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Who pays for the wedding rings?
There is no rule. The custom most often repeated is that each partner buys the other's ring. Most couples now pay for both rings from the wedding budget, or each buys their own. What matters is agreeing it early, before one ring costs far more than the other.
Who traditionally pays for the wedding rings?
Etiquette guides disagree, which is the most useful thing to know. The version repeated most often is that each partner, or each family, buys the other's ring, so the rings are exchanged as gifts. An older version has the groom buying both.
Neither is a rule anyone will hold you to. Both were written for a bride and a groom. Neither says anything useful to two brides, two grooms or a couple paying for their own wedding.
Who pays for the wedding rings now?
Couples tend to do one of three things. They pay for both rings from the shared wedding budget, like the venue. They each buy the other's ring as a gift, keeping the old custom. Or they each pay for their own.
All three work. The one that causes trouble is not deciding, because the rings are often the first thing bought and the question of who pays for what tends to get settled by whoever reaches for a card first.
How much to spend on a wedding ring: What drives the price of a ring and how to set a budget for two.
Wedding rings for same-sex couples: Matching, engagement rings for one or both of you and buying together.
How do you split the cost when one ring costs more?
Rings for one couple can be very different in price. A solid gold band can cost several times a titanium one. A band set with diamonds can cost more again. If you are each buying the other's ring, that gap can feel awkward.
Three ways round it. Pay for both from the shared budget, so the gap disappears into the total. Each pay for your own ring, so each of you chooses freely. Or set one figure for both rings and choose within it together.
Buying both rings at once can also cost less. With us, both rings of one couple set bought together take ten per cent off the two. Any two of our wedding bands bought together take five per cent off.
Couple sets: Pairs designed to sit together, with the saving on the two shown on each page.
Ring budget planner: Set a budget for both rings and see what it buys in each metal.
Does the person who proposed pay for the wedding rings?
Not by custom. The engagement ring is traditionally bought by whoever proposes. The wedding rings are a separate purchase, made later and usually together.
Some couples use one ring as both, which removes a purchase altogether, or buy the wedding band to sit beside the engagement ring and the second partner's band to match it.
Engagement ring or wedding ring?: The difference, whether you need both and which goes on first.
Can you propose without a ring?: Proposing first and choosing the ring together afterwards.
Should you buy your wedding rings together?
Most couples do. There are good reasons beyond the saving. You can see the two side by side, settle widths that suit both hands and order them at the same time so they arrive together.
Buying together does not mean matching. Your rings can be different metals, widths and finishes and still look like a pair.
Do wedding rings have to match?: How couples coordinate rings without making them identical.
When should you buy wedding rings?
With time to spare before the wedding, so there is room for the ring to be made in your size and for anything that needs changing. Our rings are made to order and the making time is stated on every ring page.
Insure the rings from the day you buy them, not the day you marry. Rings bought months ahead spend that time in a drawer, a car and a best man's pocket.
How long does a made to order ring take?: Making times and how far ahead to order.
Insuring a wedding ring: Home insurance, specialist cover and what to check.
Mentioned: precious inlay, titanium.
