I met my fiancé in college and we knew we were perfect for each other ... more
I met my fiancé in college and we knew we were perfect for each other right away; it really was love at first sight. Of course, we couldn’t get married right away because we were both still in school and without a lot of money.
My fiancé and I talked about marriage often and planned on it occurring right after my graduation, which was two years after his. He knew I wanted a Tacori diamond ring since we met...they were always in the magazines I read and he always laughed about how expensive they probably were. (Of course, I told him I didn’t really care what my engagement ring looked like so long as I was with him.)
My graduation was a beautiful church ceremony on the most picturesque spring day. After receiving my diploma at the altar and posing for my picture with the president of my college, I went to return to my seat when I got the surprise of my life!
My fiancé was standing at the end of the pew on one knee with a Tacori diamond ring in his hand! I started to bawl as soon as I saw him but managed to say yes to the most important question of my life.
Not only did my fiancé pick a romantic time where I was surrounded by my family and friends but he picked the most beautiful ring. Thank you so much Tacori for making my graduation and proposal the most important day of my life!
I’ll never forget it because of the beautiful reminder on my left hand every day!
—Ashley
Michael and I have been dating for over 7 years ... more
Michael and I have been dating for over 7 years, and for the past year, I was constantly dropping hints about getting engaged. One day, I saw a Tacori ad in a magazine and I instantly fell in love with the ring.
I had to have a Tacori engagement ring! I was always tearing the ads out of my magazines and giving them to him. I would secretly place the ads in his favorite football magazine. One day, I even printed the picture of my dream ring off of the Tacori website, cut it out, and taped it around my finger as if it were an actual ring.
This past summer, we took our first trip to New York City. On our first night there, Michael took me for an evening walk through Central Park. It was there that Michael asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes. After calming down, Michael placed the Tacori ring I have always dreamed of on my finger.
It truly was the most perfect proposal ever. He made every dream come true that night.
We are getting married on July 7th, 2007 and I can’t wait to go shopping for our Tacori Wedding Bands!
Bruce and I had decided to spend the rest of our lives together ... more
Bruce and I had decided to spend the rest of our lives together before I ever had a ring, but I could have never been prepared for the beautiful surprise that he had in store for me last December!
I have always loved Tacori and dreamed that I would get to wear one someday. My close friends knew of my fondness of Tacori, and lucky for me, Bruce invited my best friend, Courtenay, along for the ring shopping!
When I was 21, my parents gave me my grandmother's diamond. My grandmother, to whom I was very close, passed away when I was in high school, and unbeknownst to me, she had left her beautiful diamond solitaire to me! I wore it on my right hand for quite some time after her death. It is a gorgeous, round solitaire and I have always had a great sense of pride and love in wearing it. I stopped wearing it when one of the prongs grew thin but I always thought it would be special to wear it on my left hand one day when that special person came along.
Well, he did, and when he ordered my exquisite Platinum and Diamonds II Tacori engagement ring and wedding band, he had my grandmother's diamond mounted as the center stone!
We will be married in 20 days, and I am so blessed and thankful to have a loving, handsome and generous man to share the rest of my life with. I wear my Tacori, with my grandmother's diamond in the center, and hope that it will bring us many years of happiness and love, like my grandparents had long ago!
My fiancé Kurt and I met about three years ago ... more
My fiancé Kurt and I met about three years ago while working together. We both were married at the time and ended up being very good friends. As the years went on, we both ended up divorcing our spouses and moving on with new lives. In being such good friends, we realized just how "connected" we were and thought that somehow fate had brought us together.
The movie "Serendipity" became our favorite movie and resembled our lives as they had turned out - two people meeting and then somehow finding each other as life had intended. Then when we were dating, I was looking through a magazine and saw an ad for the Tacori Serendipity Collection. The name of the collection made me smile thinking of our movie and the symbolic meaning it held for us.
Two years later Kurt flew me to New York City and proposed to me in the Serendipity III restaurant that movie was named after. Our story is a romantic one and deserved no other ring than a Tacori to celebrate that moment and our future together.
Tacori rings are THE example of quality and excellence. My ring is stunning and gorgeous and I get compliments about it all the time. There was just no other choice in a ring for us!!
Ever since 5th grade in Elementary school, Chris and I have been inseparable ... more
Ever since 5th grade in Elementary school, Chris and I have been inseparable, and he even proposed in the middle of the basketball courts after school one day. I just thought it was a joke and from then on I'd always point out rings I wanted.
I would have never thought that on the night of our graduation he'd actually propose seriously with one of the rings I said I'd liked. And this ring happened to be a Tacori ring (which was my favorite out of all of them)!
Well of course I cried and said yes and five years later things are still really great. Thanks Tacori for designing such awesome rings!!
—Emily
We had been dating for one year, and en route to a business trip in Cannes ... more
We had been dating for one year, and en route to a business trip in Cannes, we took the overnight flight to Paris. On the flight's descent, Christopher presented our agenda for the day.
"No Eiffel Tower ?" was all I could ask as I looked at the list. He scratched out Sacre Coeur and slotted in a trip to one of the world's great landmarks. After a long day of site-seeing on a chilly, rainy October (2005) day, we ultimately found ourselves at the tower's base.
"Want to go up?" he asked. I thought for a minute and then said, "No, I want to look at it! We should sit down and rest and enjoy the sunset view." We crossed the River and found a perch in the Trocadero.
After chatting about our amazing day, Chris asked what I thought could make it even better. It had been just great, but I thought he'd want me to come up with an answer. I thought for a minute and then exclaimed "fireworks!" thinking he might be aware of some extravaganza set for that evening.
"Close," he said as he placed the open ring box on his knee. After a minute or so to let me gather myself, he asked me to marry him. I didn't want to seem materialistic, but I finally just had to ask to try the ring on! It was the most beautiful I'd ever seen! We slipped it on...yikes. Much too large.
We were in France for 10 days, and no one would put in a temporary sizing guard (and we weren't about to let anyone modify the setting!). We went back to where Chris had bought the ring when we got back to the US , Smyth Jewelers in Timonium (MD).
Unfortunately, due to the crescent silhouette details on the sides of my ring, and the sparkly diamonds set therein, re-sizing the 6 ½ to fit my tiny ring finger (size 4 ¼) would not be possible. So, they put in a guard and told us a new ring would be made in 4-6 weeks. True enough, it arrived in 5 weeks and fit just perfectly!
Thanks for being a part of our treasured memory, dear friends at Tacori! Everyone who looks at my ring confesses that it's truly the most beautiful they've ever seen.
So there I was, sitting in my vehicle with my boyfriend ... more
So there I was, sitting in my vehicle with my boyfriend thinking about possible futures and what life was going to bring us. I didn't know, however, that he was getting ready to propose to me. But the minute he told me he was going to ask me a question, I knew immediately what it was all about.
So, he ended up proposing to me and I of course said yes. He then told me that he had picked out this beautiful ring for me but that it hasn't yet arrived. He showed me the picture of this beautiful Tacori ring! I instantly fell in love with it and him!
So, I just wanted to thank Tacori for making it extra special for me. I am so excited to wear a ring that not every woman can say that she is wearing. I found that Tacori is very unique indeed which makes it extra special for me.
THANK YOU!
Edward and I spent Thanksgiving in Puerto Vallarta ... more
Edward and I spent Thanksgiving in Puerto Vallarta. This trip had been planned for months and I had no idea that Edward was planning to pop the question. In fact I was becoming impatient and it was a big joke that if he didn't propose soon I was going to buy an "engagement watch" and propose to him!
Edward and I already had a spa day planned for Saturday. Then we would spend the afternoon by the beach and go to dinner where we could reserve a "bed" in their beach lounge area for drinks and watch the nightly fireworks display.
So of course I had to say, "Wow, what a perfect day! If only I had gotten that engagement watch it would have been the perfect time to propose." I was really trying to get some clue from him as to if that was actually his plan. But he had always told me: "It'll happen when you least expect it".
So, the day was perfect and there we were on the beach. The sun had set, and no proposal. I was trying not to get my hopes up. As usual I was freezing. So I said, "Lets run up to the room so I can get my sweater before dinner." We went up to the room and I got my sweater out of the closet. Edward was out on the balcony looking at our most amazing view. I went out to get him and that's when it happened.
He started with the "I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I want to spend the rest of my life with you." Then he got down on one knee and said, "Will you marry me?" and pulled out the most amazing Tacori ring (of course because I picked it out!).
All along I was FREAKING OUT! All I kept thinking was, "Oh my God, it's happening!" Then I said, "Oh my God, are you kidding?" and he said, "No". Then I immediately asked, "Who else knows about this?" Because I had told him I didn't want anyone to know before me, so we could surprise everyone together. So he said, 'No one, pinky promise", and stuck out his pinky. We shook and I said, "Of course I will marry you!"
My husband and I actually met in an EMT re-certification class ... more
My husband and I actually met in an EMT re-certification class. I had sworn off boys at the time and wanted absolutely nothing to do with him although we began seeing each other outside class. I figured out we were dating, and dumped him. He kept at it, becoming less annoying and much sweeter over the next 8 months.
In July of 2003 I went through a heartbreaking personal experience. This wonderful man, the same one I'd consistently pushed away since we met, was driving over an hour one way to bring me his DVD player, DVDs and snacks, as I was confined to the house for a week. He was always there when I needed someone, never mind how far away he was living.
He finally mustered up the courage to reveal his feelings the night of his birthday, after a VERY unexpected and heated kiss while out walking my dog. I actually sent him away!
God I felt sick and excited and sad and oh, just everything all at once. I called up my best friend to meet me for some advice. When I told her what had happened, she looked at me like I was the dumbest woman to ever breathe and told me she knew that he loved me since the day she first met him at my house, and asked me "what was I waiting for?", since I loved him right back?
Whoa that was news to me! Crazier still that she was right! Anyway, we started talking about marriage about a week later. We've never let any grass grow...
Years ago I had seen a Tacori design and I knew in my heart that was MY ring. Turns out only one place in town had it. We shopped everywhere else and nothing was quite right. Oh, there were some gorgeous rings out there, but none of them looked right on my finger.
Then we went to THE SHOP. I saw the Tacori display, but not the ring I wanted. So we asked, and lo and behold, it was hiding in another display case. It only fit my little finger, but Oh! it was perfect!
I looked at every other ring in the store, but I never took that first one off. We priced center stones, the setting, did the whole bit. I knew it was out of our means, but what's the harm in gearing up the sales lady?
Fast forward to December 16th 2003. We were having dinner at my parent's house for my brother's girlfriend's birthday. Mom has little boxes of chocolates for us girls, and everyone was just as normal as could be. That should have tipped me off!
I'm working my way around to the chocolates, going on and on about my day at work... and then I notice that somebody ate one of my chocolates! It took a minute for me to process the sparkle and shine taking up that empty space.
My "dummy" ring was off faster than you can blink, and my adorable fiancé's hands shook as he put my beautiful Tacori ring on my finger. "How? When?" I asked him. "Well, some guy in LA is very happy with a ‘69 Camaro right about now", he said.
This man, who had stayed when I said go, stood by me through the most difficult time in my life when he didn't have to, had sold his pride and joy to make my dreams come true. To tell the truth, they came true the moment he told me he loved me.
But seeing this amazing ring on my hand every day reminds me what a wonderful, giving, selfless man I had the good sense to marry.
— Julie & Darwin Workman
