Ruth Bamber is desperate to find her engagement ring lost in Queenstown, pictured with fiancee James Sutcliffe. Photo/ supplied
Ruth Bamber is desperate to find her engagement ring lost in Queenstown, pictured with fiancee James Sutcliffe. Photo/ supplied
A ski holiday in Queenstown turned into a bride-to-be's worst nightmare when she left her engagement ring in the bathroom.
In a desperate plea to reconnect with her quartz rose gold ring, Ruth Bamber on Saturday turned to Twitter - and within hours her tweet had gone viral.
Bamber, a traveller from Leeds in England, was in tears when she spoke to the Herald this morning describing the "devastating" incident.
The 31-year-old had been soaking up the sun and carving up the fresh snow with her fiancee James Sutcliffe at Queenstown's Remarkables skifield last Thursday when they stopped for lunch.
The quartz ring has a rose gold band. Photo / Supplied
"The ring was too big for me so I had tape around my finger to get it to fit probably but I had to take it off to wash my hands."
It wasn't until Bamber had finished her lunch and was putting her gloves back on she realised she had left it on the shelf above the sink in the ladies bathroom.
"I rushed back inside to check and it was gone. We straight away went to the Lost and Found office and nothing had been handed in.
"I spent the next day crying before I decided to do something about it. You see success stories from people using social media so I decided to give it a go."
After three days her post had been retweeted nearly 600 times.
"I've been totally overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers to help find my ring."
Sutcliffe, 31, had proposed to her while they were hiking in Thailand back in June, half way through their six-month trip around the world.
"I'd always said it would be amazing to be proposed to on the top of the a mountain and were up the top of Pai Canyon, which isn't a mountain but surrounded but really beautiful hills, when it happened.
The moment James Sutcliffe proposed to Ruth Bamber at Pai Canyon in Thailand. Photo/ supplied
"He set the camera up and I thought we were just posing for a photo when he got down on one knee...and you can see in the photo my surprised reaction."
She said, in tears, it wasn't worth much but it meant everything to her.
"Because we were travelling when he asked me I didn't want to be carrying something really expensive that I could lose and of course that's what happened.
