With over fifteen years of experience designing fine jewelry, Barry Verragio is known for his high quality, innovative, and elegant engagement rings and wedding bands. However, it's his own romance that has most inspired the Verragio collections. Barry first learned the craft of creating rings as an apprentice. He was particularly drawn to working with platinum and diamonds, because of how the neutral mental allows you to really see the diamond's beauty. To enhance his natural designing abilities, Barry studied at the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Having mastered ring design, Barry worked for several years in the jewelry industry. Then, he decided to propose to Tanya, the love of his life. To make a ring that represented how he felt, Barry invented a new technique that suspends the diamond above the ring. Barry named his new mounting the "Lumino Setting" because of how it allows radiant light to emanate from the diamond. Tanya accepted his proposal and adored her ring. Barry recalls, "When you see that type of reaction, you know it's more than an engagement ring, it's a commitment." So thrilled with Tanya's joy and her friends' praise of the ring, Barry decided to start his own company, Verragio, based on the one-of-a-kind ring he'd created for Tanya. Barry and Tanya have now been married for over ten years and have two young boys. His marriage remains his primary source for new designs. Barry says, "I beleive a union between a husband and wife is as pure, brilliant, and should have as much fire as the moment she first received her engagement ring."