RIP: Wedding Ring Coffin

Divorcees: just because you can’t bury that hatchet doesn’t mean you can’t bury the past… literally.

That’s the message from an innovative new company that has created a way for women and men to mourn the loss of their marriages. The founders of Wedding Ring Coffin have created a product that helps people “close the lid on a dead marriage.” Consider the fact that statistics estimate that one in two marriages will end in divorce, and there’s a huge market for such a genius concept.

After the love is gone, most people are at a loss for what to do with their weddings rings, the symbol of the ties that bind. Such was the dilemma that Jill Testa faced when her 20-year-marriage came to an end. Initially, she smashed her ring on the anniversary of the day that she and her husband had met almost two decades earlier. She even gave the ring a eulogy. However, she didn’t feel the final farewell was fitting enough.

It wasn’t until sitting at a funeral a few months later that the 49-year-old New Yorker came up with the clever idea to create a casket for weddings rings. And so, www.weddingringcoffin.com was born. It goes without saying that the coffin craze has begun as divorcees around the world have flocked to the site to sweep up their own personalized coffin. For most people, it’s a sign of closure. 

“People like to have rituals and ceremonies,” Jill tells ShouldIDivorceHim.com. “I think the act of putting the ring into a coffin makes it feel more official. When you close the lid on the coffin, it’s a way of closing the lid on that chapter of your life. For a lot of people it helps. I think other people find some humor in doing that. Using humor to deal with a bad situation is a good thing.”