling program he uses at work to design roller coasters.  {Did you catch that?  ROLLER COASTERS!}

He proposed with a 3D-printed plastic prototype of the ring that was scaled to just over twice the size of my ring, because when he tried to print it smaller, the plastic material was too thin and broke.  The design for the ring was inspired by the Celtic triskele (triple spiral), creating a series of interwoven pairs of spirals.  (If you’re interested, you can read more about this here.)

We got the ring made out of palladium because the mark-up on platinum is so insane, and white gold would need to be replated.  We used a diamond as the center stone because my Aunt passed it to me when I was 16 and it is an heirloom stone.  It’s .35 carats, so it falls into the range that usually makes people say, “oh, that’s….nice”, but it’s been my experience that because the ring itself is so interesting, nobody notices the size of the stone.  (And I do divorce law for low-income clients, so I’m perfectly happy with a smaller-than-usual ring.)  Additionally, anything larger would have been enormous with the setting.

I initially didn’t want a diamond, but it was important to my fiance that the ring have one, and since we had the heirloom, it didn’t have as much baggage; and it was important to me that if my ring was going to have a diamond, it didn’t look like a typical diamond solitaire.  I’m so happy with what we came up with as a compromise.

The picture of me is indeed the “big” ring, right after Mark proposed.  It actually took about 5 weeks to find a designer and get the ring made, but it was so worth it.

Yay Ellie!  Yay Mark!

Readers:  Do you have an unusual engagement/wedding/commitment ring?  We’d love to profile you here!  Please send an email to helpfulturtle {at} turtlelovecommittee {dot} com!

So, Princess Lasertron, a celebrity in her own right (check her out on Offbeat Bride) has beautiful rings, and she shared a bit of herself, plus pictures of the awesome rings that she and her husband wear.  As you can see in the pictures, the insides of the bands read: Megan loves David loves Megan loves…

Prince Lasertron (Prince David?) also wears two rings – yay Prince Lasertron!

PL: My name is Princess Lasertron and I am a bridal designer, blogger, and best friend. I love to make things and I have always had entrepreneurial tendencies. I live nocturnally, working through the night making floral accessories for brides like bouquets and hairpieces, designing dresses for fabulous people, and sharing inspiration with my customers through my website. I live in Omaha and I devote much of my time to supporting Omaha’s creative and entrepreneurial community.

TLC:  What is your favorite place in the whole wide world?
PL:  Waiting for the bus in the snow at Kurfurstendamm and Uhlandstrasse in downtown Berlin with one arm full of shopping bags and the other one holding a fresh croissant. I was a German major in college and spent a lot of time in Berlin, and we finally went together last year.

TLC:  What’s your favorite color?
PL:  I don’t have a favorite color, but I have favorite color combinations. Colors look best when they are hanging out with a friend. I love grey and yellow, teal and white, and hot pink thrown in anywhere.

TLC:  Childhood ambition?
PL:  When I was a younger girl I wanted to be all kinds of things, but streaks of creativity and entrepreneurship ran through all of my plans. I remain on track with my plan to be a jack-of-all-trades–I’m sort of a non-committal person.

TLC:  Current ambition?
PL:  I would love to write a book about approaching wedding planning as party planning. I’m working on a line of dresses for 2010. And I’d love to do a tour around the world teaching classes. Dreams.

TLC:  What would you do if you had a million dollars?
PL:  Buy a modest house and save the rest.

TLC:  Who is your partner?
PL:  I share a roof in midtown with my multi-talented husband, David Homan, our crybaby kitty Turbo, five computers and an Xbox 360. David has been my partner in crime for about five years. I loved him as soon as I knew him. He is very funny, very relaxed, very rational.

TLC:  What does your wedding/engagement/commitment ring look like?
PL:  Our stamped rings are from Kathryn Reichert and my sweet little faux-diamond ring is from Metalicious and has a faceted piece of cut silver instead of a stone. I found both jewelers on Etsy.

TLC:  What do you think about your ring(s)?
PL:  To me, they are accessories. I don’t really sentimentally value “symbolic” things, so to me they are not representative of us or anything deeper than what they are–silver rings. I like them because they are beautiful.

TLC:  How did you and your partner decide to get married?
PL:  I decided to ask Dave to marry me when I stopped visualizing myself as separate from him. I never wanted to be without him. I got him a ring, created a book about how we met and asked him on a trip I planned to Chicago. We both cried and he said yes.

TLC:  What do you do for work?
PL:  I started Princess Lasertron in 2005 creating custom bouquets out of felt, vintage buttons, and other ephemera. I love giving my customers an heirloom-quality piece that will bring a personal dimension to their wedding and everyday lives. What I love most about my job is meeting and collaborating with unique women whose weddings are a true representation of them and their partners.
Since our early beginnings, Princess Lasertron has grown to a three-person company that serves over 150 brides each year. Our line has expanded from simple hairpieces and brooches to gowns, bouquets, diy craft kits and the Princess Lasertron brand has reached hundreds of thousands of brides through magazines and online media.

TLC:  What are you afraid of?
PL:  Being a bad mother

TLC:  What do you hope for?
PL:  More of the same

TLC:  What are you passionate about?
PL:  I’m a devoted Libertarian, but I keep my political activism very separate from my professional work.

TLC:  How many children do you have?
PL:  No kiddos yet! It’s in the cards, though.

TLC:  How many pets do you have?
PL:  We have one kitty named Turbo.

TLC:  Where would you rather be right now?
PL:  That Berlin place I mentioned earlier.

TLC:  Favorite joke?
PL:  Situations and scenarios are funny to me, but I haven’t heard a funny joke in a long time.

TLC:  Favorite book?
PL:  Vor dem Gesetz by Kafka, and The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek. My favorite crafty-type book is Where Women Create by Jo Packham.

TLC:  What is the last book you read?
PL:  Eccentric Glamour by Simon Doonan. I’m not a fan of fiction.

TLC:  Pet peeve?
PL:  People who are really, really sure about things.

TLC:  Favorite beverage?
PL:  diet coke, lately

TLC: Sweetest indulgence?
PL:  tempura fried brownie batter from blue sushi in downtown omaha

TLC: What is your favorite physical feature?
PL:  I think I have nice lips. And nice fingernails. And freckles!

TLC: If you could be any animal, what would you be?
PL:  My spirit animal is a badger.

If you haven’t already peeked at Princess Lasertron’s website and fabulous felt flowers – here’s a sampling of her magic:

Readers:  Do you have an unusual wedding/engagement/commitment ring?  We’d love to profile it here!  Contact us at helpfulturtle {at} turtlelovecommittee {dot} com.

We think you’re cool.

Jolie at Little Miss Shadow Dozier, whose ring has been admired by many, agreed to share a bit about herself and her gorgeous engagement and wedding rings.

My conclusion: she’s awesome.  I think you’ll agree.

What’s your favorite color? That’s a tough call and changes a bit with the seasons and my mood.  Right now probably Aegean Blue.

A fond memory? Having been married just this past year my fondest memory is of starting our new life together surrounded by all our family and friends.  The wedding was beautiful and being with everyone dancing and laughing at the reception made it a moment I’ll never forget.

Childhood ambition? To be a paleontologist (yup…like Ross on Friends).  I loved dinosaurs and planned on becoming a paleontologist up until middle school when I decided that while I loved dinosaurs, I didn’t really care for science.

Current ambition? I love what I do! If I wasn’t working at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society I’d probably either teach or own a coffee/craft/used book store. I love cooking and crafting!

What would you do if you had a million dollars? Oh if I had a million dollars I would donate/tithe a lot of it.  I’d invest some and for the rest I’d maybe go out on a limb and open up a little shop of my own that my husband and I could run.  Something like a coffee shop/craft/used book store. Oh and take our families on some really fun vacation!

Who is your partner? My husband Beau is my knight in shining armor…literally. From the moment that we met there was a special connection and as if we needed further proof that we were meant to be about a month or two after he proposed he saved my life when I was the victim of a mugging outside our home.  He’s a strong Christian man who loves me for me and has a heart of gold.  I fall more in love with him with each passing day!

What do you think about your rings? I think our rings perfectly match our relationship.  The engagement ring is timeless while still being wonderfully unique. It’s a ring that I will pass on to our children and they’ll pass on to their children. It’s an heirloom piece in it’s first generation.  It came from a jewelry store here in our town but it’s so unique that I like to pretend we found it nestled in some cozy antique shop.

What are you passionate about? Life in general!  I love God, my family and friends, cooking, crafting, hiking, running, reading, laughing and enjoying each moment as it comes!

Pets? One little pup named Frankie aka Frank or Frank-monster.

Favorite book? I have lots of favorites.  My all-time favorite book is probably either “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” or “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. I know those are considered children’s literature but there is really no better way to escape reality than by going back to your childhood favorites.

Pet peeve? I don’t like when people try to be annoying. Being annoying by accident is fine, it’s not your fault if you’re annoying by accident.  Being annoying on purpose…watch out!

Favorite beverage? Really any bottled soft drink, but especially an ice-cold coca-cola from those cute mini bottles.

Sweetest indulgence? Yum…brownie sundaes!

If you could be any animal, what would you be? Either some sort of bird or a dolphin. I’ve never been good at gymnastics and both dolphins and birds have amazing acrobatic skills.

Readers: we’d love to profile you and your awesome engagement and/or wedding rings.

Please email turtlelovecommittee at gmail dot com.