I did not change because my hubs has a German last name and I am Chinese so I did not want to confuse people. Plus, I wanted to keep my Asian name and it is easier to spell than his. Our daughter has his last name, though.
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I am slowly changing all my documents over. I always said i'd change my name, and DH always said he'd want me too, so he's in luck. I'm missing my maiden name though, people always said it suited my personality and chosen profession (though I'm not working in it right now)
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It took me three years but I did it and I regret it. I went from a Korean last name to an American one, and it was SO MUCH WORK to change my name on all my accounts. I still haven't changed my name on half of my accounts and my passport!
If I could go back, I wouldn't change it. The main reason I changed it was to have the same name as my kids, but it really doesn't matter as much these days.
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I changed my last name and took my maiden name ad my legal middle name. My first name is an ethnic Italian name and my married name is very Swiss, so it is an odd combination.
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I took my husband's last name and went from a very Anglo last name to a random Polish one that has less than 2000 bearers in the United States.
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I took my husband's last name. I thought it would be better if we all had the same name once we have kids. I don't really mind. I now have a Japanese first name and American last name but it sounds ok and is easier to pronounce and spell.
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I'm going to the Social Security Office on Tuesday to officially start the process of changing my name over. I'm using the website MissNowMrs.com which provided me all the documents and let me fill out everything in one place.
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I changed my last name, however, I couldn't give up my maiden name, so now I use that as my middle name. I got it changed at the Social Security Office and got my new Driver's License on Monday after my Saturday wedding- because I had to fill out paperwork at my new job that Wednesday. It took me about 4 weeks to get everything changed over, except for my darn American Express card which still hasn't been changed 4 months later... I am so tired of dealing with them!!! Oh and I haven't dealt with my passport yet...
I was pretty upset at first when I changed my name, because I really missed my maiden name. My maiden name was extremely rare, and if you had it, you were in my family. It was also pretty well known in the town I am living in. People would always be asking me about my relatives. Now I have a top 20 last name that is so generic and boring. I've gotten used to it, but I still miss my name
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I haven't legally changed my name but I use DH's last name frequently. I always planned to change it but I just can't imagine not having the last name I grew up with.
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I changed my last name, but didn't want to give up any part of my maiden name so I have two middle names, lol.
For accounts, I had stopped actively using any credit cards (I have a shopping problem, lol) so I never changed those, I cancelled my bank accounts and got added to his with my new name so that's done. All that's left is my drivers license and passport but I have a military ID which is as good as a drivers license when it comes to ID, so im in no rush.
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I changed mine and completely dropped my maiden name.
I still have a few things (like frequent flyer accounts and such) that I need to switch.
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I changed my last name and took my maiden name as a middle name. I kind of regret changing it. I'm white and he's Asian, so my last name doesn't fit me. I still use my maiden name at work though. I wanted our family to have the same last name... but like Mrs Bee said, it doesn't really matter these days. Plus my maiden name sounds like a first name and it goes with my first name really well, so I miss that.
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Never changed it. Our kid has his last name and I don't mind getting mail addressed to "X Family" or "Mr & Mrs X" but I'm not changing it.
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I'm in the same position as @Mrs.Bee. I changed my name and totally regret it. I went from a simple Asian name to a German name that everyone mispronounces to be a bad word. I did it for my future kids but now realizing it wasn't necessary as no one else in my family changed their names and everyones still happy.
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I changed mine to my husband's after we bought our condo. I waited about a month after the wedding to change it because of the condo buying process. All of our condo documents are under my maiden name. Our lawyer said that it was fine to keep it that way, just denote a change when we move and sell. I still get tons of mail in my maiden name as a result.
I really like my married name. It's a short, not sure what ethnic name it is compared to my long, often mispronounced Polish maiden name. I kept my middle name and didn't do the middle name switch. Before I got married, I asked if my parents cared either way and they didn't. Luckily, my brother has two boys, so the Polish last name remains while we get to bring some more into the world with our last name.
Also, my husband kept his last name when his parents divorced while his brother took his step-dad's. So, I see it as important to keep our name out there as well with that. It's funny because in his family, there are three different last names for the same extended family.
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I changed my name from a super well known Irish last name, to a difficult to pronounce and spell Greek name. I kind of like it though. There's definitely no one else walking around the world with the same first and last name as me now!
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I did. I'm still struggling with some things that haven't changed, though. For example: I still get credit card requests in my old name. I don't use cards anymore but I know I have some open ones out there. I also don't know how to change my voter registration. Apparently changing your DMV and SS# info isn't enough. I hate this process! Hate it!! (says the girl who has been doing this for a year now...)
I kept my maiden as my middle b/c a lot of people know me as my maiden last name. It was easier to just go by that as a middle to make it less confusing. I figure we can give my old middle name to a daughter, if we're lucky enough to have one.
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I knew all along I would change my name and have never regretted it. We're very traditional so I've always just thought of it as something that comes along with marriage. I went from an American name to another American name. My maiden name was a little easier to say and spell only because it was very phonetic. My last name now has a tricky silent G that trips people up. I do still get called by my maiden name a lot since I'm a teacher and was teaching before I got married. I'm proud to have taken my husband's name..I know how much it means to him and I love it when my father-in-law calls me Mrs.Married lastname.
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I changed mine. I have 3 older brothers, 2 cousins, and 3 nephews that can carry on the name. Some things didn't change-both my maiden name and my married name are hard to spell and hard to pronounce.
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I'm still working on changing mine. It makes me a little sad, but I know that for the rest of my life, having the same name as my husband will make me happy.
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I changed mine and dropped my maiden name. It was harder for me to do than I ever thought it would be. I changed my driver's license and SS within a month of getting married, but still need to do the bank and my passport. I was planning on finally going to the bank today and then realized, duh, it's Veteran's Day. It makes me a little bit sad, which I didn't anticipate at all. My 'new' name still sounds funny to me and I don't quite have my new signature down yet, but it will come!
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i changed mine. and now my less common name is very common. one good thing about changing your name: your kids use your maiden names for security purposes' if you change your name, people won't know it off the top of their heads hehe.
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I did the most complicated option possible: I hyphenated. To legally hyphenate is a huge PITA (I know some girls who have "hyphenated" on Facebook, but really took their husbands' last names).
I have a super common Vietnamese last name (pretty mush the #1 last name) and added onto it a long-ass German last name. So now my last name is 15 letters long. I still have a Viet legal name, but an American nickname I go by to everyone outside of my family.
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My husband was adopted so he has an English last name. I changed my name, and our LO has taken his last name too.
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I took my husband's name, but got super attached to my maiden name a few months prior to the wedding. So I moved my maiden name to my middle name since I originally didn't have one. It's a weird name combo, but over a year after our wedding, I think I would have been okay without moving my maiden name as my middle...
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I'm a two last name girl, it took me a year to change my name and I still haven't changed a lot of my accounts, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of losing my name completely, so even though my name is a bit long now, it was a good compromise for me
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I changed mine to my husband's last name. It means a lot for me to have my new family unit share the same name. Also, I was never overly fond of my maiden name.
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I changed mine. I thought it would be hard but I'm so glad that I did change it! I do use my maiden name for work purposes still since I own my own PR consulting company and it bears my maiden name.
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I changed mine. At first it felt so odd to do it because I felt like I was losing my identity. Now I'm glad that I did it because I'm not even close to my dad's family, in fact I never see them. I'm also glad that our whole little family shares a name.
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I kept my name but our future kids will have their dad's last name (although he's been talking about combining them somehow, but I'm for simplicity, plus I like his). Here in Sweden, most couples aren't even married so it's pretty common to not share a name.
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I decided to keep mine. At first it was laziness because we got military orders to move less than a month after our wedding.
Now, I just like the idea of keeping it. I have a very simple, Anglo last name that fits well with my simple, Irish first name. DHs last name is very, very Italian and it just doesn't sound good. It has caused some issues with the military, because I guess they think that married couples should always have the same name, but other than that it hasn't been an issue. I guess I will hyphenate eventually.
Our kids will have his last name.
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This was a big huge deal with DH when I suggested keeping my name or hyphenating. He had a fit. My maiden is now my middle and I took his last name.
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I plan to, but I haven't yet. We moved overseas a week after our wedding, and I can't do all the paperwork from here. So I still have my maiden name legally, but I go by my married name socially. When we're back in the states next year I'll get it changed.
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I changed mine. I never really considered otherwise. I love DH's last name. It is Lithuanian and really unique in the U.S. I use my maiden name as my middle name now. I do sometimes miss using my maiden name though.
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@mynoahbear: I have a Korean first name + Polish last name.
I could honestly say that I'm probably the only one with my name in this entire planet. CRAZY.
I waited around 4 months because I could never find time to make it to the SS office during their short hours. I still haven't changed my passport, but I think I'm good on everything else... I think.
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I changed it right away. I was excited for us to be family and share a name.
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I changed my name for my DL and SS cards and banking accounts. I still haven't changed my names on my credit cards...
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I did. We have the same background, our families are both Eastern European. We actually both don't have our original last names anyway, they've both been shortened after our family moved over to the states. So I'm not really attached to mine, it's' not original. Plus, I love having the same last name as my new family.
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Will definitely be changing mine. At the moment I am VeryCommonEightiesName VeryCommonKiwi/WelshName. I forgot to take a loyalty card when buying some clothing and they had to ask for my address as there were ten people with the same exact name on their system. In a country of four million people, that's a lot! I also have someone in my circle of close friends with the same last name, no relation. I feel no real connection to the name at all.
I'll be changing to VeryCommonEightiesName NameCommonInAmericaButNotHere and I can totally live with that -
I completely changed my name. He was pretty adamant about it and I didn't see a huge deal with it. (I am not a professional or anything though)
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