Wedding Ring Buying Guide

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Wedding Ring Buying Guide

• Get the best advice from our jewelers on buying
  women's or men's wedding rings online!

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Tips for Buying a Wedding Ring
- Budget

• Women mostly choose platinum and white gold. A
  typical ladies 3mm classic court will cost around
  235 in 18ct white gold and 365 in platinum.
• Men normally choose a wider band such as a 6mm
  classic court. It will cost around 560 in 18ct
  white gold and 800 in platinum.
• A popular choice at the moment for men is
  palladium which in the same 6mm classic court
  would be around 420.
• Men also tend to choose a non precious metal such
  as titanium, which is still finished to a very
  high standard. The typical cost for a plain 6mm
  titanium ring is around 95.

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Tips for Buying a Wedding Ring
-Wedding Ring Quality

• Buy a high quality ring made from solid metal it
  will last a lifetime and it will be easily
  adjusted later, if your fingers change over time
  (resizing a cheap hollow ring will result in a
  kinked ring)
• The factors affecting the final price are
  amount of metal used (determined by the ring
  size, profile and thickness of the band - as well
  as whether or not it's solid or hollow metal),
  production method and how well a ring is
  finished.
• Hand finishing a ring ensures a bright and
  lustrous finish however it can sacrifice a little
  extra metal and require more labour in order to
  achieve the perfect finish.

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Tips for Buying a Wedding Ring
- Wedding Ring Depth

• Most of our rings are available in light, medium
  or heavy depths or weights.
• Most women go for a light or medium weight ring,
  as these depths work best with most engagement
  rings.
• There is no industry standard for what a light,
  medium or heavy weight ring should be

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Tips for Buying a Wedding Ring
- Diamond Quality

• Diamond quality is ultimately how well the
  diamond appears.
• Choose diamonds to wear for the rest of your
  life and to be inspired and mesmerised every time
  you look at your ring.
• The less colour a diamond has the more valuable
  it becomes. So pick diamonds of colour H to D
  (white to colourless). Diamonds between I, J, K
  and beyond are more yellow to brown
• Choose diamonds that have a minimum clarity of Si
  1 -no inclusions/faults noticeable to the naked
  eye.

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Tips for Buying a Wedding Ring
- Wedding Ring Designs

• Ask these questions before choosing YOUR wedding
  ring design
• What do I like? - You are going to wear your ring
  everyday for a very long time. So choose what you
  like the most
• What metal should I choose? Ideally your
  wedding ring and your engagement ring metals
  should match. But some women wear a Palladium
  wedding band alongside a Platinum engagement
  ring. Men often choose the same matching metal as
  their partners, but in a more masculine design.
  If you have very active lifestyles, consider a
  hardwearing ring such as Titanium.
• Do I need a shaped wedding ring? - An engagement
  ring with a pronounced setting, or of a wide
  design (such as a crossover) will definitely
  match with a shaped wedding ring.
• What type of hands do I have? - Shorter hands
  better suited to slimmer rings longer hands -
  better complemented by a wider band medium
  shaped hands - consider a concave shaped ring or
  maybe a two tone ring which provide the best of
  both.

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Wedding Rings UK is part of Hathaway Styles
Limited, online retailers of high quality
jewellery. The Hathaway family have been
manufacturing quality jewellery in the UK for
over 80 years which is sold throughout the UK in
some of the finest jewellers. We have unrivalled
customer service, offering personal sales advice
on all our gents wedding rings and ladies
wedding rings, and we always keep customers up
to speed with their rings progress as it's being
made. With workshops and offices based in
Birmingham's world renowned jewellery quarter we
have access to talented designers and trades such
as the assay office, all of which helps to make
our business very efficient and enables us to
send your wedding ring without delay.