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"There&amp;amp;#8217;s no worse feeling after a wedding ceremony than realizing you have two or three hours to kill before the reception starts. This has only happened to me a handful times, but every time it&amp;amp;#8217;s made me crazy!We&amp;amp;#8217;ll just have a drink or five at a bar before your reception.My thoughts: Weddings are usually in the bride&amp;amp;#8217;s hometown, which is usually a town at least half the guests aren&amp;amp;#8217;t familiar with. So left to their own devices, most guests will go back to the hotel and try not to wrinkle their formalwear. Or they&amp;amp;#8217;ll head to a bar to get the party started early. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not the hugest deal, I guess, it just seems kinda rude to monopolize people&amp;amp;#8217;s afternoon and then leave them stranded for several hours. I get how it happens: Your childhood church can only host your ceremony at 2 p.m. and your reception hall is holding a morning wedding can&amp;amp;#8217;t open &amp;amp;#8217;til 6. This works out nicely for the bride and groom, who can have a leisurely post-ceremony photo session and still have time to freshen up before it&amp;amp;#8217;s time for cocktail weenies. But for everyone else, it seems a little unfair. Am I being a baby? Should wedding guests just follow the bride and groom&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule and keep their mouths shut? Or should the couple work a little harder (maybe pick a different date?) so their guests don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to wait around? What&amp;amp;#8217;s the longest you&amp;amp;#8217;ve had to wait between a ceremony and reception? More miscellaneous wedding posts: * The Funniest &amp;amp;#8220;Something Blue&amp;amp;#8221; Beth from Beauty Has Ever Seen * The $5 Wedding Dress * A Fabulous Wedding Trick. (Just Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Kill Anyone.) More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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