My engagement ring is a 3-stone with a somewhat unusual profile for the band: it's only ~1.5mm thick but it's maybe ~2mm tall (away from finger). I like it because it feels substantial but still looks like a really thin band. In addition, it has a nice profile that I'd hate to hide (swoopy prongs). To top all of it off, I am a sucker for symmetry and I feel a little weird about the whole wedding-ring-on-one-side asymmetry.
Long story short, I have tried every style wedding band possible - surprisingly, my ring looks "at home" in bulky ring guards that are absolutely not my style. The center stone gets drowned out when it is paired with a diamond band. So I'm left with plain metal bands, which I like in themselves, but the standard 2mm band sold in B&M stores has a low profile that looks really weird next to the high profile of my ER.
Here are my main ideas:
* a plain 1.5 mm white gold band from eweddingbands - it will be the most matchy-matchy option, but it will hide part of the swoopy prongs and still won't be the same exact height/thickness as the band.
* two 1mm yellow or rose gold bands (one on each side) from Etsy (something like this: etsy stacking bands). Should be low enough that the profile looks good, and I like the two tone. But I'm worried that for one it would look weird or unexpected to people, and second, that a 1mm band would look way too small during the ceremony and/or would be fragile in the long run. Also, no B&M locally seem to carry anything like it so I haven't been able to get a good idea of how it would look.
* Wearing the ER by itself, and using it during the ceremony as a WB. Would that be weird?
* Getting a ring guard. There was one at Helzberg with Princess cuts that looked good with it, but they wouldn't let me take a picture! Their pic
Here are some pictures to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. What do you guys think?
Long story short, I have tried every style wedding band possible - surprisingly, my ring looks "at home" in bulky ring guards that are absolutely not my style. The center stone gets drowned out when it is paired with a diamond band. So I'm left with plain metal bands, which I like in themselves, but the standard 2mm band sold in B&M stores has a low profile that looks really weird next to the high profile of my ER.
Here are my main ideas:
* a plain 1.5 mm white gold band from eweddingbands - it will be the most matchy-matchy option, but it will hide part of the swoopy prongs and still won't be the same exact height/thickness as the band.
* two 1mm yellow or rose gold bands (one on each side) from Etsy (something like this: etsy stacking bands). Should be low enough that the profile looks good, and I like the two tone. But I'm worried that for one it would look weird or unexpected to people, and second, that a 1mm band would look way too small during the ceremony and/or would be fragile in the long run. Also, no B&M locally seem to carry anything like it so I haven't been able to get a good idea of how it would look.
* Wearing the ER by itself, and using it during the ceremony as a WB. Would that be weird?
* Getting a ring guard. There was one at Helzberg with Princess cuts that looked good with it, but they wouldn't let me take a picture! Their pic
Here are some pictures to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. What do you guys think?
. It looks fantastic (but then again my wedding set visually looks a lot like that.)
Now heading to Etsy to make my choice. 
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