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"Your wedding date is the first anniversary you pick yourself so you want to make sure you get it right. So go ahead and take your time selecting the perfect date. But after you&amp;amp;#8217;ve chosen a day and told people your plans, puh-puh-please don&amp;amp;#8217;t switch to a new day. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s why. You&amp;amp;#8217;ll drive your friends--and maybe even their friends--crazy! Anyone you tell about your wedding plans before you send out save-the-dates are people you REALLY want to save the date. And they know this. So they go into their calendars and mark off that date soon after you give them the info. If you change your mind (or the venue of your dreams changes it for you), it&amp;amp;#8217;s not such a big deal to ask those friends who were privy to your original plans to click on your wedding in their Google calendars and drag it from one square to another. What is a big deal is when you&amp;amp;#8217;re planning on including these friends in your bridal party, and these friends are in other people&amp;amp;#8217;s bridal parties, and those friends&amp;amp;#8217; friends are waiting for YOU to settle on a damn date already so your and their friends can go to both weddings! Did you follow that? No? I&amp;amp;#8217;ll break it down. YOU = Bride BM (unfortch initials, I know) = Bridesmaid in Your Wedding BM also = Maid of Honor in BRIDE 2&amp;amp;#8217;s Wedding BRIDE 2 = BM&amp;amp;#8217;s BFF who got engaged after YOU did BRIDE 2 also = Nice lady who wants to get married the same month YOU do and came thisclose to booking her wedding when YOU decided to ditch your original venue so YOU can maybe, possibly book on BRIDE 2&amp;amp;#8217;s preferred date. Sure, BRIDE 2 could book her wedding whenever she wants, and if it&amp;amp;#8217;s the same as YOUR date, so be it, but BM, even though she&amp;amp;#8217;s MOH in BRIDE 2&amp;amp;#8217;s wedding, would feel awful (as in, may not get any sleep for days) if she has to back out of YOUR wedding. BRIDE 2 knows this and is trying to be patient. But her patience is wearing thin. So do your BMs (as in bridesmaids; get your mind out of the toilet) a favor and don&amp;amp;#8217;t abandon the date you asked them to save. Your date affects more people that you&amp;amp;#8217;d think! Have you changed your wedding date since you spread the word about your pick? Why did it change? Would you hold off on booking your wedding to be sure a bridesmaid could make it? More About Picking Wedding Dates What I Should Have Considered Before Choosing My Wedding Date The Pros and Cons to Every Engagement Length Would You Wait to Take Your Honeymoon or Push Back Your Wedding Date? 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: Comstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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