Glasses brides and veils: Diving into contacts

You often hear about brides that start new health regimens when they are planning because they want to look and feel their best on their wedding day. I don't necessarily support the idea of women losing weight just for one day so they can look skinnier and "prettier" in photos, but I do admire the women who use the wedding as a goal to jump-start their healthier lifestyle they've wanted.

 

(Image via Depression of Spirits)

I happen to be one of those lucky bastards who has a fast metabolism and is naturally thin. The hating can start now… I know it is unfair. I eat scads of chocolate and cheese and generally whatever I want. No… this post is not about me starting a wedding diet. I can assure you that's not going to happen!

What I wasn't blessed with is great eyesight. I'm not close to being blind, but I do have a moderate enough problem that the Swiss Strassenverkehrsamt told me I need to wear my glasses when I'm driving and I get irritated if I forget my glasses and try to see a film with subtitles.

I have slowly gotten used to wearing glasses every day since my prescription has gotten stronger over the past few years… and as the spoilt brat of an ophthalmologist, I have 4 pairs of my current prescription:

Armani - 1st pair ever, sexy nerd glasses

Ted Baker - Classic and light. Mr. FC loooves these ones.

  

Jai Kudo - A bit heavy at times, but very stylish. Maybe not as stylish as the Christmas Story bunny suit, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

Safilo - My "old man" glasses. Can't stress how much Mr. FC hates these. In fact, he takes them off of my face when I wear them in front of them. I think he'd be horrified if I walked down the aisle in them!

I did contemplate wearing glasses on the wedding day, and as you can see many brides are simply gorgeous with their double eyes:

(Image via Bridal Buds)

(Photo by Allegro Photography via Elizabeth Anne Designs)

 

(Photo by Laura_libert on Flickr)

 

(Photo by La Photographie via jonesdepalma)

My problem is that none of my glasses will work well with a traditional veil. I don't want to end up looking like this:

Glasses and long veils don't mix! For all the glasses brides out there… more power to you, but as much as I love all my glasses, I just do not want to wear them on my wedding day. Coupled with the fact that I always get caught in awkward glasses photos like this:

Foggy in the cold.

I was trying to be "sexy" for Mr. FC in this photo. **trying**

This is prime example of glasses #fail. Covering up my eyes completely! I'd rather this not be an issue in half/all of our wedding photos.

I even manage to get in weird glasses photos when I'm not wearing them!

And here you can't really see it, but Mr. FC pointed out how his eyebrow is pushing my glasses up. I'd rather not have my glasses be something we have to worry about when cuddling for intimate photos.

Now, I could walk around sans glasses on the big day, but do I really want all of the pretty details, including Mr. Funnel Cake, to be a little blurry? On our wedding day? No… I don't think so. What's that you say? Why don't I just put my contacts in?

Folks, I have NEVER had contacts. Ever. You know that person at the doctors clenching their eyelids shut when the technician tries to take their eye pressure? That's me. I have problems. They have to use the children's eye pressure pens on me because I'm a big baby.

I've been thinking about contacts for awhile, but was always too scared about poking my eye that I've put it off. Now thinking about wedding photos, I mulled over my contact dilemma again and thought maybe I should make the plunge. So in April I made my way to the doctor for my first contact lens fitting.

How did it go? Well… the optometrist did give up on trying to put the contacts on me after about 2 minutes. She handed me over to her very patient, kind assistant who spent a good 40 minutes with me coaching me on how to do it myself. After a long struggle mauling my eyelids with my fingers… I finally got the little stinkers in and out and in again. I'm even wearing them as I type this! (Exciting!)

Now it's off to the bathroom to take them out before bed and see if I can manage poking my eye for the 10000000000th time today.

Did your wedding planning push you to make any lifestyle changes you'd been meaning to do?

**All photos/drawings personal unless noted**