Bride squad sunglasses

These are priced and packed like favours, not like glasses. A bag of ten costs less than one pair of anything you would wear again, which is the point: they go on for the first photograph on the Friday, they get swapped around all weekend, and by Sunday morning two pairs have gone under a car seat. Order the head count and two more, and do not spend the difference on a better pair, because the better pair is the one that gets sat on.

Shape matters more than colour in a group photograph. A rack of identical heart frames reads as one decision made by one person; a mixed bag of shapes reads as eight people who each picked something, which is usually the livelier picture. If the weekend involves water, remember that sunglasses sink and a cap does not, so a boat day is the one occasion where the hats on the neighbouring page earn their price and these do not. Where a pack here prints a count, ten is the middle of the range.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad roster, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.