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Tips when shopping for a white gold promise ring. Let us review them in order.
Tip #1: Understand the nature of white gold and the options you have as a consumer for the type of white gold you choose for your white gold promise ring. First of all, understand that there is no hard fast metal called white gold. It is, rather, a mixture of many possible metals ending up with many possible hues. Gold alloyed with nickel will give you a light white gold promise ring that is hard and firm, though allergenic if you’re one of those people that doesn’t like nickel. If so, you get a gold-palladium alloyed white gold promise ring. Those are softer and more easily scratched, but more valuable. One of the ways of getting around the softness of a palladium gold white gold promise ring is by flashing it with rhodium, which is harder and whiter than white gold is by itself, in all its alloys.
Tip #2: Connecting back with what we just said, rhodium is a common way of hiding the true color of white gold promise rings. Green gold is a type of white gold (since it’s only faintly green) that is an alloy of gold and silver in a ratio of about 3:1. Since green gold was never really marketed well whereas white gold was, white gold promise rings are now expected to be really white, so they are rhodium plated. However, when you buy your white gold promise ring and you are allergic to nickel and don’t want the softness of palladium, and you go for a silver-gold alloy and you want its true greenish color showing, ask that your white gold promise ring not be plated with rhodium.
Tip #3: Make sure you know what you’re doing before you give your girlfriend a white gold promise ring. Don’t get a white gold promise ring for any old promise, like a promise to hang up the white laundry on Tuesdays, and as a symbol of my commitment to our collective white laundry, here’s a white gold promise ring. She’ll think you’re strange.
Tip #4: If your white gold promise ring is a pre-engagement ring, don’t make it too cheesy. You want to wear this thing forever since you are going to get married, and you don’t want it to be like a high school ring that you wear for a few months and then suddenly realize that you’re not in high school anymore and to continue wearing it is kind of dorky.
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