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"I did. Being the only bride-to-be in my group was lonely! Until&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#133;everyone I knew started getting engaged! I guess it was bound to happen. Paul and I had a two-year-long engagement which started when we were 23 (you know, when a lot of your pals are still anti-settling down) and lasted until right before our 26th birthdays (aka when some people begin freaking out about not being married yet). I got sick of being the only engaged girl I knew quickly because I was dying for buddies to bounce wedding ideas off of (and Paul could only debate the merits of a shades-of-purple color scheme with me so many times). My single friends tried their darndest (they really did!) to chat about weddings with me, but obviously, they weren&amp;amp;#8217;t invested in wedding talk the same way other brides-to-be would be. I was all by myself in wedding planning for about six months. And then, one by one, all my friends from various parts of my life got proposed to. First it was my childhood best friend Janine. Then my college a cappella mate Kelly. Then my former fellow intern PJ. Then another former fellow intern Cheryl. Then my former co-worker Stephanie. Then my current co-worker Sarah. And then my friend Emily who was one of my bridesmaids. This was all in a period of about nine months! Every time the phone rang, I thought it was going to be another &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m engaged!&amp;quot; announcement. I love, love, loved hearing all their engagement stories, and I was so flattered that some of them came to me for wedding advice as if I were a knowledgeable big sister (even though I was technically younger than every single one of those gals!). And it was great to finally, FINALLY have people around me who cared just as much about weddings as I did. But I think I was a little wistful that I was no longer the novelty; I was just another dime-a-dozen bride-to-be. So which would you prefer: to be engaged when lots of your friends are or when none of your friends are? I think the ideal situation would have been if just a couple of my friends were wedding planning, too--do you agree? Or does it not matter who else is engaged (as long as you are!)? More About Getting Engaged How Did You Announce Your Engagement? Help! Is It Obnoxious to Call My Fiance &amp;amp;#8220;My Fiance&amp;amp;#8221;? He&amp;amp;#8217;s Proposing! Do You Want to Be the First or Last to Know? 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 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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