Up close and personal with the epic "toi et moi" style engagement ring I shared yesterday and the story behind it..... "This style is called "toi et moi"- it means "you and me." It represents two souls coming together as one. As a juxtaposition we paired a traditional white asscher cut diamond with an imperfect salt and pepper diamond. The white diamond is immaculately clean, while the pear-shape is full of "imperfections". This symbolism behind this pairing runs deep, and represents a multitude of things: the "good" and the "bad", masculinity and femininity, the dark and light existing together, two imperfect people from completely different worlds coming together and creating their own. Much like the couple, these two stones are complete knock outs on their own, and together they create something so exquisite- it's unparalleled. One thing this ring demonstrates that I have always believed to be true: while there is beauty in tradition, there is also beauty in the imperfect. ...