What to do with the old wedding band?

A few people have suggested that and that won't work for me. I am not a jewelery wearing person. I have a lot of piercings and that is my jewelery! I can't even tell you the last time I put on a necklace. Thanks for the idea.

Not really. I have a wooden starbucks candy box that I keep my jewelery in. I know that sad, but most of my stuff is not expensive and is sterling silver.

I am not a jewellery person either :) Do you have a jewelry box you can keep it in?

Thanks for the advice. I use to wear all kinds of plain band rings on my thumbs and on my right hand. I still have all those rings. Yes, I am lucky! I am very grateful because I told my husband like 2 months after we got married that I wanted that ring for our 1yr anniversary because I was having problems with the plain band fitting properly. I really didn't think I was going to get it either! We, rather I, got a dirty look though. The day we pick up the ring from getting resized we parked right in front of the jewelery store. Just so happens my husband recently got a new sports car (he hasn't had his own car in 3 years and he just got an awesome job, so he got to get whatever car he wanted, he chose a Subaru Impreza WRX) that had temp tags. We come out of the store, stop to get in the car and I am joking how hubby needs to get me the diamond earrings that are on sale and something else to complete the set (while looking at my ring, which is pretty shiny since they cleaned the engagement ring and the new band). This older couple walks by us as I am saying this, and I got the dirties look from the hubby. It was that "How dare they be young, have a new nice car and be able to afford nice things!" LOL

Good Luck! Never know what you will get unless you ask.

LOL...I know right! Like they dont have a sports car in their garage for the winter that SS paid for! Well congrats anyway..Now maybe I should try that on my hubby! :)

Well, I don't have a daughter and i don't wear necklaces, but thanks for your input. I might end up just putting it in our scrapbook.

sorry i meant put it on a chain.

The original white gold band we purchased was just a band to have for the ceremony more than anything else. We were planning on replacing it with something that at least fit better with my engagement ring. A month or so after the ceremony the ring was so uncomfortable I had to stop wearing it. The side of the ring are not flat so I either needed to get a custom band made or find one that dipped down in the middle. Even the replacement doesn't fit perfectly but is 100 times better than the flat band. I am sure some of my attitude come from my parents. My mom has 4 wedding or anniversary bands. She has her original engagement ring & band set, a plain gold band, a 3 stone anniversary band, and an eternity ring. She changes her rings out depending on what she is doing. I am sure if she did not do that I would view things differently.

I'm of the same mindset as your mother, too. But it's not an influenced thing because my parents never even wore wedding bands. I'm just that way, I'm not good with "forever" items, my mind changes too randomly.

I just read a couple previous posts, I noticed this idea was already said. My apologies. Although like I said, you could just tuck it away as a keepsake. or if you have like a china cabinet or something like that you can put the ring in a glass casing so it's visible and keep it there. :)

Thanks. I am not a big jewelery person so I don't see myself wearing it anytime soon for any reason. I use to wear all kinds of rings and just got out of that habit. Ya know, I may put it in our wedding book because I am not done that yet.

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Save it for a son to give to his Bride!

even thought it was the band used in our ceremony, I am not really attached to it. We bought it just to have a ring to use and wore it maybe for two months. No, it isn't worth much money. I just have a feeling it is going to end up getting lost in one of our moves. You would be amazed at the amount of jewelery I have lost that way.