Dad Makes Daughter's Engagement Ring by Hand — and Gets to Be There to See the Proposal (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Ever since she can remember,Bryce Sherringhas dreamed of her dad designing her engagement ring. Her dad, also named Bryce, 66, is a goldsmith who has been in the industry for more than 40 years, and currently he and his wife, Lorna, run afamily-owned goldsmith shopin Canada.

When the time came for the younger Bryce’s longtime boyfriend, Dawson Leedahl, to prepare for his proposal, he teamed up with her dad for help. Together, they brainstormed ideas, eventually landing on a design crafted from 18-karat white and yellow gold, with the setting in white gold and a Canadian diamond.

“It was very hard,” the proud dad shares, adding that the most difficult part of making the ring was keeping it a secret from the whole family, even his wife. “It was important to me that my daughter’s mother and I shared this moment, to be happy together. I had to divide business from personal life, and we’re so delighted to be a part of that whole process.”

Bryce Sherring making daughter’s engagement ring.Bryce Sherring

Bryce Sherring

On Feb. 10, the day after finishing the ring — which took a month to handcraft — he and his wife drove down to Arizona for a family vacation. When they arrived, they picked up their daughter and Leedahl from the airport.

A couple of days later, Leedahl proposed with the ring.

Bryce Sherring; the happy couple.Bryce Sherring

“Dawson has been pretending to propose to me for the past couple of months. So, when it actually happened, I was in shock,” the bride-to-be says. “We just went horseback riding. It’s a beautiful location, and it was sunset and everything. So, when he was doing it, I thought, ‘Okay, you’re really going to pull this now? That’s so annoying.’ I thought he was just pretending. And then he had tears in his eyes, pulled out the ring, and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ "

“I went through a whirlwind of emotions, and I haven’t even been able to stop looking at the ring since,” she adds. “It’s so beautiful, unique and perfect for me. I love it so much.”

Bryce Sherring’s boyfriend proposing.Bryce Sherring

Not long after the proposal, the bride-to-be decided to share some video clips of her dad making the ring onTikTok.

“She was all on me: ‘Dad, why didn’t you document this, take some photographs, do this, do that?’ And fortunately, I have a staff member who is amazing with her cell phone, videotaping,” the dad says. “When given a moment, she was watching me, running the store, keeping an eye on Lorna and videotaping the chaos.”

Her hope in posting the video was to document the special moment, one she loves to look back on and relive. But then the video went viral, amassing more than 2.7 million views.

“It was really special to me that people just wanted to share so much joy with me and compliment the ring, talking about my dad and how special that is for me,” she adds. “It was a memory from two men who are really important in my life, so it was really heartwarming.”

“I think the craziest part to me is just people think it’s so cool that my dad does that and for me it’s just like, that’s just what he does. He has always done that,” she continues.

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Bryce Sherring shows off engagement ring.Bryce Sherring

“A few years ago, Dawson and I were visiting my parents in Yorkton for Christmas. It was just me and Dawson there, and Dawson asked my dad how he makes rings. Growing up in the industry, that was never something I really thought about. It was just my dad doing his thing. So Dawson asked my dad, and it was snowing that day. My dad said, ‘Well, let me show you.’ The store was closed, but he brought me and Dawson to the shop, and we actually made these matching bands.”

“We put them on our middle fingers in hopes to one day resize them and use them as our wedding bands,” she adds.

source: people.com