When Ben Kaplan, an American author and PR firm CEO, decided to propose to Virginie Eskenazi of France, he had to think outside the box: Virginie didn’t want a diamond ring and isn’t big on cliché.
But Ben had an idea: Because Virginie had once put a French twist on English idiom by telling him “I love you to the moon and back and forth,” Ben located the place in Hawaii that was closest to the moon — and then recruited a photographer to capture the moment.
Ben’s custom-made ring for Virginie, designed and forged in under two weeks, was made for the lunar setting: The ring shows the Earth and moon in an infinity loop…. going back and forth, back and forth, and back and forth again.
Five photographers said altitude and weather made an engagement at the top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, nearly 14,000 feet above sea level, a bad idea. But the 6th said “go big or go home!”
And the rest is history.
