Engraved Wedding Ring
Question
I just saw a TikTok video that said a wedding ring according to Jewish law cannot have any engravings on it, including the numbers of karats. When my wife and I got married, I was unaware of this. I didn’t even pay attention to this when I bought the ring. After learning this, I looked at her ring and noticed it says 14K on the interior. We’ve been married 32 years and we have grown married children and grandchildren. Does this mean our marriage is passul? The rabbi who married us is long deceased, so we can’t go back to him.
Answers
Please allow me to offer you and your wife a belated Mazal Tov on your marriage thirty-two years ago!
While it is true that a wedding ring should have nothing engraved on it, there is no problem with with having the karat stamped on the inside of the ring. That means that your wife’s wedding ring is one hundred percent acceptable and you have nothing to be concerned about. Of course, if you decide to buy your wife a new platinum wedding ring set with a five carat flawless diamond, I imagine that she will not object!
Best wishes from the AskTheRabbi.org Team