[ocdtrekkie]

Maybe things are handled a bit different in the UK than they are here. Generally getting any glasses starts with a visit to your optometrist. Very few people actually get the prescription settings of their lenses handed to them (maybe that's different in the UK?), but place their order through the same vision place as their eye doctor.

Lenses are usually a couple hundred dollars, and your frames will probably be a hundred or more as well. Usually if you have insurance with vision coverage, it helps pay for some or all of that, for a single pair, on a semi-regular basis.