Making Your Men's Wedding Band Truly Personal: The Process with John Atencio
Finding the love of a lifetime is a beautiful thing. Since your bond is one of a kind, your wedding ring should be too. Here are some compelling reasons to choose personalized men's wedding bands, along with some tips for showcasing your love with a uniquely intriguing design.
Materials for Men's Wedding Bands
These days, men’s wedding bands are available in a broad assortment of materials, including meteorite, black diamonds and even dinosaur bone. Whether you want a cool and sophisticated ring or an eye-catching, elegant design, there are plenty of available options to suit your style. Read on for some alluring men’s wedding band materials that make intriguing customized rings to represent your personality and bond.
Tantalum Rings
Weightier than tungsten, tantalum is a trendy gunmetal-gray wedding ring material that’s become a favorite among many modern men. Slightly darker than pale platinum, this alluring rare earth metal offers dense durability and a polished sheen for an iconic ring design.
Tantalum has a stunning gray hue with a subtle blue undertone. It possesses a fantastic tone that’s darker than titanium but not as deep as zirconium. With a density comparable to platinum, tantalum is quite heavy.
Unlike many other alternative metals, tantalum is also malleable and can be easily resized, depending on the customization required. As a hypoallergenic metal, it does not corrode or react with exposure to everyday wear and tear or chemicals.
Cobalt Rings
For the cost-conscious ring shopper, cobalt delivers the look and feel of lustrous white gold for around a third of the cost. Its sleek, pale color is reminiscent of formidable plated platinum. With very good toughness and scratch resistance, cobalt rings are often inlaid with diamonds, meteorite, carbon fiber, and hardwood.
Platinum Rings
With its gleaming white brilliance, platinum is incredibly strong and exceptionally rare. It’s also much denser than gold and approximately ten times as scarce. A popular choice for men’s wedding rings, platinum designs can be augmented with frost, matte, or hammered milgrain designs that blend contemporary appeal and a nice touch of tradition.
Damascus Steel Rings
Blended from an array of varying metals, Damascus steel has a fascinating history deeply rooted in ancient battles and legendary glory. Once utilized to forge razor-sharp swords, the intriguing metal makes an especially compelling men’s wedding band. You can even get eye-catching bands accented with everything from meteorite to wood to ancient dinosaur bones.
The unique properties of Damascus steel are attributed to the slow and cyclical process of working the metal layers together. This process enhances the metal’s impressive hardness, strength and resistance to shattering. It also allows the metal to be honed to a resilient edge while providing it with a distinctive and beautiful finish.
Black Zirconium Rings
A durable, lustrous metal, black zirconium is a bold choice for custom men’s wedding rings. With a formidable rating of 9 on the Mohs scale for hardness, the material can’t be scratched by anything other than an actual diamond gemstone. You can personalize a black zirconium ring with a broad range of designs featuring gold inlays, diamonds and meteorite.
Zirconium has a natural silver-gray hue that transforms into a striking black shade through Lashbrook's unique heating process. During this process, the metal develops a thin but robust black oxide layer that’s even harder than the original zirconium. Unlike black rhodium and oxidized silver, this black layer does not wear off over time. It is also longer-lasting than other black-coated rings, such as black tungsten and black titanium.
Meteorite Rings
Meteorites are essentially debris from comets or asteroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere and land intact on the ground. It probably won’t surprise you to learn that these specimens are exceedingly rare, and this makes them a very intriguing material for unique men’s wedding bands. Consider honoring your vows with a customized meteorite ring that includes exceptionally scarce matter that was once literally out of this world.
Gold Rings
When it comes to selecting an eye-catching men’s wedding ring, gold is a tried and true classic. These days, more and more men are adding an element of sleek sophistication to their custom rings with pale white gold. These rings reach a higher level of intrigue when paired with scintillating brilliant-cut diamonds or sleek matte black ceramic inlays.
Diamond Bands
If you want to add some tasteful elegance to your wedding ring, consider some strategically placed diamonds. From fiery channel-set diamonds to bold black brilliant-cut gemstones, nothing elevates a man's wedding ring like a glittering row of diamonds. Perfectly placed for maximum impact, John Atencio’s premium-quality diamonds bring a formidable edge to your custom men's diamond wedding band.
Dinosaur Bone Rings
Echoing the bygone history of a fascinating ancient era, dinosaur bone puts a uniquely impressive spin on the modern men’s wedding band. Crafted from real fossils, these pieces are a stunning way to celebrate your love story. Designed with a creative flare, John Atencio’s dinosaur bone wedding rings are an inspired way to honor your past, present, and future.
Custom Design Process with John Atencio
Forged to resonate with your unique connection, a men's personalized wedding band is an ideal way to celebrate your union. While all of his creations showcase the craftsmanship of a skilled artisan, John's bespoke rings go above and beyond by offering a customized manifestation of your devotion and affection.
At John Atencio, our design proficiency spans 47 years. This experience includes working with clients to create unique rings that conform to John Atencio's rigorous quality criteria. Throughout the entire design journey, we work jointly with our clients to ensure the ring is flawless.
The Process:
John’s attentive design team generally starts working with a customer in-store by showing them the range of materials, ring widths, and textures. In addition to numerous online designs, we can provide collections of grouped materials to use as inspiration for personalized designs.
Once we’ve worked with a customer to settle on a design, we move on to the basics. Since all our men’s wedding bands are comfort fit, we start with the sizing process either in-store or online. In many instances, we mail a set of metal sizing rings along with details about our comfort fit design and instructions on sizing. The customer then contacts our team with their confirmed size, so we can begin crafting their unique ring in time for their walk down the aisle
Explore John Atencio's Men’s Wedding Bands
Each wedding is one-of-a-kind, and the groom's wedding band should reflect this. Men have their own individual styles, necessitating personalized wedding bands that suit their unique tastes. John Atencio boasts an exceptional collection of men's wedding bands featuring distinctive features that are sure to turn heads.
Our selection also includes a diverse array of other types of men's wedding bands, providing you with plenty of options to match your personal style and lifestyle. Each ring is warrantied against most types of damage, and we offer free ring sizing for up to six months.
Whether you prefer a striking or understated design, a wedding band should embody the essence of your personality. Take your enduring love story to the next level by personalizing your symbol of commitment. Discover a stunning selection of men's wedding bands featuring exquisite details that exude irresistible charm. Elevate the unique beauty of your ring with a custom engraving that includes meaningful initials, special dates, or private messages only you and your partner share.
Work with John Atencio to make your wedding band an extraordinary reflection of your personality and symbol of devotion to your beloved. You can also work with one of our consultants virtually/online via our customer service line.
Are you searching for a one-of-a-kind men's wedding ring? Browse our online store or visit one of our convenient jewelry store locations. Our experienced professionals are always ready to help you find a stylish and distinctive band that complements your personal taste. Trust our knowledgeable team to guide you through the selection process and help you choose a wedding ring that perfectly honors your walk down the aisle.
