How to Buy a Wedding Ring

Wedding rings are used to symbolize the eternal bond of marriage, and should reflect the same good taste and style that infuses your approaching marriage. It’s important for your partner to be happy with their ring, but you don’t have to shoot from the hip when choosing the band. Here is how to buy a wedding ring.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Two months’ wages
• A fiancé

1. Find out your partner’s taste. Perhaps even choose the ring together. If secrecy is a priority, enlist a mutual friend to broach the subject.
2. Ask about heirlooms. This might be an easy and meaningful solution to this delicate problem. Check with your parents and other relatives to see if there’s a band you can use.
3. Choose a wedding band that matches the engagement ring so that they can be worn at the same time or eventually fused.
4. Shop around. Ask friends and family about jewelers they’ve had good experiences with. Check bridal magazines and local advertisements for even more ideas.
5. Have the rings personalized. Engrave the date of your wedding, the date of your first meeting, or some other significant sentiment on the bands.
6. Find out her size, if you don’t already know. You can do this by asking one of her friends or taking one of her existing rings to a jeweler to have it measured.
7. Buy it. Some traditions hold that wedding bands should cost about two months’ wages, but this is flexible and simply a tradition. Ask the vender about financing if necessary, or putting the ring on layaway by putting down an initial deposit and making monthly payments.

Tips & Warnings

• Ask the parents their opinions about what your partner might like. Few will know them better.
• The two months’ wages are a guideline, the primary criteria for deciding which ring to choose will be how much your partner will like it.

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