If you’re here, you probably already feel deeply about making a difference through the choices you make (and the person you marry). We hope this list of sustainable wedding rings and bands helps you do just that.
We look for wedding bands made from responsibly sourced metals, using ethical labor and green business practices.
And we realize that’s not quite enough and true sustainability takes more commitment. So we’ll be using our new Brand Rating System in future features to go deeper when looking at a brand’s eco-performance across 22 criteria including transparency, climate impact, and chemical use. You can learn more about it here.
Brands need to opt in (and pay) to be rated so if you don’t see any on the list below and want a deeper view of their sustainability creds, reach out and ask them to get rated.
You may also be interested in: ethical engagement rings.
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Eco-Friendly Wedding Rings We’d Say ‘Hell Yes’ To
Holden’s wedding bands are minimalist in style and made from recycled materials. They’re also made to order which minimizes deadstock waste.
Mejuri offers affordable sustainable wedding rings made from 95% recycled gold that is traceable.
Origin Handcrafted handmakes highly reviewed earthy rings from things like hardwoods and repurposed whiskey barrels.
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Holden
Price Range: $249–$3,999+
If you’re in the market for personalized wedding rings, Holden is the place to look. The brand crafts beautiful jewelry through a delicate engraving and casting process.
Each ring has a Lifetime Guarantee on all custom rings, but any returned pieces are recycled to develop new products or used as samples.
Holden’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Holden’s minimalist wedding rings are made from recycled metals (like white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, and platinum) and ethical lab-created diamonds.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Holden makes all its rings to order, meaning less waste. Each ring is handcrafted in a family-owned NYC workshop within blocks from their fulfillment center, office, and diamond district.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Holden is Climate Neutral Certified, meaning they measure and offset 100% of their carbon emissions annually. Their cardboard shipping boxes are made from mostly post-consumer waste, and the jewelry boxes are made entirely out of recycled paper.
Mejuri
Price Range: $298–$698
Mejuri offers some of the highest-quality gold wedding rings while remaining affordable.
Simple and slim designs perfect to keeping things subtle, like the Curve, are available in mostly recycled 14k yellow or white gold.
Mejuri’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Mejuri’s ethical rings are made from 95% recycled gold and 5% newly mined gold. This reduces the impact their fine jewelry has on the environment while supporting local communities that rely on mining.
They utilize conflict-free diamonds from trusted partners who are Kimberley Process compliant.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Mejuri prioritizes certified recycled metals, but ensures any new gold is traceable to suppliers certified for international sustainability and ethical criteria, like the Responsible Jewelry Council. They work with suppliers across the globe, like China, Vietnam, and Germany, and claim to be working towards a fully traceable supply chain.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Mejuri is proud of Founding Partners for Regeneration, an innovative re-mining initiative committed to rehabilitating old mining sites and the surrounding environments. The brand has worked to reduce single-use plastics and increase waste recycling within its manufacturing process.
They intend to become carbon-neutral by 2030 through restoration and conservation projects along their supply chain.
Catbird
Price Range: $230–$28,000
If you know she’ll love an alternative to the standard wedding ring, then those crafted by Catbird may fit like a glove—for the finger, of course.
Featuring the handiwork of several artisan jewelry designers, the Catbird’s wedding and engagement rings span all styles—from classic and simple to quirky and alternative.
Catbird’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
These rings start with a band of white, yellow, rose gold, or platinum. Over 95% of Catbird’s gold is recycled, while the rest is Fair Trade certified. Their diamonds are conflict-free, mined, recycled, or lab-grown.
Supply chain & labor practices:
The women-run business works out of a Brooklyn studio where all jewelers receive fair pay, benefits, professional development opportunities, and a friendly work environment. As a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), Catbird promises to “follow up on the claims made by our suppliers” to obtain full material traceability.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
After material sourcing, this jewelry brand creates minimal shipping emissions within its supply chain, as everything is created in its Brooklyn studio.
Community & charitable giving:
Catbird is a member of No Dirty Gold. They give back to the local community through the Catbird Giving Fund, which has already donated over $1 million to various NGOs like Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood.
Origin Handcrafted
Price Range: $38–$438
Canadian-based Origin Handcrafted is a natural choice if you’re specifically looking for wooden wedding rings.
These ethical men’s wedding rings are nature-inspired and rugged, with a distinct earthy appearance that sets itself apart. The Conall is a favorite, with a base of oak wood repurposed from whiskey barrels surrounded by carbon fiber and naturally shed deer antlers.
Origin Handcrafted’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
You’ll find materials like carbon fiber, steel, brass, iron, and tungsten. The earthy wedding rings include resin-infused woods like hardwoods and repurposed whiskey and bourbon barrels. Others contain turquoise, antler, or deer antler accents.
Supply chain & labor practices:
As a family-owned and operated business, these unique, sustainable wedding rings are made entirely in Canada. Founder Marc Liss crafts durable wedding bands using steel from his brother.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
By either coating with or vacuum-infusing materials with resin, Origin Handcrafted ensures their men’s wedding bands are waterproof and built to endure everyday wear and tear.
Bario Neal
Price Range: $70–$8,170
For bling without ethical baggage, kneel down with Bario Neal. This female-founded conscious jewelry company offers an extensive, sparkly range of men’s and women’s wedding bands.
Bario Neal’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Recycled or fairtrade gold wedding rings are the base of their matrimonial selection. Bario Neal also utilizes traceable diamonds and gemstones, SCS-certified lab-grown diamonds, repurposed gemstones, or your diamonds.
Supply chain & labor practices:
The gold in their Fairtrade wedding rings is Fairmined certified. It’s sourced from artisanal small-scale artisanal mines (ASM) and refined in the USA.
Their natural diamonds and lab grown diamond seeds are traceable to their sources in Australia (specifically the Argyle Diamond Mine) and Canada, with additional black natural diamond sourcing from Brazil.
The Australian diamonds are finished in Indian-based fair and safe workplaces, while the colored gemstones are sourced from USA mines.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
To gain SCS-007 certification, their lab-grown diamonds must be climate neutral, which they achieve by offsetting through the ASMs and the Himalayan Climate and Clean Air Project.
Bario Neal measures their footprint across all company spaces, works with metal recycling refineries that minimize environmental impact, and more as per their sustainability report.
Molly Willows is a Thailand-based writer for sustainability and purpose-driven publications and brands. She has a BA in Philosophy from the University of King’s College and an MA in Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin. With a strong background in TV and advertising, she’s held top-tier roles such as Director and Executive Producer. Really, Molly loves being a semi-nomadic writer most of all. Today, she happily spends her days writing, researching, teaching yoga, meditating, and attempting to surf. Molly’s words are published by Huffington Post and The Guardian, and some of her previous film projects can be seen on Hulu, Apple TV, or at the iconic Onassis Stegi in Athens.
How does ‘Vrai’ means gold in Spanish????
Hi Rémi, thank you for pointing that error out, I have fixed that in the article. Much appreciated!