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"My best friend Emily recently got engaged (yay!), and I&amp;amp;#8217;m positively thrilled that she asked me to play a very important role in her wedding party. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m not so sure how tickled I am about the title. Matron of honor. I was never a maid of honor before, so I&amp;amp;#8217;m beyond psyched to do it (BEYOND!), but matron? I know I&amp;amp;#8217;m married and matron is the correct term, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m 27 years old--I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to think there&amp;amp;#8217;s nothing matronly about me! I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure Emily would be cool with it if I really wanted to change my title to maid of honor, but our other best friend Melissa, who isn&amp;amp;#8217;t married, already has that title. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of nice that, even though we&amp;amp;#8217;re equal in Emily&amp;amp;#8217;s book, we&amp;amp;#8217;ll have different titles to make us feel special. I just wish there were a title between maid and matron for me, sort of how Ms. bridges the gap between Miss and Mrs. (I&amp;amp;#8217;m very much a Ms.). Emily&amp;amp;#8217;s very traditional, so she probably wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t go for these ideas, but I love how Engagement Chick has all sorts of cool titles for the people in her party, like Director of Words and VP of Fun. And my friend Brooke had &amp;amp;#8220;very important people&amp;amp;#8221; instead of bridesmaids and groomsmen (the groom&amp;amp;#8217;s sister was basically his woman of honor). So are you using the traditional titles or switching things up a bit? Do you think my whole issue with the word matron is silly? If you were the bride, would you let a bridal party member come up with her own title? More About Wedding Parties The Right Way to Drop Out of a Wedding Party How Many Bridesmaids Will You Have? My BFF Didn&amp;amp;#8217;t Ask Me to be a Bridesmaid 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: Stockbyte "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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