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Women's wedding bands come in all shapes, sizes, colors and styles, and a lot of the time men's choices are boiled down to “gold” or “white gold.” So, I thought I'd do a roundup to encourage the guys to live it up a little. Here are some of my favorite men's wedding bands with some serious style and funky trends.
For instance, a black tungsten with black sapphires and a brushed finish like that first ring up there. It's sumultaneously edgy, classy, and dramatic without being over the top at all. We're in love.
Psst: These styles would look amazing for women's wedding bands, too. Click on the images or the captions to find out where to buy these rings!
For that tech geek in your life, this electronics-inspired ring is so chic.
This tungsten carbide band features an inlay of textured stainless steel that has been partly antiqued. It definitely gives off a killer industrial vibe.
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This dramatic men’s snake scale ring from Joseph Jewelry is rendered in 14k white gold and accented with yellow gold and black diamonds. The details of the pattern and the combinations of colors included give this ring a sophisticated contemporary look.
How much do I want to make a Never Been Kissed reference right now? This is one science-themed ring that steals the show.
The entire outside of this ring features a hammered finish, and the darkened areas are the result of oxidation of the sterling silver that makes up the body of the ring. It reminds me of a craggy volcano!
Oh, mokume, will you ever stop being so damned fascinating to me?! It's just always so natural and unique like sedimentary rock.
Just one more mokume ring, this time palladium with a mokume inlay.
That sneaky little peridot is so pretty and could be a lovely symbol.
Hammered finishes are so on-trend right now with good reason. Just look at it!
Yep, you can totally have your partner's fingerprint etched onto a ring! This one features a laser engraved fingerprint on a white gold band with a brushed finish.
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Love the band with the wood inlay! I have never seen one that looks as nice as that… often they look sort of cheap (Aka the wood looks more like plastic).
My husband has one that looks like this: http://www.irishcelticjewels.com/celtic-wedding/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/celtic-warrior-wedding-ring.jpg and we both love it.
Ha, I was about to post an almost identical ring that is my husband’s wedding band!
My husband has this one in white gold:
http://www.uniquecelticweddingrings.com/page/873523
And I have its match with half the width:
http://www.uniquecelticweddingrings.com/page/873486
Love it! My husband and I both have the Celtic ring featured above (ours are tungsten with silver filigree) and I have to replace mine. Love it, but I was always taking it off to dry after washing dishes, handwashing, et cetera and it was lost. Yours look to be higher quality and I like the narrower width for the lady ring.
The ring I am getting my fiancé is stainless steel and concrete! I figured the manlier it was the more likely he would be to wear it( willingly).
Whoa! Concrete? That’s rad. Any pics?
This is where the stainless steel and concrete ring is.
I gave my husband two wedding rings. One is a brushed titanium band with a silver inlay for an everyday ring, which can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Titanium-Comfort-Wedding-Beveled-Available/dp/B000U7WPDI/ref=pd_sbs_jw_1/offbeatbride-20. The other one – his ‘dress’ ring – was a variation of the third one listed, which can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Tungsten-Carbide-BLACK-Carbon-Fiber/dp/B003AUF57U/ref=pd_sbs_jw_1/offbeatbride-20.
I can personally attest to the fact that both rings are absolutely GORGEOUS. Both rings I got on Amazon.com, and both were ridiculously cheap for the quality. Some jewelry stores will try to charge hundreds of dollars for tungsten carbide or titanium rings, but purchasing online is truly the way to go, because you’ll get an equally good product for so much less money.
He really likes both rings, and I like the fact that I was able to incorporate his love of fast cars and airplanes (both of which can contain carbon fiber and/or titanium) in his wedding rings.
Our bands are Damascus Steel – which is what some of the best swords in the world are made of. Here’s what we have, though there’s tons of others out there:
http://www.titanium-buzz.com/dastriwpofi.html
.. I found the same rings on eBay for half the price, BTW.
As much as I love these options (and perused them in advance of my own wedding), I personally went with meteorite! as fast as carbon fiber may be, did it fall through space for millions of years? ; )
The guy at the site below even offers discounts if both partners want a ring from him. Ours were a particular highlight of our science-tastic wedding experiment.
As a wise sage once said, Ain’t nobody bad like the Meteor Man.
My husband got a titanium and meteorite ring from Boone Rings, I believe, and happily tells everyone all about it! He is so proud of it! A funny aside: We had the ring boxed up for a bit before the wedding, and when we pulled it out a few weeks before, the meteorite had rusted a little! Luckily, the jeweler told us how to clean it (and offered to send a new one). Now that it gets worn every day, it’s fine.
I keep hearing good things about Boone Rings! I hope they know they’re getting good word of mouth referrals.
I also got my fiance’s ring from Arizona Skies Meteorite! My guy loves it too and often will stop and look at it and say “dude! My ring is an effing meteorite! A METEORITE!” He’s had it for a year and he’s still entranced by the geekyness of it. LOVE!
hi, my fiance also wants a ring from Arizona Skies Meterorite, but i wanted to ask you how well it wears. has it gotten rusty at all or changed color? thanks so much!
Just found out that the reason that solid black tungsten band is such a great deal is because they only have it available in a size 12. 🙁
Bummer! They do have the same ring in the 8mm size in ALL sizes! Perhaps I should change to that one in the roundup.
My husband and I made each other’s rings out of coins using instructions we found on the internet. His is made from a silver half-dollar and mine is made from a quarter. Both coins are from the year of his birth (because by my birth year, the coins had copper in them). The best part (besides that they were really cheap) is they look like a matching set and on the inside the word “Liberty” and the year still remain.
WHAT!? That’s freaking rad! We need pics, if not an entire feature about this process.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Ring-from-a-Silver-Coin
Awesome! When we were just dating my husband made me a ring from a coin that he hammered with a spoon over a couple weeks then dremeled out the center. Unfortunately it isn’t silver so it turned my finger green for a bit, but I’m going to ask him to make me a new one or get it dipped in silver.
They are very cool and easy to make.
Wow that is really cool that you made your rings. My husbands ring has a band of meteorite in the center. He is a star wars/scifi fan so I thought it would be perfect for him. He loves it!
I just started surfing rings and found this really cool Etsy shop. This isn’t where we got our meteorite ring but they do have some. http://www.etsy.com/shop/jewelrybyjohan
My fiance’s ring has diamonds in it, and I was so happy to learn that he wanted some bling! It’s a wedding ring, it should be fancy-pants.
My fiancé got a Tungsten Carbide Band, this one to be exact: http://www.kay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product1%7C10101%7C10001%7C-1%7C25164750199%7C15051%7C15051.15058.15114
He keeps trying to wear it now, so I guess he <3 it's! 🙂
You want good wood grain in a ring? Check out Minter and Richter on etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/people/MinterandRichterDes
They’re way more awesome.
We ordered our cement rings from Minter and Richter!
Ringninja.com is also a great site!
This is who we are getting my fiance’s ring as well. No wood for us, but I love the ring we are getting.
http://www.etsy.com/conversations/image?convo_id=49563855&image_id=12428940&image_type=full
My husband and I got our engagement and wedding rings from Minter and Richter. Both sets match and are lovely! I especially love that my rings are almost weightless. We have a bloodwood inlay in our engagement rings and custom birch in our wedding rings. They were great to order from.