AIBU to leave my wedding rings at home for holiday?

The only time I really take it off is if we’re somewhere particularly dangerous like outside a resort in Jamaica or Africa

Are you quite aware of what that statement sounds like?

Mine aren't expensive and I'm not sentimental so I wear them all the time.

I wear mine all the time, they could do with a clean!

The diamond fell out of my engagement ring after 20 years while I was folding washing in my bedroom, never to be seen again. So I don't think being on holiday is any bigger risk than anywhere else.

Just make sure everything is insured!

Never occurred to me to take my rings off.

I leave mine at home when I go away, mostly because on the rare occasions I do go on holiday it's cheap booze-ups with minimal thought to insurance or overnight camping at festivals. There's pretty much zero chance of it slipping off but I can imagine how devastated I would be if something were to happen, and I just don't risk it. I've got really comfortable wearing a ring though, so I do have a few sparkly £5 etsy jobs as 'stunt rings' when I am away.

I don't feel insecure without a wedding ring, I like wearing rings, and would always wear a ring on each hand for an evening out or a restaurant meal in this country and would want to do so abroad too.

I am careful about what jewellery I take on holiday to some destinations and I avoid leaving anything of value unattended in the room. That means I take mainly silver and semi - precious stones, rather than gold/platinum/diamonds and things suitable to wear day and only a limited quantity.

I haven't got a specific fake lookalike of my wedding or engagement ring but I might chose to wear a ring that wasn't the original wedding or engagement ring. I expect this is what most people mean and it isn't that strange.

44 years for me. I took it off the day after the wedding as I hate the feeling of rings and its been in the box ever since.

I leave them at home in the safe and don't wear anything. I can't stand wearing them in hot weather. Actually, since lockdown, I hardly wear them at all unless I'm going out in the evenings.

Plain wedding band never comes off. That's the point of the wedding ring. I don't take my engagement or eternity rings.

I didn't take mine off for the 20 years I was married, I swam in mine!

My actual engagement ring and wedding ring combined probably cost less than your lot’s “fake” rings so I’ll just kept them on and worry about real problems lmao.

When on a beach holiday I leave my £££ engagement ring at home and just wear my gold wedding band.

I would rather not get the stones and setting encrusted in Ultrasun and risk getting it knocked about on paddle boards etc. It's insured but the loss or damage of something so sentimental means it's safer at home for 2 weeks.

This. I had no idea women felt so...(something) (insecure??) without their wedding rings. What's it all about? I never wear mine at all. Don't like rings. DH doesn't have one.

We always take fake ones. My DH lost his fake one at the airport on the way to our honeymoon 😂(To be honest, as it was so cheap, it was poorly fitted, and he'd never worn a ring in his life before, so wasn't used to them, and he kept turning it). Still better he lost a £6 ring from Amazon, rather than his real ring, which is worth a lot more.

I dont generally wear rings as I find them annoying, but when I do have them on I keep them on regardless of what I'm doing (unless it's a safety issue). I've definitely swam in the sea and a pool with them on and wouldn't think twice about it.

I've never taken mine off 🤷‍♀️

I also don't understand the point of wearing fake jewellery 😂

I had no idea this was a thing! Mine are fairly modest so probably not much different from the ones people are having as fakes 😂 I just wear mine all the time unless I have a flare-up of eczema when I leave them off for a while. They are loose enough to come off easily but not so loose they'd fall off while swimming or anyway . They do have stones but embedded/secure so not worried about losing them. They've lasted 19years so far

All the jewellery I wear on holiday is fake apart from my plain band wedding ring. Even though everything is covered by insurance, I'd be heartbroken to lose it.

Wow. I didn’t realise that this was a dilemma. I’ve been married for 29 years. We live by the beach so I swim all the time. I’ve been on holiday in Africa, South America and Asia as well as a 12 month camping trip around Australia. And the only times I’ve taken them off is for a Caesar when my children were born.

Me neither but mine is just a cheap gold band as I'm not into expensive jewellery.

I feel like a dinosaur. I have been wearing my wedding ring (it’s a Russian band so three rings really) for 40 odd years. It never comes off, never will. I think it may have been taped over for surgery but certainly wasn’t removed.

I don’t have an engagement ring so never had that dilemma.

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But I didn't said what type of house 😉 could be a shack in the mountains or a palace in a city - will never know 😂

Honestly not even a humble brag but reading it back I see what you see 😂 I was trying to quantify why I'm more risk averse with them, partly cash value, partly sentimental - I'd hate to have to replace them because even though the £££ would be the same, the actual rings wouldn't be.

I take my rings off everyday as I can't sleep in any jewellery and regularly don't put them on because I've forgotten. Often leave them behind if we go away and know there will be swimming, beach etc. Why would I need "stunt" rings, is a man likely to throw himself at me while I'm away with my husband and two tweens? Does this happen to unmarried women?! Seems insane to have dummy rings to me, but then my wedding and engagement rings did cost about four quid combined.

Me too. Married 32 years this year.

On my honeymoon last year my brand new wedding ring flew off my finger whilst I dried off from the pool and I had about 15 different hotel guests and staff crawling round looking for it - thankfully someone found it under their lounger a few minutes later! It was a tense few minutes and I have never ever worn my rings to swim in again 😱