Gold to White Gold!

[mats01_99]

Hi all. It's the wife's 30th soon and I think she wants to change her wedding & engagement ring from Gold to White Gold. What would be the best thing to do?, I've heard that they can just dip them in white gold; is this true or will they need new bands altogether? Thanking you

[kazza12345]

ive never heard of the being dipped in white gold thing - when i bought my engagement ring from an antique shop, it was yellow gold, but i wanted white, so i had the shank changed - it cost about 70 quid. I dont know how you would do a wedding ring - after all if you changed the shank, it would just be a new ring!
i would go to a jewellers and ask

[electricblue]

Dipping it would just be like 'plated' wouldnt it?
I changed mine,but got new ones and keep the others on a chain,tried white gold but it made my finger go funny,couldnt wear it,luckily they took it back!Its the stuff in the white gold apparently,hope your wife is ok with hers anyway!!

[spanner7853]

Hiya I had loads of old gold that i dont wear anymore so when i was getting married i asked the jeweller if he could melt it down and change it to white gold, unfortunately they cant do it. white gold is actually a very faint gold and it needs to be rhodium plated evry couple of years to keep it looking white. it only costs about a tenner to have it re-plated. So you could always buy her a new wedding and engagement ring.... if you have the money that is.

[mata hari]

I wouldn't bother with white gold, as it just looks the same as silver, so why not buy silver ? No-one can see the marking inside whilst it's on your finger, so who would know the difference ?

[electricblue]

Put white gold next to silver and it looks goldy,put it next to gold and it looks silver,but my new ones are silver cos i couldnt wear the white gold,but thats the colour i wanted and i'm perfectly happy with them!

[myselfness]

if considering buying a whole new ring white gold is not the best option (what with illergic reactions and having to re-plate it every so often as mentioned)

you could try platinum, it looks very similar to white gold but with less of a hassel