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My husband bought a stainless steel ring, titanium ring, and tungsten ring. Out of all three he loved the tungsten the most. He bought all three on Ebay for about $20 for titatium and tungsten and $7 for the stainless steel. I think the stainless wasn't as comfortable as the other two and if he were involved in an accident we were told that they can't cut the stainless ring off.
We're looking at titanium for the wedding band. It's not a precious metal so it can never be resized. If you need a bigger size ever, you'll have to buy a new ring. Otherwise it holds up very well.
My bf and I are both getting titanium bands. We're ordering them from a guy on Etsy and they're only $45 each! They are light, comfortable, durable and quite handome. Neither of us are particularly impressed by jewels or precious metals, so this makes sense for us. Titanium can't be resized, but it is so inexpensive that replacing the ring really isn't a big deal. (And really, spending a couple of grand on platinum which will get scratched and dinged up strikes me as a bit nuts.)
My husband got a stainless steel band as other metals irritated his skin. It was about $50 and it's in pretty good shape after a little under a year (comparable to my rings that are platinum and white gold). Stainless steel is engravable, while my understanding is that tungsten and titanium are not. Works well for him so far!
I JUST ordered a titanium ring for my FH! He's not entirely excited about wearing a ring, so we went with titanium because it is super light. I got it from www.joyjewelers.com but it hasn't arrived yet. It cost $80. Titanium is cool because you can have it look polished, brushed, hammered... We also looked at some Damascus Steel rings, which I think is several layers of titanium pounded together and then heated really hot. The color depends on how hot it was heated. It had a neat, 'woodsy' look, and no two are alike.
My FI wasn't excited about a ring either, the aspect of jewelry was completely foreign to him so he was hesistant. I expressed this to a woman in the jewelry store. She had him try on titanium and he was immediately sold. Neither of us knew that it would be so lightweight. We ordered a ring from an Etsy seller in Hawaii...http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5993233
FI is getting either a titanium or tungsten ring because he works around salt water and those two metals don't corrode in salt water. :)
He is getting a titanium ring. He does manual labor, so it will be getting pretty beat up if he wears it to work. Besides, the titanium rings that I saw were much better looking than any of the gold ones (yellow or white). Also, he's not a jewelry wearer and the fact that it is light weight and won't leave a hole in your pocket if you need to replace it also sold us! =)
We're looking at getting stainless steel ones from a mall kiosk and having them engraved. Titanium is an option as well, but the titanium bands are a lot more expensive, and we're trying to stick within a budget.
Whatever you do, don't go with silver if you're getting it engaged. I love silver, but it's definitely too soft (especially for laser engraving, which doesn't go very deep). I bought my fiance a sterling silver ring and had it engraved with our initials about a year and a half ago, and you can hardly read the engraving anymore, it's so worn down. The ring is misshaped, too, though that's his fault for slamming it in a door frame. But yeah, we definitely learned our lesson!
My FH wants a titanium ring. We just talked to our jeweler about it yesterday. FH's biggest concern is that it can't be resized, but his knuckles are so big that I think it'll be fine! Titanium is such a great price, too.
My FH is getting a titanium ring--with rubber no less! At first I was hesitant, but then I looked at the ring on his hand, and it just looked like it was supposed to be there. And I think that's what we're going for, right?
It's super lightweight, kind of edgy looking, and indestructable. He's a doctor, so he needs something that can take a beating around surgical instruments (and go in the sterilizer!). This seems to be the perfect solution.
I love that so many more people aren't doing the "matching" wedding bands any more--will y'all's match your guys'?
My FIs ring is titanium with a 14K gold inlay band. It was $96. The store that we bought it from ordered it from the mart in Atlanta (where the jewelers shop apparently) It is also wide-10mm band-but since my FI is 6' 3" tall & a pretty good size-the wider band looks really good on him. They ordered it and he tried it on IRL before we were committed to buying it.
I got him a stainless steel band when he got deployed. He really liked it and I felt like if it got damaged, it was cheap to replace =]. High quality stainless is really durable
Yes, titanium can be cut off with the right kind of saw or a vice. Typically EMT's now carry these on them b/c titanium is such a popular metal and a surgeon will remove it in a heartbeat. It's tungsten that's not as common and therefore more of a challenge should you ever get into an accident and your fingers swell up
They have a special little hammer like thing that will break a tungston right off. So you're good!
My FI bought a titanium band. I love it! I love that it can't scratch, since he's in the field (army) a lot. So I know it will hold up! It wasn't very expensive (>$200 for a fairly simple band). I say go for it!
My FI tried on many different rings in white gold, platinum, tungsten and titanium and he liked the titanium and tungsten the best. We ended up with a titanium band for him.
We went looking for his ring 2 weekends ago and my fiancé fell in LOVE with titanium. His main concern was that his ring couldn't look ''girly" - no stones, nothing with a color or design. He thinks the black looks 'bad-ass' and likes how light the titanium is. He's really hard on things (cell phones, laptops, etc etc etc) so the durability was also a plus for me!!
Funny I found this post because I literally JUST ordered my fiancé's ring!! I got this one::
http://www.titanium-jewelry.com/r333b1.html#reviews
They had an offer where you got a free chain, so that was cool, and then I found a $25 off coupon online. I can't wait to get it!! YAY!!
@jezzybell: My FH does manual labor also, but it was because of this that it was recommended that he get WG. If he somehow scratches the titanium, the scratch cannot be buffed out and cannot be repaired or anything. I'm not sure which way I'm going, but I do want his ring to look, and keep looking, nice.
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Hey! I was wondering, did anyone get or plan to get titanium or stainless steel? Is that all the rage these days? It sounds good in theory...tell me more