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**CDNSushi** · 7th February 13, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Good lord! You men wear wedding rings????!!!!!

...aaaaand the problem with that being...?

I'm sorry, I guess I just don't understand the shock. Never thought it was unusual. All of my friends wear one, and just about everyone I know does, and always has, growing up. A cultural thing, maybe?

**davidlpope** · 7th February 13, 07:28 PM

It's interesting to me how ring etiquette differs between the UK and the US.

Most married men in the US wear a wedding ring on their left ring finger. If they wear a second ring it is almost always on their right ring finger, and is often a school ring or a signet ring. Quite rare to see a man dressed conservatively wearing more than two rings or rings on other than the ring fingers.

Very few rings found on the pinky/little finger, and when done in America, people think:

Instead of:

**TheOfficialBren** · 7th February 13, 07:54 PM

I agree. I would wear a wedding ring but I understand older men not wearing them.

**masiaka** · 7th February 13, 07:57 PM

There's also a generational and cultural component to ring wear in the US. Men of Generation Y are more likely to wear a thumb ring than any other kind, at least where I live. Engineers occasionally wear a small, iron ring on their pinky finger after joining the order of the engineer (borrowed from Canada, but still counts.)

**Downunder Kilt** · 8th February 13, 01:18 AM

I would be suprised to find any "hands on" sparkies wearing any kind of ring at all, in fact any kind of jewellery and from my experience, this also tends to translate into off work hours too.

**Jock Scot** · 8th February 13, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by CDNSushi

...aaaaand the problem with that being...?

I'm sorry, I guess I just don't understand the shock. Never thought it was unusual. All of my friends wear one, and just about everyone I know does, and always has, growing up. A cultural thing, maybe?

No problem whatsoever. I am just surprised how common male wedding rings seem to be, particularly outwith these shores.

**Jock Scot** · 8th February 13, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

I would be suprised to find any "hands on" sparkies wearing any kind of ring at all, in fact any kind of jewellery and from my experience, this also tends to translate into off work hours too.

I wear a signet ring on my little finger and have done since I was 21, but when out on the farm my mother always insisted that I should take it off. At first I thought that she was afraid that I should loose it, but it was not until she explained the dangers and consequences of rings getting put out of shape whilst wearing one did I take any notice. As she was a doctor working in Glasgow with its heavy industry and mines at one time she apparently had to deal with quite a few "ring emergencies". I took her advice to heart once I understood.

**Jordan** · 8th February 13, 06:11 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

No problem whatsoever. I am just surprised how common male wedding rings seem to be, particularly outwith these shores.

I've always thought male wedding rings were the done thing too. It's not somthing I've thought too much about but before today I hadn't heard of a guy not wearing a ring except for obvious work/safety reasons.

**Tobus** · 8th February 13, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by Lyle1

In the USA, wedding rings for men are beyond being common and are now the norm. Most of the married men that I know, under the age of 70, wear a wedding ring, and I don't ever remember attending a wedding where the bride did not give a ring to the groom.

I have my great-grandfather's wedding ring. He was married in 1918, and was a rancher here in Texas. So the tradition is at least that old, and I doubt he was any kind of trend-setter in that regard.

Engineers occasionally wear a small, iron ring on their pinky finger after joining the order of the engineer (borrowed from Canada, but still counts.)

I wear a gold wedding band on my left ring finger and my Texas A&M class ring (also gold) on my right ring finger, which seems to be the norm around here. Wedding rings and class rings are symbols that tell others something about you, and it's very common for us Aggies to strike up conversations with each other when we see each others' rings. My twin brother has my grandfather's A&M class ring (he was class of '41), and he wore it every day of his life.

I am a professional engineer, too, but there's absolutely no way I'd wear a pinky ring. It conjures up the same images in my mind that davidlpope presented. I've avoided the Order of the Engineer for that reason, shallow though it may be.

**usonian** · 8th February 13, 06:36 AM

Fascinating! I'm from New England, USA and I had absolutely no idea that mens' wedding rings weren't a very old and ubiquitous custom. My wife and I each wear a simple sterling silver band (silver is definitely NOT the norm in the US, where the wedding and jewelry industries try to convince grooms that the amount spent on the rings is directly proportional to the amount they love their fiancées) and from time to time I wear a Masonic ring on my right ring finger.

I can anecdotally confirm the generation Y thumb ring thing. I used to work with a younger guy who wears a thumb ring.