Wedding rings and bands? Why not one ring?

I think it's really your choice. My wife had the 2 rings bonded together.

A band signifies marriage and is not to be worn until the wedding day. The engagement ring is optional.

I do have an engagement ring and a lovely wedding band done with scroll work. I also went out after the fact and purchased a comfort band for every day wear. I find I wear the plain old comfort band most often.

I, like you, would have preferred a plain band instead of the engagement ring and wedding band. I don't need an engagement ring.

In years past, engagement rings were not so popular or common. I'm not sure when that happened! Certainly our grandparents and older normally only wore wedding bands, which they received on their wedding day.

Some girls think you are not engaged unless you have a ring.

An engagement is an agreement to marry. So if you have agreed to marry then you are engaged. No ring needs to be involved. Many girls like one though just to show off.

Now the wedding ring. I'm sure I read somewhere that a wedding ring isn't an actual legal requirement. It is just a tradition because folks like a public symbol of their commitment.

What ring or rings you chose is entirely up to you.

Most people I know have an engagement ring and wedding band, but most only wear one, so you might say, one of those rings was unnecessary or a waste of money. For a lot of these people, in hindsight I think they may feel one ring would have been better in the first place, but you get carried away in the throes of what everyone else does.

Rings are not mandatory so do whatever you want. If you only want one simple band that's absolutely fine.

The bride with 1 ring means she was most likely married in vegas last minute or is poor. If you dont have an engagement ring people will assume you had a last minute marriage (because maybe you were pregnant) or that you are poor.

Y'know I considered doing just that but my husband wanted the 'traditional' separate e-ring and wedding band...

My original e-ring is very different-it's a bypass design with two stones, his birthstone and my birthstone with seven round diamonds (one for each day of the week he told me) in a swirled row between.

I Love You is engraved inside...simple but it went straight to my heart.

I told him that I would be happy to have it as my wedding band as well but he wanted plain yellow gold polished bands that matched....and it was such a simple request.

Since then he has given me fancy 'going out' bands ( I love to switch my jewelery) for anniversaries and my B. Day...he even gave me the kind of e-ring I would have selected myself if he hadn't surprised me with the one he did....a 2 & 1/2 ct oval brilliant cut almandine (firey red) garnet surrounded by 1 ct of round champagne diamonds-looks like a family heirloom and I love it!

For this B.D. I'm getting a wedding band with an heirloom look to wear with it-it's set with small, round garnets.

But as much as I love all the sparklies he has gifted me with, if the condo ever caught on fire-it's my original e-ring and plain gold band I'll be running out the door with-along with my husband & my cat & dog lol....

if it's a simple band you wish to do double duty as an e-ring & wedding band, google claddagh ring...beautiful ring, beautiful tradition and you DON'T have to be irish either.....good luck.

I didn't actually read your question so I'm going to talk about Lord of the Rings instead.

The story takes place in the context of historical events in Middle-earth. Long before the start of the novel the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring to gain power over other rings held by the leaders of Men, Elves and Dwarves. He is defeated in battle, and Isildur cuts off his Ring and claims it as an heirloom for his line. Isildur is later killed by Orcs, and the Ring is lost in the river Anduin. Over two thousand years later, the Ring comes into the hands of the hobbit Sméagol, who hides under the mountains, where the Ring transforms him over the course of hundreds of years into a suspicious, corrupted being called Gollum. Eventually he loses the Ring, and, as recounted in The Hobbit, it is found by Bilbo Baggins. Meanwhile Sauron takes a new physical form and reoccupies Mordor, his old realm. Gollum sets out in search of the Ring, but is captured by Sauron, who learns that Bilbo has the Ring. Gollum is set loose, and Sauron, who needs the Ring to regain his full power, sends forth the Ringwraiths, his dark, fearsome servants, to seize it.

The novel begins in the Shire, as Frodo Baggins inherits the Ring from Bilbo. Both are unaware of its origin, but Gandalf the Grey, a wizard, learns of the Ring's history and advises Frodo to take it away from the Shire. Frodo leaves, taking his gardener and friend, Samwise ("Sam") Gamgee, and two cousins, Meriadoc ("Merry") Brandybuck and Peregrin ("Pippin") Took, as companions. They nearly encounter the Ringwraiths while still in the Shire, but shake off pursuit by cutting through the Old Forest, where they are aided by the enigmatic and powerful Tom Bombadil. After leaving the Forest, they stop in the town of Bree, where they meet Aragorn, Isildur's heir, who joins them as guide and protector. They leave Bree after narrowly escaping attack, but the Ringwraiths follow them to the look-out hill of Weathertop, and wound Frodo with a magical blade. Aragorn leads the hobbits toward the refuge of Rivendell, while Frodo gradually succumbs to the wound. At the Ford of Bruinen, the Ringwraiths attack again, but flood waters controlled by Elrond, master of Rivendell, rise up and overwhelm them, saving the company.

Frodo recovers in Rivendell under the care of Elrond. The Council of Elrond reveals much significant history about Sauron and the Ring, as well as the news that Sauron has corrupted the wizard Saruman. The Council decides that the threat of Sauron is too great and that the best course of action is to destroy the Ring by returning it to Mount Doom in Mordor, where it was forged. Frodo volunteers to take the Ring, and a "Fellowship of the Ring" is chosen to accompany and protect him: Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gandalf, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, and the man Boromir, son of the Ruling Steward Denethor of the realm of Gondor etc etc etc

Because one ring rules them all!!!!!