"According to statistics, the wedding band you choose will be important to you for at least eight years. Make it a good one."

You don't think 7 bucks is too much to spend for a wedding band do you? I'll bet you can shop around and get a nice wedding band for $2.50 at a novelty shop. Remember, it's important!

I've ordered half a dozen rings off Tanga, stainless steel, titanium, and "Tungtanium".

Titanium scratchs and scuffs rather easily, stainless does that and dents readily.

Tungtanium however is great. 60+ % Tungsten, 20+ % titanium and various other irrelevant elements. I never take this ring off, wear it on my thumb so it gets full pressure from items like rebar or pipe when I grip them. I use it as a knocker on doors to save my knuckles the abuse. The only thing I've got to really scuff it is retaining wall bricks, and even that rubbed off like nothing happened in a day or two. That's right, it takes ceramics to start to wear on this ring. Tungsten is one of the hardest metals, and is totally the way to go for longevity and looks.

I've seen Tungsten rings at jewelry stores start in the $300 range, and go up from there. Can't beat Tanga at $15-$20 for the same stuff.

Bought one about a year ago as a "backup" wedding ring. It's awesome. Hasn't scratched or faded and it arrived at my house in about a week and a half. If you have a job that would threaten a more expensive ring definitely go for one of these.

I'm wearing a Tanga ring as a wedding ring now (as with the commenter above, I've got a job where I'd worry about scratching/denting a more expensive ring), and have found the fit and quality to be good. I found it on the second-chance section, and when it was ordered, I received it within 2 weeks.

I'm in for another.

I used my first tungsten wedding ring to open beer bottles with. Then one day by the pool it broke right in half. Tungsten is very hard, but also very brittle. Maybe Ti would have been a better choice to open bottles... Instead just turned my own tungsten ring on a lathe at work. $0, now that's a deal. Now I just use a real bottle opener...

Are these rings easy to remove? I was shopping for a wedding ring, and I really liked the fact that Titanium is a "harder" metal. The guy in the store told me that they are difficult to remove if I was in an accident. Is that true?

Titanium rings are perfectly safe to wear - even if a finger bearing one becomes swollen or otherwise injured, removal of the ring generally involves little more than properly using a jewelers saw.

http://www.snopes.com/weddings/horrors/titanium.asp

Cool. I got a black one for my toe.

Titanium is nice only because it's Hypoallergenic, light and relatively tough. But it's expensive and not tough enough. Many people complain that scuffs and scratches appear within months. I much prefer tungsten carbide, which is cheaper and much harder than titanium. In fact, it's the hardest material used for jewelry.

I wear a tungsten ring with some mixed inlaid. The inlaid is all scratched up but the tungsten is as shiny and smooth as the day I bought it.

A lot of people avoid tungsten carbide because of rumors that most Emergency Rooms lack the diamond saws to cut the rings if necessary. There are horror stories of finger amputation. According to Snopes, those are urban legends because all ERs have such a saw. Furthermore, the flipside of being very hard is the fact that it's also brittle. YouTube has a great video showing how to crack such a ring off the finger with a vise. Took about 5 seconds.