I have two. The one my husband gave me I wear on my left hand, under my engagement ring (simple marquis solitaire that he perked up with a silver twist), and my great-grandmother’s wedding ring, which is on my right ring finger. Both are simple gold bands.
jewelry hound hear, but that really doesn’t account for the numbers to come.
hubby-to-be presented me with a platinum-set diamond when he proposed (my best friend colluded with him to make sure the size was right, i believe).
i’d had a near-miss once before on being engaged, and had really become enamored with the idea of a wedding set where the band was a ring-guard type, to keep the solitare from being able to turn around on my finger. (yes, that one went back when things went south.) so when we went shopping for wedding bands, i picked out a yellow gold guard with a few small diamonds to act as the wedding band.
hubby dearest was a bit nervous about me wearing the diamond 24/7 (it’s a very nice size – his great-aunt was once married to a jeweler, and she gave it to him.) so i agreed that i would wear a plain band, sans diamond, for everyday. i picked out an engraved and black-enameled design which complemented (but didn’t exactly match) his gold-and-black-enameled band.
fast forward several years. i managed to break my ring finger in a riding incident (it was fun taking the ring off over the broken bone, but not the first time i’ve had to do it. my left hand seems to be Nature’s Own Target.) after they put in, then removed, most of the screws in my finger, my old band didn’t quite fit anymore. i had the band on the engagement ring expanded (fun fact for the day – platinum gets welded, not soldered. and the diamond doesn’t need to be removed; they can take the heat.) but there wasn’t any way that i could have my everyday band re-sized without messing up the pattern that went all around it. luckily, i had gotten some old rings from my in-laws when they were retiring to Florida. two were probably wedding rings from past generations, although nobody seemed to know exactly who. one was extremely small (fairly amateurish job had been done cutting it down and resoldering it), and i wear it as a pinky ring. the other was larger than my original band, with an interesting floral-and-leaf design in white gold (i assume) between thin bands of yellow gold. this one was now the right size to fit on my re-sized finger, and is the one i wear for everyday.
so, engagement plus ring-guard, plus original band, plus replacement… guess that makes 4 for me. my husband has managed to stick with his original band.
I have two identical wedding rings. About 3 days after I bought my ring I decided it was too small and went to get it resized. They told me they would just order a new one and to come back in 3 days, so I did and they gave me my new ring. Then I got home and realized that I also still had the original too small one.
I meant to return it but never got around to it, and actually had forgotten all about it until I read this thread. I guess I should take it back.
Gosh, I forgot the ring irishfella actually proposed to me with!
It’s a double ring in white gold with one of the rings set with tiny diamonds. It’s much too big, and he knew I’d want to choose my own engagement ring, but he didn’t want to propose empty handed.
This probably tells you what a romantic he is.
He proposed to me at the airport after my return from a 3 month trip without him, the idea of the double ring was that he would wear the plain one on his little finger and I would wear the diamond one on my thumb whenever we’re apart from each other for longer than a day. We did that while we were engaged, but now we have our wedding rings to remember each other by, I’ve put both of the proposal rings onto a chain, which I sometimes wear.
Two. A white gold solitaire engagement ring and a white gold jacket/wrap set with natural emeralds. The solitaire is a 1/2 carat marquise, but it’s a CZ, so I don’t worry about it.
Five.
My husband has a white gold band channel set with little baby diamonds. It’s both his engagement and wedding band (as he wanted an engagement ring - he didn’t see why I should have all the fun).
I have three engagement rings and a wedding band.
Turns out I’m allergic to gold. Even white gold. And platinum. I’m not generally a big jewelry wearer and tend to like white metal better anyway so I habitually wear silver. So when I started wearing my very lovely sapphire engagement ring I developed this ferociously nasty rash. For the longest time I ignored it - until I was bitching about it to my mother who took one look and said “Oh, you’re probably just allergic to gold - I am.”
:smack:
So we bought me a platinum engagement ring. Same rash.
Then I got to learn the joy and rapture of trying to explain to jewelers why it is that I want a silver engagement ring. Jewelers really don’t want to set nice stones in silver. It took me weeks to find a silver engagement ring I liked.
Having learned my lesson - I spent the same time finding a silver wedding band I liked.
Two wedding rings and one engagement ring. Hubby and I got married on a budget that “shoestring” would be too generous to describe! We couldn’t afford ‘real’ rings, so we got married with $7.95 gold electroplate rings from Ames. I wore an opal ring I already had as an engagement ring. On our first anniversay, when things were better, we gave each other rings made of actual precious metal. I bought him a 6mm 14k yellow gold traditional band, and he bought me a 14k yellow gold band set with five 10pt. diamonds. The following year was even better for us, financially, and I finally got a diamond engagement ring. It has a 33pt. oval center stone, flanked on either side by a 25pt. pear-shaped stone lying on it’s side, with the pointy end facing away from the oval. This was years before the 3-stone diamond ring gained such popularity. I almost never wear my original wedding ring because it turns my finger green, but I do wear it every once in a while, just for fun. And I keep it out of sentimentality.
I have one - a thin diamond-and-sapphire band that’s shaped to sit flush with my engagement ring. My engagement ring is in platinum and the wedding band is in white gold.
I’d actually like a matching band for the other side for an anniversary, though.
E.
I have one wedding ring, but in winter when my hands shrink a bit I have to wear my engagement ring, which is ever so slightly smaller and also grabs my finger better. The wedding ring is very smooth inside and threatens to slip off in cold weather.
The wedding ring is gold, but the engagement ring is a braid of white gold; it doesn’t have a diamond or anything.
Mrs. Cliffy and I each have only one, although she also has an engagement ring with a diamond. We’ve both lost some weight recently, so pretty soon we’re going to have to get smaller ones.
Ironically, several months ago I got my class ring resized upwards because I’d put on a few; I wore it for maybe three weeks before it became too big.
–Cliffy
I have three.
The first is the gold band I designed for the ceremony, and matches a band for my wife. She later decided that she would wear silver or white gold only (being a “Winter”) so she had her ring redone in white gold. We then also got matching inexpensive silver bands that could stand up to abuse for more energetic activities, like weeklong bicycle tours, camping, and the like. Lastly, my wife had a ring from her grandmother that had a cluster of 18 tiny diamonds. She had two wedding bands made with nine stones in each in an asymetric design.
I’ll wear one band for a few months, then switch over to the other.
I’m about to have two. I’ve lost some weight since the wedding, and my ring doesn’t stay on my finger anymore. I can’t get it resized because of how it’s made (here’s a picture of it - it’s PH R 16645, about half-way down the page) so I guess I’ll get a ‘stunt ring’ for work.
Those are some really beautiful rings!
We both have two. The originals were poison rings, but then we decided to get regular more traditional ones.
Let’s see - I have a wedding set (connected engagement ring/wedding band) - so that can count as 2. Then I have a plain gold band for sleeping/working/exercising/etc., so that makes 3.
I could also count the diamond ring on my right hand that Mr. Wanna gave me when we got engaged, but not as an engagement ring (because he had previously given it to another woman from his past as an engagement ring, and she returned it when they split, and he knew I wouldn’t want to have “another woman’s engagement ring as my engagement ring”) - so he calls it the “I love you” ring or “promise ring.” That would be 4, if you count it.
I also have the engagement ring from my first marriage on my left hand as a pinky ring (yes, the stone was that small). That could count as 5, if you hadn’t stipulated current marriage.
I first read that as “marching band” and boy was I confused 
I’m not married but did treat myself to the equivalent of an engagement ring. Anyhoo, my parents each have their one traditional gold band. My father’s is a replacement since he lost the first one golfing (on accident, not in a bet ). It was easy to replace since they are the typical width and style.
Morbid question here: Assuming they stay together I would want to bury them with their rings on. Any chance the rings would get taken before burial or am I being paranoid?
I have 1 wedding set, the Michael B petite crown lace collection, which is 1 engagement ring that is platinum with pave diamonds, and a round brilliant hearts & arrows diamond on top, and its matching wedding band. Both the wedding ring and e-ring have 42 small little diamonds that look like little lacey things, not including the center stone. My husband has 1 plain white gold wedding band that is not that much wider than mine. His goal was to wear as little jewelry as possible and liked the width of my ring so he wanted something similar but not as heavy. Also when I got married my parents gave me a gold set to wear, so that was a necklace, tikka, earrings, bracelets. That’s it for the marriage collection.
I have a yellow gold and diamond promise ring that I wear on my right hand, and my engagement ring and wedding bands fused together on my left (yellow gold, very nice diamond solitaire ring in the middle, 1-points down the middle of each band and the solitaire, one band on top of solitaire, one below).
So I guess that’s 3.
If it’s an open casket and it gets taken straight from the service to the cemetary, no problem. But I don’t think we’d bury my parents rings with them. I haven’t asked them, though.
Two–I got a larger temporary ring at a pawn shop while I was pregnant and had swollen too much to wear my original wedding ring. I just felt weird not wearing a ring at all, for whatever reason. I’ve lost enough of the baby weight to get my real ring back on, so the replacement has been retired to the jewelry box, as has my engagement ring, since I don’t want to diamond to scratch the babies.