Fingerprint Wedding Rings – Everything You Need to Know in 2024

Fingerprint wedding rings photograph

Discover all you need to know about the process of adding your fingerprints to rings in 2024. Over many years, we have created hundreds of designs—perfecting the process to create the perfect enhanced wedding rings. Our examples include artwork, the design process, engraving and videos of the finished results.

Why add a fingerprint to your wedding ring?

The technical name for fingerprints is dermatoglyphics. Each print features papillary ridges—giving each print the classic plough-line appearance. The unique appearance of each print provides a great opportunity to add a personal effect to each ring.

At the centre of each print, one of three different features defines the print. These vary between whorls (accidental whorls, double loop whorls, peacock’s eye, composite, and central pocket loop whorls) arches (plain or tented) and loops (radial or ulnnar). The science is fascinating! As part of our work, we centre on the unique features of each print and define the loops, whorls and arches to create a unique piece of art for your ring.

The process of how to create a fingerprint ring.

At Serendipity Diamonds, our fingerprint rings go far beyond the service most jewellers offer. Our service includes the kit, guidance on submitting prints and a complete enhancement service. As a result, we create the perfect rings or jewellery with an incredible personal touch.

Watch our short video showing some of the stages involved from sending your fingerprint kit to the finished rings. Personalise your wedding rings with a unique effect.

What makes our fingerprint rings unique?

The answer lies in the lengthy artwork preparation, the finish and general attention to detail.

Fingerprint enhancement

Every fingerprint goes through a manual process to perfect fingerprint artwork before engraving your ring. But, for clients who prefer no enhancement, we can apply prints exactly as they are sent. This post shows examples of prints before and after they have been cleaned up.

Before and after fingerprint examples showing final artwork for engraving

 

Black Fingerprint Rings

In the last 12 months, we added this unique effect to our Raven black wedding ring our collection. The Black Fingerprint Ring features a laser-engraved fingerprint applied on the inside or outside of the black satin surface of the ring.

Black fingerprint ring

Titanium fingerprint rings added to our website

For buyers with a smaller budget, we introduced the Titanium fingerprint available to buy online. This less expensive ring adds a personal effect to a domed Titanium wedding ring with a print. Choose your engraving inside or on the outer surface.

Find out the price and read more on our new Titanium ring. 

Personalised Fingerprint Wedding Rings

If you are looking for fingerprint wedding rings, we offer a unique way to customise your wedding rings. We are one of the few jewellers with a tried and tested method of creating beautiful rings.

By comparison, many other jewellery shops now offer this service. However, quality varies from one shop to another. This is especially true when it comes to the final quality of the print itself.

Classic fingerprint wedding ring with court comfort fit shown in 5mm width

Our classic FP01 fingerprint wedding ring is shown with a 5mm width, in Platinum, engraved on the outer surface.

We give you the tools to create your fingerprint in the early stages. This is where the work begins.

We perfected our methods over many years. The result? A beautifully crafted ring, or pair of rings.

Heart fingerprint rings set for bride and groom

Heart fingerprint wedding rings for bride and groom are available with a combined heart pattern created from two fingerprints.

Enhancing your prints for beautiful fingerprint rings

At Serendipity Diamonds, we always find ways to go the extra mile. Each fingerprint wedding ring receives our care and attention. If necessary, we run submitted fingerprints through our unique process to improve the quality of the fingerprint. The following image compares a fingerprint before and after the process.

We are sometimes asked what makes our wedding rings different from cheaper versions available online. Our enhancement process, dedicated support and option to fully personalise any style of wedding ring make our jewellery one of our most demanded services.

In addition, most of our wedding rings are made from solid precious metal and not cast. In addition, we make rings for each person to order.

Please note that we cannot enhance smudged fingerprints. We advise clients if their prints are good enough to work with once submitted and our small team will be very happy to offer any help needed. 

Fingerprint enhancement for wedding rings

Before and after. Showing a fingerprint before and after it has been through our process to ensure the best engraving. 

How do we refine fingerprints?

Most fingerprints go through our unique process. The results ensure the best possible engraving inside or on the outside of your wedding ring. We take a standard fingerprint and change the scan into clear artwork ready to engrave onto your ring.

Many fingerprints include small details besides the fingerprint. These appear when the skin is damaged, or dry. By ‘cleaning up’ the print by hand, at high magnification, we improve the end result.

Three steps showing the enhancement process for fingerprint engravings

Follow 5 simple steps to get perfect rings

For help, we provided a series of 5 steps – to create the perfect pair of wedding rings. The process takes around 4 weeks which includes the time taken to create the rings themselves. We can also match up your wedding band to your engagement ring band.

Fingerprint band with satin outer finish and engraving inside

Medium weight court (RWD001) with satin finish and fingerprint inside. This is just one possible wedding ring finish available at Serendipity Diamonds.

1. Choose your plain wedding rings

First, choose your wedding rings. Decide on the basic wedding ring shape. We can engrave on the inside or outside of most rings.

Remember any wedding ring with a pattern only suits engraving on the inner surface.

Consider metal choice, width, finger size and style.  Please note that due to the high quality of the finish, we can only fingerprint engrave wedding rings bought from us.

What if you’re not yet decided on the rings?

If you haven’t yet decided on the wedding ring styles, you might want to take your prints first. These can be used for other jewellery too.

With this in mind, you can order the stand-alone fingerprint jewellery kit here, before making any purchase.  We’ll refund this cost against the engraved wedding ring order if you place one afterwards.

Extra wide fingerprint engraved wedding ring

2. Place your order

Place your order on our website and choose the engraving option that best represents your needs. We create your fingerprint wedding rings from the basic ring ordered with the engraving option.

How to order your fingerprint wedding ring

There are added options for both fingerprints and wording.

Contact us for any other additions. If you are in the USA, Australia, Europe or Canada, our website gives you the overall cost at the checkout, including insured delivery and duty paid.

3. Wait for the fingerprint jewellery kit and then take your prints

Fingerprint wedding ring and jewellery engraving kit

If you want to order your fingerprint kit first, place your order here, and we will refund the cost later against any order placed for fingerprint jewellery.

You will receive a fingerprint kit within the week, and we deliver the print kit worldwide. Once it arrives, take your time trying to get a good print for your rings. Try alternative fingers.

Photo paper with a satin or glossy finish can produce great results. Coat your finger with ink from the ink strip inside in the kit. Press down without rolling the finger. Remember that the most detail is on the lower part of your fingertip.

Aim for a clear print with lots of detail. For this reason, make as many attempts as you want. Remember – the clearer the detail, the better the results.

Example fingerprints showing the best type of print to send to us

The image above shows the clarity of print you should aim for to achieve ideal results for your rings. First, the print on the left is far too blurred. Conversely, the print on right is perfect.

And, if you decide to scan and email your print, please avoid sending blurred, smudged or blurred prints as our examples show. Remember that lines and marks on the fingerprint will come out on the engraving.

4. Write your instructions

Fingerprint-Instructions
Send us explicit instructions on which fingerprint goes where.

Use the help sheet on the reverse of the fingerprinted paper to tell us important information, including your name, order number (if known), and instructions, including which ring the print is to be applied.

Next, use the box to tick, telling us if you want the fingerprint on the inside or on the outside.

And, if you have requested wording, please tell us the wording and what font you would like on your fingerprint wedding rings.

Then, either post us or scan and email us your fingerprints and instructions to our office address.

Email: enquiries@serendipitydiamonds.com

Our office address is on the Contact Us page of the website.

5. Await your beautiful fingerprint wedding rings


Example of a completed fingerprint wedding ring for a groom

While you are busy taking your fingerprints and sending instructions, we work on the fingerprint rings themselves. Next, once work has been completed, we apply your engravings. Finally, after your rings have been engraved and re-finished, we are ready to send out your beautiful fingerprint wedding rings.

View suitable wedding rings

Inlaid Fingerprint Wedding Rings

One of our previous fingerprint jewellery commissions, late in December 2016 featured fingerprints engraved within an inlaid central band, crafted from two metal colours—18ct White Gold and 18ct Rose Gold.

Two colour fingerprint wedding rings

Two colours inlaid fingerprint wedding rings created for bride and groom

Remembrance Fingerprint Rings

Remembrance fingerprint rings honour a loved one. Moreover, they capture fingerprints for eternity. We advise you to keep prints and email us high-resolution scanned copies. By doing this, your fingerprints will be available to re-apply if anything happens to the finished ring.

What if your fingerprints are not of such great quality?

As part of our services, we now provide memorial rings with a fingerprint and provide all the help and guidance needed with sensitivity and understanding. Additionally, we provide reconstructive help to restore prints. At the same time, so prints appear too faint. Or, in some cases lack enough detail. Ultimately, we provide help to restore your print.

Remembrance Fingerprint Ring, just one application for fingerprint rings

Example of a memorial fingerprint ring with a little time spent to improve the print quality prior to engraving. 

If a relative has passed and prints are not of a high enough quality, we can sometimes help by spending some time improving the fingerprints sent. For this reason, we discuss the quality of prints with you first.

We do this using various techniques to better the final results of your print. In fact, few jewellers offer a service for memorial fingerprint rings. As a result, we produce great results on the final rings.

Print enhancement often takes hours of work to better the final print. As a result, the final ring looks amazing. See the example of our fingerprint art process at the start of this post. 

Heart Patterned Fingerprint Wedding Rings

Unique fingerprint wedding rings from Serendipity Diamonds

View prices and choose your heart fingerprint wedding rings in our shop section of the website

View other fingerprint ring videos on our YouTube channel. 

By way of another update, earlier this year we introduced a brand new pattern. Two fingerprints are applied in a unique position to create a heart-shaped effect across two rings. We advise using a flat-edged design such as the Arreton wedding ring which has a flat outer edge suited to this type of engraving.

This combination will work with varying widths, metal choices and finger sizes, but we advise similar-width wedding rings for the best effect.

If you would like any extra help on any of the fingerprint wedding ring styles you see above, please contact us. We are happy to discuss other styles and advise on the cost and work involved with a fingerprint ring purchase

Remember to allow plenty of time for your wedding. For example, most bespoke wedding rings take around 4-5 weeks as a guide from start to finish.

Precious metals to avoid when you’re considering a Fingerprint ring

Lastly, it is important to add a note about which metals to avoid when choosing your fingerprint rings. Avoid any precious metal lacking durability.

Choose 18ct Gold instead of 9ct Gold. If you really want 9ct Gold, make sure your fingerprint goes on the inside of the ring.

Externally, the print wears quickly because 9ct Gold is less durable. In addition, avoid Silver. In contrast, 950 Platinum, 18ct Gold, Palladium and Titanium are all good choices.

Fingerprint jewellery – more designs and more choice

On a final note, we recently added to our collection of jewellery offered with this unique service. Look out for our other fingerprint jewellery with more fingerprint jewellery styles.

View our current promotions running at Serendipity Diamonds

Can fingerprints be added to a diamond eternity ring?

We receive many requests for diamond fingerprint rings. For example, fingerprint diamond engagement rings to fingerprint eternity rings.

Our example below shows a recent fingerprint diamond eternity ring with two children’s prints added inside the ring. This idea is perfect for mothers rings standing for each child within a single ring style.

As part of our service, each print went through our process to clarify detail.

Fingerprint diamond eternity ring

View the fingerprint diamond eternity ring on the bespoke page of our website

Fingerprint cufflinks make an ideal wedding day or anniversary gift. For this reason, we now fingerprint engrave cufflinks in a variety of shapes. Find out more in our dedicated cufflink area of the website.

Round men's cufflinks with a fingerprint engraving applied to the surface of each cufflink.

Round fingerprint cufflinks crafted in Titanium

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a fingerprint ring?

A fingerprint ring features an actual fingerprint laser engraved onto the inner or outer surface of a ring.

How long do fingerprint rings take to make?

Fingerprint rings typically take between 2 to 4 weeks to create, depending on the ring design ordered.

How do I take my fingerprint?

Use our fingerprint kit, which includes detailed instructions. Either, order this separately or wait to receive your free kit after ordering your rings. Then, return the fingerprints or scan them in high resolution and email them to us by way of an attachment.

Can I add more than one fingerprint to a ring?

Yes. You can add as many fingerprints as you like. There is an additional cost. Please contact us for a quote.

What is a memorial fingerprint ring?

A memorial ring features the fingerprint of a deceased person. In fact, we create memorial ashes rings with the addition of a fingerprint, or we can apply a print to any plain band.

What happens if I cannot provide a clear fingerprint?

If you have a low-quality fingerprint, our work process ensures a clear final print on the finished ring. First, contact us with your print. Then, we will be happy to advise you on the suitability of any print taken.

Can a fingerprint be added to my own ring?

Unfortunately, we don’t add prints to existing rings unless they have been purchased from Serendipity.

What is the best ring width for the engraving?

For women, we recommend a 3mm wide band or 2.5mm as a minimum width. The wider the band, the more detail can be applied to the inside or outside surface of the ring. At the same time, men tend to choose 4mm or 5mm as minimum widths.

Can you add a fingerprint to Sterling Silver?

We recommend against Sterling Silver rings for fingerprint engraving unless the print is applied on the inner surface. To explain, the softness of Silver results in wear to the print in a short space of time.

How do I find out my ring size?

We recommend ordering in the correct ring size. For this reason, we have ring sizers available in plain sample rings to check before ordering the final rings.

Are there any alternatives to sending a fingerprint?

Yes. If you can take a clear macro photo of your fingertip (for example, using an iPhone 14), we can create the artwork from a photograph. Or, a clear photograph of the inked print. Please see our example photograph for the clarity we ideally need when working from a photo. Fingertip photograph

About Mark Johnson

My name is Mark and I'm founder at Serendipity Diamonds. By day you'll find me working in our showroom—in a variety of roles. My work (which I love) ranges from photographing jewellery, to writing blog posts and helping clients with my colleagues Drina, Emily and Debbie.

About Mark Johnson

My name is Mark and I'm founder at Serendipity Diamonds. By day you'll find me working in our showroom—in a variety of roles. My work (which I love) ranges from photographing jewellery, to writing blog posts and helping clients with my colleagues Drina, Emily and Debbie.