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.
Two Tone Wedding Rings
Two tone wedding rings combine two distinctive precious metals to create striking, spectacular designs. Some two tone jewellery achieves the two tone look by using plated metals. But the two tone rings you will find in the Orla James collection use two separate precious metals such as 18 carat white gold and 18 carat yellow gold.
Two tone wedding rings are extremely versatile as the use of two distinct precious metals means that these rings work extremely well alongside other jewellery which might have either a silver or gold finish. The use of two tone metals also means that these rings will work with any outfit and they are not affected by changing fashions and trends. The two contrasting metals serve to highlight one another and enhance the ring design and appearance.