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   Reply by kwynn · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I didn't change mine at all and never will. Like Shannon, in the event that we have kids, I will just sign Kxxx Wxxx and put Billy Txxxx's Mom in parentheses. As a teacher, I can tell you that kids having a different last name is no big deal at all anymore. Everyone has a variety of last names from remarriages, divorces,…

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   Reply by KimWard · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I like the idea my friend came up with...they're both creating a new last name together and changing it. Nice concept, but I personally hate when people do this. It would really mess up family history/geneology IMO. Another reason I kept my full name (first, middle, maiden, last) is for research purposes, in case my future…

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   Discussion by Brianne R · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I'm finally getting around to thinking about what I want to change my name too. I'm thinking of going with firstname oldlastname newlastname and getting rid of my middle name. I'm curious now what other people did, or plan on doing when you get married or decide to chagne it.

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   Reply by julieyarz · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I am just changing my last name. My current last name is way to long to be anything but a solo-last name. I didn't have much choice. It was either change or not, and I wanted the same last name that my future kids will have.

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   Reply by KimWard · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I kept my middle name and maiden name, and changed my last name to his. So I have 2 middle names now, which seems to confuse some people. I did this though b/c I love my middle name, and my maiden name is very important to me. GL deciding! My DH didn't have any say in it- I did what I wanted.

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   Reply by elishanb · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I'll be changing my last name to his last name. I personally can't wait. I've been lookingforward to changing my kast name since I found out that I could!

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   Reply by morganphd · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   I'm completely in the other direction. I kept my own last name, I'm not changing it, even to match my kids. I see it as I didn't just join his family, he joined mine as well, so if he didn't consider changing his, I didn't consider changing mine. Also, most of my friends are foreigners and for most of there cultures don't…

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   Reply by LaFemmeRousse · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   My family and FI's family and FI all reaaallly want me to just change my name completely to his, but I'm pretty against it- I love my last name and feel like it's a part of my identity.I think my ultimate solution will be Jennifer middlename mylastname-hislastname, and our kids will just use his last name. Our last names…

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   Reply by hopefulgirl85 · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

   For myself, I am going to change my lastname, however, I have a very good friend that changed her middlename to her maidenname and then changed her lastname to her married name. There is nothing wrong with that. I think it's great if you want to keep your lastname. Your married name is still your lastname. If you want to…

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    Reply by kbielak17 · August 2009 · Home› Local Wedding Boards› Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh

    I think it's really interesting how people have such different points of view on the name changing issue. I'm with Angela, it wasn't even a question for me to drop my last name and take my husband's, even though I love mine. I'm old-fashioned like that.