Mila Kunis has spent her Bad Moms promotional tour “keeping it real.” And maybe I put too much faith in Mila, but I believe that she does keep it real. I believe that she’s cheap/frugal, low-key and that she doesn’t want to raise entitled a—hole children. She’s also talked in the past about how she’s always saved her money and she’s not one for buying the It Bag, the It Car, the It House or whatever. Well, here’s further evidence of that: after Ashton Kutcher bought her a big engagement ring, Mila said “no” to getting some blinged-out wedding band. She ended up buying their wedding bands on Etsy for $190.
No million-dollar rings for this couple! Mila Kunis revealed that she bought her and Ashton Kutcher’s wedding bands on Etsy for a total of $190. During her appearance on Conan on Wednesday, July 27, Conan O’Brien complimented the actress’ simple but chic ring. “It’s not showy,” the late-night host said. “It’s not, like, incredibly flashy, which I think is cool.”
“I can’t believe that I’m telling anybody this story. So, my husband and I got married. This was a while ago. He got me a beautiful engagement ring, like stunning, stunning, stunning!” she said. “But for our wedding bands — for when we got married — I decided to just get them off Etsy. Our wedding bands are from Etsy. I wanted the thinnest possible platinum band. I mean, you can’t see it, but it’s super, super thin,” she said, holding up her hand for all to see. “I looked at how much Tiffany’s [cost] and I was like, ‘They’re how much? This is astronomical.’ So, I went on Etsy and I was like, ‘$90?’ I was like, ‘Buy now!’ $90, everybody! Ashton’s was $100, so technically his wedding band was a little bit more expensive than mine.”
The That ‘70s Show alum is occasionally seen sporting a gigantic diamond from her husband, but she prefers the subtle band. “My engagement ring is beautiful, but I don’t ever wear it,” she told O’Brien. “This ring, I’m like, $90. It’s great. That person on Etsy had no clue whose ring they were making but they were wonderful and very nice and polite and generous.”
I think that’s really cool, and looking at the band, it suits her. I bet Ashton really spent a lot of money on her engagement ring, and she’s right, she rarely wears it, I looked through the photo archives. You know from whom I would expect this? Lauren Conrad. Isn’t this an LC move, to get a wedding band off Etsy?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Eh! no biggie me and my gfs etsy jewelry all the time and I’ve encourage my bf to do the same if he is ever so inclined to goof up some money on stuff for me
I have bought neat jewelry from artisans on Etsy several times as well. I’m so happy to see someone like her retain their humble habits and just be regular people. And the fact that “Michael” and “Jackie” got together and hitched IRL is so awesome.
So very cool…
Hubs has bought me a few things on etsy. I’ve never been disappointed with it. Some of the stuff I’ve gotten was super cheapo stuff, green fingers and all. But I knew the material going in, and didn’t pay much, so meh. There’s some super gorgeous stuff on etsy… and it’s nice to support a smaller business instead of a chain.
I try to favour individual businesses over chains also. Etsy is a good place and even eBay sometimes. It just takes a bit longer to find people you like is all. I’m lucky enough to live in an area with few chains and many independents too. Last Christmas, aside from a couple of things specifically requested by the Sixlets, I didn’t buy a single gift from a chain store. I feel – perhaps absurdly – proud of that!
My husband and I got Tungsten bands from Amazon for $30 each. We don’t care about expensive jewelry. And we’re not cheap. Or poor. We just don’t care about having expensive, fancy rings. They are simple, sturdy, and they work for us just fine. I also didn’t want an engagement ring, so that was part of the deal, too. 🙂 The value and worth of my marriage is not reflected in, or proportional to, how much money I threw away on jewelry (that doesn’t retain its value at all, I’d like to add).
that was my sentiment. my partner and i spent something like $400 on relatively simple bands, and they were only that expensive because we had them custom-made. The money we could have spent on a multi-thousand-dollar ring went for our house fund.
i love the delicacy of that ring.
But I got my band at Tiffany’s and I adore it. I compared similar bands at other stores and it wasn’t that much more for the one at Tiffany’s (and this is coming from somebody who won’t make the $ this girl does in a year in my whole lifetime so…)
to each their own so long as you love it.
Ha, this made me smile. We payed the exact same prices for our rings, mine was cheaper too. We ordered them on amazon less than a week before the wedding, because we are organized like that.
My engagement ring is more “noble” and I too never wear it. I’m not very comfortable with expensive items.
I love my engagement ring as the actual diamond belonged to his grandmother and he collaborated with a friend on the band. I already warned him to not go crazy on my wedding band and he insisted he’d be happy with a basic band. I like the way Mila did it…there’s things to spend money on and things you really shouldn’t.
Mine is like that as well. It’s a beautiful yellow gold filigree band that my hubby’s grandmother used to marry his grandfather in 1942. It’s even inscribed with their initials inside the band. Then she had to have it cut off her finger and used the blue diamond from another ring to piece it back together into a single gorgeous band that is low profile enough to avoid snagging on everything the way a raised setting would. I have had many compliments over it in the last 15 years, and never take it off. Since it’s technically my engagement ring, we got simple matching bands as well that don’t compete with the lovely antique ring.
I wear my grandmother’s ring as well. Not sure it’s age… but it too is a beautiful gold filigree setting. She left it to me when she died and her only request was that I not reset it.
Who needs to spend money on a ring or rings when I have a beautiful and sentimental one to wear every day. I would actually be annoyed/angry at my partner if he spent money on ring. It’s just so ridiculous to me.
If I am to buy jewllery in general, Etsy or a local artisan market all the way!!!
I agree, Layla. Not that I mind new jewelry ( I have far too much but love it anyway).
When my little brother got married last year, I gave them one of my own grandmother’s dainty little silver bands that is set with a row of opals on top. They took it to a jeweler, had the stones reset to replace one that was missing, and used that as her ring.
He was also happy to have something that has been passed down, and it suits the two of them as a very sweet and nonmaterialistic couple. He’s a lawyer and she’s a dual language special-ed teacher who works with underserved school districts. I just love them to pieces.
Aww, this is making me sad. I wore my husband’s great grandmother’s ring that was gifted to him for me by his grandmother for the first 8 years of our marriage, only to have it fall of my hand and be lost forever while I was losing weight due to morning sickness. I loved that ring; it really is so nice to have a family heirloom to treasure, and I’m so sad I won’t have it to pass on to our son one day. 🙁
I did the same kind of. My mother inherited a ring off her aunt that was apparently quite ugly but she had it remade into a solitaire. When I was about to get engaged she gave it to me and we had it remade into another type of ring again. Fresh style but the raw materials must be nearly 100 years old now. I don’t use a wedding band because the original gold has made quite a thick band on the e-ring already.
My wedding band is HUGE! As in, I had to get a man’s wedding ring to get the width that I wanted. And it’s heavy. I loved it at the time, but looking back, I wish I had listened to the jeweler. He told me I would regret it, because moisture gets trapped beneath those wide wedding bands and can cause irritation and infection.
He was right! In the fall, winter and spring, the ring is no problem, but summer is a nightmare because of the humidity. Sometimes I just have to take off my wedding ring and let my finger rest.
Lately, I have started wearing my late mother’s eternity band my father gave her. It’s much thinner and way more comfortable! If I had to do it over again, I’d probably get a very thin 18K yellow gold band. I’ve even talked to my husband about one from some place like Brilliant Earth or Etsy.
I have the same problem with my wider band. So, now I am heading to Etsy to see what’s on offer.
Love this! Mine are from etsy too. And you can get pretty much whatever you want off that site.
I agree. I got a neat ‘fidget’ ring for Christmas that’s from an Etsy craftsman here in Austin. It’s a simple silver band with tiny gold wires surrounding that spin around the band. I love that it’s chic and goes with almost anything.
Ooh that sounds so cool! I’m always fidgeting with my rings …
Jessie, It’s a great ring. I’m a notorious fidgeter, and it annoys the crap out of my husband. He had bought me some plastic fidget rings previously and they were such a success that we took the concept and incorporated it into my ‘real’ jewelry collection.
There are lots of different styles, but I tend to prefer the spinning bands that are low key yet provide something to play with when the mood strikes.
This one was from Stones Throw Jewelry on Etsy and cost me about $80 for a solid half-inch wide silver band with gold wires around it. They also have pretty leaf patterns as well.
She is my palette cleanser of the day. I love this lady.
That’s an awesome way to put it. If I was a public figure, I’d probably try to be like Mila (and end up being as dorky as Jennifer Lawrence in my futile attempts to be dignified). 🙂
We bought our wedding bands from Etsy too!
I thought it was quite sweet until she said, “That person on Etsy had no clue whose ring they were making but they were wonderful and very nice and polite and generous.”
What the hell did she expect? Not quite so down-to-earth and humble as she’d like us to think. I’m starting to think her and AK are actually a good match.
Manjit, I’m wondering if she said that because their names were on the order invoice and she probably gets a lot of attention from other designers who would recognize them and want the public exposure of their products.
They don’t exactly have common names and I’d probably covertly notice it myself if I was doing business with them. I still think he’s kind of douchy, but she strikes me as being more like Michelle Obama with keeping things simple and not showboating like so many other public figures. I think she grounds him in a way that Demi never did.
She’s promoting the movie right now and has to do the press junket as part of her contract, but I like her off-color remarks about being FWB with her future husband. You don’t really see them famewhoring all over the place, and I love it when she makes comments that reference her modest Ukrainian background.
For a couple that’s supposedly so private, she sure has been oversharing during promotion of her movie.
I think so too.
The frugal thing is something weird that I don’t trust completely.
A woman I know always prides herself with how thrifty she is, buying clothes from second hand and all that but in the same time she hates it if her husband doesn’t buy her the best of everything. She also loves luxury that somehow comes from others, she gets many expensive gifts and she owns some expensive stuff that is only pulled out in front of rich people.
I also doubt she would have married a frugal man.
I don’t know what the logic is but it is what it is. That Etsy wedding band near that huge engagement ring reflects exactly this behavior. Maybe some like to show off the expensive things others buy for them and that’s it.
“The frugal thing is something weird that I don’t trust completely.”
als, I’m completely with you on this, especially to the extent that people take such apparent public pride in broadcasting to all of us how frugal they are, and how they eschew ostentation, and just want to keep it all simple, like those folks who eat nothing and I mean absolutely nothing out of a box, ever. Never mind that AK got her a bang-up rock, right? If she eschews showy things so much, why not say to him, “No, honey, that’s sweet of you, but you know how authentic and frugal I am, so I don’t need a bang-up rock from you–let’s stick with my super-thin conspicuously non-ostentatious band from Etsy, which in any event is a good card to pull out of my hand when I’m on press junkets.”
Hoo-boy. Sorry to be so grouchy today! 🙂
It’s the latest trend amongst celebrities to be “down to earth”. The more they try, the less you believe them.
Jasmine–yes, exactly! Thank you. That’s it.
Awesome! And as a little shocker to the American commenters here: my parents don’t have wedding bands. At all.
Not too cheap at all. I love that they supported an artist on Etsy instead of going with a big name jeweler for their wedding bands. The whole diamond ring thing is a just an advertising ploy anyway…if people like diamonds that’s fine but I also think it’s fine to do what YOU want instead of what the wedding industry expects.
I hardly wear my diamond engagement ring either, I feel like everyday activities are just too hard on it so it sits in my medicine cabinet most of the time. My wedding band is extremely plain and thin, purchased before Etsy existed but still in that price range.
I love all the stories posted here and only wish I could see pictures of all of these romantic rings!
I have a beautiful “real” ring that hubs got in 2003. It was stolen just before our wedding, as thankfully insurance replaced it.
Now, as years have passed, my hands swell from time to time. We have three active kids. I wanted another pretty ring, but not expensive. So I have a tasteful fake set from Berricle that always gets compliments. The center stone is just around a carat, and it looks real for $100
I miss my rings. Engagement ring was actually a promise ring, one small diamond, he paid about $350. Wedding band came from a pawn shop of all places, a thin Vera Wang for whatever jeweler band with channel set diamonds, I think they’re called. It was actually cheaper than my engagement ring. They’re gone now, for reasons that feel far too poor white trash. He always said he wishes he’d gotten bigger stones, but they were perfect for me, and received tons of compliments. *sigh* 😳
I looked at the photo and saw a cheap engagement ring with a tiny stone, and several bands–which one is supposed to be the wedding band?
Um… the one that’s on her ring finger!
The others look like costume jewellery
Yep, I got my band from Etsy, too. I work with my hands a lot, so an ornate band is out of the question (and my modern-y pointy engagement ring was already driving me nuts, snagging on everything). We looked at a couple local shops before I found a woman based out of Seattle who works with recycled metals. Price was right, service was great, and I have the simple ring on my hand and my engagement ring on a necklace.
$90 sounds just about right.
My husband to be at the time got me a 2ct white gold solitaire engagement ring, and I knew I wanted something simple & classic to compliment it. The band is 3mm wide, so we found plain 3mm wide white gold bands to go with them. It was from jeweler on ebay(?) I think, & with free shipping & engraving they were about $95 apiece. As opposed to the hundreds (or thousands) we were quoted at popular chain stores.
So I am all about this.
You go Kunis.
My fiance got my engagement ring at Berricle,they actually have some pretty good jewelry that won’t cost an arm and a leg,
OMG guys, the Etsy jeweller had no idea whom she was making the rings for! … Like Mila and Ashton are the king and queen? Quite full of herself there.