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Not only did they become the first gay couple on the cover of The Knot, but now, in partnership with Kay Jewelers, the couple has released their very own engagement ring for LGBTQ+ couples.\u201cOur Ring by\u00a0Jaymes + Jonathan\u201d was released today, June 2, on Kay.com in limited supply. According to Kay, it is “one of the first\u00a0same-sex\u00a0engagement\/wedding band offerings by a major retailer.”The 14k brushed white gold ring is flippable, with diamonds all the way around one side and the look of a traditional wedding band on the other. The diamonds can face out during the engagement and then be flipped during the wedding ceremony.Vaughan and Bennett spoke with\u00a0Equally\u00a0Wed\u00a0about why they created the ring and how it feels to be part of something that will help other LGBTQ+ couples celebrate their love.The ring is now available on Kay\u2019s website! How are you feeling about the release?Jaymes: We\u2019re so excited about it. We want this to be so successful that it shows the industry there\u2019s a space for this. The LGBTQ+ community is here, and we\u2019ve got a lot of love to give. Be a part of it.I love that our tradition is resonating with people. I can\u2019t wait to see what other traditions more of our community creates.How did the partnership with Kay come about?Jaymes: When I went to propose to Jonathan last year, I was in search of a ring for a while. I couldn\u2019t find anything anywhere, and that\u2019s when I realized, I\u2019m just going to create it.That\u2019s the beautiful thing about LGBTQ+ people, we get to choose our family sometimes, and we also get to choose our traditions. So I decided to make traditions for us that hopefully can be shared by other queer couples when they decide to go down this road of love together.Courtesy of Kay JewelersHow did you come up with the ring design?Jaymes: I wanted blingy and flashy, and Jonathan wanted more simple. That was where the idea for hidden diamonds came from.Jonathan: What I love, too, is that this is history making in so many ways. Not only is this the first time people are going to be able to buy a ring like this at Kay, but it\u2019s an engagement and a wedding ring in one.Traditionally in a straight couple engagement, the girl gets a ring and the guy doesn\u2019t wear anything until the wedding day. That\u2019s no fun. We wanted to both wear a ring for the engagement because that\u2019s exciting.Jaymes: We get that moment where our officiant, Jonathan\u2019s best friend, is going to say, \u201cHere are your vows, and now flip the ring,\u201d and it\u2019s sealed.How does it feel to have this ring that began as just for you become something that will be enjoyed by other couples?Jaymes: We needed to create this not just for us but for our community, so I knew going in this was going to be something more than just for us. But to actually have it come to fruition\u2026The moment the first couple reached out to me and said, \u201cI\u2019m using your ring,\u201d I was emotional. I was like, that means he didn\u2019t go through what I went through, where I walked into the jewelry stores and got the weird looks. That means he knew exactly where he could go right away and keep this moment beautiful from the start, which is exactly how it should be.Jonathan: I want to shout Kay Jewelers form the rooftops. I am so proud of them for being a partner in this and taking action. They are taking away the otherness of LGBTQ+ relationships. It is normal, available to buy on the site. It\u2019s just a ring that exists.Courtesy of Kay JewelersBetween this ring and\u00a0The Knot\u00a0cover, what has it been like to keep making history?Jonathan: It feels like progress, and it feels great. I can only imagine what younger Jonathan and younger Jaymes would think [if they were] in a grocery store in their small towns in middle America and they looked over and saw two men happy and in love on the cover of [one of] the world\u2019s biggest wedding magazines. They\u2019d feel seen, they\u2019d have hope that there\u2019s love out there that looks like theirs. When we were younger, we had no representation of love that looked like ours.Jaymes: Especially as you\u2019re figuring yourself out, and I know it\u2019s changing for future generations, and thank God it is, but there\u2019s that hopelessness where you\u2019re like, I\u2019m different, what is this, and you just feel depressed.That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important for us to post photos of our love, to post photos of us kissing, because it\u2019s not so much look at me as it is, look you can have this too. I didn\u2019t think I could, and I do. I want you to have that hope too.All we want is for ten years from now for this to not be groundbreaking, for this to just be what is."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Jonathan Bennett & Jaymes Vaughan discuss the release of their engagement ring for LGBTQ+ couples","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/jonathan-bennett-jaymes-vaughan-discuss-the-release-of-their-engagement-ring-for-lgbtq-couples\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]