An Olive Proposal
Joanna + Xavier
Their quiet high school "what if" became forever, ten years and one unplanned proposal later.
the love story
Joanna and Xavier met in high school with a mutual crush that never turned into anything more, not yet. Life moved them in different directions: different relationships, different cities, the slow work of growing into who they were becoming as individuals. Ten years passed before they found their way back to each other.
"For years, we had been each other's quiet what if," Joanna says, "and now we've become each other's forever."
When they reconnected, everything felt familiar in the best way, the kind of familiar that only comes from having known someone since before either of them knew who they would become.
joanna's ring
Xavier proposed during their trip to Japan, in a moment that did not go according to plan.
Joanna would not change a single detail. "It's those unplanned moments that made it feel even more authentic and true to us," she says.
For Joanna and Xavier, the proposal was never about a perfect plan. It marks ten years of growing apart, growing up, and finding their way back to a what if they had carried the whole time.
Joanna said yes to a Custom Gemma ring. A classic design she made one of a kind.
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