I think after the wedding is more common. A woman often gets an engagement ring which is what she wears until the day of the wedding. Then she puts on the wedding ring. Men often just get a wedding band. No engagement ring. My FH most likely won't wear his ring at all. HaHa!
Mine had a claddagh ring from before we met that he wore all the time. After we got engaged, he switched it to his left hand, heart facing out, which indicates he's engaged. It was his choice, I didn't expect him to wear any sort of engagement ring but it was really sweet of him to do.
Mine wears his on his right hand. Mainly because he loves his band and the way it looks. Will switch hands day of. We are pretty untraditional, though.
FH isn't wearing his until after the ceremony. Before we got engaged, he didn't think he wanted a ring at all, and he was planning to get a tatoo on his ring finger. But as we've been going through the planning process, he's suddenly become excited to look at rings. It's really sweet!
My FH was a little wistful about the idea that I get to wear an engagement ring and he doesn't. But he didn't want to wear two rings after marriage like I will be doing, and we both wanted a physical marker to indicate moving from unmarried to married. We will both start wearing our wedding rings on our wedding day.
We had our wedding bands made in Shanghai and we picked them up a week before the wedding. DH so desperately wanted to wear his, but it was a size too small. So I kept ending up having to wear his ring on my middle finger every time he swelled up. We were doing a lot of traveling (plane and train) and eating (salty foods), so poor DH kept swelling up. We ended up using his ring for the ceremony and then getting it resized when we left to Beijing. DH really missed his ring for the next 3 days and when we returned he went straight to pick it up. It fits perfect now. My point being if we were to have received his ring sooner and it fit perfectly, DH would have wanted to wear it and I would have been okay with that.
I gave my FH a ring a couple years ago as a gift. After we got engaged he switched it to his ring finger on his left hand. We have wedding bands for when we get married. All a matter of preference and what feels right to you and your FS.
Traditionally in the US, men only wear a wedding band and women wear an engagement ring (they are given at the proposal) and a wedding band. Wedding bands are exchanged at the wedding ceremony and worn after the wedding.
But - you can do whatever you want! "Man-gagment" rings have definitely been a trend, and all of this is up to your personal preference!
After the ceremony. It seems strange for a man to have an engagement ring, or to wear his wedding band....before the wedding
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July 2018
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Usually after the ceremony, but it's becoming more popular that the man wears a ring too. My FH wears a silicone ring right now due to his job not allowing rings for safety, but he has his metal one at home.
FH will not be wearing a ring until after we're married, but I am gifting him a wallet laser engraved with my handwriting/a message from me as an engagement present. Giving it to him next month (our dating anniversary and 1 year out from our wedding!)