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"From June to September, one of my friends has 12 weddings to attend. Four of them are all in one week! We&amp;#39;ve established over and over that weddings are expensive for guests--so would you ever turn down an invite because your calendar&amp;#39;s crammed with weddings?\nPinterestFacebookMy friend is going to all 12, and that includes the four in one week (on a Thursday night, a Friday night, a Saturday night, and a Sunday afternoon). I&amp;#39;ve only declined one wedding invitation ever, and that was because it was in Mexico a few weeks before my own wedding, which left my bank account barren. I&amp;#39;d like to think I&amp;#39;d go to the full dozen, too, if I was close with everyone.\nBut then there&amp;#39;s the cost: Say, for the purposes of easy math, you give $100 per gift. That&amp;#39;s $1,200 right there. And over a three-month period, that&amp;#39;s only six paychecks for most office workers. Plus, if you have to travel for any of these weddings (I&amp;#39;m flying cross-country to L.A. in a couple of weeks, and Paul and I road-tripped it to Boston a couple of months ago), that&amp;#39;s another gigundo set of expenses. Plus with 12 weddings, you may have to buy at least a couple more dresses (and shoes and bags) than you already own. My head hurts just thinking about how much I&amp;#39;d have to spend to go to all of the events!\nWould you turn down invitations because you already have a lot of weddings to go to? What if you were close with every couple? Would you understand if a friend declined your invite because she already had a bunch of weddings to attend around the same time?\nMore About Your Crazy Schedule__\nWould You Go to Two Weddings on the Same Day?\nWhat the Week Before Your Wedding Should Look Like\nHow to (and Not to) Spend the Night Before Your Wedding\n__More Ways to Get Glamour\nVisit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter\nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage\nPhoto: Comstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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