| Dec 12, 2014
In an interview with Echo, Tack and Street spoke about the “enGAYgement” rings they’ve become so widely known for.
Echo: What is the inspiration behind the Proposition Love jewelry company?
Tack: Sam and I lived this. We have a story. It’s very important to us. It’s not just another jewelry company targeting the LGBT market. We’re trying to make a beautiful product and we want to give back to our community. When we were getting married, we shopped around a lot and we couldn’t really find anything that we fell in love with. That’s what really inspired us to create our own. We wanted something unique and something that had some pride in it.
Echo: Tell us about how you came up with the idea for the Countdown Collection. What influenced that idea?
Street: Once New York passed [marriage equality] in 2011, and other states started to trickle in a little bit, we thought, why don’t we do this to sort of celebrate each state passing equality. One New York passed we decided to design a ring for each state.
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