When it comes to selecting wedding rings, your options are endless. The variety, however, along with the added pressure of harmonising your wedding band with your engagement ring, can feel overwhelming. To make your search easier, we suggest starting with broad ring setting categories to refine and narrow down your preferences.
Types of Women’s Wedding Rings
When it comes to women’s wedding rings, they fall into three broad categories to suit every preference: matching sets, contoured bands, and straight rings.
Matched Set
If you love your jewellery to be matching, we recommend a matching wedding ring set. Perfectly paired, a matching set will feature the same metal type, diamond details and embellishments. For those who love symmetry, we offer a number of matching sets in a range of styles.
Contoured Rings
If your engagement ring’s centre stone extends past the band or if your band features curves, your wedding ring may need to be contoured to match the style. A contoured wedding ring will feature a curved band in order to sit flush against the engagement ring and to perfectly complement the engagement design.
Straight Band Rings
Alternatively, if you don’t mind a gap of a few millimetres between your engagement ring and wedding band, a straight wedding ring is the perfect option for you. This traditional option is a matter of preference and can be customised to include a pavé design or various shaped diamonds of your choosing.
Types of Men’s Wedding Bands
It may be surprising to learn that there is a wide range of styles available to today’s groom. These designs can broadly be categorised as classic, unique, and multi-colour.
Classic
The classic men’s wedding ring style comes in a variety of precious metals and has a low profile and streamlined appearance.
Unique
For grooms looking for something more unique, a wedding band with additional design elements, such as textured finishing, gemstone accents, or bevelled edges, may tick all the boxes.
Multi-colour
A multi-colour or multi-tonal men’s wedding ring offers contemporary cool and the benefit of two colour palettes.
The Best Precious Metals for Weddings Rings
To find the best precious metal for your wedding ring, consider what suits your or your significant other’s style and skin tone best. Whether it's the warmth of 18k yellow gold, the cool elegance of platinum, or the romantic blush of rose gold, your metal choice plays a key role in the overall look of your ring.
Yellow Gold
Yellow gold has a traditional, warm hue and a beautiful lustre. 18k yellow gold is a mixture of 75% fine gold and 25% metal alloy for added strength. 18k yellow gold is highly durable, timeless, and suitable for everyday wear.
Rose Gold
Rose gold denotes true romance. It is also one of the most versatile and durable gold alloys available. Its pinkish tone looks beautiful against sparkling gemstones and can also be used to create juxtaposition in two-tone jewellery or ring stacks.
Platinum
Platinum is a sleek, silvery-white precious metal with an unmistakable shine and extraordinary tensile strength. Alternatives to platinum include white gold or, in the men’s wedding rings range, titanium and metals with hues closer to black, like tantalum or carbon fibre.
The Best Gemstones for Wedding Rings
While plain bands will always be in style, it is now common for both men’s wedding rings and women’s wedding rings to include precious gemstones, whether in the pavé style of small diamonds set around the band or as eye-catching accents. However you like your stones, the real decision rests in the precious gem you prefer: the white light of a lab diamond, the fiery brilliant of mossanite, or the deep and colourful beauty of a lab sapphire?
Lab Diamond
Real diamonds in every sense, lab-grown diamonds are created in controlled laboratory environments using high temperatures and pressure. At Cullen Jewellery, our lab-grown diamonds are also 100% Carbon Neutral and certified by Clear Neutral.
Moissanite
Moissanite is a rare and precious jewel. Originally found in an asteroid, moissanite is know for its signature rainbow sparkle and dazzling appereance, that is often called a diamond alternative but can be considered its own gem in its own right.
Lab Sapphire
Lab grown sapphires are created in laboratories using advanced technology that mirrors the natural conditions under which sapphires form deep in the Earth’s crust. With identical chemical and physical properties to mined sapphires, they offer exceptional beauty, quality and durability.
Choosing a wedding ring should feel exciting, not intimidating. From how you want your band to sit, to locking in your metal and gemstones to suit your style, we’ll help you create a pair that feels perfectly yours. Ready to try styles and customise your dream wedding ring? Explore our collection below.
