Which metal!

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ecgirl07 wrote: »

i heard a cracking story about a very forgetful husband to be who tended to lose things. He deliberately choose a cheap wedding ring then went back to the store and bought another 5 on the quiet to replace the wedding ring he chose so he would never have to tell the wive that he had lost his wedding ring!

It's funny.. because I can't easily conceive loosing my ring. About the only activity where it's likely to get lost is swimming - and in that case, i put it somewhere I know is secure. The ring doesn't easily slip over my knuckle without applying a bit of pressure.

However, one of my colleges lost his the week after his wedding, as he was still 'new' to it and kept taking it off and playing with it.

sharpee

This worries me as I take my engagement ring off everyday as I am a mechanical engineer and cant wear it for work. It worries me how long it will be till I misplace it, and there is no-way I could afford to buy several rings!

kriss_boy

Ok, the chart is pretty damning!! Could I justify getting platinum on the basis that my children could sell it in 100 years time to use as the deposit on a house!!

Otherwise Im going to walk about with £500 tied up around my finger when it could be better spent elsewhere!!

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Well, you could buy over 10 titanium rings for the cost of 1 platinum ring..

To be honest, I only got palladium because I saw it in the shop window and it was the first design I liked. Cost £280 if I remember rightly, so comparable to gold (although gold is better for resale). Price of palladium seems to have gone up a lot since then.



My band looks like this: http://www.washingtondiamond.com/090222-6mm-Palladium-Brushed-Surface-Wedding-Band

Really, you should probably just go and have a look for designs you like.

TheSeventh

My engagement ring is Titanium and it's lovely, exactly what I wanted. It's scratched a bit because I use my hands a lot at work, but it's still a beautiful shiny colour and I don't feel terrified about having thousands of poundsworth of jewellery on my all day every day!

Now my OH and I are planning on getting matching Titanium wedding rings from the same place.

I know that chart makes Titanium and Tungsten look bad, BUT, look at the criteria they're listing: intrinsic value (price), precious metal (cultural 'worth'), rarity (cultural 'worth' again), hypoallergenic, good to restore, strength and lifespan.

To me, the first three i listed only really matter if you care about boasting about what your ring's made of and how much it's worth.
How good the ring is to restore... well, surely a strong metal will take less damage and thus be in less need of restoration in the first place?
Strength and lifespan are the important symbolic factors on that chart, to me, at least!