3/10/11

Do Wedding Bands Have to Match?

By Avery Brown


Do wedding bands have to match? Only if you and your intended want them to! If this is indeed the case, you have many options even within that construct; there are a number of sets comprised of completely identical rings, matching styles in scaled widths for each partner, or rings with key differences as preferred by the individual but one or two common elements that unite and match the rings.

Of these options, the most straightforward way of achieving a matching wedding set is to simply choose two identical wedding bands either sold separately or in pairs. This is easy and the most effective way of displaying matching rings. However, if the couple's hands or ring sizes are drastically different, the same ring can look perfect on one but strange and disproportionate on the other.

More often, you'll find that a couple's wedding bands share similar traits like metal type and possibly even the same design, but with minor changes to personalize each partner's ring and scaled widths in order to make each ring in the best proportions for that wearer's hand.

If costs are a concern, as they so often are when planning a wedding, a strong, good quality cheap wedding set in tungsten carbide is a particularly solid choice. Rings in this material are attractive and affordable, and they hold up extremely well. Buying them in pairs makes these styles even more budget friendly.

Matching wedding bands to some degree, whether it's identical rings or corresponding widths, metals, gem stones, or other accents, is just one of many historical practices surrounding the wedding bands. Other ring traditions and practices, many of these etiquette based, encourage each member of the couple to pay for the other's ring, incorporating the engagement ring into the ceremony, and giving the rings to the maid of honor and/or best man to keep until their use in the marriage ceremony.

The selection of matching wedding bands can be a pleasant process even for those "opposites attract" type couples, as making decisions together is something the two of you will be doing a lot of from now on and coming to an agreement on wedding rings is a romantic, meaningful, and fun way to get started.




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