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"Rory and I got married _____ months after he proposed ...Are we married yet? Eight! While I would have liked some extra time to plan, the truth is, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a wait-&amp;amp;#8217;til-the-last-minute girl anyway, so I probably still would have been stressed for those last few months. Here are six reasons you should keep your engagement under a year, too: You&amp;amp;#8217;ll Spend Less Time Agonizing Over Every Detail Gray bridesmaids dresses? How &amp;amp;#8217;bout yellow? Hmmm ... If the clock is ticking, you need to pick your bridesmaids dresses&amp;amp;#8212;and a venue and ceremony music&amp;amp;#8212;and stick with them! If you have a few extra months to choose, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll probably spend the whole time waffling! You Get to Be Married Sooner! I know this is sappy, but I really like being married. And yes, to me it feels different than being boyfriend and girlfriend! The Wedding Won&amp;amp;#8217;t Consume Your Life For a Year&amp;amp;#8212;Or Longer! As I said earlier, it&amp;amp;#8217;s nice to finally put all the wedding nonsense behind you! You&amp;amp;#8217;ll Save on Health Insurance I know it&amp;amp;#8217;s not a huge deal, but health insurance is generally cheaper if you&amp;amp;#8217;re both on the same plan. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not the sexiest benefit, but who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to save a few bucks? You&amp;amp;#8217;ll (Probably) Do Better Tax-Wise Also not the most romantic reason to rush to the altar, but Rory and I definitely did better at tax time as husband and wife. I think most couples do! Your Guest List Won&amp;amp;#8217;t Keep Changing If your engagement stretches out over a couple years, you might have a whole new circle of friends by the time your wedding rolls around. It gets extra-awkward if you sent save the dates to people you&amp;amp;#8217;re not close with any more! Which do you think is better: a long engagement or a short one? Which will you have? The biggest benefit to having a long engagement, I think, is that you have more time to save money! More miscellaneous wedding stuff: * Which of These Adventurous Honeymoons Would You Choose? * Are You Having More or Less Sex Than You Did Pre-Engagement? * How Many of You Have Hooked Up With a Random Guy at a Wedding? 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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