Finding Your Ring Size at Home

Every week our concierge is asked, usually in a whisper: how do I find her ring size without ruining the surprise? Here is the method we trust, the mistakes we see, and the reassurance that matters most — at GLISORA, resizing after the proposal is always on the house.

The borrowed-ring method (best)

If you can briefly borrow a ring she already wears on the correct finger, you have everything you need. Press it gently onto paper and trace the inside of the band with a sharp pencil, or lay it flat and photograph it beside a ruler with the ring's inner edges aligned to the markings. Send us either — the trace or the photo — and we will convert it precisely.

The string method (acceptable, with care)

Wrap a strip of paper — not stretchy string — snugly around the base of the finger, mark the overlap, and measure the length in millimetres. That number is the inner circumference; we will translate it to US, UK or EU sizing for you.

The mistakes that skew everything

• Measuring cold hands. Fingers shrink noticeably in the cold. Measure at the end of a warm day, when hands are at their true size.
• Ignoring the knuckle. The ring must clear the knuckle, then sit snugly. If the knuckle is prominent, measure both and tell us — we split the difference.
• Wrong finger, wrong hand. Ring fingers differ between hands by up to half a size. Left hand for most engagement traditions in the US, Canada and the UK.

When in doubt, size up. A ring that slips over the knuckle can be perfected; a proposal interrupted by a stuck ring cannot.

If you truly cannot measure

Tell us her height, build and a photograph of her hands if you have one — our workshop's educated guess lands within one size remarkably often. We then finish the ring in that size and adjust it after the yes, quickly and without charge.

Measuring for a surprise? Message our concierge on WhatsApp — discretion is part of the service.