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"When my friend Heidi got engaged, she was the first in her group of girls to be a bride. She invited several of her friends to lunch and asked them to be bridesmaids. And that&amp;#39;s when the &amp;quot;I won&amp;#39;ts!&amp;quot; began.\nPinterestFacebookWhat&amp;#39;s up with these dresses? Clearly the bride hates us!\n&amp;quot;I won&amp;#39;t wear a long dress.&amp;quot;\n&amp;quot;I won&amp;#39;t wear pastels.&amp;quot;\n&amp;quot;I won&amp;#39;t wear anything fitted in the hips.&amp;quot;\n&amp;quot;I won&amp;#39;t wear a halter top. Oh, and I&amp;#39;m busy the entire month of June.&amp;quot;\nFrom what I&amp;#39;ve heard, the lunch was decidedly less fun (for poor Heidi, anyway) from that point on.\nI&amp;#39;m torn on this one.\nI understand the desire for matchy-matchy dresses in a color of the bride&amp;#39;s choosing: You want your wedding party to look cohesive and to stand out at the reception. Plus, in your pictures, you don&amp;#39;t want it to look like you surrounded yourself with a bunch of wild vagabonds with matching bouquets. And when you&amp;#39;re picking you&amp;#39;re palette, it&amp;#39;s hard to find a color that every last &amp;#39;maid is dying to wear. So sometimes it&amp;#39;s just easiest to pick a color that makes you happy.\nAll that said, I know what if feels like to be told you&amp;#39;ll be buying a shiny, floor-length dress in a shocking shade of pink, or a $400 number with a ball-gown style bottom half that looks, interestingly enough, like a giant, matte garbage bag on your five-foot-two-inch frame.\nWhat do you guys think? Should a bride try to accommodate her &amp;#39;maids requests? Or is that just setting herself up for a stress-fest? Is it the bridesmaids&amp;#39; job to grin and bear whatever expensive atrocity the bride selects? Or should they speak up if they truly hate the dress their friend has picked?\nMore &amp;#39;maid chatter:\n\nHow to be the World&amp;#39;s Best Bridesmaid (and Not End Up Broke or Hating the Bride)\n\n\n8 Bridesmaid Dresses That Don&amp;#39;t Suck\n\n\nBad Bridesmaid Hair&amp;#8212;It Happens.\n\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nYou could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com!\nSign up for Glamour.com&amp;#39;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters!\nAdd Glamour to your iGoogle homepage.\nFollow Glamour on Twitter.\nPhoto: Jupiter Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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