How to properly wear an engagement and wedding ring together

The wedding is over, the presents are unwrapped, the wedding dress is put away, and a beautiful marriage certificate has been added to your file. Everything, from now on you are officially a family, and further on in life go hand in hand. And the main proof of this is a wedding ring, which replaced the engagement ring on the very hand that you gave to the chosen one (in a symbolic sense, of course).

But what if you don’t want to take off your engagement ring after the official ceremony? Well, you can not hide such a beauty! Especially offensive, when the engagement lasted a short time, and you did not have time to admire the jewelry, or brag about it to female friends. Doubly offended if the ring is really luxurious and decorated with diamonds. Diamonds should shine!

And then the newlywed spouse has a question – do they wear the engagement and wedding ring together or will have to send the first to the jewelry box and get only on joint anniversaries? The answer is: you won’t have to! How to wear a wedding and engagement ring together, how to combine them correctly – we will tell you in this article.

How to wear rings together

There are several options for wearing wedding and engagement rings together. Let’s consider them all.

On the ring fingers of different hands

Fig 1. Engagement ring on the ring finger of the left hand

The most common option for wearing engagement and wedding rings together is to separate them. After the wedding, the engagement ring is put on the ring finger of the left hand, and its place is taken by the “wedding band”. This option is good for its versatility – rings can be made of different colors of gold, differ in style, material inserts.

Engagement and wedding ring on one finger

Fig 2. Engagement and wedding rings on one finger

Our compatriots put the wedding ring on the ring finger of the right hand – unlike, for example, American women. And before the “engagement ring” this same finger was adorned with an engagement ring, which was presented by the chosen one when he proposed.
After marriage, the engagement ring can be left on the ring finger, adding to it a wedding ring. Moreover, it does not matter in what order the jewelry is worn. Another important thing is that they should harmonize with each other.
Possible options:

• Uniform design. In this case, the rings are stylistically identical.
• Play on contrast. One ring has a laconic appearance, the second is decorated much more luxurious and decorated with inserts – for example, a single diamond or a “path” of stones.

On neighboring fingers

Fig 3. Engagement ring on the middle finger of the right hand next to the wedding ring.

It is also acceptable that after the wedding engagement ring “moved” to the left – on the middle finger of the right hand, giving way to the wedding ring. This, by the way, will help to solve one delicate problem, if there was one. Self-selecting engagement ring, a man sometimes mistaken with its size. With the wedding ring, which, as a rule, bought together and with a preliminary fitting, such a confusion does not happen. So, if before the wedding engagement ring was a little big for the ring finger, it is likely that on the middle finger it will be just right.

It is also possible that the bride has gained or lost weight since the engagement began. This, of course, is reflected in her volume, which means that the rings could be out of size – including the engagement ring. You can, of course, take it to the jeweler and ask to change it, but it is easier to just change it to another finger. By the way, not necessarily the middle one.

Engagement ring as a pendant

Fig 4. Engagement ring on a chain

Frankly speaking – the option is exotic, and more suitable for those who lost their partner for some serious and irreversible reasons. However, the fact remains that after marriage, some girls put a chain through the engagement ring and wear it as a pendant.

Of course, this is unacceptable if the ring has sharp edges, complex design, large inserts. Relief elements can harm the owner – scratch or even hurt. Why take this risk?

And lastly

Most importantly – unlike the deeply symbolic “engagement ring”, an engagement ring is just a piece of jewelry that is not prohibited to wear constantly or on special occasions. And you can always take it off. Well, for example, if its design does not fit the evening dress, dissonant with other accessories or does not meet the dress code adopted in your office.