With gold and platinum prices at all-time highs, and many young couples struggling to make ends meet, how can you purchase high quality wedding rings for $200 or less? Fortunately, there are absolutely fantastic rings available in this price range. These are the new generation of wedding rings which are made out of Titanium, Tungsten, Cobalt, Stainless Steel and Silver.
Titanium
Titanium rings have become one of the most popular choices for couples getting married with possibly only Tungsten being more popular. This metal offers manufacturers and designers a medium to work in that allows them to create very modern looking rings with very interesting inlays. Carbon fiber is a very popular inlay for many manufacturers with many young couples gravitating towards the look of rings with black, white or checkered patterns.
Tungsten
Tungsten rings are the most popular alternative metal wedding rings on the market. Their low price and claims of being scratch proof and "indestructible" contribute to their popularity. Unfortunately, Tungsten wedding rings have received some bad press over the last few years due to people like Jewelry Designer Scott Kay who was filmed at an event in which he hurled Tungsten rings onto a concrete slab to demonstrate that how Tungsten rings can in fact be shattered. However, the truth of the matter is that Tungsten is a wonderful metal to consider because the average person will never intentionally attempt to damage their ring.
Cobalt
Cobalt rings are one of the new alternative metals on the market. They were introduced in the last few years as an "alternative" to Tungsten rings as they are scratch proof, do not tarnish, and will not shatter like Tungsten rings. Most couples do not know much about Cobalt rings but this should not prevent them from considering this metal.
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel is an extremely popular metal for factories in Asia to work with. It may be the most popular of all metals for manufacturers in that part of the world to work with. The production costs are so low, Asian factories can produce a ton of stainless steel rings and resell them at incredibly low prices. Rings made out of stainless steel represent the lowest prices rings of all metals in this article.
Silver
Silver is enjoying a bit of resurgence now. Jewelers are finding that they can offer Silver wedding rings in with similar designs to gold wedding rings at a fraction of the price. A fairly new version called Argentium Silver is being marketed to Jewelers. It boasts the look of something between white gold and platinum and is not supposed to tarnish like most silver jewelry. Silver rings are the most expensive of all metals listed here.
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