Wedding Ring - Platinum vs Titanium

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I'm not sure if this is the best board to post on, but I figure it's a good as any....my husband has a big birthday next month and I am considering getting him a new wedding ring. Over the years he has developed a reaction to his old (white gold) one and gets a sore rash when he wears it now. So I thought it might be nice to get him a new, hypoallergenic ring.

Having spent this afternoon looking at options it seems my primary choices are platinum at £1-2K (probably towards the higher end as he likes quite chunky jewellery) or titanium at under £100.

I have two questions -
First, is a wedding ring as a birthday present a naff idea?
And second, would you spend the ££s for platinum (would be on finance) or is titanium OK?

Ideally I'd like to spend somewhere in between, around the £500 mark, but typically there doesn't really seem to be anything hypoallergenic at that price point. He also has a history of splashing out on me, so I don't want to be a tight arse and get him a "cheap" ring as then I would have to think of other presents for him too and he's really bloody hard to buy for!

Dh & I have handmade 18k white gold rings. They've never been plated & lolk as good now as they did 19 years ago when we got married. It really pays to get good quality white gold from a reputable jeweller. Ours were more expensive than yellow gold or platinum at the time. Neither of us liked platinum as its v cold & surgical looking (to us). My rings are both made by the same jeweller & have both yellow & white gold in them.

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I bought my husband a palladium ring for £400 from a jeweller in 2018.

Platinum would have costed me double.

He then lost it whilst swimming in the sea and hasn't yet replaced it 🙂

It was 6 or 7 mm.

My husband has a titanium wedding ring. I have platinum. Both were custom made in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. I wear mine every day. My husband wore his for about a week after our wedding, so I’m glad we didn’t choose anything more expensive.

If you can get a clean white gold ring then I would.

You can get metals custom mixed. It’s not as expensive as you think and it actually holds value quite well as unique. Even a month after we got it, revalued independently for insurance purposes it was a third more value than we spent - apparently because of the custom gold.

My ring is 3/4 pure gold and 1/4 copper - so essentially rose gold without the silver and it’s looks like an antique rose. Much warmer and more closer to yellow gold than rose. I think the technical term is red gold.

A good jeweller will be able to find someone to mix your alloy.

I was reading about this the other day. Palladium price shot up so is more expensive now. so Platinum is better value.

Best cheap options are titanium and tungsten carbide although that is not as fashionable.

The best thing you can do is buy from a jeweller that doesn't have a shop as the price is cheaper. There's a few in Hatton Gardens, but I used Wedding Rings Direct and they were very good value.

This was the page I was looking at the other day which I found really useful as explained a lot about which shops to use and why.

Is he actually going to wear it? The rash isn’t always just about the ring but also can be due to other chemicals irritating under the ring eg soap, cleaning products, food etc. and also sweat being trapped underneath, even more so if it’s a chunky ring.

Thanks for all the comments everyone.
@BungleandGeorge I hope he's going to wear it - it's a lot of money to spend regardless of which metal I end up going for if it's just going to sit in a drawer!