World-renowned Colored Gemstone Geologist and Gemologist, Robert Gessner, married groundbreaking, award-winning jewelry designer, Melissa Spencer, in a private home atop a hilltop vineyard in Malibu, CA. The couple met at the Tuscon Gem Show in 2015, and were fated from that moment to join their lives into one. Despite the daunting geographical distance between the couple - Robbie in East Africa, and Melissa in Los Angeles - they are now traveling the world together as a perfectly matched pair.