Wedding without a ring

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My DP isn’t keen to wear a wedding ring (he’s never even worn a watch) and is very sensitive to the sensation of clothes etc on his body.
Yes, we could get a cheap one, but the ring is a symbol of marriage and if he’s never going to wear it after the ceremony, it seems a bit pointless using it.
We’re having a C of E church wedding and I was wondering if they just miss out the ‘exchange of rings’ part or if it’s possible to add in a personalised bit but without rings.........
Just after ideas really....... happy for him not to have a ring but just wondering how it would work.

We had a C of E wedding and bought a cheap £2.99 ring off amazon for DH just for the ceremony. I had a 'proper' one. He keeps it on his keyring as he dosnt wear jewellery.

Until relatively men didn't wear wedding rings. My father doesn't and none of my parents' male friends of similar ages do. They might wear a signet ring, but not a wedding ring. It's not obligatory to exchange rings, just you can have one.

In a church wedding you do need to exchange rings as part of the service but it is perfectly acceptable for just one ring to be exchanged. We have slightly different words we say in that situation than if you both give and receive rings.
At least, this is the case in the church in wales I'm sure it's the same in church of England.

It's not an exchange of rings if there's only one.

Depends on form of service. 1662 prayer book only the bride has a ring. Downside is the promise to obey. 😁

Neither of my parents have ever worn a wedding ring. They've been married for nearly 50 years now.

It used to be uncommon for men to wear a wedding ring when I was young, but that might have been that most of the men I knew worked physical jobs and they would have got damaged.