A Creative Idea for How to Fairly Share a Family Wedding Ring

Daniel Glazier shares a creative solution for families struggling over who should inherit a wedding ring.

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Where I’ve seen this jump up, of course, is often there’s only one wedding ring.

Yeah. Yeah.

Some families there’s three or four, but often there’s only one wedding ring and a number of the people in the family can attach great sentiments of value to that and want it for one of their kids, their grandkids, et cetera. And there tends to be some conflict no matter where it ends up. How have you handled the wedding ring dilemma in the past?

Jewelry is a funny thing because often we find a lot of value in the jewelry. People didn’t think people had much value, so there’s always some kind of neat secret somewhere.

Right.

I was just thinking about this. It’s funny you brought that up. I was just thinking about this and what I have seen in the past where they’ve taken the ring and then they’ve taken it to a jeweler and made other jewelry out of it.

They made other jewelry out of it. Right. And I think that’s a much better option.

Our family did that made the ring into two rings. Yeah. Love it.

Yeah. Our family did that exact thing.

And that would, that would be my advice there instead of, you know, instead of, you know, making or selling it and people upset or it, that’s a very, that’s a, that’s a family heirloom and that’s a sentimental item and that’s a valuable item.

And some, sometimes the items do fit on those three lists. So you, you’ve gotta, that’s, that’s a ding, ding, ding of a when you’re, when something’s on all three of those, of that list. But yeah, that’s what I, that would be my advice there is, is make some more jewelry out of it.

Yeah, that’s great advice. And I’ve seen that more and more. As I say, we did it in one instance, it was made into other jewelry that was a perfect resolution to the whole thing. And again, jewelers are very talented, figuring all the creative ways to get at this and still have it very attractive and I think that’s a, a really good idea.