Choosing Tattoos over Wedding Rings

Congratulations! You have just got engaged. After the celebratory emails, phone calls and Facebook messages and once you’ve posted about it on Instagram and Snapchat, it’s time to face up to the fact that you now have to pay an extortionate amount for a wedding. Eeeep.

The venue, the dress, the cake, the catering – in a place like London, where most can’t even afford a mortgage, how are you supposed to pay £30,000 for a wedding? And the rings, the little bands that are supposed to be meaningful, unique, and say “I’ll love you forever”, also come with a price tag bigger than your first flat.

Rather than letting the ever-growing bill take some of the shine off what should be one of the happiest moments in your life you could take a lead from so many couples who have found a way to reduce the wedding day stress and add an even stronger sense of commitment, passion, and belonging to someone.

Your own design

The wedding ring symbolises, more than anything else in the wedding, your commitment to your partner, and so it is only natural that you want it to be special and one of a kind.

That is why a growing number of couples are turning to tattoo wedding rings instead of traditional gold bands. They can be applied before the wedding day, shortly after, on the day itself or even during the ceremony, and create an added shared experience for the bride and groom. Working with a tattoo artist, the couple can design something unlike any other tattoo, and the possibilities are endless.

We’ve already seen wedding bands designed from a couple’s initials or a favourite quote. Others have turned to family history designs, longitude and latitude coordinates of the ceremony, right down to a soundwave tattoo of their “I do.”

A soundwave tattoo is created from an audio clip up of to one minute that is inked on the skin and can be played back with a smartphone. Many of the early adapters of soundwave tattoos have used them to record the voice of a lost loved one but a new trend is to use the technology to hear your partner pledging their love.

Forever

The idea of tattoo wedding bands also has a massive appeal for grooms who do not like wearing jewellery or for partners who work in physically demanding fields where jewellery can get damaged or lost quite easily.

Tattoo wedding bands come with a much cheaper price tag than the traditional version. Given that most designs will only cost you an hour’s worth of your tattoo artist’s time, they should set you back an average of £100 here in London. If you have some other tattoo work planned most tattoo artists will throw in smaller work such as tattoo bands free of charge.

 

 

There are two romantic reasons for choosing a tattoo over a gold band.

One is that you will never take it off, whether it is to do the dishes, work on a car engine, have a boxing work-out at the gym or for any other reason.

The other advantage is that the love that goes into them really does last a lifetime.

 

By Natasha MacKenzie

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