How to shop your wedding band? there are several principles you may know.A wedding band should show your individuality, whilst still maintaining visual consistency with your engagement ring. Pick a design with similar textural or colour variants and allow a personal and mutual connection to shine. Balance is important.When shopping for a wedding band, there are eight important things to remember.

1. Budget

Just as it would have mattered when choosing your engagement ring, your budget will be a determining factor in choosing your wedding band. Wedding bands can range from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, so make sure you give budget plenty of thought. Once you’ve got your budget you can narrow down your choices.

2. Lead time

Having time to save up for the ring of your dreams or create a ring that perfectly balances out your engagement ring is important. The more time you give yourself, the more chance you have of getting your purchase right. Give yourself enough time and you can even get your ring engraved, a popular process for many couples wanting to connect their bands in a symbolic way.

3. Metal

Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to match your wedding band metal to your engagement ring metal, be it yellow gold, white gold, platinum, silver, palladium, titanium, cobalt or recycled metal. There’s no rule saying that your partner’s metal must match yours, so feel free to mix it up. There’s no reason why you can’t have a rose gold diamond wedding band to match your engagement ring while he wears a white gold and titanium band. Alternatively you could bring an element of your metal in. Our Classico men’s ring, for example, combines rose gold with yellow and white gold.

4. Era

If you’re wearing a vintage-inspired engagement ring, matching your wedding band to the era is a good idea. Vintage rings might be notoriously difficult to match with wedding bands, but you shouldn’t let this discourage you. A feminine, textural band with a diamond Edwardian ring can look spectacular.

5. Quality

Good workmanship is the ultimate compliment to your engagement ring, so make sure you talk to a quality broker such as Australian Diamond Brokers. Knowledge is crucial when pairing a wedding band with an engagement ring, and Australian Diamond Brokers’ knowledge of cut, clarity and colour is second to none. Australian Diamond Brokers are one of Australia’s leading providers of diamonds, therefore there’s no one better to trust in terms of value for money and quality craftsmanship.

6. Recommendations

While the team at Australian Diamond Brokers can help you to pair your engagement ring, it won’t do any harm to do some research yourself. Simply Googling “what kind of wedding ring will match my engagement ring?’ will bring up all kinds of advice on ideal pairings. A bit of research will tell you that traditional bands go best with solitaire rings and that a shoulder set ring should be paired with a channel set wedding band.

7. Width

When pairing rings together, it helps if your bands are a similar width. A wide wedding band could overwhelm a smaller engagement ring and vice versa. Think about the rings in terms of proportion and don’t forget that later down the track you might add an eternity ring.

8. Personal preference

Ultimately, the wedding band you choose should come down to personal preference. It’s you wearing it, after all. If you want diamonds, go diamonds. If you want a plain band, go plain. If you want chunky, go chunky. If you want multicolour, go multicolour. It’s completely your call.

The basic principle when wedding band shopping after an engagement ring has been purchased is that the wedding band should compliment without being too ‘matchy matchy’. Be unique and be the envy of all.