Silver wedding ring?

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I'm looking at options for wedding rings and tbh I really want a sterling silver one!

I had a white gold one for my last marriage and found that after a while the yellow gold colour that was underneath started to show through, I've heard that basically this happens eventually to all white gold and the only thing you can do is have it replated to make it 'silver' again.

Also, I just love silver! Pretty much all of my other jewellery is silver as it suits my colouring much better than gold and is much more 'me'. Platinum would be lovely but it waaaay out of budget!

Is there something obvious I'm missing that makes this a bad idea? Is silver too soft to make a decent hard wearing ring for daily wear? Does anyone else have a silver ring? I've seen some super pretty ones

DH & I have silver ones. We made them, so sterling silver was cheaper than gold etc Five years on, they're still there..!

My brother in law has silver - they made theirs too. My sister’s is 18 carat gold. The gold for her ring cost a couple of hundred quid. The silver for his was £30.

And he’s extremely practical; farm work with his hands all day. They’re 4 years married and the ring looks great, silver is harder than gold.

(Silver is also more shimmery and attractive than platinum in my opinion, which has a concretey dullness to it somehow.

We liked silver, choose platinum in the end because... Can't remember why, but there was a reason. But I don't like yellow gold, and so dh didn't have a choice

How about palladium? Very strong!

What colour is your engagement ring?

It doesn’t happen to all white gold, only the low quality / cheap stuff (which includes a lot of Tiffanys stuff).

If you buy from a proper independant jeweller with a good reputation white gold often stays white.

Engagement ring is silver coloured..I can't actually remember if it's white gold or silver but either way I'm thinking of replacing it because it's a bit too big for daily wear (CZ rather than a diamond) as it catches on stuff.

I work with my hands a lot so really want something that isn't going to get scratched all the time and end up looking rubbish which I find my gold one did. Palladium is also lovely but price wise out of budget!

I had unplated white gold, so it's natural form which is a warm white. I used an independent jewellery designer who never plates white gold.

Palladium is harder than platinum and much cheaper. What sort of thing are you going for? Silver will last a few years but probably not 30/40 years of daily wear. There’s also cheaper platinum around online, especially if you go for something plain.

I have a silver wedding ring for the same reasons, and love it - gold just doesn't suit me. It's a quality ring but not hideously expensive and has stood up to a hell of a lot - I work with my hands and use some pretty mucky and abrasive components. Still looks like new years on.

How about tungsten? Its not expensive and very hard wearing. I love mine and they are cheap on ebay, especially if you have time to wait for it to arrive from China. Its not bright white like new white gold or new silver. Has a slight grey tinge but will stay looking that way- it doesn’t scratch.

Silver will get wornaway by a gold engagement ring as it’s much softer. I have a platinum engagement ring and got palladium for my wedding ring. There is very little difference apart from it being 1/3 of theorice of platinum. 2 palladium wedding rings came in at £500.

There is virtually no colour difference.

If you work with your hands lots, titanium may be a good idea.

Personally I have a rose gold ring as the colour suits me. Get what you want and what works best for you. Dp will only wear silver as he's a sod for losing rings

Silver works, why not! It doesn't have to cost a fortune. I have a white gold band and less than a year later its badly yellowing. I'm thinking about giving up and letting it go yellow!

Both my wedding rings have been silver. My wedding ring from my first marriage was a chunky plain band which after 10 or so years did have a few knocks in it but I quite liked it like that. My 2nd wedding ring is a particular design that shouldn't show any wear or dents and has pleasing (to me!) oxidisation which emphasises the detailing. I don't think platinum or white gold would have the same effect.

Mines Rose Gold because I like it better than Yellow Gold.

DH has a silver one because he can't wear Gold due to his religion.

Go with whatever you like best and what suits you. Congratulations!

I've just bought mine and have ended up with two very slim ones, one silver and one 9ct rose gold, total cost £100.

I also wondered if I'd done wrong by not spending more money (most people seem to spend a couple of hundred) and by not having white gold or platinum.

I'm just going to wear them and see how they wear!

Mine cost £60 in total, it's not about the price to us, it's the feelings associated with them. I'm as happy in my marriage as I would be with a £1000 ring

I'm hoping not to spend much more than £100 on mine, Dp is going to have a cheap silicon ring for the ceremony but then probably won't wear one after that as he has a job that makes it dangerous to wear one!

I've seen some really pretty silver rings that have lovely designs on them that I think will wear nicely. I don't really like plain bands

I've had a silver ring on constantly for 19 years that still looks pretty much perfect. Silver is lovely.

This is my wedding ring. It's silver and not a true ring as the ends of the tentacles don't quite meet. It goes better with my other rings than a gold band would

I have some silver (non) wedding rings that are nearly 30 years old - they’re perfectly hard wearing. It does depend what your engagement ring is made of (if you have one). Strictly speaking they should both be made from the same metal so that the harder one doesn’t wear down the softer one.

Platinum is nice but doesn’t keep a shine as well as silver, plus it’s greyer than silver. My engagement ring is platinum because I wear a lot of silver jewellery and very little gold, and like you I heard white gold needs replating regularly. Have you thought about titanium? It’s much cheaper than platinum but looks similar.