[Closed] What metal wedding ring?

platinum.

i have titanium, the wife has platinum

mine cost about 30 quid off ebay
cheap as chips, then again i seldom wear it

platinum is the only way to go

Mine's Ti. It breaks the old adage, cheap light strong - choose two, because it is actually all three (in the context of wedding rings) 🙂

platinum +2

Gold. Do it properly ffs.

Platinum looks boring, and Titanium is a funny colour.

Titanium with gold and platinum inlaid would be nice!

wedding rings aren't supposed to look flash...

Odd isn't it that Titanium is the cheap option.

Platinum if you want to break your bank balance but I prefer my Ti wedding band and it is pretty indestructable too.

Don't realy like the look of gold and white gold is waaay too fragile needing plating etc regularly.

Gold - not white gold - proper gold.

another shout for platinum here

mines thin gold

it is pretty indestructable too.

if you destroy any wedding ring your hand isn't gonna in much of a shape to wear one again anyway...

buy online for better pricing, we saved over £700 on ours.

Mine's Ti and Platinum, looks nice without being flash and will last.

Ive been warned off Titanium by a jeweller who reckons your fingers can change and Ti is too hard to be changed. But they probably just wanted to sell me a more expensive ring.

Or for something different - I've got a paladium wedding ring. Very hard wearing too if you're not planning on taking it off whilst riding etc.

platinum.
Sorry, but I think titanium's a bit naff/geeky.

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mines tungsten inlaid with a gold strip

Whatever she wants. Only jewellery a bloke should wear is a watch.

If you must have one, I suggest you also buy an upright piano. You then have a convenient and safe location in which to "lose" it.

I'm lost. What is that picture of Jimmy Tarbuck supposed to show?

I went paladium. Was warned off Titanium as it's difficult to alter and buff up. Platinum would have been the best but is too much money for me. Some like Gold but I personnally don't and it's quite soft and white gold requires a lot of up keep.
Saying that, it's a personal choice so go with what makes you happy.

platinum and white gold here - don't like regular bling gold, I'm not p-diddy for f**cks sake

be a man! buy Steel!!!
well, it's what i've got anyway. 8mm width steel band with a 1mm silver band running through it. brought it from a bespoke jewellers in Bath but can't remember the name, sorry

Palladium + 1

I went palladium, very hard wearing, but fairly heavy, not as heavy as platinum, its like the poor man's platinum basically.

Welsh Gold

Some like Gold but I personnally don't and it's quite soft

Yes it is quite soft and this is a good thing as I got mine caught last week, nearly ripped my finger off. Fortunately the ring snapped and came away and all I was left with was a broken finger.

Had it been steel, titanium etc it may have been bye bye finger 😐

What Tron said plus they can be a real liability for some sports / working with tools etc.

Had to have mine surgically removed - dont wear one now.

Platinum here. Hard wearing, and even leave it on when spannering the bikes. Looks slightly roughed up but not battered, I really like it.

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Ti for the active bloke, platinum for the passive bird. Sadly my passive bird became active & took up swimming in a big way and demonstrated its potential to get knocked about until she was banned (by me) from wearing it in the pool.

My ti ring looks about as good as it did the day we got married despite the usual rock climbing & biking scrapes. First ring was the wrong size and as it can't be resized had to go back and replaced. I don't plan on becoming any fatter so it shouldn't need to get made bigger and I'm told if you loose enough weight it falls off your finger you are free to live your life the way nature intended again so everyone's a winner.

White Gold too, but only the decent stuff otherwise the colour 'rubs off'!

Sticking with gold is better from a safety POV 'cos medics can cut through it more easily 🙂

I went for tungsten with a platinum inlay, tungsten stays shiny, and the platinum is a contrasting dull tone.

Missus has titanium for both her rings.

Cheers, Rich

I'm going for paladium. The missus unfortunately cannot be persuaded away from platinium.

Definetly buy online. Much cheaper

I went into a shop to see the metals, I had a paladium, platinium and white gold ring on the same finger and really couldn't tell the difference visually (there was a weight difference)

Now the question I'm fretting with is what size - 6mm or 7mm....

So, it looks like my stainless steel wedding ring is one of a kind, yes?

DT78 Get you cash out and get your missus what she wants "scrooge" supposed to be her special day not yours.

+1 here for Ti

its just a "this blokes taken, owned, lifes over, etc etc" badge any how.
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Normal gold.

If you want to be "a bit different", just get married in a football mascot suit or something.

I have a plain platinum band which has burnished quite nicely to look understated. For cost savings also check out the jewelery quarter in Birmingham where a lot of rings that you see on the high street are made.

lol - there is being a scrooge and actually being able to afford the damn thing. £500 for platinum or £250 for paladium which look the same... anyway she will be getting what she wants.

Anyone have tips for finding £8k by July?

Let her choose...

Here, platinum for both of us.

She's happy, that is the most important thing.

cheapest white gold one you can find - mine was a £90 special its held up fine after 4 years. Its on and off when biking/sailing so i didnt want an expensive one in case i lost it.

I promised the wife if we get to 25yrs we can get new ones - romantic eh?

Pd for me. £160 instead of £400 for the same size Pt. Ti just seemed too cheap for something that's supposed to be symbolic, and I'd probably ruin an Au on very quickly

I've got Ti with a diamond inlaid from [url= http://www.johngreeddesign.co.uk/ ]here[/url] and I love it. I'm not the most bling of people but I really feel happy every time I look at it.

I was tempted by tungsten, but you can't cut it and so in the event of it being my finger or the ring e.g a crash or burn situation then it's bye bye pinky.

I promised the wife if we get to 25yrs we can get new ones

Go for gallium. Just for the look when she puts it on the finger.

If you go titanium you want to hope that you don't need it cut off in a hurry i.e by emergency services when you've got a swelling finger.

if you destroy any wedding ring your hand isn't gonna in much of a shape to wear one again anyway...

My dad had a gold one and wore it to work as a sparky amongst other things out of forgetfulness.. now it's paper thin, the shamfered design has gone and it's about as round as a hula hoop (crisp).

Titanium here*. It started off with a brushed/matt finish but has now developed a slight shine through general wear.

*Not married but both myself and my partner have a Ti ring on 'that' finger.

Tungsten Carbide here - shiny, scratch-proof, and a good weight. 😉

my going out/ official wedding ring is silver with the history of my home town stamped in symbols on it. Every day ring is Ti from hsamuels £30, doesnt matter if I lose it down the sink at work then, or on bike/ paddling. Did manage to scratch inside of car windscreen with it though when demisting it and forgot ring on.

Oh, I forgot about that. Every mug we own now has black rings inside from where my ti ring has marked them washing up. As the ring doesn't come off that easily I find it best if I don't do the washing up these days 🙂

must try that line here, keep forgetting and marking mugs or nearly cracking glasses.

MkI was Ti, I bought it in Summer and it ended up being way to big in witer, fell off at a gig never to be located again. I was also paranoid about the cutting off/removal problems mentioned on here.

MkII is paladium, it's a much nicer shape and fits a whole lot better, agreed it's more expensive but still far less than gold or platinum, seems like a good option to me.

£75 Ti here. Looked at loads but we both liked the one I have.
Tried a Platinum but in my fat finger size it was too heavy.
And obviously the £800+ price had nothing to do with my decision.

Wifes sister reckons it would make a good napkin ring.

-1 for ti

My mate had one. Caught his finger climbing off a landrover. Cause Ti so hard the emergency services can't cut them off so they had to cut his finger off.

as a result I got platinum and my wife gold

Plain Stainless Steel for me.

My mate had one. Caught his finger climbing off a landrover. Cause Ti so hard the emergency services can't cut them off so they had to cut his finger off.

Ooof.

I bet there's a lot of people taking their ti wedding rings off right now.

We went for white gold as we preferred the colour to real gold! I asked about platinum in the jewellers - the shop assistant hinted that I might not be able to afford one (cheeky cow!) and then went on to say that they didn't have any for us to look at anyway. White gold are ok but after a year or two tend to need re-plating. I analysed mine once, it was full of all sorts of rubbish! It was fairly cheap though...............

If I was buying again i'd probably go for platinum or paladium (as said before, the poor mans platinum).

Just normal, ordinary gold.
Plain and simple.

White gold

Don't really get all the "hard-wearing", "will last" comments about all the latest poncy metals for wedding rings.
Check out the ring fingers of all the over 80's you see out and about...they all have normal gold rings which, surprise, surprise...are still intact on their fingers.

True. FWIW my mother is on her 3rd wedding ring as she wore the first 2 out. Also your average 80 odd year old does not and did not previously do that much rock climbing, mountain biking etc and most manual working males now in there 80s did not wear rings as it wasn't that fashionable for blokes to wear wedding rings back then.

As ti is a fraction of the cost of gold, I'm not sure you could call it "poncy" though.

I just think that the whole concept of discussing different trendy metals for a wedding ring is rather "poncy".
It's on a par with discussing hair styles.

Dress it up in terms of "hard-wearing" cos "I'm a rufty-tufty rock climber" if you want... 8)

How about I chose ti because its cheap because I'm a tight-wad?

Hey, some of use are increasingly follicaly challenged - we need something to demonstrate our feminine side!

Wouldn't wear mine climbing and don't wear it on motorbike or bike cos of gloves

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rob2 - Member

-1 for ti

My mate had one. Caught his finger climbing off a landrover. Cause Ti so hard the emergency services can't cut them off so they had to cut his finger off.

as a result I got platinum and my wife gold

Edit: thought that said Tungsten 😉

Another vote for Platinum.

I wear a Ti ring on my right thumb, and I'm always aware of the risk because of the difficulty of cutting it off in the event of an accident. In the unlikely event of me getting hitched, then I'd get a 9ct gold ring I wear adjusted. It's a lovely copper colour, and was my Great Grandads wedding ring, and is dated inside 3.1.16, when my Great Grandmother died, so it would be good to continue wearing it as a wedding ring. If I didn't have that ring, then I wear a couple of really heavy thick silver rings and I'd have something like that, the colour is nice, they're cheap, take loads of abuse, and I really can't see any point in spending huge amounts of money. It's a symbol, is all, it's gonna get knocked around so go cheap. So long as it stays shiny, who cares.

Am i the only one with silver?

nope see above mine is silver, just have "disposable" ti one for work.

Platinum here too.

It started of shiny but it never comes off so now it's got a sort of brushed finish with several gouges. It could almost look like titanium.

Err carbon?

No seriously, Gold.

I am going to go for gold after all
cheers

"Going For Gold", haha! Wasn't that a tv quiz in the late 80s/early 90s?!

Mine is 18K gold and my wife's is white gold. I have a Ti ring and as most have said fingers change and the ring can't be very easily so it's unworn.

My wife and I have palladium, her engagement ring is platinum and it matches perfectly and the two rings wont damage each other when worn together (palladium next to platinum.)

don't know here abouts you are - but I too recommend going to the jewelery quarter in birmingham, prices are prob same as online due to competitin between shops, have a nice time wondering round trying on and choosing rings, and saving

I bought both our platinum wedding rings from there, mines an 8mm one, couldnt get onoe like that in home town anyway

Silver for me , don't like gold and as I'll loose, scratch or bend it I didn't want to spend too much . It's lasted 15 years up to now ?