A New Zealand ski holiday turned horribly wrong for a British bride-to-be after her engagement ring went missing.
Ruth Bamber and her fiance James Sutcliffe got engaged in Thailand in June, halfway into their six month world trip.
A couple of months later at The Remarkables skifield in Queenstown things took a turn for the worse when she left the ring on a shelve in the woman toilets.
It wasn't until she went to put her ski gloves on to hit the slopes again she realised she didn't have her ring on.
"I ran back [to the toilet] and it was gone," she told Newshub.
Ms Bamber says her fiance didn't want to get a really expensive ring just yet for the exact reason it went missing.
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"It's a little bit large and kept spinning around my finger so we put tape on it."
The ring isn't worth a lot of money, but the sentimental value is worth the world to Ms Bamber.
"It doesn't look the nicest, it had tape around it and a bit out of shape but maybe someone will realise just how much it means to me and hand it back in."
In a desperate plea to be reunited with the ring she put the call out on social media.
So far that response has been amazing" with thousands of people sharing her Tweet and Facebook posts.
She even reached out to Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker to share with his audience.
The couple are only in the country for a few more weeks but are urging if anyone finds the ring to hand it in to Queenstown police.
Newshub.
