Donald saved our bachelorette trip, and our bride-to-be's big day! (2026)

Donald saved our bachelorette trip, and our bride-to-be's big day!

20 women went to Puerto Rico for our girl, Sandra's bachelorette weekend. On our first full day in PR, we traveled to Del Ray Marina to take a catamaran out for the day to island hop and enjoy to ocean.

While we were set to enjoy a few hours drinking, eating and relaxing at Icacos Beach our bachelorette babe, Sandy (who had very recently legally married her husband in courthouse ceremony) felt her engagement ring and her wedding band slip off her finger in about 3 feet of water at the shoreline next to an old pier.

The mood immediately turned to panic, but as women, we reacted with action. We utilized about 8+ snorkels from the Catamara to try to find the rings for the next 2 hours. It didn't work. We didn't find the rings. Sandy was heartbroken. The entire bachelorette group was so sad for Sandra, for her groom, for our trip!

You see, this wasn't just an insured engagement ring. Sure, the wedding band was- fine! But the engagement ring had been the groom's mother's engagement ring and she had passed away due to cancer when the groom was a child. Losing this ring was also losing a piece of her and her marriage to his father.

When we had to leave the island on the catamara we knew we needed to research who could help us find this ring. That's when we (day of event planner/ wedding planner) found Donald. We didn't tell Sandy. We didn't tell most of the girls on the Bachelorette trip or the sister-in-laws on the trip! we didn't want to get anyones hopes up... but as Sandra's best friends we couldn't NOT try this.

We hired Donald immediately. He said he'd go out the next morning in a water taxi to our exact location where the rings were lost. He asked very specific questions to know where we had been, the exact location of the bride-to-be when the rings were lost, and we drew out the location to the best of our abilities. We sent him pictures of both rings, but the only ring we needed was the engagement ring.

We spent the next day enjoying our pool day celebrations with the girls but secretly checking our phone, hoping for an update from Donald. As the day went on we were so antsy to hear from Donald, anything at all.

Around 5:30pm we got the call from Donald, HE FOUND THE RINGS, BOTH RINGS. He had searched all day and in a last ditch effort, he checked by/under the pier one more time... and found Sandy's wedding ring and engagement ring.

We will never, ever be able to thank Donald enough for finding those rings, especially the engagement ring and bringing them back to Sandy. We were able to get them from Donald and surprise Sandy with the rings at dinner that night.

We have the whole thing on video. We will truly never forget this trip and Donald. Donald, thank you so so much for your day-long search, your time, your energy, and this hobby that helps people.

Thank you so much, Mike! You are an angel in disguise! (2026)

Mike was an absolutely pleasure to meet and such a blessing!

My husband and I had matching gold and silver pendants made from the cast of a coin he received from his Marine chaplain before a deployment almost 20 years ago.

I’ve worn it every day ever since it was made with the exception of surgeries or repairs to the clasp.

When the clasp failed this time and I lost the pendant, I spent a week searching for it with a friend’s metal detector and thought it was lost forever. With each day that passed I felt its loss more profoundly.

As a last effort I did a google search to see what else I could do to attempt to locate it and the ring finders website came up. Mike was the closest person to our house listed in the search feature.

Mike was quick to respond to my inquiry and promptly came out when our schedules allowed it. He was so kind and was enthusiastic to find something that was so special to us.

Within an hour, my eldest daughter came to me and said Mike needed to see my husband’s matching pendant to have an idea of what it looked like.

I brought it to him thinking he needed it for reference. When I showed it to him, he held his left hand out which was closed into a fist, slowly opened his hand and asked “so it looked something like this?”

Oh my goodness. Even now it gives me goosebumps and so much joy to think about that moment that something I thought was lost forever was right there in his hand.

Thank you so much, Mike! You are an angel in disguise!

Don’t hesitate to contact theringfinders if you need help finding jewelry you’ve lost outside!

My wedding band means everything and you found it in record time... (2026)

Thank you so much Joe! My wedding band means everything and you found it in record time and indeed vacation saved! Can’t thank you enough for your help!

So thankful that he uses his skills generously to make others happy!” (2026)

“Paul was quick to respond to my plea for help and was able to come out a few days later. Paul and crew were so incredibly kind to come out on a Saturday morning and scan for my engagement ring. He answered all my questions and calmly listened to the whole story to find the most likely area it would be. It ended up being in thick overgrown weeds and we may have never found it if it hadn’t been for his thorough walkthrough and expertise with the detector. So thankful that he uses his skills generously to make others happy!”

-Hannah

If you’ve lost something sentimental, call Bryon! Highly recommended! (2026)

“After three months of looking for my wedding ring in the backyard, I thought it was gone for good. Bryon came out and found it when I was ready to give up! He is fast, professional, and amazing at what he does. If you’ve lost something sentimental, call Bryon! Highly recommended!” Ryan