There are some stunning mens wedding bands available. And mens rings in general. Here's some of the best.

I love mens wedding rings. Well mens rings, I don't think there's any real difference between a wedding ring for a man and a mans ring that he wears for some other purpose.

I wear one myself.

It wasn't so long ago that men didn't really wear wedding bands, or any rings at all, or even jewelry. It began, I believe, with soldiers during the war who wore rings from their wives when they went off to war.

But now there is a whole industry built up around making wonderful rings just for men. Stunning mens wedding bands made from such modern metals as Titanium and Platinum. Some online jewelry stores specialize just in jewelry for men now.

Here's a selection just to whet your appetite. Both for wedding bands and just for the fun of wearing a fine ring. The prices range hugely, there are some really expensive rings, and some that are really quite inexpensive. This is just a selection, click on any ring or HERE to see more.

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Justin Consuegra of The Mens Gift Guide picked up on my article about mens wedding rings. He's mostly in agreement with what I had to say, happily, but he makes some more pertinent points.

Some men, he argues, aren't the type to wear a wedding ring, but that there may well be some other piece of jewelry, or some other type of gift entirely, that he can be given on the wedding day.

He recites a lovely personal story about his grandmother who, when she was dying, gave his granfather a gold necklace, knowing of the likelihood that he would remarry and remove the wedding ring he wore for her. And through successive relationships that necklace never came off.

As a celebration of the fact that mens jewelry is going ahead in leaps and bounds at the moment Justin is dedicating this week of his blog to Mens Jewelry. Check it out and see what he comes up with.

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Women have worn wedding rings for centuries as a public display of their marital status. However for men the wearing of a mans wedding band is only a relatively recent phenomena.

So for women who are getting married, there is a question to answer. Should they give their man a wedding band to celebrate their wedding or not? A mans wedding ring makes a wonderful gift for him, but will, or should, he wear it?

It was only during the second world war that men began to wear a wedding ring more commonly. Untill then it was extremely unusual for a man to wear a ring as a display of his marital status.

It became the custom for US soldiers going to war to wear a mans wedding band as a symbol of their marital status. It became customary in this way for soldiers going away to make this commitment to their wives in a public way, thereby declaring their unavailability to all.

This became a public choice that men made. For a woman it was not really a choice to wear a wedding ring, it was so customary for a woman to do so that it attracted comment for a woman to choose not to do so. But for a man it was a choice, and the soldiers made that choice, to their credit.

Since that time the wearing of a mans wedding band has become much more common, and it has also become fashionable.

Today, arguably, it is almost as common for men to wear a wedding ring as not. There may be a number of factors behind this.

Fashion will be one of them. There are some wonderful [tag-ice]mens wedding bands[/tag-ice] now available, and they look great. So for many men the wearing of a ring may well be a fashion statement.

And the concept of equality between men and women is now more established than it was half a century or more ago. It may well be that men consider this important, and many feel that if she is willing to wear his ring then he should be prepared to do the same. I wear a wedding ring, and this describes the reason more than any other.

However despite the fact that the wearing of a mans wedding band is more common now, I think it is still true to say that it is considered optional. There is no stigma attached to a decision by a man not to wear a wedding band, whereas there is a stigma attached to a womans decision not to wear a ring.

It may also have to do with a related question. There is no doubt that women like jewelry. It is rare for a woman not to like wearing jewelry. However many men do not feel comfortable wearing jewelry, and have never done so. I had never worn any jewelry before wearing a ring. And that is the only piece of jewelry I have ever worn.

So for many men, there is also the question of whether or not they feel comfortable wearing jewelry. For others the wearing of jewelry is becoming more fashionable, and so they aren't concerned with this, and embrace it.

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