The Saga of the ring

My engagement ring is worthy of an epic poem. Really, like, a long and wonderful poem.
The ring is a joint creation by AJ and his father. I picked out the stone (blue sapphire) and the metal (white gold) and they did the rest. AJ found a design he likes and his father, who is a gem cutter, among other things, is making it. It is a product of a lot of love and attention.
It is also not quite ready.
When we got engaged, in very late February, AJ talked to his dad and they came up with the plan. AJ wanted to wait until I had the ring to tell people (other than our families) about our engagement. His dad agreed to make the ring by the end of March.
He bought the material, and the white gold ring to set the cut stone in, and set to work. Gem cutting NOT being his job, this project would get done when he had time on the weekends and such. He went into this with so much enthusiasm, I was really touched.
The first stone chipped.
The second stone, which took a while as Dennis (AJ's dad) had other stuff to do, ended up not looking right and he scrapped it.
The third stone would NOT stay glued with the epoxy. And every time it fell off, the cutting process had to be done from the begininig or the angles would come out wrong. At this point, I think, Dennis started seeing this as a challenge.
This was in Mid-may and I was getting anxious. Let me explain. It isn't the ring itself. I couldn't ask for a more meaningful ring, and I have decades to wear it. So the anxiety is not about the ring itself or the timing. It's about the wedding band.
Let me explain once again:
I was unsure about the ring size the lady at the store told me. I figured it's ok for the engagement ring to be a bit loose as I would wear the wedding band next to it and it could hold it in place. But in order to get the wedding band, I wanted to wear the first ring for a bit and see how the size actually feels. Also, since I'd like to wear both rings on the same finger, I wanted to know what the shape and finish of the engagement ring is so it would match the wedding band.
So before we could get the wedding bands, I wanted to not only see the engagement ring, but also wear it for a week or two.
Last weekend we visited AJ's parents and heard the continuing story. Dennis is now on the 4th stone. The third one got ground in the wrong angle and was not salvageable for this project. The fourth stone was on the lapidary machine and in progress, but it would not be done during our visit. It will be done, and it will be beautiful!
I saw the ring, and tried it on. It was a bit loose. I was also dehydrated that day so I'm still not sure if it is the right size. However, I did see the finish and so that question's been answered.
AJ and I decided to get me an interim ring to wear for a fortnight to test the size (don't ask me why I am so unsure of this...I don't know why). We went online and found 5 rings we both liked and AJ planned to buy one of them so there would be some surprise to it.
The next morning he told me he'd found a different ring! This ring is silver and has 3 skulls in relief on it. The joke here is that he asked me if I'm antsy enough to wear skulls and I said yes. So he got me skulls! He also got me one of the 5 we'd looked at but that will take a bit longer to get here.
I am now wearing the skulls ring (the interim interim ring) and am seeing that the size of the wedding band does indeed need to be a size smaller than the engagement ring. So things are all figured out. We are ready to get the wedding bands.
I will have 3 engagement rings altogether!
And the one designed and made by AJ and his dad will be the bestest of them all.