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 ?
something soft metal for the accidents / degloving injuries ( google it after lunch) 🙂
I've got Platinum. handmade with my wife's by the same jeweller who made the engagement ring.
Its great, but soft and gets scracthed up easily. Had it polished for the first time in years a few weeks ago and was told it was going to be a tricky job...
Brilliant...how fortunate that you opened this ancient thread with a helpful post.
is this the sort of ring you're talking about?
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gold is soft and platinum harder, but you will still need to get them polished every now and again.
So get platinum for the wife.
I have a tinanium ring as I didn't want a weighty ring and titanium is bloody light, plus I don't care about the scratches on it.
If you get platinum for the wife be very careful that whoever makes it actually uses the correct solder for it, not gold solder as this will be weaker and the ring may end up breaking and losing a stone.
can vouch for this guy:
and there is a mountain bike shop within 50 yards as well:
http://www.beyondmountainbikes.com/contact
These trade SEO spammers are really starting to annoy. Good use of the 'report' function though.
...and he's gone. 🙂
And you could consider Moissanite for the wifes stones instead of diamonds.
If you get real moissanite then it is way rarer than diamond, but it is normally a synthetic form.
Jewellers have trouble identifying it from diamond and have to send it off to the lab.
I think it has a higher refractive index than diamond so will 'shine' more.
Plus you are guaranteed that no-one has smuggled it out in their teeth or that it hasn't been used to buy weapons.
Some people have insisted on it for ethical reasons.
I mention it as I personally would prefer to spend more on the craftmenship of the ring maker than for overpriced bits of compressed carbon.
http://www.moissanite.net/diamond-substitutes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite
From the OP...
I went for gold (made from 2 of the wife's old rings melted down)in the end.
Its cool
mercury would seem like the most appropriate in my personal experience... not that I'm cynical or jaded or anything..
ooh.. mercury with a jade stone.. perfick
potassium?
