Wedding ring ideas!

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There are SO many options for what you can do with wedding rings. You really should discuss what your to-be’s likes and dislikes are. If you want to suprise her and not discuss things beforehand, maybe you could give her a cheap toy ring (you know, out of a machine) when you propose, and the two of you could go ring shopping together. it would be cute! she would be suprised and still get to help pick out the ring!

as for DH and my rings, he proposed to me with my great grandmas anniversary ring. its white gold with 1 ‘bigger’ diamond in the middle of the ‘engagement’ band and several little diamonds down each side of it. the ‘wedding’ band part is a row of the same sized small diamonds all along it. It is now 53 years old, was 50 when my grandma gave it to him to propose to me. I have ALWAYS loved it! every time i went to my grandmas, i would get it out of her jewelry box and wear it around. she knew i would love it, so she offered it to him when he told her he was going to propose. but honestly, 75% of the time i wear a thin, simple gold band that we got at Kmart for $14. After DH proposed, he noticed i wasnt wearing grannys ring and I told him i was very afraid of loosing it/breaking it, so we picked up this cheap one and I love it just as much at the other one. With all sorts of farm work, I am very hard on my hands, so I end up usually just wearing the diamonds to church. oh, and DH ring is simple. 2 tone gold with white gold in the middle. I had it engraved. on the inside, it says 1 corinthians vs 4-13, the versus that were read at our wedding.
 
**We got an estate ring off of ebay plat. with diamonds from the 30’s, 40’s for around 400.00 and then because we had a hard time matching it for a wedding band then we went to Jewelry row in Philadelphia and had one made to match it that cost around another 300.00.

Now my husband got his wedding band from Zales Outlet for 100. Sorry the picture is so bad but i just scanned it in for you to get the idea. I love it and get many compliments on it because it doesn’t look like your traditional band.**

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I have my husbands birth stone in my wedding ring, and he has my birth stone in his.
 
When I got engaged my husband gave me a beautiful solitaire that had been in his family. I wore it during the early years with a plain gold band. But as time went on, one of the kids dropped my wedding ring down the sink drain and did not tell me. I scoured the house for weeks and finally gave up. So my husband got me a wide gold celtic knot ring that I just love. It has a filagree look so that your finger does not get wrinkley from lack of air. I only wear the diamond now on special occasions. If you are so inclined, there are websites with beautiful Irish jewelry… Point is, personally I would prefer a nicer, unusual wedding than a plain band and a stone ring. But that’s just my opinion. Blessings for your marriage.
 
My engagement ring is white gold with celtic knotwork on the band and a sapphire with two smaller diamonds, one on each side of the sapphire. My wedding band is also white gold with celtic knotwork.

Both were purchased from deSignet. They have a huge selection of rings, and will do custom work. They are located in New York. We purchased the rings via email.

You could literally spend hours (I certainly did:) ) looking at all of the designs. The celtic wedding bands, celtic engagement rings, and religious jewelry sections are really nice.

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I got a big 'ole 1 carat princess cut rock with a platinum band on my finger! No complaints here! But if money had been an issue for my DF, then I would have gone with my birthstone which is garnet.

As for the wedding band, my mom has a nice band with tiny diamonds around it.

BTW, not all diamonds are blood diamonds. You can buy them with a guarantee that they’re not. (Not sure how credible that is, though.)

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LilyM said:
If you want something without a stone that isn’t a plain band you might want to look into something like a Russian wedding ring - which is made up of three interlocked bands. Tradition is that each band represents one of the persons of the Trinity.

Traditionally each of the three bands is a slightly different colour - normal (yellow) gold (representing God the Father), rosy-coloured gold (Jesus the son) and silver or white gold (the Holy Spirit). Here’s a pic of one. Obviously the bands are spread out a little so you can see them better - not worn that way normally:

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That is my ring. I always get comments on how unique it is. One difference that from your description of the meaning is my dw and I tell people it is to remind us that there are three people in the marriage. Me, My wife and God. My wife’s wedding band is the same three ring setup but all yellow gold.
 
My wife and I went with Irish Claddagh rings, just like this one:



The nice part about these is that they double as engagement rings. If you’re single and unattached, you wear it on the right hand, with the crown pointing in towards your wrist. When you become engaged, you switch the ring to your left hand, with the crown pointing the same way, towards your wrist. When you get married, you turn the ring around and wear it on the left hand, with the crown pointing out towards the tip of your finger. 🙂

Ours were $350.00 apiece for the matching set, $700.00 and something for the works. Of course, that was a thousand years ago…
 
Paul_Folbrecht said:
I’m going to be buying one in the near future. I got to thinking that quite possibly I DON’T want to go with a diamond. #1 - Why conform? #2 - neither of us believe in spending a ton on jewelry. #3 - there are some moral issues with the diamond industry!

So, I am looking for ideas for alternate stones. I would love to hear from some of the people here about what is popular with devout Catholics. Thanks.
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Paul,
I had some issues as well but I did end up buying a diamond for my fiance. I figured that she was worth it and plus it representing a convenant that you and your future bride will be sharing and if you don’t want a diamond then maybe her favorite stone would suffice! God Bless you! 👍
 
Ladies (and guys),

Thank you all for the advice. 1st thing I want to say now is that this has NOTHING to do with money. I could afford a nice diamond and, frankly, if I used the industry’s 2-month-salary “rule”… oh gosh, what a joke.

It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with the fact that neither of us likes spending money on jewelry - it’s impractical. It “does” nothing; offers no value. We’d both rather put the money into, say, another week in Europe for the honeymoon, charity, etc. But… minds not made up.

Yes, of course, she’s entirely on-board with this - I would not consider it otherwise!! However - we also both believe that I should be the one to actually pick out the ring (alone).

I will post again when I buy something! Promise.

Paul

P.S. That is strange that so many of you married Designated Hitters.
 
Nechasin said:
That is my ring. I always get comments on how unique it is. One difference that from your description of the meaning is my dw and I tell people it is to remind us that there are three people in the marriage. Me, My wife and God. My wife’s wedding band is the same three ring setup but all yellow gold.
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Your explanation works for me 😃 :love:
 
A previous post mentioned engraving the wedding bands…
Please learn from my mistake, lol:
Hubby and I got engaged in December of 98. We planned to be married in October of 99. So, we booked the hall, dj, caterer…etc…and purchased our wedding rings. For hubby’s ring, I had a simple phrase engraved with the wedding date. BIG MISTAKE!!!
He is in the military and in June he was informed that he would be heading to Kosovo for six months LEAVING in AUGUST!!!
So, there went the wedding plans:( . We lost the hall, dj, caterer etc when we moved the wedding up to July. I won’t bore you with all of the stressful details of replanning a wedding in less than a month…
but my point is (sorry I took so long to get to it;) ) that his wedding band still has October 16 engraved on it when our wedding actually took place on July 24. So be cautious with any engraving you may plan…life has a way of messing with us, lol.
malia
 
Interesting, because we were just talking about this subject at Christmas dinner yesterday!
One of my cousins is a part-time antique dealer, & she was saying that she finds beautiful engagement & wedding rings at auctions & estate sales. And even turning a tidy profit, the end price to the new buyer is very, very reasonable.
So it might be worth it to check with any local antique stores. They often have rings come in that are many, many years old, in beautiful settings from various historical periods…Many of these have colored stones rather than diamonds. The idea of a diamond as the stone for an engagement ring is fairly recent &more the product of advertising by the diamond companies; traditionally, more rings had colored stones than diamonds…
 
Canadian diamonds are not blood diamonds…but they’re so EXPENSIVE! I told my friend to get a Canadian diamond when he was getting married, but the cost was 5X higher than a normal African diamond!
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
CANADIAN diamonds are not blood diamonds:thumbsup:

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I think you should both make this decision together.

If you want something other than a plain band, think of a common trait you two have. Are you both from the same ethnic background? My wife and I are both Irish. So it was easy to pick interesting bands that we liked.

My buddy and his wife are both born in the same month, so they got bands with small birth stones in it (forget what month, but they are light blue).

See what I mean? Find a common thing the both of you really enjoy or feel strongly about, then search for rings that incorporate that.

But like mentioned before, don’t forget what the rings really stand for and that it’s the people who really matter, not the jewelry. But nice jewelry is cool too.😃
 
I agree that it just seems ridiculous to spend a mint on a ring when there are so many other ways to invest or enjoy the money. If someone likes the look of a clear faceted stone like a diamond, I would suggest Moissanite which is a created gem based on what was originally found in a meteorite. It is more sparkly than a diamond and a 9 on the hardness scale (like a sapphire). The cost is about 1/2 of a comparable sized diamond.

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Paul_Folbrecht said:
Ladies (and guys),

Thank you all for the advice. 1st thing I want to say now is that this has NOTHING to do with money. I could afford a nice diamond and, frankly, if I used the industry’s 2-month-salary “rule”… oh gosh, what a joke.

It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with the fact that neither of us likes spending money on jewelry - it’s impractical. It “does” nothing; offers no value. We’d both rather put the money into, say, another week in Europe for the honeymoon, charity, etc. But… minds not made up.

Yes, of course, she’s entirely on-board with this - I would not consider it otherwise!! However - we also both believe that I should be the one to actually pick out the ring (alone).

I will post again when I buy something! Promise.

Paul

P.S. That is strange that so many of you married Designated Hitters.
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Glad to hear that you both are on the same boat about this. Since that is the case, I’d say you are being very practical! Hope you find a beautiful engagement ring that she will love - and if she doesn’t, you can always return it and pick something out together :). God bless!
 
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