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.
Mens Plain Wedding Rings in White Gold
The Orla James range of plain wedding rings for men includes various standard ring profiles in beautiful white gold.
What is White Gold?
White gold is a gold alloy that has a sivery-white appearance, much like platinum, silver or palladium.
Pure gold is a very soft metal so in almost all gold jewellery pure gold is mixed with other, harder metals to create an alloy which is stronger and far more durable. White gold jewellery is still real gold, indicated by the hallmark applied to all jewellery overy 1 gram in weight (in the UK). Typically zinc is mixed with pure gold to create the tougher, paler alloy but this combination still tends to have a slightly yellowish appearance. This is then plated with Rhodium which is what gives white gold jewellery its dazzling silvery appearance.
The unique Orla James lifetime guarantee means that you will never need to worry about the costs of cleaning, resizing or replating your white gold wedding rings. Orla James provides these valuable services for free to all customers.