IMHO its kinda offensive to be given something from an SO that belonged to their ex. All the memories are attached to it and its kinda like you are the second choice not number 1.
Best to buy new stuff with no baggage attached.
Number 2 doesn’t have to know that the rings belonged to someone else first. He’s got them, he paid a lot for them-and would never get his investment back if he sold them-I don’t know why it’s a big deal.
When I divorced, I hocked the rings buts saved all the pictures because I’m from a family of photograph packrats. My son gets a kick out of the wedding video from when his father and I got married, so I’m glad I didn’t toss that.
As for dresses, the first wedding was at the courthouse and the second was a medieval themed affair so all our outfits were recycled as garb for SCA.
my partner apparently tossed his wedding ring in the bin, i dont think it had alot of meaning for him, he had stopped wearing it months before he asked for a divorce anyway. he moved countries a few weeks or so after asking for the divorce so doesnt have any of the left over household (photos and videos)baggage youd usually get.
Burned everything save the ring. Gave that away to someone who needed one a few years later.
My first wedding dress became a really great Halloween costume. I ripped it up and poured fake blood on it, I was a murdered bride. The rings were sold and the household stuff, actually I don’t know. I have a pan my first mother-in-law bought me but other than that I have no idea what happened to the rest of the crap I had. My second wedding dress was a dress I bought for my sister’s wedding, I still wear it though I got rid of the rings before the marriage was over. My third dress was borrowed from my Mom 30 minutes before the wedding, I returned it and still use the household stuff from that one 
All pictures I have saved to show my daughter some day. Maybe we’ll sit together and giggle over the dorky guys Mama married .
I hocked the engagement ring to pay off some debts, but the actual wedding ring is buried somewhere in my little treasure box. I had made my wedding dress, and it’s folded up in one of my many boxes of fabric and costumes. I kept the photographs that had my family and friends, and offered the others to him–he didn’t want them, so they went into the trash.
I also kept most of the furnishings, but that’s because I brought them into the marriage.
My wedding outfit was a reproduction of a 1890’s riding jacket (long tails and high collar type of thing) and hoop skirt - both of which I still have. Have not warn the skirt since, but the jacket looks rather nifty with a pair of jeans and boots. Besides, you can’t tell it was for a wedding.
The photos are in a box somewhere, though I haven’t looked at them since getting them back from the photographer. Long story, relatively short crap marriage… The video is also in a box somewhere. It has some wonderful Wyoming scenery and my parents in it. Other than that it holds absolutely no value whatsoever.
The various other bits have been given to friends and family, though I think I still have the cake slicer dodad. I still have some of the gifts - towels, candle holder, etc but not much.
The ring I still have. Not for sentimental reasons - as I stopped wearing the ring more than 6 months before leaving the ex so it meant nothing - but for the fact I paid for both the bloody things so felt I should be able to keep mine at least. No clue what he did with his (probably continued to wear it for his mistress with whom he shacked up with after I left), but mine is still around.
Shortly after moving to England to be with Kal I began wearing the ring again to show my commitment. However, it freaked him out and he asked me not to wear it. Out of respect the ring was put away. Perhaps someday I will have the diamonds taken out, melt the ring and have it made into something else. Or just sell the bloody thing and get rid of any baggage that may be unconsciously attached to it. At least Kal wouldn’t have to see it anymore. Either way, I’m happy now and that is what matters 
Some of the divorced people I know still have their wedding photos, and I think their children appreciate that.
My mother-in-law kept her wedding ring and his, and plans to someday have them melted down and turned into a nice necklace or something. She did offer her ex’s ring to her son for our wedding, but 90% of the people we told freaked out and said it would be bad luck to wear the wedding ring of a divorced couple. Of course, the deciding factor in the end was that the ring was too small, and having it enlarged would cost the same as buying a new ring without giving us the freedom to choose the style of the ring, so we turned it down.
After ligging that big huge box w/the dress in around move after move, from one apt to the next, I realized…“Why am I keeping this?”
It unceremoniously went in the dumpster.
Deeeep cleansing breathhhhhhhhhhhh