I waited to change my name until after our honeymoon last week. Today, I attempted to go to social security on my lunch hour to begin the process.
NYS social security is conveniently open from 9-3. I only work about 5 minutes from my local office, but the cafeteria was running behind today so I dropped my class off late to lunch, then hit construction traffic, then didn't take the first parking spot I found and took an additional 5 minutes to loop around to take that first spot.
I get into the office and I only have about 25 minutes before I need to leave to head back to work. There were 13 people ahead of me and only about 4 people were called while I waited.
I am going to try again tomorrow at lunch and if I can't get it done tomorrow, I will just mail in my stuff and change my name that way.
I didn't think changing my name would be as frustrating as this is!