Rings - What are Yours Made From and Why?

minerva_windsong

I have a platinum engagement ring. It's a family ring (it belonged to OH's mum) so didn't have any choice of metal! I didn't want a yellow gold ring though as I tend to wear silver jewellery, and thought a yellow gold ring might look a bit odd in that context. It does mean we'll have to get platinum rings, but having not spent on an engagement ring means I can live with that.

Calfuray

Palladium.

Like previous posters, don't like the colour of gold on my skin, didn't want to keep re-plating white gold, so it was a toss up between palladium/platinum.

CompBunny

Yellow gold for us. I'm ginger and it suits my colouring! And he likes traditional. 18k for me (engagement ring is 18k) 9k for him as its harder wearing.

However, if I wanted a white metal I would go for Palladium, no contest. It seems the best option for colour, low maintenance and price!

Tiglath

Gold celtic band for me, and matching solid silver with a gold Celtic overlay for DH - made by a friend for us. I don't wear mine though - it's somewhere in the house but I couldn't tell you where.

Cooliogti

Ours are most likely going to be welsh gold. Mine will be white welsh gold, OH's will be yellow. I'm not much of a yellow gold person, white / silver colours suit me better and my engagement ring is white gold so will match that.

On the flip side white doesn't really suit the OH lol, so he's having yellow.

Why Welsh gold? We're Welsh and proud of it lol. Doesn't look any different to normal white or yellow gold in our cases, but just love knowing that it has been dug up close to our home if you get my drift. All for supporting local business

scmp

Ohhh Welsh gold for us as well
We live in North Wales and went to an independant jewellers in the walls of Conwy just before Christmas to see the annual light parade (think celts and medeval knights waving flaming torches round a castle...). We were just wandering around and ended up in a shop (we were not looking for rings!) and came accross Clogau rings. My engagement ring is a discontinued Clogau and the shop owner looked at it, chatted to us and dissapeared, reappearing with two rings that were 'just us'. A mixture of white gold and the honey coloured Welsh gold in a celtic pattern, we fell in love with them straight away:)
Very happy with our choice and now we have a lovely little personal story to go with 'the day we picked our rings'

Cooliogti

I think I know the ones scmp!

Ours are Clogau too, but just the plain looking bands. I'd have liked something dual coloured like that but nothing caught my eye. Do keep looking at the catalogues just in case though. Not bought them yet so I can still change my mind lol!

nearlyrich

My rings are 22carat gold (wedding, engagement and eternity) I just had to have my engagement ring repaired as I lost a stone and it needed resetting. It cost nearly as much to repair as it cost to buy it but having had 20 years of daily wear and the price of gold has gone up (a lot) it looks good again now.

scmp

Cooliogti - They are the Annwyl rings silver and gold, £409 for the two of them Love them! I like the tree of life one as well but these two match nicely lol

PolishBigSpender

We have plain wedding rings made of white gold - without rhodium plating, which means it's not as "shiny white", but it doesn't need replating, it just stays white. I love it