Rings For Wedding

Now You're Engaged, How Do You Choose A Mens Wedding Ring?

So, you've just got engaged.

Whether you are a man or a woman you have an important decision to make (amongst the myriad of other decisions) about mens wedding rings. It's this. Will the man in your relationship wear one?

Maybe that's you, maybe not. But you both need to think about it.

You see it's only since the second world war that modern men have started to publicly display their marital status by the wearing of a man wedding ring.

Prior to that it was rare for a man to wear a ring when he married. Men were able to hide their marital status behind the tradition that required a woman to wear a wedding ring, but not a man.

However during the war many US soldiers chose to wear mens wedding rings as a public symbol of their marital status whilst away at war and that has started a tradition for the modern man. Now it's very common for a man to wear a mens wedding ring, perhaps the norm.

So, what decisions need to be made? Well the first is this. Will he wear one? That's probably the hardest decision in the process.

For a woman there's no decision. She's engaged, she wants the ring. For her she needs an engagement ring as well as a wedding ring, and an expensive engagement ring at that. But for a man it's not so straight forward.

So a very important part of the process is for both of you to talk about it. Do you both have strong feelings about the man wearing a man wedding ring, either one way or the other? Does the woman feel that if she is to publicly display her marital status then it's only fair that he do the same? Does he have any reservations about wearing a ring and if so what are they? You both need to talk over your feelings about the wearing of a man wedding ring. Establish the groundwork.

Men's Wedding Rings - Should a person Wear One or otherwise?

Strange as it can seem conditions wedding band by men was not common alternatives. Whereas for women who live worn diamond engagement rings for eons, mankind has not. The application of rings which represents everlasting love enshrined in marriage might be traced back many thousands of years. But not so much for men.

It turned out, in fact, during wwii that using engagement rings by men became more common. (Be aware that mens wedding bands and men's wedding rings are interchangeable, both meaning exactly the same thing.)

It became the custom for people soldiers going to war to publicise their marital status through the wearing of the man's a wedding ring. They were thrilled to make public their dedication to their wife by the wearing of the public symbol that asserted that resolve for all. Considering that this practice of wearing men's wedding bands was reasonably new it turned out increasingly creditable these men were willing to forego the marital obscurity open to them from not wearing an engagement ring and actively chose to generate a public statement with regards to their choice.

Men's engagement rings have become increasingly more common since that time. Today it is probably as common for a happily married man to use a ring as not. This may be as a result of several factors. The current man may contemplate it his duty to choose to really make the same public marital statement as his wife will. And his wife could very well contemplate it a disorder from the marriage that he do this. In fact, presently of equality, if she is prepared to make a statement then should he not do the same?