Wedding Ring Boxes

Wedding Ring Box for Ceremony

A wedding ring box has one job during the ceremony: keep the rings secure until they are needed. The boxes here hold two or three rings — wedding bands, engagement rings, or both — and can be engraved with names, a date, or a short phrase. If you want a personalized wooden ring box or a ring bearer box with a velvet interior, you're in the right place.

Solid wood wedding ring boxes

Every wedding ring box here is cut from solid wood and finished by hand. Walnut, oak, or beech depending on the style. Whether you're looking for a personalized wedding ring box with engraving, a moss-lined wooden ring box for the ceremony, or a custom wedding ring holder for the ceremony — everything here is made to hold your rings securely on the day and stay on a shelf long after. Most styles hold two rings, and some designs include three slots. All styles can be engraved.

Why a box instead of a pillow

A ring pillow works in photographs taken in a studio. At an actual ceremony it wrinkles, absorbs humidity, and gives the rings a sloped surface to slide off of. Children drop them. The rings move.
A wooden ring box keeps the rings inside until someone opens it. The shot reads clean. No fabric bunching, no tilted surface in the aisle photograph.
Pillows are also difficult to photograph well outside of very controlled light. A wooden box with visible grain works from above, from the side, in close-up. The texture does the work without any styling.

What's in this collection

Rustic and classic styles — solid wood, simple closure, warm grain. Suits outdoor ceremonies, barn weddings, and anything where you want the box to be present without being the point.
Moss-lined boxes — wood frame, real preserved Icelandic moss inside. The moss doesn't dry out before the ceremony. Doesn't need water. Looks the same in October as it did when it arrived.
Gothic and black boxes — dark-stained wood, metal hardware, velvet interior. For couples whose wedding isn't white florals and soft lighting.
Viking and Norse boxes — Elder Futhark runes engraved into solid wood. People order these for handfasting ceremonies, pagan and Celtic weddings, and sometimes because they just want runes on the box.

Personalized wedding ring box

Any box in this collection can be engraved. Names, a date, coordinates, a line from your vows. The engraving is laser-engraved into the wood — permanent, and it deepens slightly as the wood ages.
For a proposal box, keep the text short. Initials and a date read better in close-up photography than a full sentence.
For a ceremony box, the inside of the lid works well. When the box is open and both rings are visible, that's usually what the photographer shoots.
Allow two to three weeks before the wedding or proposal date.

Ring bearer boxes

A wooden ring bearer box is easier to hand off than a pillow. Nothing is tied or pinned to it. The rings sit inside. The child walks, the officiant takes the box, it opens.
Sized for small hands. Can be engraved. Sits on a shelf afterward instead of going into a drawer.

After the wedding

Most ring pillows end up in storage. A wooden ring box usually doesn't. It can hold both rings overnight, sit on a dresser, or come with you when you travel. The wood darkens a little with age, and the engraving settles into the grain instead of feeling printed on.

This Ashkin Studio collection includes different sizes, closures, interiors, and engraving options, so the details change from box to box. Check the product page for the exact size, ring capacity, closure, lining, and engraving area. Some boxes are built for two rings, some have three slots. Some are lined with velvet. Others have real preserved moss inside. A few are left plain wood. Choose by the rings first, then by the ceremony.