Customer stories

  • Blue Mountains proposal

    A penny for your hugs: Mitch and Romina’s story

    When Mitch and Romina first started dating, he told her that his hugs cost a penny each. She bought him a bag of pennies as his first gift. Little did they know, those pennies would one day inspire the story of their engagement and wedding rings.

  • A lesbian couple and their baby

    Love, dating and baby makes three

    After a year apart, Maddi and Georgie’s first coffee catch up went something like this:

    Maddi: “What’s new with you?”
    Georgie: “I’m trying to have a baby, like, this Friday.”

    Read on for Maddi, Georgie and baby Bowie’s happy ending.

  • Ingrid and Thales get married in Brazil

    When unconventional meets classic: Thales and Ingrid’s story

    What happens when someone who isn’t a fan of tradition meets someone who loves the classics? Well in this case, it culminates in a beautiful Brazilian wedding with a rustic botanical theme, a cheese cake – but not in the way you might think – and a set of modern-meets-timeless sapphire and diamond rings.

  • Stillfair Creation, children's fashion designer

    Introducing my mum, the original rule breaker and story maker

    It’s hard to imagine your mum as a rule breaker. Especially when she’s spent your whole life making rules and suggesting you follow them. But here’s when I realised I have a pretty impressive mumma.

  • Engaged lesbian couple

    A sneaky sickie and a secret proposal

    Courtney and Sheridynn work the same job, on the same shifts and Courtney can read Sheridynn like a book. So when Sheridynn decided to ask Courtney to marry her, she needed to pull out all the stops to keep her proposal a secret.

  • Rustic diamond custom made heirloom ring with pear and baguette diamonds

    An heirloom ring in mum’s loving memory

    Charlene lives by the motto that “life’s too short”. It’s a motto she learned from her mum who sadly passed in 2019 after fighting stage 4 ovarian cancer. In mum’s memory, we combined gems from 7 pieces of jewellery Charlene inherited to create this modern heirloom ring.

  • Kat and Tarquin Vegas elopement

    How to pull off a micro wedding in Vegas, baby!

    Kat and Tarquin got engaged at a heavy metal festival in Germany, so their big day was never going to be ordinary. For their wedding, they rounded up 18 of their closest friends and family and tied the knot in Vegas. We chat about their big day and how to pull off a micro wedding!

  • Rob, Dina, their celebrant and a Schnauzer

    An Icelandic elopement

    This is the story of how Dina and Rob eloped to Iceland and got married, with an Icelandic poet as a celebrant and a Schnauzer as their witness.

  • Sapphire ring in a beachside proposal

    A proposal in paradise: Sebastian and Mary’s engagement

    Right from the first time I spoke to Sebastian, it was clear that Mary was special. He proposed on Valentine’s Day at a luxurious, eco-friendly resort in Mexico, with a ring that matched the blues of the sky and the sea that surrounded them. This is their story!

  • Dina using the rolling mill

    Handmade with love: Dina & Rob make their own wedding rings!

    One of the best parts about having your wedding rings custom made in the Fairina Cheng workshop is getting a behind-the-scenes view into how your special piece came to life. Dina and Rob decided to take it one step further, and try their hands at crafting each other’s wedding rings from scratch.