Apparently, Prince William didn't get a wedding band when he and Kate got married. I've been reading around online, and I was surprised by how many women absolutely freaked out at the idea of a married person (of any gender) not wearing a ring.

I guess I just assumed that not everyone wore them? I'm not a fan of diamonds, so I'm planning/hoping future hubs and I will just do plain gold claddagh rings. I don't know that I think it's a huge deal if married couples go out without rings though...it seems like a lot of people view the ring as a "stay away, I'm so-and-so's property" type thing. Now, to me it seems silly to spend so much money and not wear the ring a good deal of the time. But it's not like taking the ring off turns people into rabid cheaters

Thoughts? Real life experience?

My husband and I both have rings that we wear regularly but not all the time. Usually when we are at home they sit in bowls on the piano. Mostly we put them on before we got out, but I never wear mine to dance or gym coaching, and he never wears his when he goes kite surfing or to play basketball. I don't need to mark my man with a ring to warn other women to "keep away!"

Hmm...personally, I don't care if others wear them or not. I've never actually thought about it. I grew up with seeing my mom wear her wedding ring all the time so I guess I just grew up thinking that when you got married, you wore it all the time? I can't remember if my dad did or not...consider he's a welder and farmer it probably wouldn't be the smartest to wear it all the time.

I've had a ring from my boyfriend for 4 years now and I wear it all the time. Literally all the time (except for when I shower) but that's because it's just a plain gold band, no gems or anything so it never gets in the way. His mom gave me a ring with some raised gems in it and I can't wear it all the time because it gets in the way so I take it off and forget to put it back on. I would love for my wedding ring to be just a plain gold band like the one I have so I can wear it all the time.

Now my boyfriend doesn't wear a ring. He used to wear his grandfather's wedding ring a lot but then take it off while working (plumber and farmer) and he lost it a few years ago. Couldn't find it after he took it off and that upset him a lot because his grandpa passed away when he was younger and the ring meant a lot. Now he says he wouldn't wear a ring again because he wouldn't want to lose it. I suggested wearing a ring on a chain around the neck which he would be more likely to. If we got married I'd still get him a ring but if he didn't wear it all the time, it wouldn't bother me any because I know how he feels about losing it.

Aside from my 2 (soon to be 3) surgeries, my ring stays on. I feel naked without it. Even with my 2 surgeries, it was taken off just before they wheeled me into the OR with him putting it back on as soon as he got to see me. I also will take it off when I wash the dog. My fiancé has said he'd always wear his and I'll never my rings off, unless I work in the OR. Then I'd just wear my band. My engagement ring is absolutely gorgeous, so I do enjoy wearing it. I get a ton of compliments on it (and how my fiancé proposed) and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy when people ask about it. My fiance's proposal to me was something totally different from the norm and it'll be something I'll remember for the rest of my life.

I work in the medical field, so I specifically got a plain band as my wedding band. This way if I need to take off my engagement ring, I can and still have my band on. I usually take it off when I go to the gym or garden/clean etc. I don't ever take my band off, I feel naked without it. Nick wears his all of the time as well. He got titanium since he is a mechanic and welder. This way if he messes it up it is not as expensive to replace. While he was deployed, he has to remove it while he was in the motor pool, safety measure. He usually hung it on his dog tags, on his hook.

My mom always wears hers, I don't think my dad has since their wedding day. I'm not sure where his even his. I think this current generation of men is a lot more comfortable with jewelry, and with wearing it on a daily basis.

I take mine off for work all the time, and in fact I haven't worn them for over a week now that I think about it (my brother slammed my finger in the door after a drunken night at a wedding and of course my engagement ring jabbed into my finger, leaving a nice bruise).

Usually when I take them off at work I put them on my chain though. Hubby never takes his off.

My engagement ring comes off when I'm doing my hair or putting on moisturiser or fake tan or something - I don't like getting product all over it. It's a big fat diamond so we bought plain wedding rings - I tried on a diamond one and loved it but didn't want to detract from the main event. Plus it was cheaper to have plain. I didn't wear my engagement ring in Kenya because I was paranoid, and I will probably leave it at home for other holidays as well. If I lost it I would never ever forgive myself. I also take my engagement ring off if I lift weights because otherwise I get a callous which is rough. So I guess all of the above will apply when the wedding ring gets applied. Tim is having a wedding ring and I don't see why anyone wouldn't, to me it's tradition and it's what you "should" do. Bad William!!! But I've already warned Tim about callouses so he probably won't wear it at the gym either. I don't see a wedding ring as a warning to other women, I see it as a sign of pride.

I wear mine all the time. Not so much because I feel naked without them, but it's just easier to keep them on. I used to take my rings off to sleep/shower/clean etc. but now I just can't be bothered! Both my engagement wing and wedding band are very small so they don't get in the way or bother me and my diamond is a solitaire rub over so it doesn't catch on things and I never worry about it falling out. Both of my parents wear their wedding rings all the time too. My husband on the other hand doesn't wear his wedding band all the time because he has narrow knuckles in comparison to his fingers so his ring slides of quite easily and he's always worried about losing it. He has a very expensive watch that he wears to work (in an office) and when he goes out. So basically his rule is, if he's attending somewhere he can wear his watch, he can wear his wedding band too. When he gets home the first things that come off are the watch and wedding band!

I'm pretty hit and miss with mine. But that's just me being a flake, haha...I take it off to take a shower, or because I'm gonna put on lotion or whatever, and then I get distracted and don't remember to put it back on, and next thing I know, a week has gone by and I haven't worn it. So it comes and goes.

Jim NEVER wears his. I said we didn't even need to bother because I knew he'd never wear it, he said he wanted one. It's ended up basically just being a stunt so I had something to put on his finger during the ceremony, LOL!

He doesn't wear his for two reasons - number one, he's nearly constantly working with electronics, so he can't wear the ring when he's doing that. And, oddly, he turned up being allergic to the metal, and we haven't had the money or particular desire to replace it, so we haven't.

We left the reception, and pretty much changed our clothes and got on the plane. He kept clawing and picking at his finger, and I kept going "It's just that you're not used to it, leave it alone!"

He holds his hand up to me "Uh, look..." and every part of his hand that the ring was touching was all welted up and swollen. I felt a little bad, lol...

We wear our most of the time. I have to take mine off when I'm at work (I'm a Massage Therapist), but they don't go far - only to a chain around my neck. My husband switches out his "good ring" for a $6.99 stainless steel band when he is at work. He is always paranoid about his gold band getting banged up or lost when on the job (he is a paramedic).

My husband and I wear our rings all the time except for showers/cleaning/etc. It means a lot to us to both wear them as we spent a lot of time picking them out together during such an important time of our relationship. They symbolize so much more than just marriage for us because I had been going through a lot of personal/family issues (nothing concerning him or our relationship). Once I was OK with everything that had happened and had moved on from it I was able to reevaluate our relationship to take the next step to engagement.

If he chose to not wear his ring anymore I would probably be upset just because we both see their symbolism I described above the same way. If things had happened differently or he had said from the get-go that he isn't fond of wearing a ring I'd be OK with it. And of course I would never be mad if he forgot to wear it (though I think that has only happened once in 2.5 years lol, he is pretty anal about wearing it).

Hubby and I always wear our bands, except when I'm working as well (I'm also a massage therapist). We also had bands tattooed on, so if by chance we forget our rings somehow we're still wearing them. That's only happened a few times; the tattoos are more for us and covered when we wear our rings, but it's a nice safety net.

I always wear mine, mostly because I'm super scatterbrained and will forget where I put it if I did take them off.

Husband always wears his...actually he didn't for the whole summer because he was at boot camp. He's had it on for the past week, but come Monday he'll have to give it back again for the next two months because of the combat training he'll be going through.

But yeah, other than that...we wear them all the time.

My father always wears his band, mostly because I don't think he can take it off. His knuckles are larger now than they were in the past and I don't think it would come off if he tried. My mom never wears her rings. She used to wear them all the time when I was a kid but she hasn't worn them in many, many years.

When I get married someday, I would like just one flat band, maybe with some engraved design, maybe with one tiny flat stone... I dunno. I definitely don't want a giant fancy diamond ring. I am constantly taking on and off gloves at work so anything else would get in the way, also, I just don't like the look of big diamond rings.

I also plan on wearing my band constantly, and I would hope that my husband does the same. I guess it would make me feel more secure if he wore it all the time. Kind of messed up to place so much feeling into a piece of metal on a finger, but at the same time, why not wear it all the time? I can understand if my husband worked some job that banged his hands up, but rings are metal, they can withstand a lot. Anyway, getting banged up gives it character. I guess I might take it personally if he didn't wear it all the time?

I'm at the engaged level, so I have a bit less time to reflect on my experiences, but my general opinions are as follows:

I don't expect him to wear it constantly and he doesn't expect me to wear it constantly. However, we do because of what thing ring says to US, not others. When I look at my ring I think of my fiancé, which is made even more sweet because we're long-distance at the moment. He wears his ring often because it reminds him that I have made that promise to him. At minimum, I would like him to wear it on formal dates, but the rest of the time I don't really care if he wears it or not.

I wear mine almost all the time. I often take it off to sleep since I have scratched myself with it previously, and when I put lotion on. I don't think I have ever gone out of the house without it (except when I went surfing in Maui). I didn't think my husband would wear it as much as he does, but he wears it about 80% of the time. He doesn't wear it golfing or to the gym when he lifts weights. If he doesn't wear it, it's not that big of a deal to me. I know we're married, I know he knows we're married, I think he respects our marriage and always represents himself as a married man. I do know women who are very threatened if their husband doesn't wear his ring. That is NOT going to keep him faithful and it doesn't keep women away...hello false sense of security. People think metal has that much power??

We haven't worn ours since our wedding day.

Hasn't bothered me any.

I have to swap hands or remove my ring sometimes because I get eczema, but I wear it 90% of the time, Tim wears his most of the time.

Both of us just have bands with no gems on them, mine is white gold, Tims is plain gold so they really don't need to be taken off for many things.

My dad, since the day he and my mum got married over 30yrs ago, has never taken his bands off. Even when he's had major surgeries, he refused to take them off, so they put tape over them. On the other hand, my mum has to take them off for work, but even then she still has her wedding and engagement rings with her.

I wear mine if I go out or have a special occasion, but that's about it. I just don't like wearing rings, they bother me. I also teach dance and tumbling and could really do some damage to someone on accident. My husband is better at wearing his, but its still only about half the time. I only care if he wears it if he goes out without me, and vice versa. Other than that, we don't care!

My husband wears his all the time, except for showers/cleaning/etc.

I take mine off at night since if I don't I end up with irritation and red bumps under the band. I also take it off for showers/cleaning/working out/etc.

I didn't give my husband a wedding band - he has always been a manual labour sort of guy (including now he's in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Technical Tradesman) and didn't want one for safety reasons, so I got funny and gave him a bull nose ring at our wedding instead. It's never worried me that he doesn't wear one and I fully see the reason why - when you're an aircraft welder and metal worker, a metal ring is dangerous.

I have a plain metal wedding band that never comes off - even when I had an emergency ceasarian with my daughter. If I have a supersticion about anything, it's my wedding ring coming off.

My engagement ring comes off each night when I have a shower and goes back on again in the morning, because it's got a raised diamond and since losing weight from doing dancing, it spins around when my finger is wet, so I'm inclined to catch the diamond in my nose when I'm washing my face or injure my husband overnight while we're sleeping (amongst other things...hee!)

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I wear mine almost all the time. I'll take off the engagement ring when I work (I'm a dental hygienist-diamond would cut the gloves), and wear the plain band. Unless I'm in a rush, and forget to put them on. Otherwise I will wear them. Husband doesn't like me to wear them to bed because the ring is pointy and I've scraped him up too many times!
He'll wear his ring most of the time. When he was doing construction he wouldn't so that the ring would not be damaged. But he's no longer working in construction, so now it's every day. when he comes home it comes off. (it's made of many silver leaves, so it gets a little pokey so he says)
I take mine off when I shower or put lotion on too so I won't get it too dirty. I hate dirty gems with a passion! I'll go to a jewelry store every month if I can to get it cleaned! haha

So I think it's more of a 90% with us. But we're not like, AHHHH you took off your ring! That means you're not Married!!!!! people. Not at all. heh.

But I think it's nice to have them on especially in public view.

My husband and I wear them all the time...he may take his off occasionally at work, but I never really take mine off.

I am also not working right now though and when I did work I was a billing clerk at a doctors office so I never had to take them off.

My parents on the other hand. My dad has never worn his, at least since I was born, and my mom wore hers all the time until 2 years ago when she was diagnosed with cancer. At first, her hands swelled up and they didn't fit and now she has lost a lot of weight and they are too big.

Kinda of off topic but I always thought this was cute. This gymnast, Jonathan Horton obviously can't wear his ring while doing gymnastics so he puts medical tape there instead.

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