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"Something happened a few years ago that really turned me off to the concept of &amp;amp;#8220;B-list&amp;amp;#8221; wedding guests. You are (not-so) cordially invited ... Rory and I had been dating for a year and a half and living together for a couple of months when he got what was obviously a wedding invitation in the mail. Being the federal criminal that I am, I went ahead and opened it even though my name wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t on the envelope. Inside was a second envelope with just his name on it, no &amp;amp;#8220;and guest&amp;amp;#8221; and certainly not my stinking name. And inside that? An invitation to a wedding that was in THREE WEEKS. And an RSVP card with a reply-by date that was already several weeks past. And this was my introduction to the B-list guest list, by which a couple has too many people on their must-invite (or &amp;amp;#8220;A&amp;amp;#8221;) list, so they send out their invites and wait for some &amp;amp;#8220;no&amp;amp;#8221; replies to roll in before sending a second batch of invites to the people they really wanted to invite (sure, sure), but didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have room for in Round 1. The problem is, unless you send your A-list invites super-early, your B-list guests wind up knowing that they&amp;amp;#8217;re on your B-list (see example above) and feel like second-class guests. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s okay to give a friend with a new boyfriend a plus-one at the last minute&amp;amp;#8212;but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think it&amp;amp;#8217;s okay to try to pack your venue with stray acquaintances a few weeks before your big day. What do you guys think? I Do or I Don&amp;amp;#8217;t: Having &amp;amp;#8220;B-List&amp;amp;#8221; Guestsanswers Will you (or did you) have B-list guests at your wedding? Have you ever received a blatant B-list invite? Did you bother going to the wedding? Rory skipped the wedding above, and I told him he didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have to send a gift. If the bride and groom are going to make &amp;amp;#8220;friends&amp;amp;#8221; feel slighted, I think they deserve the same treatment in return. More I Dos and Don&amp;amp;#8217;ts: * Honeymoon Registries * Joint Bachelor-Bachelorette Parties * Skipping the Wedding Cake 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. Photos: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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