Just wondering what the tradition is for this.
2007-04-05 07:08:45 · 23 answers · asked by Lotus 6 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
I have always known that the bride buys the grooms and the groom buys the brides rings... for me and my fiance we have lived together for a long time and our finances are now pretty much both of ours so we will just be budgeting it in as one thing we need to get altogether.
2007-04-05 07:21:06 · answer #1 · answered by LDGNicole 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually, the tradition that the man buys the engagement ring, but both pick out the wedding rings and if he's not able to come through with everything financially, it wouldn't hurt if she could chip in, you know? Or they could wait until it's financially feaseable to purchse the bands. The man I was engaged to two years ago, he bought everything at once, but we didn't last long, I dumped him two months later realizing I was going to be an 'employee' to him.
2007-04-05 07:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by suzlaa1971 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
normally a guy does not placed on an engagement ring. He gets a marriage ring, which the bride will pay for. I asked my husband as quickly as we've been given engaged if he needed some thing, so he have been given an engagement plant :o)
2016-10-21 02:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's a tradition per se, but many couples do it that way. Part of the issue is that wedding "sets" are usually a wedding band and engagement ring for HER and his ring is seperate. However, nowadays you can find all kinds of sets. My husband and i picked out my engagement ring together because he was insistant upon getting something expensive (for us $600) and I am very picky about jewelry (I have very small hands and thin delicate fingers; most rings look gargatuan on me)
It's a good thing we did because most of the rings I liked that I tried on looked bad on me (too big of a jewel usually or too thick of a band)
Then we decided on platinum for the bands (cheaper, looks like silver and very tough) and I picked out the set - one for him and one for me) we ordered it together but had the engravements secret from each other. Buying them together was cheaper and he really enjoyed letting me pick it out.
So, similar situation but not quite.
My first husband and I? My step-father is a silversmith and he made our rings. I had an engagement ring made for my husband but didn't want one for myself. So I think there is no one tradition.
2007-04-09 03:10:37 · answer #4 · answered by Cassandra G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the woman is supposed to pay for the man's wedding band.
2007-04-05 08:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by Kathryn M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but sometimes they come as a matching set of 3 rings, 2 for you and 1 for him.
2007-04-05 07:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the bride can pay for his wedding band and him for hers or they can split the cost of the set. Some couples just add it to their entire wedding budget and just take the cost out of there.
I think that it's nice to buy rings for each other, but there are no set rules.
2007-04-05 07:26:32 · answer #7 · answered by MICHELL G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the man buys a set. and it comes with his ring. traditional the man buys all the rings. and the engagment ring is considered ernest money on the contract so its the mans property no matter what.
2007-04-05 07:13:13 · answer #8 · answered by gsschulte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the bride or her family pay for the groom's wedding band.
2007-04-05 07:15:02 · answer #9 · answered by basketcase88 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the standard. The engagement ring is a gift from him to her. His wedding band is a gift from her to him. It wouldn't be much of a gift if he bought it for himself.
2007-04-05 07:12:26 · answer #10 · answered by sunnydaydreame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋