David Bennett and Andy Barnes met “One Night In December” and created a family by falling in love. Their family was completed with the adoption of Brad Sturgis, orphaned with the death of his parents. The story continues in With These Rings.

David, Andy and Brad embrace the joys and face the challenges of being a gay family: the happiness of a wedding ceremony, the struggle of coming to grips with sexual identity and near fatal tragedies. All these combine in this story of love and commitment.

From horse shows, family celebrations, a wedding on the beach to bedside vigils, football games to identity crises, David and Andy face it all with steadfast love and punctuate it with the passionate physical expression of their love.

With These Rings reveals the highs and lows of life and binds them together with humor and courage.

David Bennett and Andy Barnes met “One Night In December” and created a family by falling in love. Their family was completed with the adoption of Brad Sturgis, orphaned with the death of his parents. The story continues in With These Rings.

David, Andy and Brad embrace the joys and face the challenges of being a gay family: the happiness of a wedding ceremony, the struggle of coming to grips with sexual identity and near fatal tragedies. All these combine in this story of love and commitment.

From horse shows, family celebrations, a wedding on the beach to bedside vigils, football games to identity crises, David and Andy face it all with steadfast love and punctuate it with the passionate physical expression of their love.

With These Rings reveals the highs and lows of life and binds them together with humor and courage.

These are commitment rings that I made for some friends of mine. They are made from sterling silver, 14k gold, and diamonds.

The bands are made from rectangular stock that I carved a groove into. The diamonds are tube-set and the gold wire shaped by hand and soldered into place piece by piece. One requirement for these rings was that the diamonds not be too prominent. I think this design accomplishes that well, with the diamonds incorporated into the design without overwhelming it.

The gold and diamonds in this ring are reclaimed from a ring formerly worn by one friend's father. This actually added a lot of work to the project (and I detail that in the other photo of these rings) but made the rings much more symbolic than they would have been otherwise, which is saying a lot considering the purpose of these rings.

To me its all about compromise, Commitment binds a marriage,But really its compromise that makes it work.

Worked on a few ideas iv'e had bouncing around in my head for a while yesterday, funnily enough this wasn't one of them. It is however a template for a future shoot.

Yolanda, I love you.

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