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

Bryce Sherring and his wife, Lorna, run a family-owned goldsmith shop in Canada

• Bryce Sherring always dreamed of her dad, a goldsmith, designing her engagement ring
• When the time came for her 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
• In February, while on a family vacation in Arizona, Leedahl proposed with the ring
• Not long after the proposal, the bride-to-be decided to share some video clips of her dad making the ring on TikTok

Ever since she can remember, Bryce Sherring has 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 a family-owned goldsmith shop in 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.

"18 is a significant number between Bryce and I, well, for the two of us. And so I wanted that incorporated, and I know how important that number is to her," the dad tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"It was very hard," he continues, 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."

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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.

"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."

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

"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.

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