This or that (dress vs Rings)

Another hard one. I feel like a lot of my answers are different now than they would have been before I got engaged and started planning. I think I would say dress only because I found this amazing website for very affordable rings so I can buy multiple and still save money so I think I was definitely more picky with my dress.

Dress. I don't care for jewelry so I don't care for how fancy my wedding ring is. I just want it to be sturdy because it's more important to me that i can have it on all the time and it's comfortable and doesn't break.

Rings. You wear them for the rest of your life.

I'd have to say my dress! I don't wear my engagement ring on a regular basis, and not sure that I'll wear my wedding ring all the time either. I picked out a ring I love (and it also happened to be way below budget!), but especially since my dress has been a source of stress for me over the past year and a half, I'd say right now, my dress is my bigger priority.

Ring 100%! I wear it every day of my life, way more important.

View Quoted Comment Initially I thought the rings would be more important. But once I thought about it, I think I am going to have to say the dress! It’s important for me to feel beautiful and confident at my wedding, and if I don’t absolutely love my dress that’s never going to happen. I only get to marry my fiancé once- I can’t go back and change the dress. I can however buy a new ring in the future (not that I ever would, because I love my ring!)

I think for me, it would be the rings. Sure, I want to look beautiful in my dress. But for my engagement ring, my fiance went out of his way to find me a ring he'd think I'd love, and the memory of us picking out our wedding bands for me was such a great one, every time I look at them I smile due to the memories. I cherish those more than the dress I'll be wearing for a few hours.

View Quoted Comment Awwww ❤️ this is making me want to change my answer! LOL

Rings! As a little girl, I loved looking at my mother’s rings on her fingers while we would sit in church. I love that my fiancé picked out my engagement ring himself after 10years of dating, and it is more than I could have ever hoped for. I love knowing that the ring(s) on my finger is/are the same one(s) that were put on my finger when he asked me to marry him and when we said our vows. I love that they have been worn on my hand for so many moments already and love knowing they’ll be there for so many more. I love knowing that our rings are the same ones we will will be wearing when our hands are wrinkled and our hair is gray! While I loved my dress, I find so much more meaning knowing that these rings were given to me on some of the happiest moments of my life but are also worn on days that are tough or mundane.

I think I put equal thought and care into both. In many ways picking my dress was easy and one of my favourite memories amongst the difficult job of planning a wedding during covid - I knew exactly what I wanted, and ended up picking the very first dress I put on, which was also well within the budget I'd set myself.

Meanwhile, the ring was a bit of a nightmare since we wanted something custom, and the jeweller who'd made my engagement ring straight up lied to us about gem availability then ghosted us, which made me very anxious we wouldn't ever find what I hoped for. And, because I planned to wear it every day, I really wanted it to look and feel right.

We did have the perfect thing made in the end, and I do love it, but the memories I have about it aren't as sweet as the ones for the dress, which still has that magical, euphoric wedding feel associated with it, if that makes sense?

My dress wasn’t that important to me but my ring was. My husband had my ring designed for me and I love it.

Definitely rings!

Rings. It stays with you forever, and I had a very specific for idea for the band that I wanted.

Rings. Dress is one day. Rings forever. Besides more people will see those rings over time.

Rings it's one of the only things that lasts forever from that day

Dress (and his wedding attire). We both don't put much weight into rings as we don't wear them.

Rings

honestly when it came to the dress i didn't care as much about it as people may think. for instance, my dress was like less than $30 and it wasn't a wedding dress. it was just an evening gown i found in white that looked bridal.

the rings were important - we got it engraved with each other's initials

Undoubtedly the dress for me. We got our rings at Walmart for under $145 for both. The dress, however, is the thing you will always remember about that day. It doesn't have to be super expensive or over-the-top, but it's supposed to be what you wear on the day you feel most beautiful and it's an unforgettable experience.

Dress. It’s more of a focal point. Unless people are zoomed in on your hand, which hardly anyone is, people take notice of the dress and if you don’t feel beautiful in it, people can tell immediately from your body language.

This is tough! I’ll say rings because my husband and I picked them together, they were blessed by family and are worn daily as a reminder.