I wear glasses. I wear them pretty much every day because I'm short sighted. Not like walking-into-doors short sighted, but anything more than a few metres away goes from high definition to standard definition and I can get headaches if I don't wear my glasses for a couple of days. It's worse when I go outside and I have been known to not wear them on my days off if I'm just puttering around the house but not longer than that. I can't wear contact lenses because of my astigmatism and they irritate my eyes. So I have a quandary: on the day, do I wear my glasses or not? I'm not sure which I prefer. I've uploaded pictures of me with and without glasses (but also no makeup so it will look a little different.)

What are your thoughts?

Im thinking of getting conacts for the wedding too so that i can see but am just too scared incase they get lost in my eye or something.

I wear glasses for work and after originally just wearing them if my eyes were tired, I'm finding I'm wearing them longer and longer each day. I dont intend to wear them on the day, for me I think they'll take away from the look I want to achieve. I've never really thought about getting contacts before because i've only recently started to rely on my glasses more but I might get contacts for the wedding, just to make sure I can see everything, that I'm not straining my eyes, and that my astigmatism is corrected for the day lol x

I have the same issue as you, a few days without and I know about it. I don't intend to wear mine for most of the day (ceremony onwards) , but they'll probably go on for most of the evening. That way, I don't think I'll suffer too much.

I have worn glasses since i was a t Junior school and started with contacts 12 years ago and although i do wear my glasses most of the time i do love my contacts (was looking into eye laser before got engaged but cant afford to buy our house, a wedding and eye laser). I also have astigmatism and yes i have had to try several different types of contacts to find ones that are confortable for me.

Like Ziggyboo says if you are comfortable with wearing your glasses than its fine but although my H2B is use to seeing me in my galses i wouldnt feel confident or happy to wear them on my wedding day.

Speak to your option and see what he recomments and try different ones there are lots out there for astigmatism and also it my be worth trying different solutions i have had problems with solutions not the contacts!

Good luck x

Thank kirsty, what kind do you get? I heard that you can get daily ones or ones that do a whole month!x

Oh, thanks for the Mrs Brammer2be, i didn't realise that it goes by your lense prescription. I only wear my glassess for driving and telly etc but should proably wear them more!

Princess2be the best thing to do is pop to your option they will be able to advise you properly.
Suppose in one way its like beauty products some people rave about one brand but other can use it.

If the optiotion give you trials and you dont get on with them dont be disheartened try another set i think i am on my 5th different brand since i started wearing them 2 years ago and even then i had one type i used for 5 years was so comfortable and could wear them ALL day (to work then out in evening) but one day put them in and irrated like made so had to change to different brand and type.

Hope you can find something x

oh dont be scared it will get use to putting them in but u do get use to it (i actually fidn it hard to take them out than put them in, and even more so when had a good drink lol) x

I have astigmatism and I wear contacts too. I would recomend going to opticians and having a chat. i wear continuous wear which means I sleep in mine and take them out for 2/3days a month while I wear glasses then put a fresh pair in. I have been doing this for 7 yrs or so and no probs. Have been wearing glasses long term since I was about 15/16. I love my contacts and would never go back to glasses full time. Hoping to have eye surgery in next few yrs.

xxx

I can't believe you would be much stronger than me, I am quite blind lol.

Glad your getting a 2nd opinion.

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KirstyJ22- When I had dailies I felt the prescription I had wasn't strong enough so I had to switch to monthlies because they just don't make dailies in anything higher than +4.50 and mines a +4.75. (if I remember rightly)

I'm seriously long sighted lol.

Both me and my h2b wear glasses as we're both short sighted (his slightly worse than mine). I kept thinking about this as I didn't want my face to be taken up to much as I have thick dark rimmed frames and I was also worried about the reflection on them. However after speaking to my make-up artist, photographer and even investing in a lovely pair of thin metal frames from a well known opticians at a cheap price, I am going to be me and where mine for the whole day........ just the lady my h2b fell in love with x

I was thinking of this too as I wear glasses and every one I spoke to said to wear them as people would notice me for not wearing them other then me looking good in my dress which made sense xx

I think I'm definitely going for contacts, I want to start using them anyway as after two years of wearing specs I don't feel like I look like 'me' anymore...didn't need them until the ripe old age of twenty three lol! If I'd worn them all my life I would probably wear them on my wedding day though xx