Sorry this is long...
So my name is Jennifer and I go by Jen to friends and Jennifer at work. My fiance's last name is Lopes.... NOT KIDDING! Now it is pronounced like slopes but without the S and not like Lopez but EVERYONE pronounces incorrectly as Lopez. I have always wanted to keep my last name (even before I met him) but now I want to keep it even more. He comes from a family where his Dad has passed when he was an infant, mother is remarried with more kids all with the last name Smith, and no real relatives with his name. He is set on keeping his name and that the kids and I would have his name as well. I get the kids name being his but I really A) want to keep my name and

do not want to be called Jennifer Lopez all the time. He has now come to the agreement that I could do a hyphen and take both last names but I worry about having that to write for the rest of my life. What do you all think? To hyphenate or not to hyphenate that is the question....