Name change

Re: Name change

• lil01

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Girl, I struggled with the same thing!
  
  You can have your maiden name as your middle name and take hubby's name. In that case, you would go by Mrs. Jones. Thats what I've decided to  do

  

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• BrideBling82 member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Sorry I can't help with this....I have the same problem. My FI doesn't care if I take his name or not he just said the kids have to have his last name. And who can argue with this? But I'm still undecided myself....I want to hyphenate but it's more because I have no brothers and I would hate for my dad's name to fall to the side. My dad has 1 brother but he has a daughter as well. But my sister changed her name...she moved the maiden name to the middle name and took her husbands last name. It's a possiblity for me but I like my middle name....FYI- my sister hated her middle name.

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• ejagers

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I'm taking my future hubby's name no ifs, ands, or buts about it!  I'm super excited about the idea of becoming Mrs. V (since I was doodling my name w/ his last name on our 6 monthiversary)  Yeah, the doodling I know it's lame but I'm a hopeless romantic. LOL  When I told my dad that I wasn't keeping my name he kinda looked sad b/c I'm the oldest.  But he has 2 sons, he'll get over it! LOL

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• Gift928

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  My FI def. wants me to have his last name. I'm finding it a bit hard to completely drop it. I was thinking of hyphenating it, but he would REALLY just love for me to have just his name. We'll see.

  
  

  In regards to your last name, Friday, i think that is sooo unique. I have a friend whose last name is Music and she absolutely does not want to hyphenate or drop it when she gets married.

  

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• kiyamurph

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I feel you on this.  I love my last name too (Murphy) and went back and forth as to whether or not I should take nis name, but at the end of the day I figured that if I hyphenated people would end up calling me Mrs. Rhodes and not Mrs. Murphy-Rhodes because hyphenated names can be a mouthful.  And plus I knew there was no way I was going to take my maiden name as a middle name because I already have 2 of them.  I also thought about our future kids.  I'd like for all of us to have the same last name and I don't want people thinking that I'm our children's step-mom!

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• JKeyes2011

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I am where I want to take my FI's name, but since I am moving to Europe with him it won't happen. All my visa paperwork is in my maiden name and in Belgium the women don't change their name. Because women in Belgium don't change their name my FI thinks that it is weird that I want the same name. Oh well...I will still socially go by my married name, but in legal and business matters I will go by my maiden name.

  
  

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• msapril0730 member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I struggled with this for a long time. From the moment we got engaged I knew I wanted to keep my whole name. We talked about all my seasons for not wanting to change my name: - My mother gave me her maiden name and she's now deceased so I kinda felt like its a part of her - I have a son who has my last name and he felt kinda left out on the whole name thing - My middle name has a special meaning so I didn't want to drop that either. - I love my maiden name In the end I decided to just hyphenate my name and keep the middle because my DH wasn't feeling the no name change. My signature isn't bad because I've always only signed my first initial then last name

  

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• Ky925

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I'm changing my name....our names are to similar to hyphenate it would just sound silly, also he's not going for it.  Plus we have 2 children and they have his last name.   Also, normally when I address someone with a hyphenated last name I say their full name....cause obviously they hyphenated it for a reason so who am I to chop it up

  

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• Ksk2012

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  haha I love all the comments.... I am changing because my FI has a brother but he is much younger and basically for a while he will be the only one carrying on the name. His dad passed away when he was younger and his grandma wasn't married to his grandpa (grandpa is passed too).
  
  So I like his name (Duncan) and I am down. I LOVE my name because my first and last are almost the same (Kindred is my current last name) and I just like it so I will move it to the middle. I HATE my middle name so I am happy to get rid of it!
  
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• Ky925

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  Ksk2012....I love your last name!!  It's one of my favorite books!!

  

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• chantil_2005 member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I've been thinking on this too (even though I have forever to decide) mostly bc I have two boys outside of SS that have my name; when I brought it up to SS he didn't care one way or the other (so he says) so I'm thinkin hyphernation would be the way I go.  Hmmmm...*further pondering*

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• lsk40 member

  

  June 2011 edited December 2011

  I would keep your last name everybody has the name Jones I love my last name and I want to keep it my FI last name is Jones too

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