Weddingbee Blog

What a great day to post this question (we just designed and ordered my engagement ring and wedding band this morning), but I couldn’t figure out how to answer the survey.

Our wedding bands do not match, at all, but they do coordinate. His band, as designed, is white gold with a deep purple enamel. My engagement ring is white gold with a trillian-cut grape garnet as the center stone, and the band has five channel set princess cut grape garnets.

It was important to us to match the colors and metals (white gold, shiny finish, but no rhodium coating), but our styles are different enough that we didn’t want the rings to be identical. They reflect our personalities, as well as our decision to walk the same path the rest of our lives. I coudn’t be happier with them - now if only the results fit our designs!

cubangirl–my band came from http://www.bestgem.com, and we had a *wonderful* experience with them!!! I believe the girl who helped us was named Lisa, and she was available every step of the way

Mr B’s came from a local jewelry store, but only after we found it on http://www.e-weddingbands.com, printed out a pic of the ring, and asked them if they carried the same thing. But I’ve heard other people say great things about e-weddingbands, so I’m sure if you end up ordering through them you’ll have a great experience!

hth!

wow. this is a great poll.

it is super important to us that our rings be identical (except for size and width.) in our minds, the rings are like our team jackets or wonder-twin power rings or something else that identifies us as being together so of course they should be the same. i didn’t realize i was so in the minority! fascinating.

it is true that the band i’m getting comes in a version with little diamonds in it which is super nice but matching bands is way more important to me.

We’re a little odd, I guess. I’m only having the one ring. He wears an engagement ring, but will have a seperate wedding ring. Another (male) friend that did this coordinated his bands and wears them stacked, but mr mouse will just switch them, I think. My ring doesn’t match his e-ring, but we’re going to see if we can get his wedding band engraved with a pattern that reflects the design on mine.

I don’t think it’s all that important, but I guess we’ve spend a bit of time searching.

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