Believe t or not, I got the red garnet from multicolour (ebay) and the pink sapphire from ajsgems (ebay). The garnet looked kinda dark before it was set but I must say it looks much better after it was set. I''m still learning about coloured stones too, that''s why I started off with getting cheaper stones off ebay before investing more $$ in them.
The rings were sent to a goldsmith in Singapore after I had them designed.