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"Uh oh. This bride did a 180! Writes Save the Date reader Serena: Two months ago, my bridesmaids and I went shopping for their bridesmaid dresses. They picked a dress at the second store we visited and everyone bought it. I definitely wanted them to have input on their dresses ... but in hindsight, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even like the dress they picked! In fact, I hate it! My wedding colors are lavender and apple green. The dresses they bought are dark purple and sort of have a black shimmer to them. I just can&amp;amp;#8217;t imagine they&amp;amp;#8217;ll look nice when everything else for the wedding is light and airy and summery. Can I ask them to return the dresses and buy different ones? Or will that make me a total bridezilla? Help! Here are my thoughts: On a scale of 1 to Making Your Bridesmaids Diet, I&amp;amp;#8217;d say asking your friends to return the dresses isn&amp;amp;#8217;t a huge deal. In fact, the first bridesmaid dress I bought for Petra&amp;amp;#8217;s wedding&amp;amp;#8212;a black Sasha Fierce number with feathers!&amp;amp;#8212;wound up going back to the store. (Thank goodness. What WERE we thinking?!) Yes, returning a dress is an annoying task, but I&amp;amp;#8217;d gladly sidle up to the returns counter if I knew the dress in question was stressing out one of my besties. I think if you&amp;amp;#8217;re sweet and self-depreciating, your friends will probably sigh, roll their eyes, and plan a second shopping trip. No big deal! I&amp;amp;#8217;d try sending an e-mail like this: From: Serena To: the bridesmaids Subject: I&amp;amp;#8217;m Having a Bridezilla Moment. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Hate Me! Hi, girls! You all look lovely today! So, how was everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s weekend? Mine involved drinking half a bottle of red wine, pacing the living room, and then blurting out to [finace&amp;amp;#8217;s name] that ... Um ... Gulp. I hate your bridesmaid dresses. I realize this is coming out of left field, since I was there when you bought them and was just as excited about them as you were, but I think I was just caught up in the moment. And I&amp;amp;#8217;ve spent the past couple months envisioning how the dresses in question will ruin my wedding pictures&amp;amp;#8212;I just HATE the color!&amp;amp;#8212;and working up the courage to ask you to return them. Would you terribly mind it if I asked you to return the dresses? I realize there are bigger issues in all of our lives, but right now this feels like a big deal to me. Love, Serena p.s. You have my full permission to use the word &amp;amp;#8220;bridezilla&amp;amp;#8221; at your discretion. If your bridesmaids stage a revolt&amp;amp;#8212;or if it turns out the dresses are un-return-able&amp;amp;#8212;maybe you could lighten up the dresses with a lavender sash? I really don&amp;amp;#8217;t think you&amp;amp;#8217;re asking too much though! Ladies, what do you think Serena should do? Should she keep her mouth shut? Or is it totally fine for her to ask her bridesmaids to return the dresses? Have a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me! More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * What Would You Do if a Friend Totally Blew Off Your Wedding? * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! My Guy Says He Wants to Marry Me&amp;amp;#8212;But He&amp;amp;#8217;s NOT Saving Up for a Ring!&amp;amp;#8221; * Let&amp;amp;#8217;s Help This Lovely Girl Pick and Engagement Gift for Her Mom! (All Together Now, &amp;amp;#8220;Awww!&amp;amp;#8221;) What&amp;amp;#8217;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;amp;#8217;re working on a way to block it permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;amp;#8217;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam&amp;amp;#8212;it really does help!&amp;amp;#8212;and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. And a special note to you, spammers: We officially declare you a major DON&amp;amp;#8217;T. More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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