[RabidRat]

We actually had my wedding band custom made because I couldn't find anything good off the shelf.

Surprisingly, the cost of one with hand crafted artisan work - at a local goldsmith in friggin Palo Alto, no less - was comparable to buying something off the shelf through mainstream retail. Shows you how much markup there is.

Downside was that they couldn't do any modern materials, so tungsten carbide was out.

But the upside was that they could craft whatever the heck you wanted. My ring is external-facing platinum that they coarse-grit ground, down to a rough matte. With an inner rose gold band they fused to the inner side. With a laser-etched replica of the pattern on my wife's ring on the inner face. So conceptually, her ring flipped inside out.