Wedding ring bands - who pays?

I believe you are supposed to buy his and he is suppose to buy yours. Considering the men’s band is usually cheaper, that’s a pretty good deal. We just went online and order ours together since we have a joint account and don’t split expenses.

View Quoted Comment Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for your amazing help and your kind words. It’s greatly appreciated....
I said the eye roll comment to be funny because I have no idea how it usually works and me and my fiancé were joking about it today because neither of us know. But since you want to know his ring is nearly 2,000 mine is 200 and we were talking different ways to pay for the ring like me pay for both. Or me paying for his and he pay for mine. Or me laying for mine and he paying for his. Or just splitting both.

View Quoted Comment It was a joke sweetheart.

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This is exactly what we did. Everything we have done wedding related has come out of our Wedding budget so there's no questions or worries.

View Quoted Comment That's a pretty big difference. In this case, I think if you're in similar financial places, it's fine to split the cost of both. Do you have a plan for how you'll share money a after you get married?

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You're a stranger on an internet forum. People don't know if you're serious or not. Cut her some slack.

Our first set we split tje price only BC it was a set and when he took me ring shopping to get an idea he was aiming for a set. This time around I brought his seperate he brought mine seperate (we renewed our vows) so yea!!! It Honeslty depends i beleive that ...FH buys soon to be wife rings and soon to be wife buys FH ring.

We ordered our bands and split the total cost 50/50

We bought our own wedding bands.

I bought his. But did set a budget since I earn less and couldn't afford a 1K band. He got a $200 band and will upgrade in the upcoming years

Congrats and best wishes to you with everything!!! 😘

FH bought the engagement ring in secret from his own money. We recently got a joint account and will be paying everything out of it together.

We bought each other's. I wanted to pay and felt it was fair to pay the $900 especially since he paid a few thousands for my engagement ring and 2 bands. You can always look into payment plans if money is an issue. I don't think it's fair to have him pay for your ring(s) and expect him to pay for his as well.

I'm not sure if there is a traditional way to do it, but I bought my own ring and my husband bought his. It was just easiest plus we are the ones wearing them, so it was much easier for us each to place our own order and make sure it was exactly what we wanted.

We bough each others but I can't see why you can't add that into the wedding budget and take from that/savings you have for the wedding. Mens wedding bands are typically cheaper than womens anyway unless he has expensive taste.

View Quoted Comment We decided to keep our wedding bands out of the wedding budget. We agreed to pay whatever price for the bands because it’s something super meaningful symbolizing our marriage every single day. Plus our budget for the wedding is super small so it wouldn’t have worked out

View Quoted Comment FH bought mine which was definitely more expensive than his. He wanted me to pick out the one i want and love bc it’s something you wear the rest of your life. I bought his off manly bands for a little over $200... he picked it out and loves it. If you want him to buy the rings then maybe you should offer to pay for another aspect of the wedding to make it fair. Wedding bands can be really cheap and was the least of my concerns with wedding planning

View Quoted Comment I didn’t realize his was 2k..... i didn’t think they made Men’s rings to cost that much. Can’t imagine my fh wanting a ring that much!!

We had already combined finances long before we got married, so the question of who bought whose ring was irrelevant to us.

I agree though that it seems so odd that a man is supposed to pay for the engagement ring 100% but that "favor" is not expected to be returned by the woman. One more silly, old expectation/tradition/custom that is ripe for retirement, especially since couples getting marred are no longer restricted to man/woman pairs (thank goodness!)

I fully paid for my FHs wedding band.