£10 wedding ring

[MollyJAb]

My husband bough his own wedding ring for £10 (He earns a good salary and spent £4K on my engagement ring).
I'm unhappy with him because I feel as though by spending so little on his ring, he doesn't value the relationship. He says the value of the ring doesn't make a difference it's what the ring signifies that matters.

How would you feel if your husband had done the same?

I wouldn't care. His finger, his choice. Mine doesn't wear his as he's an engineer and I rarely wear mine because I bought it in Ernest jones costing thousands and the bloody diamonds fall out a lot. I might as well of bought a £10 one and done my bathroom up.

DH has lost weight so his original wedding ring is too big. Can't be altered because its titanium. He's wearing a cheap silver ring at the moment, because he wanted to wear a ring.

It doesn't matter what it costs or what yours cost. Fundamentally, its just a piece of metal. Marriage is complex enough as it is without saying "if you're wearing a £10 wedding ring you obviously don't place much value on our marriage"

Tbh I don't think the OP will be back, another post of hers paints a bit of a backstory about this marriage. This isn't about a ring and tbh OP I don't think you're going to get the husband you want. You both have different expectations.

Good luck.

Very shallow OP.

No wonder you haven’t been back.

I wouldn't see a cheaper ring as devaluing the relationship at all, unless it was a deliberate piss take (poundshop ring, shower curtain ring, BBQ beef hula hoop)

It wouldn’t bother me. My wedding, engagement and eternity rings combined cost around £10k. I wear them about half a dozen times a year. DH doesn’t mind, isn’t insulated and doesn’t feel I’m insulting our happy marriage - he wears his ring most days.

I think there were some pretty harsh responses; there's a big difference between the £40 rings bought 20 or 30 years ago so many PP referenced and a £10 ring in 2020! I wanted to know what it was. If new, surely not suitable material and if second hand, some people a bit superstitious about that for a wedding ring. Just curious!

It would bother me. My husband had ours made and surprised me with them at the exchange of rings and I love that they match.

Also, it's likely to be very thin and soft and not last very long.

My silver wedding ring was £18 from Amazon. It matches my platinum £6k engagement ring perfectly which DH bought from eBay for £1.5k. Does it really matter how much it cost?

My husband kept losing his anyway, mainly in the sea when surfing. Bloody good job they only cost £30 😂

Who gives a crap? It's a ring. My husband bought a ring for several hundred pounds, and he rarely wears it. He doesn't wear it for work because his job would mean it would get wrecked, then over the weekend he sometimes just forgets to put it on.
Your marriage is the thing that matters, not the ring on your fingers.

Would you rather he spent £4K on his own ring and a tenner on yours? The cost of the rings matter not one jot.

My DHs ring was £40 and titanium (which amused him as it was the same material as his much more expensive bike) He didn't wear it while riding the bike which meant he dropped it in a field in Wales and neither of us can be bothered to replace it.
I keep forgetting to wear my engagement ring- have to take it off for work.
Don't let it bother you. Plenty more important things to worry about!

Really? Mine cost about £5, I’m still married years later. I wear a piece of jewellery from my husband worth £££, they both are equally precious and special to me.

My husbands ring cost €3 from the Vatican on our honeymoon.

He had a slightly more expensive one that he uses on occasion but it’s made of wood and impractical.

I couldn’t give a shit that his wedding ring cost €3. It doesn’t define our relationship.

My Dh bought his of Amazon for about £3. He dosnt wear jewelry so was just symbolic for the ceremony he now uses it as a keyring. Our marriage is fine. I couldn't care less about him not wearing a ring.

My husband has had six silicon rings for each year we've been married! He works with his hands so they get trashed quite easily. The last two years he's lost it surfing on the same beach!

I just laugh and buy him a new one each anniversary 😅

Haven’t RTFT.

My husband doesn’t wear a wedding ring, because he hates jewellery on men other than a watch. Doesn’t say anything at all about his commitment to me (which is rock solid) nor the value he places on our marriage (which is immense). Men having a wedding ring has only been a tradition for the past few generations anyway.

Most men dont wear wedding rings..

Why didn't you buy it? If he bought yours, why didn't you buy his? My dh's cost a lot less than mine, he wanted something hard-wearing and plain so I got him a titanium ring and had it engraved. I wanted something blingy which cost more.