I just bought my fiancee the engagement ring. I bought an traditional yellow gold. But I have noticed more and more lady's fingers with a white gold engagement ring. Just curious.

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Platinum

White gold for us. Then I got white gold wedding bands to match.

White gold.

Titanium. Simple and no details outside, yellow gold inside.

mine is yellow gold

platinum

if not platinum, white gold. then anything but yellow gold. but that's just me.

I'd rather have silver than yellow gold. Ick.

me too I don't like the look of yellow gold, especially on me.

white gold.

Lira's ring is actually two-toned, yellow and white, but it looks good on her.

we have white gold... hubby kind of wanted yellow gold at first but I told them that our bands needed to be the same colour ... and he changed his mind

Personally I do not care if it is silver or white (gold, plat, or titanium)

I just really HATE diamonds...my preference would be a saphire, but would take
a ruby, emerald, or topaz or some other pretty colored stone....even just a plain band
would be more acceptable to me than a diamond.....

but I guess that what makes us each special...
we all have our likes and dislikes!!!

Laura, I swear your wedding ring is almost identical to mine!

orly mags? mine has 10 small diamonds across. its tiny and petite and i love it!

I love mine also. Was only interested in a plain white gold one at first then saw this and thought "Oh I love it!". Goes nicely with my engagement ring too (which was also nice and petite! ). I'll dig out a pic, if I can find it!

I personally like yellow gold, by my wife requested while gold. So white gold we have. Take a look at the color of the jewelry that your fiancé wears or better yet ask her for her preference.

I'm a white gold girl too The thing that sold my now husband and I on my engagement ring though, was not the band as much as the center stone. It is tanzanite.

My husband's band is made of tungsten carbide.

White metal (whether gold or platinum) is very trendy right now. Yellow gold seemed to be the fashion when my parents married 30 years ago.

Mine is a small diamond solitaire set in white gold. C. might get a titanium band (his job would be rough on a ring), and I'll probably get a band in white gold with no stones (oddly, harder to find that you'd think.) I like diamond wedding bands on other people but not so much on me.

This reminds me of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie sees her engagement ring and it's yellow gold and she thinks she can't marry the guy because of it. Moral of the story, the ladies don't like the yellow gold too much, do we?

Moral of the story: Carrie's a twit.

More seriously, there does seem to have been a pretty strong fashion shift. Nothing wrong with yellow gold tradition-wise, but most everything else -- earrings, bracelets, necklaces -- is trending white metal, now.

She'll probably love it either way. I didn't say yes 'cause of the ring, you know? (C. wouldn't let me see it till I said yes, because he's a goofball.)

I voted for 'other' metal cos I have platinum. USC petitioner, female

Oh...adding...ironically enough, I love yellow gold for everything else, but not for an engagement ring



Nah she made the right choice...that ring was nasty, lol...Aiden needed to take his granola azz elsewhere

white gold etc... looks bad on my skin. because, of my skin tone.

i have white gold but i prefer platinum.

i don't have a solitaire like most... its a white gold band with 10 smaller white diamonds in a straight line in the band. if my fiance can't afford a 2 carat solitaire i don't want it. lol but i love what i have! jewelry isn't really important to me. i'd rather have a house, holidays, etc. than a big diamond.

its a bit turned around in this photo, usually you can't see the band, just diamonds if you look down. and the flash is seriously distorting it but here it is:

add me to the list. I prefer silver or white gold jewelry, when I wear jewelry. My engagement ring has two small splashes of yellow gold in it, but not so much to be yucky.

My husband's wedding band is a simple white gold band (different from marriage #1, so he was happy) to match my white gold band with 12 small diamond insets.

My engagement ring is sterling silver with a very nice blue topaz. However, I am wearing my late mother's rings and they are yellow gold. Joel is wearing the wedding band his late father gave to his mother. It's more of a sentimental thing for us. Probably on one of our wedding anniversaries we'll get something different. Here's our rings

They're very nice! Colored stones and heirlooms are great for wedding jewelry.

abdounjen, I really like your ring. Is that your engagement ring, or are you trying on your wedding band early? It's very striking.

I tried on an expensive plat. ring. looked like crap on me. because, my skin is dark.
plat. looks ok on white people.

I had yellow gold the first time around ... a different ring for a different life.

He has gone with tungsten steel for it's durability.

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white gold for us...

Jon and I both have white gold wedding bands and I also have a white gold with emerald and diamonds for an engagement ring.

As mags said, we have white gold.

As for the question in the poll: Is there another? Of course there is... Rose Gold (also known as pink gold or red gold). It's an alloy of gold and copper. I kinda like rose gold, just because it's different. I used to like platinum. Now it seems to be a status symbol more than anything. My current favourite is titanium. It's light and it takes a lot to scratch it. I like titanium's colour too.

Don't forget white gold is mostly yellow gold mixed with white metals (often silver) and then coated with rhodium to make it shiny. The rhodium will eventually wear off leaving it either yellow or very dull, and then it requires another coating.

We have platinum rings that are square. Most people comment on the squareness which is what I love about them. I probably wouldn't have picked platinum though as it's so heavy, but it only came in that way. The result is I hardly ever wear my ring as it gets in the way for work. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I wore it.

Don't kid yourself, it was always a status symbol

I got my fiancee a white gold engagement ring (because she likes white metal!) and she loves it. We didn't opt for the traditional diamond though, as she dislikes diamonds (she claims they are "cold" and "lifeless" if that makes any sense...) so we went with a stone she really likes, a Ceylon sapphire, accented with two smaller sapphires to either side.

Looking back though, maybe I should've gotten her platinum. Oh well. I didn't. I don't think she cares though. To her, it's more important what the ring symbolizes than anything else.

Actually my SO wants tungsten carbide also ;-) I'm fine with it. I don't have an engagement ring (I guess that's not a common thing in Germany?) but if I did I would not want diamond. I don't care for them at all. I'd prefer a sapphire or even peridot, though a lot of people tell me that's tacky. Course, they don't have to wear it!

We used 22-kt gold.

I wanted to give him a ring to have while we are separated and waiting for the fiance visa. I bought sterling silver and had it engraved. We agreed that he didn't want to wear anything terribly expensive in Nigeria while he waits for the visa.

That is very true about white gold changing colors. We chose white gold because of the price (all we could afford ) and the white gold has changed color. When we were back in Italy last summer we went to the jeweler and he explained this to us. He said we could have it redipped, but we ended up just getting them buffed and shined and they are beautiful!! It is a color between white and yellow. I love them. I do have a sentimental attachment to them, though, too. We didn't pick platinum because of the price and also because when it scratches it ends up looking like crumpled aluminum foil JMHO.

ditto 100%

we couldn't afford platinum, so mine's white gold!

thanks! i know... my mom just saw it for the first time and asked me COUNTLESS times in the past two weeks if we were really married, not engaged. i just really dislike the look of small solitaire rings so i chose this. i guess we'll do it backwards. if we get to the point where we have the house/vacation account/etc and have left over money, THEN he can get me my 2 carat solitaire to go with this. but honestly i don't really care about jewelry. i still would rather spend the money on trips around the world. just my priority!

I feel the same way.

bleh yellow gold. white for me

Here's my engagment ring



Yes it is the infamous 'Goatse ring' Complete with it's own YTMND page.

(DO NOT GOOGLE GOASTE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, IT'S BETTER LEFT UNKNOWN! take it from me, the TMI Queen!!!)


For our wedding bands, we have been looking at black titanium I think I really like this one!

My fiance now husband bought me a yellow gold engagement ring. But he asked me what is my preferences about any kind of ring so I answered him that I prefer yellow gold because it contrast my brown color

We have gone with yellow engagement rings his and her both with the same diamond carat weight, the wedding rings are white gold also both with the same diamond carat weight, her in the traditional design and mine the diamond are smallerand distritbuted around the band.

Ron

I didn't google, but I remember what the whole [ha-excuse the pun] Goatse thing was-just one question, did you just like the design and the Goatse thing was a coincidence incidental to that? or did you choose specifically because of the Goatse connection?Sorry-just had to ask.
I like the black titanium.
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-Just to answer the poll here...My engagement ring is white gold, princess cut diamond center and 2 baguettes either side set in a mount I designed and had made.
Our wedding bands are wide carved white gold.
I prefer white gold over yellow.

I love white gold...and platinum....but mine is white gold