Although I am engaged already, my fiancee has not purchased a ring yet. Which is something I'm completely ok with, so no worries there. We are both college students (he is in grad school and i'm still an undergrad) and paying for the wedding ourselves so money is tight and I know it is hard to pay a lot at once. I've been looking around and I've noticed that sterling silver rings are much cheaper than white gold ones. I don't have to have white gold or natural diamonds (lab-created ones are just fine to me - it's not like I'm ever going to have it appraised or anything). I've shown my fiancee white gold rings I like but I wanted to know what everyone thought of sterling silver ones before I said anything. Are they sturdy? Do they tarnish easily? Does it cause discoloration? My future career does not require hard manual labor (accounting major) so I won't need to worry about hard wear and tear but I wanted to get a feel for everyone's experience with sterling silver.