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By Amelia Robinson, Staff Writer Updated 4:20 PM Sunday, January 9, 2011

So you are getting married.

Cheers, salute and excellent work.

After you’re done showing off your new bling (milk it, it’s awesome to be the engagement ring queen) you’ll be best to get to work, little lady.

How do I know? I am the mist of my own three-ring, wedding circus.

My longtime boyfriend popped the question a year ago and we are planning an affair that will surely rival anything you’ve even seen on WE TV (OK, not really.)

The wedding is in March in Columbus, so we are entering the final stretch.

I’ve written about and attended more than my share of weddings, but I had no idea the work involved in planning one.

What it’s like to plan a wedding/marriage is an insight you gain only after what seems like a billion people ask you one of the following questions:

“Have you set a date?”

“Are you planning to have children?”

“Are you taking his name?”

“Are you having a big wedding?”

“Am I invited to your wedding?”

“When are you getting married again?”

That’s right ladies, if you haven’t figured it out, let me be the first to say that people are going to be all up in your business for the next year or so.

Brace yourself.

And someone in your friendship circle is going to go nuts on you for a seemingly insignificant reason.

I won’t tell you mine, but believe me it was off the chain.

But I don’t want to scare you off or turn you into a runaway.

Planning a wedding and being engaged is actually pretty fun.

It is the only time (hopefully) you can say “my fiance.”

Besides, you get to taste test food, look at pretty stuff and be the pretty-pretty princess.

Get your kicks while you can, girlfriend.

Contact this columnist at (937) 225-2384 or arobinson@Dayton DailyNews.com.

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