And how much should you have your man spend on it without going overboard?
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Platinum is the best metal for a wedding ring. It is the most pure metal (out of gold or platinum) because it is alloyed with platinum derivitives. It also does not have "memory" so that if your ring has prongs or a bezel, with gold, if you bend a prong you can only bend it back so many times before metal fatigue snaps the prong off. Platinum is made to continue to bend back and forth. Having said that, platinum is not harder than gold. It is made to bend easily so that rather that a shank breaking becasue of an impact, it will bend and be more forgiving.
Titanium is a very lightweight metal but it cannot be resized or even cut, should you have an injury to your hand in which your rings need to be cut off.
Both scratch easily, but with becasue of the molecular structure of platinum, when you buff it, it does not remove any metal (as buffing gold does), it simply "rearranges" them and you lose no metal.
What you should spend depends on your budget but be prepared to spend approx three times what you would for a gold ring.