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Hi bees! I'm wondering what's traditional vs. what is currently being practiced with regards to paying for wedding bands. All of the traditional things I read say that the groom pays for the brides wedding band, but I"m not sure if that's actually the case. Same thing with the bride paying for the grooms band. So how have you worked this out with your fiance/husband? Is he buying it or you buying it? If, say, your parents gave you money for the wedding, is it coming out of that "fund" or do you consider it a separate expense? Thanks!
Well it was considered a "wedding expense" we were getting money from both of our parents for the wedding but the rings went on my cc so i bought both his and mine.
He paid for my engagement ring so we agreed (or basically I insisted) that I'm paying for the wedding rings. Only fair I think. We have a very equal relationship where we share all responsibilites and bills so it was quite natural for us. Though, to each their own of course.
We paid for all our rings (including the engagement ring) from our combined finances.
His Mom actually got our engagement ring because it's their culture's tradition. It also didn't hurt that one of her best friends owns a jewelry store. We got the wedding rings ourselves.
Well... technically he's paying for my wedding band, and paid for my e-ring. And I'll be paying for his band. I feel like they're gifts, in a way, so I wouldn't want us to pay for our own. In the end I suppose it doesn't matter since we'll be combining all our finances anyway.
Were both paying for them equally. We have a monthly payment schedule we keep since we've been engaged which goes toward all wedding expenses. Bands included, which we chose last weekend :).
I guess we're pretty traditional...FI insisted on paying for my engagement ring and wedding band. I'll be paying for his.
DH and I paid for roughly half of our wedding on our own. The rings were part of our responsibility so “we” paid for them. Our finances were combined long before we were married so all wedding expenses came out of our joint accounts. “We” paid for my e-ring, too.
We paid for them, but we have combined finances so we didn't really buy them for each other. We just purchased them together from our joint finances.
Since we lived together and owned a home together while planning the wedding all money was "our" money. So we never thought about having to buy things from "his" money or "my" money. It just made things easier and now we're married we continue with finances in the same way.
Mhm, when my FI proposed we already lived together and shared everything, even our finances. It was only natural for us to pay the rings together. We shared it all.
Edit: So this means that we paid the weddingbands together.
My husband paid for my ring and I paid for his. But then we got married and combined our bank accounts, so...it pretty much evened out!
We split the engagement ring, I paid for his ring, he paid for my ring, but we are combining finances after the wedding so it will all even out
My partner paid for the deposit on the ring and then the rest comes out of our joint funds (he look after all the money so it was hard on the poor guy to even put the deposit down!)
Well be paying for both bands from the joint account and the "wedding watch"... for some reason FH's not happy with a ring lol.
@DeathByDesign: We paid for all our rings (including the engagement ring) from our combined finances.
^^ This is us, too!^^
DH paid for my e-ring and wedding band, and I bought his wedding band. These all were completely separate from our wedding budget, which was funded entirely by my parents.
We are both paying for everything from out joint savings account that we oppened a year and a half ago. Each of us puts "as much as we can" into, but actually I've been saving more than him. That is still fine with me. Also, my parents have told us they will give us some amount of money to help pay for part of the wedding, and his parents haven't really said anything, though I imagine they too will help.
In the end, my side will be putting more money in than "his side", even though only 100 of the 350 guests invited are actually from my side. more than 150 are family or friends if his parents that they fel they "had to invite".
If my parents gave me enough money to pay for the whole wedding + more, I would put that towards paying for everything and not allow my fiancé to pay for "his things" that is what the present is intender for, I assume, (maybe not?) Especially if you will be combining finances afterwards. I wouldn't care for tradition of who should pay for what. Just my opinion!
If you are not combining finances and usually split costs, I would find it more reasonable.
He technically paid for my engagement ring, but we combined finances a week after we got engaged. Since we have combined finances, we're both paying for both of our rings :) I picked both my e-ring and wedding band out.
Our wedding bands did not come out of our wedding budget/fund. Since we never really had a sense of "his money" or "my money" we bought the rings with *our* money.
He bought my engagement ring and wedding band as a set, so he paid for both. I bought his wedding ring.
He paid for both rings, but he also paid for 90% of the wedding himself. He has a lot more money than I do.
He paid for my e-ring, We paid for our bands together
When our rings were ready, I went to the jeweler to pick them up on my lunch break since it was only a few blocks away. I paid for them both on my credit card so we could get them and then FI paid me back for the cost of my ring later. We still have separate finances for the most part now.
We put both on a zero percent for 18 months Jared card and paid if off before the wedding so I guess we consider we bought each others lol.
Technically he paid for it since he put it on his credit card, but we stopped tracking whos paying for what and saw it as one pot once we got engaged.
I'm buying his and he's buying mine. I feel like that way it will be a gift to each other.
We were originally going to pay for each others, but we decided that since it was a wedding expense we paid for them together out of the money our parents gave us for the wedding. Technically, I guess that means his parents bought our bands :D
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