Hahaha, love the article. My husband and I married 20 years ago with 8 dollar silver rings. We were so busy planning the party (we had a great band, the singer became quite famous in the Netherlands afterwards), we forgot about the rings and just got a few silver ones we liked. I never cared for gold and diamonds (of any other stone) on a ring seems very impractical to me. My husband lost his ring after a few years (while washing the cloth diapers) so we just got ourselves new ones.
We are still very happily married. Although we did spend quite a bit of money on that party, we had 200 guests (what can I say, we both come from large families).