We had such a fantastic time working with Johann and Itsuka. Throughout the design process they were warm, friendly, and provided thoughtful input on ways to incorporate their favorite Final Fantasy characters' elements. After we finished their bands, they were kind enough to write about their experience working with us:

"So basically FF14 is the very first game we played together, and also the very first PC game my wife ever played.

It's not an easy game for the beginners to video games, but she tried it anyway because I was playing it and she thought my character (Lalafell Paladin) was cute. So she created Lalafell blackmage and started to play with me.

We actually purchased our wedding bands from Tiffany before we got married because the rings are needed for the catholic wedding ceremony. But I somehow lost my ring and it was never found.

I went online and found out about the Triforce ring that Takayas made years ago, and thought nothing could be better for me because I'm a big fan of video games since the age of 4 and am now working in the game industry as a character designer.

I personally really like Zelda, so I thought about making a Zelda ring, but it'd mean nothing to my wife because she knows nothing about Zelda. So we agreed FF14 was the best idea for creating custom rings as it is the very first video game we played together.

Our first idea was creating the rings based on the characters we were playing as, however, my wife's character was a blackmage and a blackmage wouldn't be the best wedding concept- there came the idea of Nanamo. Nanamo was the queen of the city we started the game and she had a great design concept for the wedding band.

We gathered the picture of the characters we chose and sent it to you guys to make the rings, and from there you guys also know how it went!

ＴＡＫＡＹＡＳさんへ、

明けましておめでとうございます！

やっと指輪がアメリカから届きました。

幸いにクリスマスを兼ねて、叔母さんが韓国へ来た時に手渡しで貰う事ができました。

やっぱり実物は、３Ｄ画像よりも綺麗で存在感がバッチリでした。

小さいサイズの指輪のディテールもすごい細かく実現されていて、感動しました。

本当に素敵な指輪ありがとうございます！

また機会があれば、今後も是非依頼させて頂きたいと思います。

植松いつか＆宋ヨハン"