Buying wedding rings - an important stage in preparing for the wedding. Many couples who intend to legitimize their relationship are wondering what to look for when choosing this jewelry.
What should be a women's wedding ring?
The range of wedding rings is so wide that the choice becomes a difficult task. When buying, you can be guided by the price category of jewelry and their design, for some people folk signs, as well as symbols of stones and astrological correspondences characterizing precious metals are of no small importance.
The classic engagement ring is made of yellow or red gold, smooth, without any inserts. In this regard, there is even a sign that such jewelry foreshadows a smooth, without conflict and quarrels, married life. This design has its practical advantages: this decoration is easy to clean, you can not be afraid that it will cling to clothes or any stone will fall out of it. All this is important details, given the moment that the piece of jewelry will be worn every day and in different settings.
However, such a choice may seem to some couples too ordinary, because such rings do not distinguish them from other newlyweds. Therefore, future spouses are often interested in whether it is possible to purchase jewelry of a more original design, for example, with precious stones. Naturally, there can be no strict restrictions on this score, and moreover, another sign is known: precious stones - to prosperity in family life.
Fine jewels that are embedded in metal are usually used to decorate these jewelries in order to make the surface as smooth as possible. Wedding rings with large stones are quite rare. With large inserts, as a rule, engagement rings are made, such decoration can often be purchased in a set with a pair of wedding rings.
A bit of history
Currently, wedding rings are called rings that are exchanged at the marriage ceremony in the registry offices. But, strictly speaking, such rings should be called wedding, because the engagement is a church ceremony, during which there is a triple exchange of rings between the bride and groom.
By tradition, the rings of the bride and groom for the betrothal rite must be from different metals (gold and silver, respectively). The engagement ceremony always preceded the wedding and was first separated from it in time (Peter I’s decree set the period at six weeks), but from the end of the 18th century (from 1775), the betrothal began to be performed just before the wedding.
Models
With diamonds or cubic zirconias
The most common models with precious stones include a combination of yellow, pink or white gold with diamonds or cubic zirconias (synthetic stones, imitation diamonds).
The ring can be with one small stone, which is fixed not with the help of the usual “legs” (krapanov), but is directly placed in the metal and therefore does not act noticeably above the surface of the jewel. In the same way, a larger number of diamonds, for example, three or five, seven, can be fixed in the jewelry.
Diamonds or cubic zirconias can be placed in a circle along the entire outer surface of the jewelry. The so-called rail or channel bartack is used, when gems of the same size are placed in a row in a special channel that is formed in the metal. The channel with diamonds can close into a circle, form a spiral, or occupy part of the surface of the jewelry.
In some models, a number of diamonds can be placed on one of the end surfaces, with the result that it is completely in the stones. Rings of a similar design are made from white gold or from a combination of white / red, they are quite wide, have a rectangular profile. The number of stones located in the end part may be small.
With emeralds, sapphires and rubies
You can find on sale models with colored inserts: with blue sapphires, as well as with rubies or emeralds. Often they are combined with diamonds. Sapphires can have many different colors, but blue stones are considered to be the most suitable for a wedding ring, and they are often combined with white gold. For rubies and emeralds, as a rule, yellow or pink gold is chosen.
Blue and green gems are traditionally considered symbols of wisdom, poise, harmony. Red color of ruby is associated with passion, activity, power. When choosing jewelry with precious stones, you can rely on the recommendations of astrologers, or listen to your inner voice, which is considered to be a good adviser in such matters.
For the decoration of wedding rings most often used small gems of the same size and shape, which are placed in a row along the outer side of the jewelry or at its butt. For fixing, they often use channel lock or corner, in which stones are inserted into the holes formed in the metal of the ornament, and held there by small balls of the same metal.
A more unusual option are rings with black stones. These can be black sapphires or black cut diamonds, which used to be very rarely used in jewelry, were mainly used for industrial purposes, but are now becoming more and more fashionable and in demand in jewelry.
With multicolored gold
Wedding rings in which gold of different colors is combined are becoming more and more common. The combination of different gold alloys in one decoration is great. The simplest option is a double ring. This jewel looks like a combination of two different jewelry.
Rings with a combination of pink and white or white and yellow gold are widely represented in sets of a pair of jewelry, where the male ring is combo for the material, without stones, and the female has a similar design, but is decorated with various inserts. There are models that combine gold alloys of three different shades, they can look like a combination of three rings.
Pair set is a very convenient solution for those who want wedding rings to be made in the same style.
How to choose?
When choosing this type of jewelry it is very important first of all to pay attention to how comfortable it will be to wear it. There are a number of simple recommendations that you can focus on when buying.
Pay attention to what is the profile of the ring, that is, the shape in the cut. Different types of profiles are suitable for different fingers.
If the fingers are straight and even, then you can purchase rings with a flat inner surface, including a rectangular shape in the section. Decorations with this profile can be of different widths. Thin rings are also made with this profile.
If the joint is much thicker than the base of the finger, then it is better to choose a ring, the inner surface of which is convex. Such a profile makes it easier to remove the decoration. This option is also suitable for those whose fingers swell.
For fingers, the middle part of which is not very wide, but thicker than the base, suitable rings with strongly rounded edges.
No matter how much you like this or that piece of jewelry, it is important to remember that it should be comfortable to wear and easy to take off. It is advisable to try on jewelry in the second half of the day, especially if there is a tendency to swelling. Do not rush to choose, try to allocate as much time for this procedure as you need in order to acquire not only a very beautiful, but also a convenient thing.
