^ That IS cute!
When my mother remarried, she wanted to wear a ring, but my stepfather didn't. So she bought herself a ring which she wears all the time I think.

My hubby and I both have our wedding rings and wear them
On out first anniversary we bought matching rings again (cheaper ones)with a differant design
I wear mine on my right hand and he wears his for work so it doesnt get damaged

We both wear ours all the time. B's is a plain white gold comfort fit band and mine is the wedding set my grandmother wore which I love. I actually get weirded out when they aren't there. I went to Six Flags recently and took them off and left them home and I spent more of the day fingering the naked skin then had I left them on. It's kind of like getting braces off - you spend way too much time tonguing your teeth because they feel odd to not have those metal pieces attached. So I'm an all the timer.

My mum wore hers every day until the tablets she was on made her put on weight. After she lost the weight she went back to wearing them everyday. However, after 30 years she lost her engagement ring, so she just wears the wedding band.

Dad however lost his very early on in the marriage and has never worn one.

When I was engaged, I wore my ring every day, and will do so when/if I get engaged again and married.

I hope that my FH will wear his wedding band every day as well, but it depends on which industry he works in.

My husband hasn't taken his off since our wedding (14 months ago)

I take mine off quite often: to sleep, wash my hands, shower, for sport, etc.

I take mine off to put fake tan and lotion on but other than that neither of us take our rings off.

I've lost a tonne of weight since having Lucy and now neither of my rings fit me.

Helen

I only ever take mine off if I'm performing as an unwed person. My husband used to take his off for soccer but doesn't play anymore.

Helen

We don't really wear ours all time time, no. Hubby has a job where he HAS to take it off. I stopped wearing mine all the time when they stopped fitting during my pregnancy and just kind of never got back into wearing them on the day to day. I guess, I generally wear them when I'm going out for a nice night. Doesn't seem necessary to me on the day to day though.

Both rings come off when I'm showering, working out, or swimming. Just the engagement ring comes off when I'm sleeping. Otherwise they're both on all the time. Mark has only had his wedding band for a week, but so far he's been wearing it all the time except when we were at the beach for our honeymoon.

My husband, who is in the army (and currently deployed right now), and I always wear our rings. They were gifts from one to the other, and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't wear their rings. I'd never be caught dead without my wedding ring and neither would my husband. Especially with us being 7,000 miles away from each other, I need all the help I can get to show everyone I'm taken and committed to my husband. And vice versa

They were gifts from one to the other, and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't wear their rings

Depending on your occupation, it might be in your best interest to NOT wear them! If my fiance was still a firefighter/paramedic, I would understand why he wouldn't wear it on the job. If you get caught on something, it can take the skin right off your finger. Due to me most likely going to school for nursing, I won't be able to wear my engagement at work/clinicals. I've gotten gloves caught on rings before and it does hurt. Especially if I work in the OR, I most likely will not be able to wear rings due to risk of it cutting through my gloves which could in turn infect patients.

^ Some electrical jobs are like that....where you can't wear rings while working because of the current and the possibility of being shocked apparently. When my husband was working in RF there were days he couldn't wear it while working.

I wear mine all the time and so does my husband....it feels weird not to. My dad when he was married to my mom DID NOT wear a wedding band.

My husband doesn't because he constantly works with electronics and it could take his finger off. I think that's a plenty good enough reason. We managed to make it three pages without getting all snippy and judgey on each other. Aah, well. We had a good run.

My boyfriend and I have claddaghs with small stones (each other's birth month stone, I know, gag yourselves now), and we wear them very constantly. they weren't PARTICULARLY expensive but they cost us a pretty penny for the stage in our lives we're in, and they come from Ireland, so they mean a lot.

My wife's diamond we think is fertilizing the grass. It was lost some 35 years ago. It was very small as indicative of a student budget when we got engaged. We've replaced the stone, but somehow not the same. She wears the substitute diamond.rdes

I don't wear my wedding band. It is rather wide and that caused my ring finger to develop a thick callus at the base of the finger. We had to soap it off. It took nearly a year of rubbing with a pumice stone to remove the callus. Now I can't get it over the 2nd knuckle. I took it off often...every time I played violin (many violinists wear their wedding ring on their right hand) and I would never wear it while doing electrical or radio work because of the shock hazard (I also remove my watch, the only jewelry I wear now save for a medical alert necklace which I have because of a cardiac defibrillator. Because of some of the medicines I take my hands have a tendency to swell up at times.

Jon

In twenty-six years of marriage I've only taken my ring off a few brief times. The only extended time it was off was the couple final weeks of pregnancy when my fingers got too fat and so I wore it on a necklace. Otherwise it has been on my finger continuously and just now I slipped off for a second to see what it felt like and my hand felt completely naked!

The truth is this, we humans are possessive especially the women. We like 'my' too much; my clothes, my shoes, my car, my dance, my church, my school, my this, my that. Don't get me wrong, no, it is good to cherish what you have though, but most of us are just possessive. The day you marry your wife you both become one with or without ring. The part of the world I come from ladies run after young with wedding bands, because to them it make seem cool and more responsible. The band doesn't change a flirt to a saint, or a chammie to a hag. I love the band but can't wear it for long.

My parents don't wear their wedding rings my dad is a welder so he doesn't want to loose it or wreck it while doing his job and my mom is a pharmacist Technician and an SSP at a high school so she can't (won't) wear hers to work either in case it gets lost stolen or dropped in a mediation bottle

Dancing_EMT wrote:

Due to me most likely going to school for nursing, I won't be able to wear my engagement at work/clinicals. I've gotten gloves caught on rings before and it does hurt. Especially if I work in the OR, I most likely will not be able to wear rings due to risk of it cutting through my gloves which could in turn infect patients.

That, and they taught us that rings, bracelets, wristwatches, etc, harbour bacteria and germs underneath them - diamond or jewelled rings moreso because they have more crevices than plain gold bands. We were taught that we could wear a plain gold band on the ward if we were careful to wash under it when preparing for an aseptic procedure, but that anything with diamonds or jewels in it was best left safely at home.

If you were going to be a theatre nurse you would most certainly have to remove all rings, wristwatches and bracelets before your surgical scrub.

And for the topic, my parents always wore their rings. After my mother died my Dad started wearing his rings (one gold and one silver band) on a chain around his neck, and I got my mother's engagement ring. The wedding band went to my sister. I wear my mother's engagement ring everywhere - I never used to because I was afraid of losing it, and then after our house was robbed in May and the ring WASN'T stolen, I decided that I would wear it everywhere - except my clinicals.

Erin.
::righteous babe::

98% of the people I work with (in an ICU) wear their engagement rings and wedding bands to work. The other 2% just wear their band. We all wear watches - have to. The only unit in my hospital wear jewelry of any kind is said to not be allowed (can't vouch for actual practice) is in the neo-natal ICU. You'll know immediately if your ring caught and tore your glove, trust me...

Oh yeah, we all have to wear watches as well, but they like us to wear those old fashioned fob watches that pin onto our uniforms or otherwise keep our watches in our pockets. Funny how things are different in different places.

Erin.
::righteous babe::