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"When a three-day weekend (like this one! hope you&amp;amp;#8217;re all beaching or bbqing right now!) presents itself during your engagement, it&amp;amp;#8217;s tempting to take a trip. But is there room for one in your wedding budget or busy planning schedule? Paul and I have tried (emphasis on try) to take a vacation once a year ever since we were in the work-world long enough to afford it, our very first of these trips being our jaunt to Paris which left us engaged. Since we waited two years to get married, we had to decide whether or not to go away the year after Paris, which was also the year before our wedding. We chose to do it. But our destination wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t as far away or luxurious as our Parisian engagement city or as exotic or high-end as our honeymoon locale in Antigua. We went to Wildwood, a spot that&amp;amp;#8217;s a two-and-a-half hour drive from New York City on the Jersey Shore (told ya it wasn&amp;#x27;t exotic!). Our vacation companions included Paul&amp;amp;#8217;s parents, younger sister, and three cousins, so it was unlike our engagement and honeymoon getaways in every single way. The bright side to that: Paul&amp;amp;#8217;s parents graciously footed the bill for many of our meals. Even though it still set us back hundreds of dollars, we were glad we got away from work and wedding planning for a little while. Do you have any pre-wedding vacation plans? Are you doing a major getaway or just a cheap-ish trip like we did? Would funding a vacation be impossible with all the saving you have to do for your wedding and honeymoon? What if you were invited to a faraway wedding before yours? Would you go? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Maria Teijeiro"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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