Guide to Wedding Rings

You’ve come to the perfect site if you’re wondering how to purchase a wedding band. Experts at Neptunes Blvd will respond to your most pressing inquiries, clarify the significance of a wedding ring, assist you in deciding which metal to use for your wedding band, and provide guidance on how to create your wedding set with complementary or unusual combinations.

What Is a Wedding Ring Meant to Mean?

A wedding ring serves as a dual-purpose symbol. It serves as a symbol of your love and faithfulness to one another as well as announcing your committed partnership to the outside world. Your lovely wedding band is a symbol of your desire to be with your spouse forever as well as the vows you exchanged on your wedding day. The wedding ring is what makes the marriage legally binding, even though your engagement ring only represents the promise of marriage.

Many of our clients enquire about the appropriateness of diamonds in wedding bands. Although we do have many wedding ring designs with diamonds embedded in the band, many of our most well-liked wedding rings for both men and women are plain metal bands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Distinction Between a Wedding Band and Ring

During their wedding ceremony, a couple exchanges wedding rings (or wedding bands). Both phrases have the same meaning and are interchangeable.

Female Wedding Rings

The choices for a woman’s wedding ring range from a relatively basic metal band to a significantly more ornate design, such as a diamond eternity ring. You can get a good idea of our most popular designs by looking at Neptune Blvd’s top ten women’s styles. These styles include traditional platinum bands, platinum bands with micropavé diamonds, French pavé diamond eternity rings in yellow 18kt gold and 14k rose gold, as well as vintage-inspired designs with milgrain and fancy-shaped diamonds.

Combining your wedding ring and engagement ring
On the left hand, the finger adjacent to the pinky is where the wedding ring is customarily placed. This is a result of the notion that the ring finger and the heart were linked by a vein of love in classical Greece. Many women will temporarily switch their engagement ring to their right hand on the day of their wedding ceremony. They will switch the engagement ring back to the left hand after being married and putting their wedding rings on, leaving the wedding band closest to the heart.

More and more couples are shopping for engagement rings together, and in many cases, they are considering how their choice of wedding bands and engagement rings synchronize, both aesthetically and symbolically. This is one of the most interesting trends we’ve seen over the past few years.

Men’s Wedding Rings

Wedding ring options for men are rising and changing quickly. While traditional, plain men’s wedding bands made of platinum, white gold, and yellow gold are among our best-selling options, we’re also delighted to offer stunning designs in strong metals like cobalt, tantalum, titanium, and tungsten. These include wedding bands with channel-set diamonds, diamond pavé, and engravable designs.

How Does Wedding Ring Set Work?
An engagement ring and complementary rings for the bride and groom make up a wedding ring set. Jewelers often distinguish between a bridal set, which excludes the groom’s ring, and a wedding set. Most people refer to both sets as wedding sets outside of the jewelry industry.

Frequently Used Metals for Wedding Rings
We provide wedding bands for both men and women in classic plain-metal designs as well as more ornate varieties with diamonds or other precious stones. Numerous options are available in the most widely used wedding ring metals, including platinum, yellow gold, white gold, and rose gold.

Platinum is 95% pure and 30 times rarer than gold, which is one of the reasons why platinum wedding bands are so adored. Platinum is naturally hypoallergenic and feels precious and important due to its bulk and weight. Additionally, it lasts a long time. However, platinum wedding bands are among the priciest choices. Many people who like the appearance of white metal over yellow metal choose a wedding ring made of white gold since it has a platinum-like appearance and is less expensive. Because pure 24k gold is too soft to be used for making wedding rings, if you’re wondering what type of gold is best for them, you’ll see that our yellow gold, rose gold, and white gold wedding bands are all offered in 14k or 18k options.

What Price Range Should You Use For A Wedding Ring?

The average price of a wedding ring for a woman in 2019 is $1,100, and the average price of a wedding band for a man is $510. The good news is that Neptunes Blvd provides hundreds of wedding ring types for men and women with lovely selections for any budget. However, the amount of money that you should spend on a wedding band is as personal as the vows you exchange or the location you choose to say “I do.” Classic metal wedding rings may be found for under $150, while opulent diamond platinum eternity bands can cost upwards of $30,000. Whether you’re just engaged or getting ready to upgrade to commemorate a significant anniversary, there’s something for everyone.

A Guide to Ring Size
In order to determine your ring size, we have some excellent advice and resources. The first approach describes how to determine your ring size using a ring that you currently own as a reference point and our printed instructions. The second choice is the most precise, however it takes a little while to obtain our free ring sizer, which demands some patience. (The links below will take you to both selections.