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"Uh oh. This bride&amp;amp;#8217;s future family members might be feeling slighted. Writes Save the Date reader Sophia: I&amp;amp;#8217;m getting married this weekend. (!!) My best friend will be my maid of honor, and my fiance&amp;amp;#8217;s brother&amp;amp;#8217;s girlfriend will be the only other bridesmaid. My fiance and I have lived with his brother and his brother&amp;amp;#8217;s girlfriend for two years, so the four of us are very close. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want a big wedding party, and it seemed natural to ask only these two girls. So what&amp;amp;#8217;s the problem? My fiance has two other brothers, both of whom are married. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not close with the other brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives, mostly because they don&amp;amp;#8217;t live nearby. Also, they were both pregnant when got engaged, so I figured they&amp;amp;#8217;d have more important things to worry about (babies!) when our wedding rolled around. I thought everyone was fine with our decision, but now, with the wedding just DAYS away, my future mother-in-law said this to my fiance: &amp;amp;#8220;I wonder where I&amp;amp;#8217;ll sit at the wedding? I guess since you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask your brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives to be bridesmaids, I can sit with them.&amp;amp;#8221; UGH! Clearly she takes issue with the fact that I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask them to be in the bridal party. Now I&amp;amp;#8217;m wondering if they&amp;amp;#8217;re upset, too! I assumed everyone would understand why we chose the people we did&amp;amp;#8212;and I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t think his brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives would care! I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want there to be family drama the week before our wedding, but if my future mother-in-law or my fiance&amp;amp;#8217;s brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives are upset I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to clear the air. I just don&amp;amp;#8217;t know how to handle the situation! Help! Here are my thoughts: I have plenty of experience with meddling mother-in-laws&amp;amp;#8212;she means well, but ...&amp;amp;#8212;and my instinct is that your future mother-in-law is being a drama queen. I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t worry about who she thinks should be in your bridal party, but if you&amp;amp;#8217;re worried the brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives are feeling slighted, go ahead and e-mail them. I&amp;amp;#8217;d say: &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m probably being a crazy bride, but it just occurred to me that the two of you might be hurt that I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask you to be bridesmaids. I know we&amp;amp;#8217;re about to be family, but as you know, we kept our wedding party super-small, and I only asked the two girls I&amp;amp;#8217;m closest with right now. I just figured you&amp;amp;#8217;re both super-busy with the babies and probably don&amp;amp;#8217;t have the time or energy to worry about our wedding on top of all the new-baby stuff! If you have a few spare minutes next weekend, I&amp;amp;#8217;d love it if you could stop by the bridal suite around 4:00 [or whenever] so we can have some girl time before the wedding. If a visit would interfere with nap schedules or anything, of course I get it, but I&amp;amp;#8217;d love to plan a get-together for the very near future. Sorry if I&amp;amp;#8217;m over-thinking things, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure you know how crazed I&amp;amp;#8217;m feeling right now!&amp;amp;#8221; Ladies, what do you think? Do you think Sophia&amp;amp;#8217;s future sisters-in-law are pissed? Or do you think her future mother-in-law is being a drama queen? For the record, I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s FINE that she didn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask her fiance&amp;amp;#8217;s brothers&amp;amp;#8217; wives to be in the bridal party! Have a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me! More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * Would You Change Your Name If it Meant Having Wacky Initials? * Three Brides, One Dilemma: Should Every Sibling Automatically Be Included in Your Wedding Party? * What Would You Do if Your Future Sister-in-Law Was Stealing Your Wedding Day Thunder? More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour for your iPad. Print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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