To reuse my wedding ring?!

[ImMissHannigan]

Just that really. I had a really short lived marriage about 5 years ago. Still have the lovely platinum wedding band. I paid a lot of money for it at the time but when it came to sell, it only had scrap value of about £60 so I kept hold of it. No emotional attachment to it whatsoever.
I'm getting married again this year and have been looking at wedding bands. The OH doesn't want to wear a ring as he doesn't wear jewellery. So it's just for me. I'm looking at paying the same all over again for a ring that I already have in the drawer. WIBU to send it away to be polished and to reuse it? Part of me says absolutely not and the other part says it's just a piece of metal. So wise ladies of Mumsnet, what do you think? If it's of any relevance, we are over budget by about £2k at the moment so could do with cutting corners where we can.

I think it's strange and would rather go ringless. It's not like your DH is going to wear one. It's a bit imo.

I wouldn't reuse it.

A new silver band will cost a few quid if you're on a budget.

Our rings were bought secondhand. I have no idea of the history but I imagine they could be from a divorce. When the vicar performed our marriage he blessed the rings and for me that cleaned them of any history and just made them about us.

Reuse but engrave it

Ask DF, if he's OK with it, reuse it. As pp suggested, get it engraved to make it personal to your new marriage.

Reuse, of course. It's ecofriendly so a great start to a marriage. I wouldn't think twice about it.

Never! Just don't bother with one of you cannot afford one. Would you mind if he wore his from his last marriage? It just makes them pointless.

Seems a bit weird to me. I’d go to a local jewellers who buy and sell rings and see if they’d do an exchange. I’m sure you could swap it for a plain band.

I would have it polished and engraved, and when I picked it up from the jewellers would treat it as a new ring.

It's a ring you like, with no emotional attachment whatsoever and your soon to be DH has no objections - go for it. Congratulations btw.

I like the idea of reusing - engraving sounds lovely. When you have a bit of spare cash pay to have some little diamonds set into it?

No way would I do this. a wedding ring is an expression of a commitment between 2 people. Just no.

I couldn't.

I wouldn't

Do a swapsie with someone so that way it's not your old ring? I would offer you mine but it's white gold not platinum so you'd have a rough deal

Reuse it.

Restyle it. My wedding and engagement rings were part formed from my mothers rings. When I got divorced they remained mine and as a birthday present my mother and I had them reworked again with my grandmothers ring as a dress ring I wear daily. It has no occasion at all for me to my previous marriage. It's MY ring.

Think you probably could reuse it, but I would have it changed in some way. Maybe some stones set in?

I’m re-marrying this year and there’s no way I’d have used my last wedding ring

Great idea . Go for it

Personally, I wouldn't

I'd reuse it and get it engraved.

Maybe ask about getting it changed slightly- you could add a matte finish or brushed look. Engraving is easy to do as well.

I wouldn’t. I’m not sentimental about much and don’t even wear my rings every day but when I do I like that they’re my rings that are a symbol of my marriage. If I divorced DH i wouldn’t then use them as a symbol of that marriage. I’m even uncomfortable about Prince William using his mother’s ring for his now wife when his parents marriage was such a nightmare- if there’s been a recent divorce attached to that ring (let alone your own!) I think use another ring!

I'm assuming if the ring had any negative significance, the OP wouldn't even think of it. She would have thrown it or sold it a long time ago. But she bought it and likes it and it's a wedding ring!

Check with hubby first imo. See how he expresses himself.