Weddingbee Blog

I have worn glasses since I was about eight. And I need them all the time, or else I walk into walls or people or traffic. At 13, I convinced my parents to get me contact lenses—it made sports at school much easier (when your glasses steam up in your goalie helmet on the field-hockey field, you don’t have time to wipe them!), and I felt a little cooler. Between the ages of 13 and about 18, I wore my contacts constantly. I tried all the different types, including a crazy type that you could actually leave in your eyes overnight for up to a month. As I got older, though, I felt my eyes getting drier and drier, until I had to give them up. It was also at that point that I learned to embrace my specs as part of me. I started getting interesting frames to make a statement. These were the first frames I really loved:

They were BCBG, fake tortoiseshell, with sky blue on the inside! They were definitely too small for my face and sat wrong. Still, I wore them all the way through university and loved them. Soon after meeting Cinnamon Buns, though, I decided to go for a new pair.

(That’s my “cold disgusts me” face.) I loved these wire frames because they were a little different with the way the earpieces flowed into the top of the frames. I loved these so much that when I finally had to get a new pair of glasses because of my prescription, I almost asked for new lenses in these frames. I ended up not doing that, firstly for some change, and secondly because they’d have had to take the glasses away from me to put new lenses in, and then I’d have been immobilized. I ended up with these purple Karl Lagerfeld glasses. (I don’t buy big-designer clothes, so I’ve always figured I might as well splurge on designer glasses because they’re always on my face! It’s why I only buy new ones every four years or so.)

(photo above by Fotograffika; top three photos are personal ones)

These current glasses are thicker and bigger than anything I’ve had in a while. I like them, and I’ve been wearing them every day since I got them, but I’m unsure about wearing them at the wedding.

Now there is no question about it, I will be wearing glasses at the wedding. Contacts are no longer an option, especially as I had my eyes-too-dry problem before I moved to a place with almost no humidity. And anyway, I’m a speccy girl! I wear glasses! That’s me! I just think that the black-wire frames might be a bit more elegant, less obtrusive, and slightly less “trendy.” I feel that I have a timeless wedding gown, and I don’t want to look back at the pictures and my glasses and say, “That is so…10s? Teens? Is that what we call that decade?”

All glasses tend to slide down my nose, so I’ll have to be vigilant about pushing them up so they don’t cut my eyes in half in photos. I’m confident about pulling off glasses and a birdcage veil because I keep looking at this gorgeous photo:

(source)

Part of me wonders if going back to my old glasses would be odd for the wedding. The purple glasses are my current “look,” after all. Everyone who is invited will have seen me in exclusively those glasses for the year leading up to the wedding (well, the local people, anyway!). But I still lean back toward the black frames…I’d need new lenses with my current prescription, but at least I won’t have to buy all new frames for the wedding.

Which frames would you choose? Are you a speccy bride?