Make A Well Informed Choice When Planning To Buy Your Wedding Ring

Buying a wedding or engagement ring can be a real tricky task, more so because this is one piece of jewellery that lives with you all your life after your wedding day.

People have different preferences when it comes to wedding rings and while some look for the metal and material finish, others are quite choosy about the design.

This difference in choices also gives rise to a lot of confusion around the choice of the right metal for the ring. While some prefer wedding ring in platinum, others prefer those made in white or the original yellow gold. The debate of which metal to choose continues but here is a quick list to help you see the pros and cons of choosing one kind:

·         The natural white colour of platinum and its pristine beauty will remain intact even several years down the line. While on the other hand gold is naturally yellow and it gets the white colour from a rhodium polish which is sure to wear off after few years and would call for a re-plating and polishing.

·         Gold, compared to platinum is less dense due to which can be moulded into ornaments even with a less quantity. However, when it comes to platinum, more metal is required to make an ornament due to which the cost automatically goes up when compared with gold.

·         Platinum being a softer metal than gold scratches easily which some may not appreciate. However, there is another aspect to it. While, a scratch on gold means loss of the metal, a scratch on platinum means displacement of the metal which can be restored in due course.

·         Platinum is certainly stronger than gold and this attribute helps it score over gold when it come to a lifetime jewellery like wedding ring. This is especially important for the prongs that hold the diamond in place as, if that breaks down; the most precious part of the jewellery is any which was lost.

·         Gold being less dense than Platinum is light to wear and is thus preferred by people who may not like to carry such a heavy ring.

Therefore, all the above mentioned attributes of both hold and Platinum can easily help buyers zero down on the metal for the wedding or engagement ring depending on a permutation and combination of all the desired aspects.