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"Now that engagement season (November to February) has died down, you may start noticing something a little odd about your newly engaged buddies&amp;amp;#133; Either they&amp;amp;#8217;re acting like your best friends now or they seem more distant than ever. It&amp;amp;#8217;s especially apparent with pals who are just outside of your inner circle. My theory on this: As brides-to-be realize just how expensive weddings are (and that sticker shock usually settles in as soon as couples scope out wedding reception venues), they start thinking about who&amp;amp;#8217;s important enough to invite to their weddings and who shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t make the cut. If you don&amp;amp;#8217;t make the list, your friend&amp;amp;#8217;s more apt to put some space between you, perhaps so you won&amp;amp;#8217;t feel so slighted months from that point when you don&amp;amp;#8217;t get a wedding invitation. If you are deemed worthy enough to attend, the bride may feel like she needs to pay extra attention to your friendship to justify to herself why you made her wedding guest list. I experienced this with two friends with whom I was equally close. In fact, they both told me they were engaged over IM. Come to think of it, they have the same first name! Let&amp;amp;#8217;s call them Sue and Anne (which I realize are not the same names). Sue started making plans with me during her engagement a lot more often than she previously had. Anne, who I&amp;amp;#8217;d seen as often as I saw Sue until they got engaged, seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Sure enough, I was invited to Sue&amp;amp;#8217;s wedding (and I know, we were seeing each other quite a bit by the time invites went out), while Anne didn&amp;amp;#8217;t invite me. From what I could gather from Anne&amp;amp;#8217;s Facebook wedding pictures, she had about as many guests as Sue had at similar wedding venues. So it&amp;amp;#8217;s not like Anne had a tiny wedding, which would give her no choice but to nix outer circle pals. The funny thing is as soon as Anne got back from her honeymoon, she started making plans to get together with me again. In fact, she&amp;amp;#8217;s invited me to a few parties since! Like I said, this is just a theory, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m starting to notice it with some more friends now. I&amp;amp;#8217;m so curious to see which ones invite me to their weddings! Have your newly engaged friends been getting closer to you--or distancing themselves? If you&amp;amp;#8217;re getting married, have you done this to any of your friends who are on the borderline for getting a wedding invitation? Or is this theory just the workings of my overactive imagination? More About Getting Engaged The Pros and Cons of Getting Engaged Young Will You Still Hang Out With Your Single Guy Friends Alone Once You&amp;amp;#8217;re Engaged? How to Cope When Your Ex Gets Engaged What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. And a special note to you, spammers; we officially declare you a major DON&amp;#x27;T. More Ways to Get Glamour Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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