Comments on: Vive la difference!

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:05:58 +0000

Oh, Anna, what a lovely notion!

By: KateriBella

KateriBella — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:52:48 +0000

My engagement ring doesn’t match my wedding band, and The Bear’s wedding ring doesn’t match either of mine (he picked out a loose diamond and then the setting; my wedding ring is a plain gold band, his is titanium). All that matters to me is that he picked them out, knowing that they were something we’d be comfortable wearing for the rest of our lives together. Anna…does that mean that I am the sun in gold and he is the moon in titanium (dark silver)?

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:55:36 +0000

I don’t remember where I’ve read this, and I tried to do some research but with no luck, but I’ve heard that it was tradition for the bride to wear silver or white gold and the groom to wear yellow gold because the bride was compared to the moon and the groom compared to the sun. So perhaps your ring situation is appropriate!

By: Toni

Toni — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:02:21 +0000

I was going to write a long post, but I’ll just “ditto” what Dianasaur wrote, down to the ring description.

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:31:32 +0000

I think it’s inevitable that more couples will just get what they want to wear, now that we’ve left the age of red punch, cocktail napkins and kitchsy couples on white cakes receptions. Which means less matching. But I think it’s great. I have a vintage 3-stone e-ring with a tiny (but adorable) diamond with a super-plain band, and DH has a cool deco ring from the 30s. We love ‘em.

By: chill

chill — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:06:37 +0000

My husband was pretty picky with what kind of ring he wanted since he doesn’t wear any jewelry to begin with. We went to the store with the idea that we would have matching white gold double milgrained rings. Um… I left with a platinum diamond channel set eternity ring and he got his perfect white gold ring. Ours don’t match and no one has every said anything about it. More people ask me why I don’t wear my engagement ring and my wedding ring together…

By: Pencils

Pencils — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:05:14 +0000

Our bands match, sort of. They’re both platinum. Mine is completely plain, my husband liked the two-tone look. We were warned that applied finishes wear off quickly, so he chose one that has a titanium inlay. It’s oddly masculine-looking, somehow. We both really love his ring. And the titanium inlay meant that the ring was a bit cheaper than an all-platinum ring. Platinum is very expensive these days, and my husband has large hands and big fingers, so he needed a big size and a wide ring so it wouldn’t look foolish on his hand. We’ve only been married three months, but we like to hold our left hands together so our rings touch. It’s so sappy it makes even me embarrassed–how did I ever end up here? I always hated this stuff!

By: Dianasaur

Dianasaur — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:50:19 +0000

I’m fortunate that my husband who’s never worn jewelry decided to take it upon himself to figure out what kind of ring he wanted. He looked on-line and checked the stores when getting my engagement ring. He ended up getting a very classy brushed titanium with a yellow gold band around the center. He loves it and it never even crossed my mind that our rings don’t match.

By: JaneC

JaneC — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:15:00 +0000

I hear you on the “torture to get him to make a decision” bit. *sigh* I’ve been asking him since March, and so far, all I’ve got is “yellow gold, plain.” Yeah, but flat or half-round? Beveled edge? Shiny or matte? Ten weeks to the wedding–if he doesn’t make a decision soon, I may just surprise him on the day. (He has otherwise been helpful with decision-making.)

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:58:58 +0000

Hey, The Beard works in the music world, too! Neat! I have an uncle who deals with the innards of computers every day — he fried two computers and melted two wedding bands before deciding it would be less of a profession hazard to go ringless!