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"There are many states, including my home state of New York, my college state of Massachusetts, and my wedding state of New Jersey, where it&amp;#39;s A-OK for your groom to be your first cousin. Paul and I are in no way related, but another married couple we know is\u2026\nPinterestFacebookIt was 1990. For a second-grade class project, I had to make a family tree. I sat down with my parents, filled in their names and my grandfathers&amp;#39; names, and then my mom and dad helped me fill in my grandmothers&amp;#39; maiden names. And then we got to their grandparents&amp;#39; generation and a funny thing happened.\nMy father&amp;#39;s father&amp;#39;s mother&amp;#39;s maiden name was the same as my mother&amp;#39;s father&amp;#39;s mother&amp;#39;s maiden name--and that name was Siegelovich (not exactly as common as Smith). And my great-grandmothers were both from an area that bordered on Russia and Poland.\nMy parents just looked at each other and laughed. My mom says had they found out about this before they got married, they would&amp;#39;ve investigated to find out just how closely related their grandmothers were, but they had already been married for nine years and had produced two healthy, (somewhat) normal children. It didn&amp;#39;t matter if their grandmothers were fifth cousins or first.\nOdds are they weren&amp;#39;t that closely related: My great-grandmother on my mom&amp;#39;s side came to the US with her sisters in the early 20th century, while my great-grandmother on my dad&amp;#39;s side stuck around in Europe and perished in the Holocaust.\nBeing seven years old, though, I just set myself on a loop of shouting &amp;quot;Ew&amp;quot; after learning this.\nTwentyish years later, I can joke about it. And I think if Paul and I learned that we were related that distantly, it wouldn&amp;#39;t make a lick of difference. First cousins, though, is a little too close for comfort for me.\nBut what about you? Would you and your groom go your separate ways if you were blood relatives? How distantly would you have to be related to keep your wedding plans as is? Anyone else out there with parents who just may be relatives?\nMore Questions About Your Groom__\nWhat Does Your Groom Have in Common With Your Ex-Boyfriends?\nHow Matchy-Matchy Do You Want Your Groom and His Groomsmen to Be?\nDo You Mother Your Groom?\nWhat&amp;#39;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section?\nSick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#39;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#39;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests.\nMeanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us.\nAnd a special note to you, spammers; we officially declare you a major DON&amp;#39;T.\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: David De Lossy"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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