Good question! Picking your ring metal is important, influencing looks, price, maintenance and care. Couples may choose to buy matching or contrasting rings.
Platinum: The rarest of all available precious metals but also the strongest, whitest, and most durable.
White Gold: An alloy of yellow gold, mixed with white metal to deliver a shine comparable to platinum.
Yellow Gold: The most traditional of all wedding band metals. A timeless metal owing to its precious nature and rarity.
Palladium: Extremely popular amongst budding grooms, a member of the platinum family but 1/3 of the price.
Rose Gold: One of the trendiest metals of modern days, formulated using gold mixed with copper alloys and silver to deliver that lovely pink-red hue.
Silver: The most common of all precious metals, easier to source and a lot cheaper to buy.
Mens Plain Wedding Bands in 18 Carat Rose Gold
Within today's jewellery market, people are going wild for rose gold. It's making cameos in a variety of jewels and accessories, from watches, to necklaces and bracelets. With this in mind, we at Orla James have a collection of rose gold wedding rings for the modern groom with classic and timeless taste.
Rose gold is an alloy of pure gold, which comes in a yellow tone. To create the red-pinky hues that you find in rose gold, other metals are incorporated to make it a much more stern and suitable metal for use in jewellery, as pure 24-carat gold is far too soft. These metals can include nickel, silver, and the predominant of the alloys, being copper, which delivers the pink tone. At a measure of 18-carat, these rings would have a much more pink hue than the likes of 9-carat rose gold, which would contain more red metal making it a heavier tone.
Gold has been a traditional symbol in wedding ceremonies since the first traceable exchange that dates back to Ancient Egyptians. Since then, the process has grown, and plays an important role in religious and cultural aspects of marriage. With this, the gold band has grown alongside, with its influence and importance to many people still being an all time high. Our plain bands demonstrate this timeless style in a variety of profiles and fits.