The Kuczora Design Center gives you the option to design two identical wedding bands or to customize each ring to your personal preferences. Maybe you both love the classic, traditional gold band. Or maybe you love red gold, but it doesn’t quite match your skin tone the way it matches your partner’s, so you opt for peach gold instead. With all of the options available, how do you decide what’s best for you? It’s all about what’s meaningful to you and which choice best represents your relationship.
Celebrate Tradition With Matched Bands
Exchanging two identical wedding bands is a generations-old tradition. These rings symbolize unity, two separate people coming together to create one beautiful life together. If that’s something that appeals to you, that idea of two people becoming one in marriage, then matched bands might be for you.
Consider your relationship to tradition. Traditions carried on through generations link us to the past. You’re getting married and exchanging rings, just as your parents did, just as their parents did, and on and on. You’re forming a link not only with your partner, but with a longstanding rite of passage. This link to the past and to all of the generations and stories that came before us reminds us that we are a part of something bigger than ourselves. Matched wedding bands are a beautiful reminder of the solemn vows you are exchanging and of the unbreakable bond between two people, forged in love.
Express Your Individuality With Mixed Bands
What if none of that stuff about tradition speaks to you? Go for something more personal with mixed bands. A unique wedding band is a reminder that you are the only one of you in the world, and that’s why your partner chose you. You’ve got something about you worth expressing in the design of your wedding band. The reverse is also true: your partner is a unique, special person, and you never want them to lose any of the quirks and characteristics that you fell in love with.
Though you are coming together in marriage, you are still your own person. Never stop being that person your partner fell in love with. Remember all of the unique things you have to offer them. Enshrine the unique traits that make you special to your partner, and your partner to you, by customizing your wedding bands.
The Middle Ground
With a little creativity, you can split the difference between mixed and matched bands by designing bands that are similar but different in small, important ways. Different textures, like a sandblast or soft satin finish, can add a personal touch to otherwise identical bands. Or go with the same texture but slightly different shades of gold (red, peach, or yellow) to complement your different skin tones. When you decide on an overall “theme” to your rings, you get the best of both worlds: bands that clearly say “we are a couple” while incorporating some individuality.
Whatever You Choose, Make It True to You
The Design Center gives you so many options for crafting the ring—or rings—of your dreams. Talk it over with your partner and decide whether something traditional, something personalized, or something in between best captures the essence of your relationship. Then head over to the Design Center to explore the possibilities.
