[Dabble]

Do you wear a wedding ring or a ring to symbolize your commitment to your partner?

Tell me about it!

What does it look like?

What does it mean to you?

Do you love it or wish you had something different?

Why did you choose this ring? or Why do you choose to not wear a ring?

 

[savvybabygrace]

I wear a wedding band and an engagement ring. Of the two, the wedding band is the one that symbolizes my committment to my dh.
The band is white gold with small princess cut diamonds going around it. I absolutely LOVE it! After I had dd#2 my fingers grew and I no longer fit my little sz 5 ring. It took forever, but when we finally got it resized I started crying in the jewelry store just to have it back on my finger - that's how much it means to me.
I remember clearly the day we went shopping for wedding bands, and how my dh's face lit up when he saw how much I loved this ring.

I know that for some people wearing a ring doesn't symbolize their partnership, but for me it does. I love that my dh cherishes his wedding band too.

 

[hedgehogs4]

I wear only a plain platinum band on left ring finger, so does dh. It's pretty, plain and simple. I'm not a fancy person and this suits me fine.

 

[major_mama11]

DH and I have simple, matching platinum rings. The funny thing is, the girl in the jewelry store acted like we were freaks for getting matching rings. I wear mine all the time; DH often has to take his off for work safety, then he gets hit on at lunch by girls who assume he is single

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I also have a nice engagement ring with a pear-shaped diamond. I chose it myself, but I think I've worn it maybe three times since I started in a health career 4 years ago. Just seemed like it had too many little crevices to hold germs. And while it is lovely, it is a little fancy for my tastes these days. So it sits in my jewelry box at home.

 

[fresh_veggie]

Because I work a gardening job during the week, I wear a plain stainless steel band that matches my husbands. We wear it to symbolize that we're married to each other for eternity.

When we got engaged, dh's greandmother willed him her antique diamond and went ahead and gave it to him to be made into a ring for me - it's a 1.8ct round that was oringinally worn by his great-grandmother, Mita. I feel very honored that I get to wear her diamond (even if it's only on the weekends for now - we keep it in a security deposit box during the week). The diamond is set in a yellow gold band; it's an antique looking filigree - so beautiful I can hardly believe that it's mine! It's such a treat to wear it Friday night through Sunday.

 

[anjelika]

Do you wear a wedding ring or a ring to symbolize your commitment to your partner? Anniversary band - both wedding and engagement rings are too big and not my style (too heavy and clunky - my finger is sz 4.5 so light and small is good).

What does it look like? White Gold with small channel-set diamonds and sapphires.

What does it mean to you? It's my accomplishment band! I look at the different stones and it reminds me of the work we've put in to building our family.

Do you love it or wish you had something different? Love it! It's so me it's not even funny. And I can wear it with anything - it's versatile!

Why did you choose this ring? or Why do you choose to not wear a ring? It was actually a gift from my DH, so I didn't choose it in the conventional sense. I wear it because it's a beautiful and simple reminder of my loving family.

 

[Alyantavid]

I wear my ring all the time. I think I've only ever taken it off to clean it.

We got a solitaire that fil had for some reason. No idea on the size, its big enough for me. We bought a wrap with 3 small diamonds to go with it.

Dh has a plain band that he wears almost all the time. He does have to take it off for work, but as soon as he leaves, he puts it back on. Our rings are very important to us.

 

[SmoothieMom]

When I was young and stupid I fell in love with a ring at Tiffany's NYC, it cost a small fortune (more than the deposit on our house!) and it's a 2.65 emerald cut solitaire.

It is totally impractical and when I do wear it I am always getting it caught on things or hitting things (like door frames) with it, or scratching my baby, or getting runs in my nylons. I haven't worn it in a few months - I really want to sell it and get something else. The local jewlers that buys old jewely will only pay 7500.00 for it, it's worth 5 times that to buy now at Tiffany's

 

[GuildJenn]

I have an engagement solitaire which I do like. Its story is that my husband's mum came into a bit of money as a divorce settlement and she split it up among her kids and that's how my DH used his. I think of it as the triumph of hope over experience ring.

But our wedding bands are the real symbol of commitment. We were young and poor and disorganized. So we went to the jewelry store at the mall a couple of weeks before our wedding. If I remember right, his cost $39.99 and mine was $49.99 because I had to bump up to 14k gold to get one that matched the engagement band. They were the absolute plainest rings ever. I love mine. It's so us!

My husband lost his after a MRI so now he got a groovy platinum one (still ultra plain) but I kind of miss his old one.

They say love conquers all.

 

[Shenjall]

I (and my dh) wear our wedding rings to symbolize our committment to our family. (We're a blended family)

They are matching. They are made by a local artist, a simple titanium band with 6 little diamonds embedded along the top. (to represent our 6 kids)

I love it. I love that everything about it means something to us. I love that it was made in my city, by a local artist. I love that we were helping out an artist do what he loves. And when one of the diamonds popped out 2 years later, we went back to have it replaced, and he remembered us! Our rings symbolize and were made with love.

(I know, cheesy, lol)

 

[anjelika]

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Originally Posted by SmoothieMom When I was young and stupid I fell in love with a ring at Tiffany's NYC, it cost a small fortune (more than the deposit on our house!) and it's a 2.65 emerald cut solitaire. It is totally impractical and when I do wear it I am always getting it caught on things or hitting things (like door frames) with it, or scratching my baby, or getting runs in my nylons. I haven't worn it in a few months - I really want to sell it and get something else. The local jewlers that buys old jewely will only pay 7500.00 for it, it's worth 5 times that to buy now at Tiffany's

My sister has a ring like that - no kids yet, but I can imagine that she'll be going through that once she has them. I nearly fainted when I heard the price for that - her now-DH was a college student at the time too!

 

[LionessMom]

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Originally Posted by Chimpmandee Do you wear a wedding ring or a ring to symbolize your commitment to your partner? yes Tell me about it! right now i wear a silver ring with an emerald in it. What does it look like? after the wedding i will only wear my wedding band. it is white gold. it has 9 diamonds set down into it. none stick up. i done want to scratch anybody. i think it is a total of a 1/2 carat. What does it mean to you? my commitment, a symbol. Do you love it or wish you had something different? i absolutely love both my rings. i picked them out myself. Why did you choose this ring? or Why do you choose to not wear a ring?

i am so glad he picked a ring he likes to. it is a symbol. like a circle i always return to him. wherever i go, i come back to him. it is a symbol of our vows. and it is gorgeous.

 

[LisainCalifornia]

For the first 15 years of our marriage, I had a gold band (it had little stars carved in it--reminded me of the box Tia carried on Escape to Witch Mountain--the original one). I never really thought about changing it until my husband suggested it for our 15th anniversary.

We both changed our bands that year. He got a platinum band, and I got a diamond eternity band (so diamonds all the way around) set in platinum. I love it because I am a no frills type, typically (I typically wear jeans)--but this gives me a little extra sparkle. It still sparkles like crazy, even after 5 years. I like the idea that it is an eternity band--so it symbolizes us being married for eternity. Since it is not a solitaire--there are no jagged edges sticking up, getting in the way. It is just as comfortable to wear as my old gold band.

It is 2 carats, which I think is perfect for an eternity band--not too big, not too thin.
Here it is: Eternity Band

 

[DisplacedYooper]

DH and I wear plain gold wedding bands. I also have an absolutely beautiful engagement ring (center oval sapphire with a diamond on each side) that I wear occasionally, but not everyday like I did when we were first engaged/married.

 

[Phantaja]

After my engagement ring was stolen I didn't want it replaced because I had discovered the not so pretty truth about diamonds. I got a band when we got married, but it was a little too plain for me, so for my 25th birthday, dh replaced it with a band that looks a LOT like this, except that he paid a lot more than thirty bucks for it because he actually got it from Tiffany and Co. If I had known about this, I would've replaced the Tiffany ring with that one and kept the difference.

 

[NewDirections]

Dh and I have matching bands. I love how engagement rings look, they are so pretty

but I didn't feel like I really needed one. Dh didn't have a lot of money when we decided to get married, so he couldn't afford one. We decided to elope and a month later we did, so he didn't have time to save for the diamond ring he wanted to buy.

He's offered to buy me one now but I've realized that I don't really want one. There are so many other things that I'd like to do with our money. We're planning a trip to Belize this summer. I'd much rather have the memories from that than a ring. I remember reading an article about how our memories of events make us happier than the physical things that we buy, so I usually try to spend money on experiences rather than things.

 

[Chamomile Girl]

My husband and I have quasi-matching (the pattern is in different sizes) celtic eternity bands for wedding rings. They look like this (except the rails are white gold and the pattern yellow):

http://www.customceltic.com/images/lindesfarne1-sm.jpg

The scary thing is if I ever need to change the size I can't as its a continous pattern all the way around. I love our rings (I picked them out and bought them myself). I am a medievalist (read

) and I love that the pattern came from the Lindisfarne Gospels. I love the fact that they are the same but just a bit different. I wear mine all the time, but now that I'm pregnant I think I'm going to have to set it aside for awhile 'cause my fingers are getting mighty sausage-like.

I also bought my own engagement ring (since I was the one who popped the question it seemed ok). Its a Clogau ring with a tiny sapphire (I also am not comfortable with diamonds).

 

[H & J's Mom]

I wear my engagement ring and the matching wedding band. This is the only jewelry I wear.

Engagement ring is 3 diamonds, big stone in the middle and one smaller stone on each side of the center stone. Matching band is 4 smaller diamonds that curve around the engagement ring.

I love being married ... being DH's wife, having a husband. Even before we had kids we were our own little family and I love that all anyone has to do is look at my hand and see that. I would love a family ring now that our family is complete.

I never really liked the idea of picking out my own ring, I kinda wanted to be surprised with a beautiful well thought out ring and proposal. I did worry about a gaudy ring (gaudy is a good description of DH's tastes for a lot of things) so anytime I noticed anyone's rings I liked as well as any I liked in jewelry stores we always seemed to be in right before he asked (he sooooo sucks at keeping a surprise

) I would point them out to DH and say how nice they were.

 

[Softmama]

I have a simple gold band and I have loved wearing it. HOWEVER, it is only 14K and it turns out I am sensitive to nickel (which is the other metal in the ring), so occasionally my ring finger breaks out into an awful rash and I put the ring on the other hand or away for a week so my finger can heal.

I am also very very heat/cold sensitive so when I swim laps I have to move my ring to my right hand (larger hand) because in the cold water it slips off my left finger.

For my next anniversary (10th!) I have asked for a new band and this one will have the birthstones of each of my children embedded in it (I had to have a hysterectomy 2 years ago so I know for sure that I am done having kids, so there won't be a surprise child whose stone gets left off the ring, lol). I love the ring I am wearing, but I am really looking forward to my new ring.

 

[Avarie]

We paid for our own wedding, so we decided to be frugal on our rings. My engagement solitaire is a 1/2 carat marquis cut CZ (by choice!) and my jacket has six emeralds in it - three on each side). My husband really liked the look of the braided/woven bands, and we were lucky enough to find a store that sold an actual woven band - it's not just cut to look like it's braided. Not a great photo, but you can see them here.

A few years ago, we lost our bands while canoeing, so we had to have them replaced. Luckily, we were able to get the exact same ones again.