To ask, do you/OH wear a wedding ring?

[HildaZelda]

Just curious really.

My rings are gold which was fashionable at the time, but I don't particularly like them now as almost all the rest of my jewellery is silver. (I did look into getting them dipped, but the setting of the stones means it would be very awkward) So whether or not I wear them depends on what else I'm wearing. I do wear them sometimes but it's hit and miss. Probably 50/50 I'd say.
I don't wear them to work or the gym (safety reasons) but will almost always wear them on a night out.

MIL CONSTANTLY comments on it, so much so that I've taken to deliberately NOT wearing them around her, I know it's childish but as far as I'm concerned, it's none of her business anyway.

DH always wears his ring. He's not bothered whether I do or not and if he didn't wear one it wouldn't bother me either.

Just wondering whether people wear them always or whether, like me, they come on and off?

I stopped wearing mine a couple years ago when I got chubby and they were too tight. Lost the weight now so they are comfy. Don't wear them every day but prob 50% of the time. DH wears his all the time (even sleeping). I think mine are Pt - still like the style, getting to wear them again was some of the incentive to lose weight.

DH and I both wear ours all the time- we both have plain platinum bands. I love the simplicity of plain rings, but I’m into very minimalist jewellery.

Neither of us has a physical job or play any sports so taking them on and off again is just asking for them to get lost in our house!

We both do

Yes, platinum bands - I wear my engagement ring next to it as they were made to fit together.

DH also yes, his is palladium.
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We have matching gold bands. I didn't realise that gold moved in and out of fashion, but luckily we've both adjusted to the fact that we'll never be on trend.

My husband always wears his ring. I take mine off for work (infection control, and I have very sensitive skin, so get a rash from constant handwashing) but wear it otherwise. Nobody's ever commented and I wouldn't particularly care if they did.

Both of us do. I have a plain silver band and DH has a titanium one. I don’t think his ever comes off - mine doesn’t because I don’t notice it.

My engagement ring on the other hand I have lost because I took it off and put it down somewhere. The claws irritated my finger where I have lingering eczema.

Both of us do now that we're married. He actually wears 2, the original ring and the replacement we got him when we thought the original was lost. Both dirt cheap argos ones but he likes to wear them both on his ring finger.

Both have worn a wedding band since we got married 20years ago, don’t even feel it’s there mostly, but when i do it makes me smile. Sometimes we chink them together, like a secret hand shake. White gold middle with gold either side.

I do if I remember. DH is the same, I never wear jewellery so my ring is a plain silver. I don't think the rings are important.

Both me and DH wear rings. DH takes his off at work now though as he's bashed his out of shape several times (does a lot of heavy lifting) and it costs a fair whack to get it fixed as they're custom made bands with lots of intricate detail. I have my own ring on a necklace at the moment as it doesn't fit my chubby pregnant fingers

I don't wear my engagement ring though, it doesn't fit with my wedding band so just irritates me and looks a bit silly. I wear it on a necklace. I've always worn jewlery whereas the wedding band is the only jewlery DH wears or has worn the whole time I've known him.

I wear both my rings all the time unless my hands feel a bit swollen in which case I just wear my wedding band. He takes his off to shower as it's a bit big, usually remembers to put it back on

We’ve been married for 29 yrs , dh stopped wearing his ring after about a year and mine came off , along with the rest of my jewellery about 15 yrs ago when I developed contact dermatitis . The rings all live together in a box with my engagement ring .

Yes, always. Mine are rose gold so they go with gold and silver. DH always wears his too.

We both do, platinum bands as I’m allergic to lots of other precious metals.

DH lost his for almost a year once and to my knowledge no one commented at all. A female friend doesn’t wear hers and that’s commented on a lot.

I didn't wear mine after 20 years because my fingers got too big. After ten years of not wearing one, we bought another to replace it. The second ring became unwearable after 5 years. So after another few years of not wearing one at all, I bought myself my third 'wedding' ring a couple of months ago when out window shopping.

Yes, both of us do and both are gold. I can't get mine off because I've put on weight since I got married 22 years ago. DH's is covered in Superglue when he had a bit of an accident glueing a bit of worktop back recently, so it's probably stuck to his finger....

I only take mine off in the shower/while washing up, but they're small and comfortable. I love my rings, I picked and paid for them myself and they're as far from big and blingy as you can get. DH doesn't do jewellery.

DH has one, but doesn’t wear jewellery.
My wedding ring is a thick 22ct band, very fashionable at the time, ( not now though ) and I wear it all of the time.
My original engagement ring is an antique solitaire. The setting became worn over the years and was rebuilt, but the soft gold showed signs of wear again, so we replaced it with a more modern one.
My eternity ring is an Edwardian half diamond hoop, in gold and platinum.
I love wearing them, but then I love collecting jewellery!
I do like threads like this, the social history of years to come.

No - neither of us do.

Rarely to be honest (DH wears his more). It's white gold (my skin tone doesn't suit yellow gold jewellery at all) - but in the summer I can't wear any jewellery at all or it itches like mad, and I panic when my fingers naturally swell over the course of the day and rings get tight feeling - so often I've taken it off to put handcream on or something and not got round to putting it back on for weeks on end.

The one bit of jewellery I DO wear 24-7 is a handprint necklace from the kids.

It's interesting to see that if a man doesn't wear a wedding ring no one seems too bothered, but if a woman doesn't wear one it seems to raise a few eyebrows. Mainly from DM's and MIL's it seems.

No eyebrows have ever been raised at my non ring wearing. I also am not Mrs, didn't wear a white dress, didn't change my name - I wonder if there's a strong correlation?

I used to wear my wedding ring all the time as did my husband. Since he died I only wear it for "special" occasions or when I need to be Mrs. GinUser officially. His ring is locked up in my safe.
Where I live, the traditional thing to do is wear wedding rings on the right hand and then swap both rings to your left hand when the spouse dies. However, we wore ours on our left hands and his is too big for me to wear anyway. Every now and again I think about having it made into something else.

I've been married for 9 years and always wear my engagement, wedding and eternity rings. I chose yellow gold as I prefer it to white gold or platinum which I think looks like silver. MY DH has a yellow gold band with white gold around the edge. The only time mine have come off is when my fingers were puffed up at the end of my pregnancy.