What's more important - the dress or the rings?

I spent a lot more on my ring as to me that was more important as I will wear it every day. My dress cost me £200 and I spent £1100 on my ring, don't regret it one bit and my dress will be going up for sale too.

My dress cost 290x (that's not a typo for £290, BTW) more than my ring.

On the day I think the dress and ring are near equally important. However after the wedding day the ring is more important to me by a mile. I will wear the ring everyday for the rest of my life, but after the wedding the dress will be put away in a box and barely be looked at again.

I spent £423 on the ring and £499 on the dress so there isn't much difference in it.

Both are important to me. My dress was £700ish and my ring was £199, it's just what I liked at the time. It suited my ER more than anything else I had tried.

Ring more important.

Not necessary to spend hundreds or even thousands to get a nice wedding ring (especially if you want something plain for everyday wear). Many people I think want a real wow factor with their wedding dress and are therefore prepared to spend more on that.

I'm really not sure why i wandered in hrre: I'm making my own dress (materials so far just under £100 including trimmings). And I have a fussy engagement ring so will choose a plain (but shaped) yellow gold band. neither are exactly bank-breaking!

Definitely the ring for me. I know I don't have much attachment to my dress and I am sure if I did perhaps I would feel differently, but I can't wait to wear a wedding ring! Dress was £72 and ring was £320.

My ring was more than twice the price of my dress. The dress is only really for the day (even though I've now worn mine 3 times), but the ring is for life.

My ring cost 5% the cost of my dress.

I have the engagement ring for bling. the wedding ring is simply symbolic and I wanted and simple as possible.

My ring cost about 7% of what my dress cost.

the symbolism of the ring is obviously important but the dress is to me too, I want to look back at my pictures and be happy with what I looked like (and I hope I will be!)

I think you're looking for a slightly different answer than what your question suggests.

My wedding ring will be infinitely more important to me in so far as it's a symbol of my marriage and something I plan to wear every day for the rest of my life. My dress is very special to me, but ultimately I'm happy to sell it afterwards as it is just a dress and I will have no attachment to it after I've used it!

I've spent £1000 on my dress but £210 on my ring, which I think is more the answer you're looking for!!

The amount you spend doesn't signify the importance anyway, it's just what your budget allows. My dress is paid for by me parents and my mum came me a price, I actually got a dress a third of the budget my parents granted me.

My ring is custom made to fit my engagement ring and designed by us, it still costs less than my dress, but has a much greater importance to us.

Thanks everyone! So interesting to hear what other people think

The main reason I asked, I think, was because there are lots of threads about dresses and styles and trying them on, but less on the design, selection and purchase of the ring. I'm sure it's also because *that's* the bit that really interests me as I can geek out about it a lot more, so I want more bling related posts, LOL!

I guess there's also an element of wanting the dress to be a statement for a day, but the ring to be a more understated and meaningful symbol of marriage that is there always. And TBH, I have no idea what will end up costing me more, the ring or the dress as both will be at trade prices; I'm sure I'd have ended up with a more understated ring if I wasn't getting it at cost, haha!

Also - did you want your and OH's ring to match? I'm struggling with how to square OH's ring with my one at the moment and I can't work out if that matters to me or not....

I think the proportion of your budget you allow for different things does indicate importance.

My ring is much more important than my dress, I plan on wearing my ring everyday for the rest of my life. However it cost just under half of what my dress has done.

I have a blingy engagement ring so I wanted a simple wedding bang shaped to fit, which is exactly what I've had made. It's beautiful and I love it. The price wasn't really an issue, I needed one made and paid what it cost to get that done. If it had been more than the dress I'd have paid more.

I also don't think you need to matching wedding rings (unless you really want too), mine and the Mr's will be very different.

sorry it is upside down, but no...ours do not match

I definitely don't think matching wedding rings are important or necessary. I have completely different tastes to my OH so I don't see why he or I would want something stuck on our finger which isn't completely us.

Ours won't be matching.

MOMB - please start a 'dress journey' thread! I'd love to follow your progress as have always liked the idea of making your own dress (original, exactly to your own design, cheaper etc) but I have zero dress making skills! Therefore am totally in awe of anyone who does.

In response to the original question - I have not bought either yet but am expecting to spend more on my dress (and have budgeted as such) however I think the ring is more important, but for the simple design I would like it's not going to cost too much.

I wanted our rings to be a aimilar 'tone' ie. not one super-chunky and shiny and sparkly and one the opposite. But he chose his and I chose mine, but they're from different places, and different metals.

I don't have my ring yet but I have my dress and my OH has his ring. For me the ring symbolises more than the dress but we hadn't allocated money to each thing we just have an overall total running. My OH found a ring he loved but it was very cost prohibitive here in the UK ~£3000 however we found it in the states for £700 so we ordered it and sent it to our friends. We then went over to the states for their weddign and picked his ring up so we didn't have postage or import costs. My dress was £600 and the ring I like will be ~£300. I want a plain yellow gold band so it won't be very expensive. It may be shaped to fit my e ring but thats it.

I have just bought what I liked I tried on dresses that were £100-£3000 and bought the 'one' it just happened to be reasonable. The same will be true of my wedding ring. I will buy the one I like best regardless of the price. Although I love a good deal!

Our rings won't match. I like his but it suits him it would not suit me and I wouldn't want him to wear what I like just to match.

Me & OH aren't big jewellery wearers, especially OH he isn't a fan at all.
Rings mean something to us in the sense that we'll wear them as a symbol of our marriage etc but we won't be spending a lot on them
I want a plain white gold band if possible and will end up going with Argos or another high street jeweller or something, we just can't justify spending hundreds on something we're not too fussed about and it means we can use that elsewhere with things that do matter more

Definitely white gold? I've got a tungsten carbide ring, which is a pale grey, hard as nails and cheap as chips (£20 off t'internet).

White gold is also a pain with having to maintain it. I have it and my ER which I have had for 9 months already needs to be re-dipped.

For me the ring is more important. The dress l will wear on the day and that is is. Hopefully l will be wearing my wedding ring forever. I have picked my wedding ring but not my dress, l doubt the dress will cost more. The way l feel at the moment it will probably be about half the price. It is very likely l will sell my dress afterwards.

If we had paid retail price the rings would have cost 8 times what my dress cost. Luckily my dad had a friend who did us the cost price, so the rings were about £100 more than the dress.

The rings are far more important IMO. I think you get more dress threads though because there’s a massive variety of dresses out there, and rings generally are all reasonably similar to each other and all fit the same on a hand.

Our rings are both platinum. I don’t like yellow gold and didn’t want white gold because of the re dipping. H doesn’t like yellow gold either but wouldn’t have a cheaper metal when I was having platinum (fair enough really).

For me it's the dress, definitely.

We've chosen not to have rings. We're not big jewellery wearers and they'd only get scratched/damaged or lost while working so they seemed like a pointless expenditure in the end considering we didn't want them.

We've chosen to do something symbolic instead. We've bought a beautiful, ornate padlock which we will close and lock together instead of exchanging rings.

We're as yet undecided as to whether we're going to keep it, or throw it in the sea or something so it can never be unlocked.

Pavone - there's a bridge in Paris covered in padlocks, put there by various lovers over the years!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2172901/The-lock-love-For-years-couples-world-left-padlocks-bridges-tokens-love-Now-Britons-unlocking-inner-passions-too.html

Couldn't give two hoots about the rings or jewellery in general. If we have them at all they will be £30 jobs from Argos. Then again I have only spent £75 on my dress so I don't think that is massively important either.

The ring because thats the thing h2b will give me to keep forever whereas my dress I chose myself and will sell on. The ring is something I will look at every day and thank my lucky stars that I found the right man at last xxx

Aw, bless!

Ring is definitely more important to me, but my ring was much cheaper than the dress.

My dress was less than half the price of the ring I got married with.

sadly I have decided I hate that ring and as such it's languishing in a drawer somewhere.

Moral of the story- spend wisely. I'm now sporting a cheapy £99 wedding ring because we wasted so much on the first.